MTV is getting back into the music television business -- in a big way. The network announced Thursday at its Upfront presentation that it's bringing back Unplugged, a concert series that highlights ...

Last week, we learned that MTV Unplugged—a music programming staple from the ’80s, ’90s and ’00s—will make a return to airwaves this fall. Pop star Shawn Mendes is scheduled to re-inaugurate the MTV ...

Both will repeat starting at 9:30 a.m. Saturday and at 7 p.m. Sunday. Bennett’s first Unplugged aired as the second episode of MTV’s fifth season of the acoustic-concert series and spawned a smash ...

MTV Unplugged was a fascinating, intimate look inside the musical process of many great artists. The show began in 1989 with a handful of acts, but by the ’90s, the acoustic format drove dozens of ...

In 1994, longtime MTV Unplugged producer Alex Coletti was watching late-night TV, when he heard something that made him sit bolt upright in his bed. His epiphany led to one of the most iconic and ...

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One of the more vital music television series in the history of rock is MTV Unplugged, which really flourished in the '90s as an outlet for acts to showcase their material in acoustic setting. In this ...

Thirty years ago, on Nov. 26, 1989, the very first MTV Unplugged aired, starring new wave legends Squeeze, singer-songwriters Jules Shear and Syd Straw, and Cars guitarist Elliot Easton. As the ...

Producers Robert Small and Jim Burns were behind the initial idea for the series. As EW reported, the series was viewed as "an antidote" to the more image-over-substance artists that were populating ...

Since its debut in late 1989, MTV’s Unplugged has gotten artists of all genres to trade in their electric instruments for acoustics. Within a few years, it proved to be an artistically and ...