August 30, 20177 yr The backstage Rock Profile sketches are what made the late 2001 relaunch of TOTP a huge white elephant in the first place. Then the Radio 1 top 40 had all these interview segments before the chart, which made listening figures drop off. I hope this new show quickly realises the mistakes made in the past and cut the nonsense out, after all, the old Radio 1 format of playing every song in the top 40 actually worked a whole lot more better. Just like TOTP when it was just the songs, chart rundown then the number one.
September 22, 20177 yr So the show is to be called 'Sounds Like Friday Night'. It launches next month, and will be hosted by Greg James along with BBC 1Xtra DJ, Dotty. Full details are here of what we can expect: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnew...ke-friday-night
September 22, 20177 yr Not convinced about this just yet, I hope the sketches are actually well done and don't take up most of the show. Less chat and more live music hopefully.
September 22, 20177 yr Author No mention of the chart in the press release.. hope they at least do a top 10 countdown.
September 22, 20177 yr 'Dotty' being A.Dot or Amplify Dot as she is formerly known, and responsible for this bop! Azw4WdFmYbE
September 22, 20177 yr Got a feeling this is going to be a bit of a disaster, probably a 7:30pm slot after The One Show or after Eastenders, most likely the former.
September 22, 20177 yr This will bomb, no one cares about a TOTP style show in 2017. The world has moved on.
September 22, 20177 yr Got a feeling this is going to be a bit of a disaster, probably a 7:30pm slot after The One Show or after Eastenders, most likely the former. That would clash with TOTP. I hope they don't do that.
September 23, 20177 yr I'm willing it to do well - if for nothing else because it's bad enough that the BBC's one dedicated hour to pop music is Christmas Day TOTP these days - but I have a sinking feeling that the ghost of that show's Tim Kash era i.e. when it turned shit is rattling its chains. I hope sincerely I'm proved wrong. Edited September 23, 20177 yr by ThePensmith
September 23, 20177 yr Well the Beeb have Jools on as well remember! Which is fine on the odd episode someone I quite like is on it, if a little too niche. One show that I actually think got the balance dead on and would've been a very worthy successor to TOTP had the Beeb not scrapped the 'BBC Switch' brand of programmes a few years ago was 'Sound' with Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw. It went out on Saturday mornings/afternoons between 2007 and 2009, and had a good mixture of pop, indie, dance and R&B acts on. As I said I'm willing this to do well, but I have a sinking feeling that the 'pop' end of things for this show will start and end at Harry bloody Styles.
September 23, 20177 yr As I said I'm willing this to do well, but I have a sinking feeling that the 'pop' end of things for this show will start and end at Harry bloody Styles. Just one of the biggest popstars in the world then... I mean there's absolutely no indicator of what type of artists this show will attract yet, so let's not cast aspersions before we even have an indicator of who the guests are.
September 23, 20177 yr Author Just one of the biggest popstars in the world then... I mean there's absolutely no indicator of what type of artists this show will attract yet, so let's not cast aspersions before we even have an indicator of who the guests are. Apart from Royal Blood doing the theme, and the word "bands" used in the press release
October 12, 20177 yr First guests revealed: http://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/j...y-night__20730/
October 12, 20177 yr Just as I feared. I feel a slightly ranty blog post directed at the BBC coming on regarding all of this :angry: :angry: :angry:
October 12, 20177 yr Author Just as I feared. I feel a slightly ranty blog post directed at the BBC coming on regarding all of this :angry: :angry: :angry: How about watching it before you rant? I'm not personally excited about any of the guests announced - but they do sound like the right sort of mix for a show like this. I'm hoping it's more than 3 performances per show though - perhaps there will be 1 or 2 lesser known acts in there, or a big chart hit by a "X featuring Y" sort of thing. Also hope they run down the top 10.
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