Just been reading this article (http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/mar/27/top-of-the-pops-bbc) about Top of the pops from March this year, saying that there are no plans for it's return. Although in November 2008 it was rumoured to be making a comeback. The Christmas/Comic relief additions have been a success and there is a MASSIVE gap in the market for a music show on TV. Do kids these days not need a show like this? I really think it's a case of 'not knowing what they're missing' really!

Edited September 14, 200915 yr by Justin

It really should come back but not up against Corrie!!

:rofl:

 

Like anyone would watch Corrie if we had TOTP back.

:rofl:

 

Like anyone would watch Corrie if we had TOTP back.

 

 

Corrie always used to beat it!!! :dance:

 

Oh and I'd choose Corrie but would prefer to be able to see both!!

Edited September 14, 200915 yr by Crazy Chris

Funny thing this question popped up, because just last week I was talking to one of my old pals at the BBC. He used to work in the dept that controls music shows on tv.

 

The actual answer I got was the show would not return to a weekly show in the future. He told me the BBC were rather treating TOTP as a kids show, with a minority following, and not worth throwing money at. The "special shows" were a fluke, and would not get a weekly large audience as proved. Exampling the "kids", radio one was brought up i.e. the Top 40 with Fearne & Reggie with the average listener being in their teens. Kind of explains Fearne & Reggie...ageing thick teenagers!!

 

Well, I would say to the BBC...If you put TOTP on BBC2/Against Coronation Street etc, then you don`t expect to get viewers! The best time for it, would be a Saturday around 5.15pm, like the German version used to be.

Yeah see this is what I don't get. Top of the Pops was cancelled in 2006 because apparently no one watched it. Well it was on something stupid like a Sunday, and before then against Coronation Street, who on earth is going to FIND it in the schedule? There wasn't even iPlayer around then so unless you bothered to video it you were stuck.

 

They also said at the time that single sales were falling and no one was interested in them anymore. Yes, in 2006 they were extremely low and Orson only sold 18k to get to number 1. Since then downloads have taken off and they've absolutely soared, compare this year's sales to three years ago and you'll see the change in such a short time. Look at The X Factor and how a song shoots up iTunes when it's performed. Imagine what would happen if TOTP came back, we'd have this every week and the sales would be even higher.

 

Plus you've got the artist support. The Kaiser Chiefs have publicly said they love the show and are always on there at Christmas, the Ting Tings too also have said they want it back. In this download age it's even more important as now people can see a song on TOTP and immediately download it while the programme's still running, rather than go out the next day to a music store and look for it. It just seems stupid that it's still not back on TV, even in the last few years I used to watch it all the time and always enjoyed it. And if it was back I'd watch it every week!

Funny thing this question popped up, because just last week I was talking to one of my old pals at the BBC. He used to work in the dept that controls music shows on tv.

 

The actual answer I got was the show would not return to a weekly show in the future. He told me the BBC were rather treating TOTP as a kids show, with a minority following, and not worth throwing money at. The "special shows" were a fluke, and would not get a weekly large audience as proved. Exampling the "kids", radio one was brought up i.e. the Top 40 with Fearne & Reggie with the average listener being in their teens. Kind of explains Fearne & Reggie...ageing thick teenagers!!

 

Well, I would say to the BBC...If you put TOTP on BBC2/Against Coronation Street etc, then you don`t expect to get viewers! The best time for it, would be a Saturday around 5.15pm, like the German version used to be.

Saturday teatime would be a good slot except for the fact that the chart is a week old by then. However, it does have the advantage that the Saturday schedule isn't quite so rigidly set in 30 minute slots so it would be easier to fit in a 45 minute show. Whenever they put it on (assuming it did come back) it's surely going to get a significant number of people watching it on iPlayer so they can skip songs they don't like.

 

The Sunday slot actually made some sense as it could tie in with the new chart. Perhaps a Tuesday evening would be about right. Record it on Monday then show it on Tuesday. But that still assumes the BBC treat it as a show for a wider audience (so an evening rather than tea-time slot in mid-week) than just teenagers.

Doesn't look like it but it really should, there is enough demand for it to return.

Sadly I don't think it will, I'd love it to come back though. We should start a petition.

Sadly I don't think it will, I'd love it to come back though. We should start a petition.

Or sign this one

 

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/how-to...signatures.html

 

The irony is, not since the early 1980s, has there been a greater time for pop singers having the ability to pull it off live so I think this very moment is idealic for TOTP to return. TOTP was in the hands of self-indulgent produers who were merely using TOTP as a platform to show indie bands that charted lowly in the charts, whcih I feel secured its gravestone.

 

I think that can change very easily.

 

Festivals and live music have never been so popular yet there is NOTHING on mainstream TV that has this to offer. The once written off "top 40" is now making full circle so, providing it's not in the hands of some twat like Simon Cowell, I'm all for it!