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After 10 years and more than 2,200 shows, MTV’s Total Request Live blinked off the air in November 2008 with one last star-studded episode. Ratings for the music-video countdown show, which debuted in September 1998 as a vehicle for multiplatinum pop acts like Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys and ‘N Sync, had been on the wane for years. Still, the nostalgia was undeniable. “Remember this feeling?” TRL’s original host, Carson Daly, asked former ‘N Sync stars Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez as they looked out at thousands of shrieking TRL fans craning their necks to catch a last glimpse of stars in the show’s glass-walled studios in New York City’s Times Square. “We’re old now. This is the last time we’re going to do this.”