Top of the Pops back for Christmas and New Year

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Top Of The Pops Christmas Special
BBC ONE



Reggie Yates and Fearne Cotton introduce the all-important Christmas No. 1Top Of The Pops returns for a special festive edition and features performances from some of the year's biggest stars.

Hosted by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates, and filmed at BBC Television Centre, the show also features the all-important Christmas No. 1.

Further details will be available closer to transmission.


Top Of The Pops New Year's Eve Special
BBC ONE


Top Of The Pops is back for a New Year's Eve special that reviews the year in pop, taking in 2009's greatest hits and brightest stars.

Hosted by Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates, and filmed at BBC Television Centre, the show features special performances from some of the year's biggest acts and viewers can also see the final No. 1 of 2009.

[Abbie]

No surprise really, they do it every year

[moonstorm]

oh I know but it's part of the Christmas tradition, we must have it!

[Perdita]

The lineups for the Christmas and New Year Top Of The Pops specials have been announced.

Radio 1 duo Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will host the shows, which will be screened on BBC One on Christmas Day and New Year's Eve.

The Christmas Day episode, which will air at 2pm, will include performances from Dizzee Rascal, Kasabian, La Roux, Sugababes, Lily Allen, Florence & The Machine, Muse, Britain's Got Talent winners Diversity and X Factor stars JLS and Alexandra Burke.

Meanwhile, the New Year's Eve show, which kicks off at 6.30pm, will feature a review of the year with guests including Robbie Williams, Shakira, Tinchy Stryder, N-Dubz and Calvin Harris.

"Top Of The Pops this Christmas and New Year is going to be excellent," said Cotton. "It's my fave show to be part of, especially with the lineup this year! It's going to be huge and massively festive."

Yates added: "I'm so excited that Top Of The Pops is returning to our screens this Christmas. A silly jumper, too much lunch and TOTP make the perfect Christmas."

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/ne...-revealed.html

[Perdita]

LILY ALLEN pulled out of a Top Of The Pops TV special because of a sore throat.
She was due to pre-record her appearance for Christmas Day and New Year's Eve shows on Monday but called in sick at the last moment.

Mind you, she put in an impressive shift at ELTON JOHN's Grey Goose bash the night before.

Luckily THE SATURDAYS stepped into her TOTP shoes. Five for the price of one.



http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...ly-Ailing.html

[Perdita]

Top Of The Pops is to return - with the BBC showing weekly reruns in its original time slot.

The much-loved show was a viewing staple for 42 years until it was axed in 2006 after falling audiences.

But now the BBC is to draw on its huge cache to retransmit old editions of the programme, episode by episode, each Thursday night at 7.30pm from April 7.

The series will start at 1976, the point at which the BBC's full archive of shows begins. Although 1976 was the year punk began to take hold as a movement, it was not reflected in the programme that year as many acts railed against the safe, establishment show.

Although the series began in 1964, originally recorded in a Manchester church, many editions were famously lost or taped over in the days when TV stations were less rigorous about cataloguing their shows.

Individual performances have been used for editions of TOTP2, but they have rarely been shown in full. It is hoped the reruns will continue to run for subsequent years.

BBC Four controller Richard Klein said: "Let's see how it goes."

Acts who featured on TOTP during 1976 included Abba with Dancing Queen and The Wurzels performing Combine Harvester, as well as artists as diverse as Jethro Tull, Tina Charles, Bryan Ferry and Acker Bilk.

The reruns will be a mixed blessing for many of the presenters, who may be horrified to see the dated outfits they wore to host the show.

Although TOTP was dropped five years ago, it is revived annually for a Christmas Day edition. The series will launch with a documentary, to be shown this Friday, which looks at the show in 1976 as a "barometer" of music and light entertainment in general.


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[Chloe O'brien]

Will they bring back "Pan's People"

[Siobhan]

Will they bring back "Pan's People"

if not Kath we can have our own Pan's People group and crash TOTP studio

[Chloe O'brien]

if not Kath we can have our own Pan's People group and crash TOTP studio

We'd be far better dancers anyway Shiv. We could have our own SB dance group.

[Siobhan]

We'd be far better dancers anyway Shiv. We could have our own SB dance group.

We can call ourselves the Cardle Cuddlers or Matt's Models!! He would like that and we can be his backup dancers when he appears on the show..