NE
Well on Breakfast he said they couldn't afford him but you never know.
Freeview posted:
I can not believe it - an end of an era. Do you reckon Sir Jimmy Saville will present the last show??? Answers on a postcard to.... !!!!
Well on Breakfast he said they couldn't afford him but you never know.
PT
Well considering he is now 80, insurance is high. I'd love to see Savile present the final show and it would only be right.
PO
They said just the same thing when Tomorrow's World was axed at the start of 2003 - but apart from a live special shortly afterwards it hasn't been heard of since.
TOTP seems to have had the axe dangling over it since the late 1980s, so I'm surprised it's hung on for as long as it has.
Reading that they are going to use the TOTP name for specials etc made me think of Tomorrow's World too - although TW had strayed too far from it's format in the 90s and had gone down-hill as a result, I was angry when they axed it - and hoped they would have some decent "specials" occasionally instead. The BBC have now completely lost any kind of populist, light science news show altogether - just as they will lose the variety of what TOTP brought to peak-time viewing.
I guess they'll fill the time with more "Bargain Hunt" style pap instead.
Of course, TW and TOTP used to make up a great Thursday evening in the early 80s. Wasn't it something like TOTP, Tomorrow's World, Fame and Taxi? I have memories of those shows being on around each other!
The BBC need another Jools Holland type show on BBC2 at 6pm on a Friday - but something far less pretentious than Later...
Robert Williams posted:
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The end of the weekly show does not mark the total disappearance of the Top of the Pops brand from British television screens.
They said just the same thing when Tomorrow's World was axed at the start of 2003 - but apart from a live special shortly afterwards it hasn't been heard of since.
TOTP seems to have had the axe dangling over it since the late 1980s, so I'm surprised it's hung on for as long as it has.
Reading that they are going to use the TOTP name for specials etc made me think of Tomorrow's World too - although TW had strayed too far from it's format in the 90s and had gone down-hill as a result, I was angry when they axed it - and hoped they would have some decent "specials" occasionally instead. The BBC have now completely lost any kind of populist, light science news show altogether - just as they will lose the variety of what TOTP brought to peak-time viewing.
I guess they'll fill the time with more "Bargain Hunt" style pap instead.
Of course, TW and TOTP used to make up a great Thursday evening in the early 80s. Wasn't it something like TOTP, Tomorrow's World, Fame and Taxi? I have memories of those shows being on around each other!
The BBC need another Jools Holland type show on BBC2 at 6pm on a Friday - but something far less pretentious than Later...
LL
Well on Breakfast he said they couldn't afford him but you never know.
Probably a good thing. The man's a bit of an embarassment, let's face it.
Newsreader posted:
Freeview posted:
I can not believe it - an end of an era. Do you reckon Sir Jimmy Saville will present the last show??? Answers on a postcard to.... !!!!
Well on Breakfast he said they couldn't afford him but you never know.
Probably a good thing. The man's a bit of an embarassment, let's face it.
CO
Read that article the other day, Paul, congratulations on getting your tale on BBCi - very similar to an article on the old TOTPTastic! site about being in the audience though
btw, it was someone else I kept spotting as "you" in some of the episodes you appear in among my collection - oops...
TC1 posted:
Hi All
As a TOTP audience old timer (43 editions attended between April 1988 through until January 2004) I must say, whilst being very sad news, it is not really totally unexpected. The show has been in decline for many years - I spoke to the BBC today about the show and apparently since moving to BBC2 it hasn't even featured in the Top 30 BBC2 shows at all - now it's just barely scraping one million.
You might be interested to read an article concerning an interview I gave to BBC News online today - it can be found here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5103032.stm
Regards
Paul
As a TOTP audience old timer (43 editions attended between April 1988 through until January 2004) I must say, whilst being very sad news, it is not really totally unexpected. The show has been in decline for many years - I spoke to the BBC today about the show and apparently since moving to BBC2 it hasn't even featured in the Top 30 BBC2 shows at all - now it's just barely scraping one million.
You might be interested to read an article concerning an interview I gave to BBC News online today - it can be found here:-
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5103032.stm
Regards
Paul
Read that article the other day, Paul, congratulations on getting your tale on BBCi - very similar to an article on the old TOTPTastic! site about being in the audience though
btw, it was someone else I kept spotting as "you" in some of the episodes you appear in among my collection - oops...
WE
Shame Noel couldn't have been a bit more supportive over repeats of his shows on UK Gold 10 to 15 years ago ISTR.
Was it over the 'folding stuff' ?
Col posted:
Interesting to note how some of its previous presenters (DLT, Tony Blackburn) have supported the BBC's decision while others (Noel Edmonds, Sir Jimmy Savile) have so far spoken out against it.
Shame Noel couldn't have been a bit more supportive over repeats of his shows on UK Gold 10 to 15 years ago ISTR.
Was it over the 'folding stuff' ?
I'm guessing though that this weeks will be Fearne's last?
CD
Indeed it is. Wonder who will do the last few weeks - Reggie Yates? Or even some faces from the past?
Interesting to see also in that article that ITV might be planning to air a new music programme to be in the same vein as TOTP in the slot where Stars in their Eyes was - around 6. So basically, they're going to create a brand new show that nobody knows and stick it straight in primetime. Surely that CDUK show they axed (which cost much less than any new primetime music show) could have been exactly the popular brand that would have suited that slot? Yet the bigwigs at Network Centre keenly resisted any suggestion to move CDUK into primetime over it's 8 years on air. Ah, ITV...you plonkers!
Asa posted:
I'm guessing though that this weeks will be Fearne's last?
Indeed it is. Wonder who will do the last few weeks - Reggie Yates? Or even some faces from the past?
Interesting to see also in that article that ITV might be planning to air a new music programme to be in the same vein as TOTP in the slot where Stars in their Eyes was - around 6. So basically, they're going to create a brand new show that nobody knows and stick it straight in primetime. Surely that CDUK show they axed (which cost much less than any new primetime music show) could have been exactly the popular brand that would have suited that slot? Yet the bigwigs at Network Centre keenly resisted any suggestion to move CDUK into primetime over it's 8 years on air. Ah, ITV...you plonkers!
AM
Indeed it is. Wonder who will do the last few weeks - Reggie Yates? Or even some faces from the past?
Interesting to see also in that article that ITV might be planning to air a new music programme to be in the same vein as TOTP in the slot where Stars in their Eyes was - around 6. So basically, they're going to create a brand new show that nobody knows and stick it straight in primetime. Surely that CDUK show they axed (which cost much less than any new primetime music show) could have been exactly the popular brand that would have suited that slot? Yet the bigwigs at Network Centre keenly resisted any suggestion to move CDUK into primetime over it's 8 years on air. Ah, ITV...you plonkers!
Must admit I used to watch CD:Uk in its old 6pm slot on ITV2 - missed it when they moved it. At least it will be on at a decent prime time again (either 5pm or 6pm) when it returns to five at the beginning of the Autumn season.
TOTP should have been moved to an early Saturday evening slot on BBC1 (around 6pm or 630pm) instead of 7pm Sundays on BBC2
cdukjunkie posted:
Asa posted:
I'm guessing though that this weeks will be Fearne's last?
Indeed it is. Wonder who will do the last few weeks - Reggie Yates? Or even some faces from the past?
Interesting to see also in that article that ITV might be planning to air a new music programme to be in the same vein as TOTP in the slot where Stars in their Eyes was - around 6. So basically, they're going to create a brand new show that nobody knows and stick it straight in primetime. Surely that CDUK show they axed (which cost much less than any new primetime music show) could have been exactly the popular brand that would have suited that slot? Yet the bigwigs at Network Centre keenly resisted any suggestion to move CDUK into primetime over it's 8 years on air. Ah, ITV...you plonkers!
Must admit I used to watch CD:Uk in its old 6pm slot on ITV2 - missed it when they moved it. At least it will be on at a decent prime time again (either 5pm or 6pm) when it returns to five at the beginning of the Autumn season.
TOTP should have been moved to an early Saturday evening slot on BBC1 (around 6pm or 630pm) instead of 7pm Sundays on BBC2
LL
Only problem there would have been the fact that it would have put it even further away from the chart that it was featuring - unlike CD:UK that featured a "Saturday chart".
Sunday should - and probably would - have worked, had they the courage to put it on BBC1.
amosc100 posted:
TOTP should have been moved to an early Saturday evening slot on BBC1 (around 6pm or 630pm) instead of 7pm Sundays on BBC2
Only problem there would have been the fact that it would have put it even further away from the chart that it was featuring - unlike CD:UK that featured a "Saturday chart".
Sunday should - and probably would - have worked, had they the courage to put it on BBC1.
AM
Only problem there would have been the fact that it would have put it even further away from the chart that it was featuring - unlike CD:UK that featured a "Saturday chart".
Sunday should - and probably would - have worked, had they the courage to put it on BBC1.
Considering the official figures are actually published on Sunday's but anyone with a brain would be able to guess the week's number ones long before hand - as the industry publish the charts everyday to guage public opinion and sales to see if more prints of certain releases are required. The charts nowadays are instantaeous all thanks to computer, micro-chips etc... The final chart is published soon after 6pm on Saturdays (i.e. this is the ones that ends up in the press on Sunday's) so TOTP could have easily kept up to date with the charts and would have been the first to show the week's number 1.
Skytower posted:
amosc100 posted:
TOTP should have been moved to an early Saturday evening slot on BBC1 (around 6pm or 630pm) instead of 7pm Sundays on BBC2
Only problem there would have been the fact that it would have put it even further away from the chart that it was featuring - unlike CD:UK that featured a "Saturday chart".
Sunday should - and probably would - have worked, had they the courage to put it on BBC1.
Considering the official figures are actually published on Sunday's but anyone with a brain would be able to guess the week's number ones long before hand - as the industry publish the charts everyday to guage public opinion and sales to see if more prints of certain releases are required. The charts nowadays are instantaeous all thanks to computer, micro-chips etc... The final chart is published soon after 6pm on Saturdays (i.e. this is the ones that ends up in the press on Sunday's) so TOTP could have easily kept up to date with the charts and would have been the first to show the week's number 1.