BBC looks to develop new flagship music programme - Top Of The Pops ruled out

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The BBC is looking to develop a new flagship TV music programme as it seeks to move beyond calls for the return of Top of the Pops.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/sep/29/bbc-top-of-the-pops

About time too! I think it's about time we had a studio based music show back on primetime TV.

There'll be those of you who of course say "In this day and age with the internet and pop videos on demand it'll never work". But there is now no British music show that features live studio performances from chart arts.
 
Apart from Later With Jools Holland, but then that features a mixture of current acts and acts from the past.

I hope a new show is made for current chart acts but you will get the inevitable, all current music is rubbish so the show will be rubbish comments. As long as it's original and is kept to the same time slot every week (which used to be the problem with TOTP being constantly moved around the schedules) then it should work.
 
Agree stick it on BBC Three and while you are at it ban all X Factor, girl/boy banRAB, RnB, Urban and Rap from appearing.:D

There is too much of that sh!t on TV already.
 
Well hopefully it would get shown on BBC1. It would be great if a music show got all the family around the TV watching it. Similar to TOTP in it's heyday "It's Thursday night, it's 7 o'clock, it's Top of the Pops!".

They'd need to put it in a decent timeslot, not opposite something like Coronation Street on ITV. When the BBC moved TOTP to Fridays at 7:30pm in 1996, audience figures for the show started to drop dramatically. A Thursday night 7pm slot would be great, with the lead into Eastenders which many people watch(though I don't myself). This would be far better than The One Show in the same slot 5 nights per week every week. A lot of music fans would like forward to Thursday nights again, just like the old days of Top of the Pops.

Rather than just having the same one or two hosts presenting the show, the show should have a team of about 8 or so hosts, and a mix of male and female hosts. With two hosts in each show. Much like TOTP did in it's heyday. For instance one week they'd have Dave Lee Travis and Noel EdmonRAB hosting, the next week would be say Peter Powell and Steve Wright, and so on.

Who do you think would be good hosts for this (possible) new show?

They'd need to feature a varied mix of music in each programme, which would cater to all tastes and ages. If every show featured prodiminantly rap and R 'N B acts performing, it would put many people off watching the show!
 
I agree, either on a Saturday or Sunday.

I think a new music show would only work if it features a more diverse range of music that appeals to a wider demographic. If it were to just showcase Urban and XF crap for a young audience then it wouldn't work.

It also would have to be shot in a bigger studio with a bigger audience. TOTP in it's last few years looked terrible because it was in that miniscule studio.
 
Sunday, 6.30 - 7pm. That way you can announce the new chart rundown at the end of the show so there's actually some topicality to the programme.

As media and news got quicker and quicker in the 90s and 00s, the fact that TOTP was shown on a Friday and was featuring the No.1 that had already been announced the previous Sunday was *potty*.
 
The trouble is that the mainstream chart has become more and more marginalised. Which is the reason ToTPs was taken off air - because only a minority of music listeners actually buy chart singles.

The album chart used to but in these days of downloaRAB music buyers can pick and choose which tracks they want.

Any music show will need to cater for a number of styles and not just draw from the charts - so it will be a combination of Jazz, Blues, Rock and Roll, Soul, dance music, rap whatever and in so doing it will try and please everyone but in the end please no one (I cannot stand Rap and as for so called Dance Music can't dance to it because as the song 'Today's music aln 't got the same soul' - Bob Seger Old Time Rock 'n' Roll for those who are (not) interested.
 
I agree, the ITV Chart show, which was on Saturday Mornings[the day after TOTP was aired], always had, count down from, that weeks charts, not the previous weeks charts, which TOTP always had.
 
What's the point when 90% of music artists nowadays mime when performing to a live audience?

Music channels killed off TOTPs. There are two available to pretty much everyone on Freeview and even they are beginning to have their own shows in which artists are invited to perform live.
 
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