Top of the Pops is to launch in its new Sunday BBC Two slot on 17 July.

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he BBC's flagship pop music programme Top of the Pops is to launch in its new Sunday BBC Two slot on 17 July.

The live 35-minute show will be presented by current host Fearne Cotton with changing special guest presenters, the first being Phil Jupitus.

The new programme at 1900 BST will combine with archive show TOTP2, mixing new music with classic footage.

BBC Two controller Roly Keating said the new time slot "marks an exciting new era for the show".

"Top of the Pops will be working more closely with Radio 1 continuing to add to our portfolio of great music and performance programmes - from Later with Jools Holland to Glastonbury - making it a natural member of the BBC Two music family."

Other guests presenters will include Jeremy Clarkson, Mark Lamarr, The Osbournes and Reggie Yates.

The show will retain the familiar Top of the Pops theme tune, logo and set design and will end with the chart countdown, as before.

Viewing figures

The show's move to BBC Two was first announced in November 2004 and signalled the biggest shake-up in its history.

The show which was first broadcast in 1964 and has always been on BBC One.

Top of the Pops was relaunched in December last year 2003 in an attempt to reverse a long-term decline in audience figures.

The All New Top of the Pops was fronted by newcomer Tim Kash and was put together by producer Andi Peters, who was brought back to the BBC from Channel 4 to revitalise the series.

About three million people a week were watching the show on Fridays - less than half the total it was attracting in the mid-1990s - as the programme went up against popular ITV soap Coronation Street.

But despite the relaunch audience figures failed to rise and have now slipped to around 2.5 million.

― Andy Jay, Sunday, 3 July 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Other guests presenters will include Jeremy Clarkson, Mark Lamarr, The Osbournes and Reggie Yates.

Jeremy Clarkson????

― Andy Jay, Sunday, 3 July 2005 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

One more reason not to tune in.

― it's ALL too loud, Monday, 4 July 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

As if you needed one.

― it's ALL too loud, Monday, 4 July 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

previously on ILM: Top Of The Pops to GO!

I'm surprised they're not announcing it as including that night's chart and the new #1 announced live. They can't seriously be intending for it to cover the previous Sunday's chart?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 4 July 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago)

I expect they'll cover the football results and a recipe slot.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

TOTP should be on thursday at 19:30 just after tomorrows world.

― Dannyboy, Monday, 4 July 2005 08:25 (nineteen years ago)

TOTP should be consigned to the dustbin of history; ditto the singles chart.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

This is mixed news. It's good it will be on after 7 so will presumably have the latest number 1, but it is bad.

Peters must go!!!

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Monday, 4 July 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

reason: the singles chart and totp have both been inadvertently swallowed up and digested by crazy frog. i interpret this as a good thing, as we will now have to make up/create our own "popularity."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

for "inadvertently" read "irreversibly"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 11:00 (nineteen years ago)

the singles racks in hmv oxford street have been hidden away.

― N_RQ, Monday, 4 July 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

i am not at all fond of the revamped design at hmv oxford street in general.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost to NRQ)
you think? admittedly they're at the back of the shop but I thought they were more prominent now than in their prev. location

(what i don't understand is why they reversed the order of the rock/pop CDs, so A is where Z used to be and vice versa)

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

the new post office-style queueing system is also suboptimal.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

Don't all "record shops" now concentrate, first and foremost, on selling DVDs?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh yes. it's what "the kids" want.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

it took me about a month to find the singles! i thought they'd been abolished! where have the books gone?

― N_RQ, Monday, 4 July 2005 12:27 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha, books!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

it's that two-inch shelf next to the t-shirts.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 July 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

i JUST got the 43rd ed. of revolution in the head recently there, for a fiver. you know, the one which says LAST EVER EDITION. and hey presto #44 is in waterstones now.

― N_RQ, Monday, 4 July 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

books are on the basement level - where the folk music section used to be, IIRC. they get quite a generous amount of floor space now actually

― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Where's the folk music section now?!?!?! *panics*

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

folk has replaced the dance music section.

― N_RQ, Monday, 4 July 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

no John Peel section yet?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago)

Don't all "record shops" now concentrate, first and foremost, on selling DVDs?

"HMV, which once prided itself on being 'top dog for music', has just reported that DVDs now make up 44.3% of all sales at its 208 British stores. At the same time CD sales have dropped to 43.9% as the emphasis changes from music to movies. "

― Huey (Huey), Monday, 4 July 2005 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I look forward to the TOTP last ever edition thread in a year (if that.)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Monday, 4 July 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

35 minutes for TOTP 1 and 2 combined thats enough time for about 4 videos and lots of pointless filler.

― jk_ (jk@gabba), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:41 (nineteen years ago)

how's joel doing?

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 5 July 2005 09:45 (nineteen years ago)

"Hey, welcome MATT LUCAS!!!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Hey, welcome ROWLAND RIVRON!!!!"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago)

What I love is the fact that the man who's having to big all this up is the man who cancelled TOTP2 in the first place because it didn't fit with his vision of BBC2. One of his very first actions at the channel if I remember right. Currently in TOTP2's old slot - re-runs of Flog It!

Hmm.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 5 July 2005 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

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