BBC planning "Top Gear for music"?

Source: MW

11:04 | Friday August 27, 2010

 

The BBC says it is constantly looking into ways of showing pop music on television but has nothing definite to announce, after reports surfaced this morning that it had begun the search for a new Top Of The Pops.

 

An article in The Times today claims that senior BBC executives have approached independent production companies asking them to help develop a “Top Gear for music” to debut next year.

 

The show will not use the TOTP brand or its format, according to the report, but the BBC has instead approached record labels for access to new videos and artists.

 

The Times claims the BBC hopes to produce a pilot over the coming months to bring the new show to air next year on BBC Three, coinciding with a TOTP season on BBC Four.

 

A BBC spokesperson says, "We are constantly discussing new ideas for pop music, but we currently have no plans to announce for any of our television networks.

 

''We have no plans to bring back Top of The Pops.''

 

Top Of The Pops was axed in 2006, after years of falling audiences. Its disappearance left few high-profile slots for pop music on terrestrial television in the UK, a point that the industry has made at length to the BBC.

Top Gear? :blink:

 

Is BBC 3 as big as the other 2 now? Or is it still a flop channel?

'Top Gear'

 

Vile! - as long as none of those hideous Tory petrol guzzlers are part of it ;-)

 

I think they mean that they want the show to be to music what Top Gear is to cars. I don't think they're neccessarily saying that they want the presenters from Top Gear, or that they want the show to have exactly the same format as Top Gear. :lol:

It seems silly showcasing the new music show on BBC3, now who watches BBC3 here I don't, the BBC need to do it properly and show it on BBC1 at a prime time slot like Saturdays, between 4pm to 5pm, otherwise viewing figures will be on the low side for the show, and eventually they dump it.

Novel idea I know, but hmm bring back TOTP with better presenters, and focus on like music!

I like the idea and hope it is a pop based format rather than old R1 DJ's picking rock, indie and alternative one hit wonders.Anything to showcase live performances would be good and up and coming acts.The BBC are always so late with these, I am sure they will stick it on BBC2 at 2am.

I like the idea and I probably would watch- but would it make much impact really?

I would think the pilot will only be on BBC3 and if it gets commissioned it'll move up to BBC2 or BBC1.

Anyone remember the Top Gear of the Pops they did one year? Was quite funny, could do with a presenter unplugging the speakers for some performances every once in a short while.

There's $h!t all wrong with Top Gear, it's a bloody good show and it's one of the BBC's most successful exports.

 

What they are after is a show that'll capture audiences the way that Top Gear has and reconnect music with the great British public without involving Cowell.

Sounds like it would be in a SMTV/CD:UK type mould but made more adult I guess (as BBC3 doesn't actually start transmitting shows until 7pm) I'm up for any new music show though, but I'd still prefer Top of the Pops to comeback instead of a new show trying to be TOTP.

 

The thing is, I really can't think of any BBC presenters that can transend different generations of families (like Ant and Dec - kids them them, students love them, mums and dads love them and Grannies love them) though Cat Deely is on BBC now isn't she? Love her to do it and she has the experience from CD:UK

I find it hilarious Top Gear and music are used in the same sentence. :lol: Those two things are opposites of each other.

 

I just think it's ridiculous really although I would watch the show it will be put down as a TOTP/Wossy copycat.

Edited August 27, 201014 yr by Kieran.