I think Buzzjack should get behind this campaign.

http://www.bringbacktotp.com/

 

pinched from the chart forum... might get some support here

pinched from the chart forum... might get some support here

 

Is it not due to come back or is this just for Christmas only.

 

More importantly, bring back the messageboard :cry:

Is it not due to come back or is this just for Christmas only.

 

More importantly, bring back the messageboard :cry:

 

theres an online petition/campagne to bring it back perminantly.

 

oh the messageboards where we first met! along with clare, scott, neil, mark and the others...

theres an online petition/campagne to bring it back perminantly.

 

oh the messageboards where we first met! along with clare, scott, neil, mark and the others...

 

Pippi, Caroline ahhh the list goes on.

 

Caroline posted on the BBC forums not long back. She hasn't changed 1 bit. She made a load of digusting comments about gay marriage etc and then she claimed she was a 16 year old who had a 12 year old kid and then she said if we don't agree then we are thick.

Haha, same old Caroline/Serena/Maria/whatever she's calling herself this week!

 

As for TOTP, I've been doing my own 'Fantasy TOTP' every week over on Popscene since the show's demise.

 

Would be great to see it return, but hopefully with better presenters than Fearne and Reggie!!

Edited December 18, 200816 yr by Neil B

I've signed it!

Don't see the point in it returning, it was fine for the pre net era with Jimmy Saville, DLT, Pans People, Whole Lotta Love theme tune and so on but now with You Tube and similar stuff on the net people have access to chart music and pop videos 24/7 and chart information and so on so don't see what TOTP can bring to the table that can't be found on the net x1000

If any show should be bought back it is The Old Grey Whistle Test, by far the best music orientated tv show I have seen

Don't see the point in it returning, it was fine for the pre net era with Jimmy Saville, DLT, Pans People, Whole Lotta Love theme tune and so on but now with You Tube and similar stuff on the net people have access to chart music and pop videos 24/7 and chart information and so on so don't see what TOTP can bring to the table that can't be found on the net x1000

 

Because the only 'music show' for acts to promote is The X-Factor, which does a lot for the

acts who appear on it as guests.

 

There needs to be more music outlets for more acts to get airtime on tv in order to sell the records.

TV still sells records more than anything else.

 

TOTP would fit this hole perfectly, and there is still great demand for it.

Obviously the time and day has got to right for it to come back.

 

 

Because the only 'music show' for acts to promote is The X-Factor, which does a lot for the

acts who appear on it as guests.

 

There needs to be more music outlets for more acts to get airtime on tv in order to sell the records.

TV still sells records more than anything else.

 

TOTP would fit this hole perfectly, and there is still great demand for it.

Obviously the time and day has got to right for it to come back.

 

X Factor gets up to 14m viewers though, TOTP got nothing like that, wasn't it less than 2m when it was canned ? :unsure:

 

We have had TOTP, CD:UK, The Chart Show all go the way of the dinosaurs in recent years and the fact that 3 different chart programs flopped shows to me that the demand isn't there

 

 

 

i dont like fearne one bit, shes a kids presenter at best...

 

i agree with mark, the show does fit the bill and recent years had LIVE performances which is something totp of old rarely ever did.

 

PLEASE GOD DONT LET COWELL GET IT....... :angry:

I think it should be brought back. But only if they change EVERYTHING.

 

New theme tune, better presenters (i.e, not Fearne and Reggie), no chat (TOTP's downfall in my opinion was when they decided to copy CD:UK), make it a Top 40 chart based show again etc etc....

Up until the mid 90s, TOTP was thre gospel when it came to pop music and using the top 40 as it's backbone gave the show some form of suspense and excitement.

 

I think a show like TOTP can come back easily, but the structure needs to change somewhat. While using the top 40 would seem a little dated, the show would need some sort of plot to lead up to a conclusion - not just half a dozen performances in a random order.

 

I dunno... I'm on the fence with this idea...

I miss top of the pops

Subscribed there :P YES PLEASE, bring it back :teresa: xox.

I would say that the Beeb should certainly have a Contemporary popular music show based on the Charts.... But, why does that have to entail dredging up TOTP...? We could have perhaps a more pop-oriented version of "Later....", but that wouldn't be TOTP... Give it another name, because if it's called TOTP then people are gonna expect certain things, and frankly the TOTP format became pretty old hat, which is one of the main reasons why it lost popularity and got canned....

 

And I totally echo the sentiment that fukkin' COWELL and his corrosive, parasitical influence should be let nowhere near such a show..... <_<

We have had TOTP, CD:UK, The Chart Show all go the way of the dinosaurs in recent years and the fact that 3 different chart programs flopped shows to me that the demand isn't there

 

But isnt the chart show still going on its own tv channel (tho i think B4 has been scrapped for an urban music channel...but as a freeview viewer we dont get it we get 4music with nick grimshaw rptd endlessly :lol: )...think they took over all of sky's music channels and also own a few freesat movie chanels as well...

 

 

 

Don't see the point in it returning, it was fine for the pre net era with Jimmy Saville, DLT, Pans People

 

Actually would be good if BBC Four could repeat all the old TOTPs from the 70s with all those medalion men type presenters - as they are so like cheesily bad that its quite funny seeing them :lol: - work well twined with Batman, but I guess it would like encroach on dave territory and i guess bcc four is so much more whistle test and serious docs. however noticed how most of the totp2 shows that are coming on tv over xmas are 45 minutes on the bbc - so that they have already been designed to fill an hour of dave airtime when the breaks are added...

 

btw would like totp2 to show some of the clips from the german version of totp as well (i've got a couple of the german totp albums upstairs in my room as well!! as well as loads of bravo albums and some from the dome...which is like a german version of totp that does loads of events around the country - so maybe we should import a version of that to uk screens)

 

http://www.thedome.de/start_frame

 

If any show should be bought back it is The Old Grey Whistle Test

 

But what will the point of that - it might be alright having a bit of 'Suntory time' watching clips of Whispering Bob Harris on BBC Four late at night..but would you really want it to come back when it would be no doubt presented by Nick Grimshaw and notourious bumbler Mark Radcliffe ("eh ah oh urm and welcome er urm ooh to the oh eh old erm whistle test erm ur eeeeh erhh")

 

imo bring back Night Fever with Suggs and Pop Monkey!!!

If any show should be bought back it is The Old Grey Whistle Test, by far the best music orientated tv show I have seen

 

How would doing that be any different to "Later..." though....? And surely The Old Grey Whistle Test was more defined by the legendary "Whispering" Bob Harris.... And, er, isn't he dead now.....?

 

I dont see how bringing OGWT back would work now any more than resurrecting "The Tube" would tbh.... I have similar fond memories of "The Tube", but bringing that back would be an utter disaster in 2008/09.....

 

If they did bring back Whistle Test or the Tube they'd only get Fearne Cotton or someone equally as clueless to present it so it would be a complete waste of time!

Edited December 21, 200816 yr by Neil B

Is it not due to come back or is this just for Christmas only.

 

More importantly, bring back the messageboard :cry:

 

Did you post on the messageboard?! What was your name?? I had some of the best years of my internet life on that board!

 

I'd love to see totp (AND THE BOARD!) brought back, just with a presenter who is much more relatable than fearne bloody cotton.