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TOTP moves channel and changes format.

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  • 29-11-2004 7:32pm
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    mike65
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    Well its lasted longer than almost any other tv show but Top of the Pops is for all intents and purposes being wound down. Its being shoved on to BBC2 and reshaped to take in archive material a la TOTP2 which Steve Wright does and which is much better than anything in the charts now! I think the beeb knows it too and that within a year the new stuff will be nothing more than the number 1 and a list of the Top 40.

    bbc story
    Top of the Pops leaves BBC One


    The BBC's flagship pop music programme Top of the Pops is to move from BBC One on Fridays to Sundays on BBC Two.

    The new programme will combine with archive show TOTP2, mixing new music with footage of classic bands.

    The corporation said the new show "aims to appeal to a diverse audience of music lovers".

    The move is the biggest shake-up in the history of the show, which was first broadcast in 1964 and has always been on BBC One.

    Top of the Pops was relaunched in a blaze of publicity in December last year in an attempt to reverse a long-term decline in audience figures.

    Revitalise

    The All New Top of the Pops was fronted by newcomer Tim Kash and was put together by producer Andi Peters, who was brought back to the BBC from Channel 4 to revitalise the series.

    About three million people a week were watching the show on Fridays - less than half the total it was attracting in the mid-1990s - as the programme went up against popular ITV soap Coronation Street.

    But despite the relaunch audience figures failed to rise and still remain around the three million mark.

    Tim Kash has since been replaced as host by Fearne Cotton.

    The new show will launch in Spring next year in an extended format.

    BBC Two controller Roly Keating: "It's an exciting new era for Top of the Pops. We want to make it bigger and better so that it becomes the ultimate pop music show for music lovers of every generation."

    Mr Keating described BBC Two as the "natural home" of Top of the Pops.

    He added: "The addition of Top of the Pops will also extend BBC Two's offering to younger audiences.

    Mike.


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    atlantean
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    Well that's the end of that then! :(


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    eggshapedfred
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    TOTP's problem (apart from the state of the charts):

    Tim "charisma" Kash
    Andi Peters
    Fearne Cotton

    bring back Mike Reid


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    BuffyBot
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    Tim Kash was a big nail in the coffin..


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    flikflak
    Registered Users Posts: 981 ✭✭✭flikflak


    Steve Wright does a good job on TOTP2 and as has been said the current chart will just end up being a run down. No bad thing in my book as the only people concerned about where "their" group/singer are in the charts are 12 years old.

    The younger presenters are so wooden too. TOTP2 only has a voice over which is much better.


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