premiered, Heat briefly became a complete weekly summary show, featuring occasional interviews and music videos.

WWF personalities and performers would appear at the restaurant as special guests while Michael Cole and Tazz provided commentary to matches.

A separate commentary team was used on airings in the United Kingdom, with references aimed more at that specific audience.

The show stayed in the time-slot until December 2001 when Channel 4's deal with the WWF expired in the United Kingdom.

This version also featured highlights from that week's Raw, and the name change was introduced to the show in May 2002, when it became known as WWE Sunday Night Heat (the May 5, 2002 episode, along with the Insurrextion United Kingdom-exclusive pay-per-view held the same day, were the last broadcasts of any kind under the WWF name).

In the United States, Heat stayed with MTV until March 2003 when it was transferred over to The New TNN (later rebranded to Spike TV).

To solve this problem, WWE decided to stream the shows on their website exclusively for the U.S. audience, with new editions posted every Friday afternoon.

When WWE went high definition in January 2008, Heat began using the same HD set as Raw, SmackDown, and ECW.

[5][6] Starting with SummerSlam 1998 and ending with Backlash 2006, Heat aired special live episodes as the pre-show or countdown to several WWE pay-per-views.

Though the majority of title changes would take place on Raw, SmackDown!, or pay-per-view events, the WWF Championship changed hands on a special Halftime Heat that aired during the half-time of Super Bowl XXXIII on January 31, 1999 when Mankind defeated The Rock in an empty arena match to win the title.

[8][9] The first took place on the February 13, 2000 airing when Essa Rios (in his first appearance under that name and with the debuting Lita) defeated Gillberg.

In the final change, the debuting Jerry Lynn defeated Crash Holly on a live edition before the Backlash pay-per-view on April 29, 2001.

The show was also the launchpad for Shane McMahon's on-camera career in WWE, originally placed in the role of a commentator for the program.

Often wrestlers would take the role of color commentators on the show with Al Snow, Tommy Dreamer, Raven, and D'Lo Brown all holding this position mostly as a replacement for an announcer who was unavailable.