[RandomPeter94]

Poll

And discuss

[RandomPeter94]

I'm not sure if it should, but I would like it to. So I say yes.

It needs to be done right and in a way that it will work today.

[RandomPeter94]

And looking at a clip of TOTP in 1999, it seemed so much better back then. It was just 8 performances (including 1 album chart number one and 1 singles chart number one) crammed into one half an hour show with a Top 20 countdown.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB3H7D3XhB0

I miss those Top Of The Pops days!

[the power king]

no it had it ,s Time you get the top 40 On MTV or the hit 40 UK on The Box and the big Top 40 on Capital TV i voted no the poll

[BIGDAZ]

Yes 1000%.

[gashead]

No. There were reasons why relatively few people watched it come the end. Those reasons haven't gone, and won't go, away. In fact, TOTP is likely to become more antiquated and irrelevant to its target demographic as time goes on, not more. Maybe it could work as a stand-alone music channel, showing archive shows and new videos (assuming there's no licensing or commercial reasons why that couldn't work), but I can't see that there's any gap in the TV schedules just crying out for a show like TOTP anymore.

[Cstar2229]

No, the music today is shite

We were lucky back in the day because the music was so good

[dsimiller]

Originally Posted by Cstar2229

No, the music today is shite

We were lucky back in the day because the music was so good

Please God,NO.
Cstar2229 says it all.

[gashead]

Originally Posted by Cstar2229

No, the music today is shite

We were lucky back in the day because the music was so good

I agree. My Dad often said the same thing. And his Dad etc etc...

[Doghouse Riley]

At one time, TOTP or the radio was the only way to hear new popular music without having to buy a record.
You didn't get a choice, you had to take pot luck. Much of it more would dislike it than like it, as everyone has different tastes.

Now you can find pretty much anything you want, when you want it, on YouTube and either watch it, or download it free.
So there's no point to the programme.

As well as new releases I can even find long deleted tracks on YouTube uploaded by enthusiast .
Best of both worlds.

Technology has moved on TOTP is only good for "nostalgic memories."

[EuroChris]

I think there should be some sort of music performance show, but I don't think it would necessarily have to be linked to the charts like TOTP was. A show that has a mix of Top 40 and non-Top 40 would be good.

I believe a big part in the failure of TOTP in it's last years was very poor production standards by the beeb as well as poor scheduling.

[BellaRosa]

NO! Not with the rubbish they call 'music' nowadays

[Servalan]

Originally Posted by EuroChris

I think there should be some sort of music performance show, but I don't think it would necessarily have to be linked to the charts like TOTP was. A show that has a mix of Top 40 and non-Top 40 would be good.

I believe a big part in the failure of TOTP in it's last years was very poor production standards by the beeb as well as poor scheduling.

The nail in TOTP's coffin was Andi Peters and his utterly appalling makeover. Nothing could survive that.

The other major problem - as alluded to in other posts - is the reduction of the singles chart to a cesspit of pointlessness, courtesy of a music industry only interested in short term profit. The variety evident in the 1978 TOTP repeats currently airing on BBC Four is breathtaking compared to 2013's charts, stuffed full of manufactured Cowell cr*p, Autotuned 'dance' and shallow, bling-obessed rap that has nothing whatsoever to say.

TOTP's format is to reflect the singles chart - and until that is liberated from record company shackles, I have to say my answer to the question is, regrettably, no.

[gashead]

Originally Posted by Servalan

The nail in TOTP's coffin was Andi Peters and his utterly appalling makeover. Nothing could survive that.

The other major problem - as alluded to in other posts - is the reduction of the singles chart to a cesspit of pointlessness, courtesy of a music industry only interested in short term profit. The variety evident in the 1978 TOTP repeats currently airing on BBC Four is breathtaking compared to 2013's charts, stuffed full of manufactured Cowell cr*p, Autotuned 'dance' and shallow, bling-obessed rap that has nothing whatsoever to say.

TOTP's format is to reflect the singles chart - and until that is liberated from record company shackles, I have to say my answer to the question is, regrettably, no.

But how is that any different to every other generation's opinion on the music of today (generally speaking, obviously Cowell wasn't as influential, or possibly even known, in the 80s )? TOTP didn't die because of a decline in the 'quality' of the music, and were it to be re-launched, that's not what would inevitably kill it off again. It died because its audience started to discover better ways to view their favourite bands. Anyone harking back to what they consider to be TOTP's golden years is, by definition, too old to be the target demographic if it were to be re-launched today (and I count myself in that). Conversely, that target demographic thinks that today's music is amazing, and considers anything pre-2000 to be ancient, but they wouldn't watch a re-launched TOTP either, because, well, why would they? Why wait until 7pm on a Thursday to watch the latest video from One Direction when they can watch it within the hour on MTV, or instantly on YouTube? It's the quantity of music choice, not the quality, that did for TOTP.

[Geeza Brake]

No....

[Staffsyeoman]

Not whilst you have non-entities like Cotton and Yates in the lead to present it.

[RandomPeter94]

Thinking about it. Maybe if the BBC had their own music channel like C4 has 4Music, it might work if they air it every week on there. But not on BBC1.

[mezmrz]

There is definitely a gap in the market, my 5 year old has been singing "One way or another" all day long, and Britain's Got Talent tonight has entertained but does not seem to have stopped the singing of that said song.

[rkid]

Very unlikely since the king of TOTP Sir Jimmy is dead

[supernovadragon]

No....we've moved on and should NEVER return to the past

[Flying Tart]

In my opinion, the death knell for Top of the Pops was sounded when videos were used to replace the dancing troupes. The music of today would be tolerable on a future Top of the Pops if we had today's equivalent of Pan's People and Legs and Co. half-naked or in short skirts, gyrating and writhing along to the music.

[Shattered.]

Yes. But it won't.

[Mmmbop]

I did used to love it back in the day but Pop these days is just god awful so I wouldn't watch it, I voted no.

[Alrightmate]

Originally Posted by gashead

No. There were reasons why relatively few people watched it come the end. Those reasons haven't gone, and won't go, away. In fact, TOTP is likely to become more antiquated and irrelevant to its target demographic as time goes on, not more. Maybe it could work as a stand-alone music channel, showing archive shows and new videos (assuming there's no licensing or commercial reasons why that couldn't work), but I can't see that there's any gap in the TV schedules just crying out for a show like TOTP anymore.

Well that depends on what those reasons were which you haven't specified.
In my opinion the reasons were more to do with how each time it came back it appeared to be trying to appeal to an ever younger demographic.

I put yes. But not like how it was when it was in its decline, but more in a similar form to how it was when it was at its best.
But I'd say no based on how it would likely be done right now. They'd probably have Simon Cowell running it.

If you can have a good music show such as Later With Jools Holland then I don't think that the reasoning that you can't make a good music show in this day and age holds any water at all.
I think its more to do with who makes the programme and what choices they make.
The reason TOTP failed in the end is that it was awful in comparison to what it once was and what it could be.

The schedules are filled with so many samey shows that a music show such as TOTP would offer some variety to the schedules.

I don't mind though, I am living without it. But I would welcome it back if it was done right.

[Alrightmate]

Originally Posted by supernovadragon

No....we've moved on and should NEVER return to the past

Why not? You seem to be stating that point in such a strong manner. Why?
Doctor Who was brought back and the fabric of society didn't fall apart because something old was revived into being again.