[5] On 26 December 2020, a one-off reunion documentary aired on ITV under the title The Story of SM:TV Live, featuring Ant, Dec and Cat reminiscing on their time on the show.

SMTV Live was originally hosted by Byker Grove stars Ant & Dec alongside former fashion model Cat Deeley.

[12] For the remainder of its time on the air, it was hosted by a string of other people, including Steps members Ian "H" Watkins and Claire Richards, Big Brother winner Brian Dowling, Tess Daly all who presented from 2002 until all 4 eventually left by 2003.

In September 1999, Ben Ward and Gez Foster were brought in from rival BBC show, Live & Kicking, to work on semi-scripted features including 'Chums'.

Multi award-winning writer Dean Wilkinson was with the show throughout most of its run with Blaze Television's director of programmes Conor McAnally as its executive producer.

The programme marked the end of its five-year run with a series of SMTV Gold specials featuring highlights from the show and cartoons, presented by Stephen Mulhern and Des Clarke with different celebrity co-hosts each week.

In August 2003, after two years of declining ratings following the departure of Ant & Dec, ITV announced the cancellation of SMTV Live, to be replaced by an as-yet untitled programme featuring "games, sketches, music and acquired programming, with increased interactive elements.

[13] Steven Andrew, ITV's controller of children's programmes, said: "After five fantastic years of SM:TV we all recognised it was time for a change.

[15] On 27 December 2003, the grand finale which includes all the presenters singing a version of "My Way" by Frank Sinatra with the SMTV end credits rolling through the last chorus.

And for the big finale, a special fireworks display with the words SMTV Live 1998-2003 written in it, and flashback voices from Ant, Dec and Cat.

[16] On 4 September 2020, Ant & Dec revealed in an interview on BBC Radio 2 that they had filmed a one-off reunion episode with Deeley, in which the three of them would look back at SMTV's best bits.