Top of the Pops

It’ll be fine, it’s such a strong brand that I doubt moving it out of its traditional time slot will affect ratings or it’s future.

(First posted June 1996, last modified July 2005)

That's the repeat, the first showing is on Monday 30th.

It was at 2pm for a very long time, with the Queen's speech immediately after it.

It then moved to an earlier slot a couple of years ago (12:20pm in 2017 and 12:30pm in 2018), and seems to be getting earlier and earlier.

Don't think 11:35am is a very good slot for it really.

BBC website showing The Story Of 1989 and Big Hits 1989 for the 3rd January.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000crqx
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000crqz

As mentioned in the other thread, it moved away from 2pm quite frequently in the nineties - it was at 1.30 in 1990, then from 1995 for the next few years it was never at 2pm, it was at 12.55 in 1995, 1.10 in 1996, 1.15 in 1997, 12.50 in 1998, 1.30 in 1999 and 1.05 in 2000. It was only later in the noughties it moved back to 2pm.

Does anyone know if BBC4 are going to show the 1988 Christmas day edition? It would be good if it was shown on BBC4 on Christmas day night.

G

Yes, on Friday 20th.

An hour before the 22nd December edition if the online schedule is correct!

If it is, the schedulers are dummies. Those should be the other way around.

Anybody know why some episodes are only getting the one showing recently? I know they've got to cram them all in before the new year, but surely they could lose some repeats of documentaries we've seen a billion times so they can show those TOTPs a couple more times?

I noticed this week's episode had a credit for "producer for Radio 1", this hasn't been on any of the previous episodes.