Anyone see it then? The title sequence was a montage of titles of old - similar to the documentary show the other month. New performances featured a mix of old branding (big TOP OF THE POPS logo behind one of them) and the 'final' circles theme. Has the show always been widescreen? Everything tonight was certainly cropped to 16:9 giving a soft look on some of the videos. Aside from that, everything else pretty much the same - Steve, the sarcasm, the captions...
'Fraid not. I was flicking between it and The X Factor live last night. But it's a weekly Saturday night fixture now. One thing I forgot to mention was that they did the top 10 scrolling across the screen right before the credits.
It needs more advertsing; then it will become more known and will attract huge rating figures.
The new format is pretty good. Will they use the same titles next week or a longer version of the end of the credits?
In a way, it's shows like X Factor which have killed off the original TOTP format - to be up against them is ratings suicide. But then the BBC know that don't they.
It needs more advertsing; then it will become more known and will attract huge rating figures.
The new format is pretty good. Will they use the same titles next week or a longer version of the end of the credits?
In a way, it's shows like X Factor which have killed off the original TOTP format - to be up against them is ratings suicide. But then the BBC know that don't they.
Selling ice cream in the winter you mean...
Still rather listen to Wrighty than Shazza (that's saying something).
Good mixture of songs, although I have seen at least two of those clips recently on TOTP/TOTP2.
Has the show always been widescreen? Everything tonight was certainly cropped to 16:9 giving a soft look on some of the videos. Aside from that, everything else pretty much the same - Steve, the sarcasm, the captions...
TOTP2 was a better show IMO when Johnnie Walker presented (and dare I say it, Stuart Maconie wrote the scripts), but I doubt that Walker would become the regular host again.
I have always thought it would be a good idea to use a presenter rota on TOTP2 similar to TOTP - but instead of using mainly Radio 1 DJs, get the mainstream Radio 2 DJs to narrate, or perhaps present in-vision.
I am thinking along the lines of Mark Radcliffe, Janice Long, Simon Mayo (I think his Album Chart Show duties make him eligible), Ken Bruce etc. Just to appease his few fans, I would still include Steve Wright among the presenter rota. Also, when he is covering for an absent Radio 2 presenter, Mark Goodier.
He often does that, he needs to buy a new joke book!
