Top of the Pops to end.

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Originally posted by David Legge:
News from the Beeb.

Great loss or ... ?

/dl

or...(your answer of no more than 10 words, on a postcard)

... putting it out of its misery?

I don't really understand why they hadn't realised years ago that the single market is a vastly different concept now. Just think for a moment about the title "Top Of The Pops" - it's so quaint like it belongs in the 50's. It should have gone 10-15 years ago when people might have remembered it with some fondness. I'm sure there will be tribute programme which might be worth watching for T Rex & The Smiths. Oh...and ...err....David Hasselhoff.

I can't remember the last time I watched it, but my children didn't watch it past the age of 12 or so. Long past its sell-by date.

It really stopped being worth watching after Legs & Co. were dropped. Sue did unspeakable things to my adolescent psyche. Sue from Legs & Co.
These were simpler times.

It was dated and well past its sell by date. IMO it should have been laid to rest many years ago,

Regards


PB

Rubbish from the first day it was broadcast. I wonder what rubbish it will be replaced with?

Cheers

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Originally posted by Harry K:
Rubbish from the first day it was broadcast. I wonder what rubbish it will be replaced with?

I think the problem in devising a replacement is that there's now plenty of dedicated music channels for them as likes that kind of thing. TOTP only lasted as long as it did because for may years it was the only networked popular music show on TV, in the same way that Pick of the Pops was a monopoly supplier of pop music on BBC Radio until Radio 1 arrived.

The point surely is that none of my kids, aged 20, 18 and 15 have ever watched it, or wanted to watch it.

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Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
The point surely is that none of my kids, aged 20, 18 and 15 have ever watched it, or wanted to watch it.

BBC Director General to TOTP staff: 'None of Bob McCluckie's children have ever watched, or wanted to watch your show, so we're ditching it'.

Pure dross from start to finish. Pans people/legs & co with the sound down was ok though.

Joe
What's wrong with me extrapolating to the yoof population in general. A BBC spokesperson yesterday gave current viewing figures that were pathetic.

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Originally posted by bob mccluckie:
Joe
What's wrong with me extrapolating to the yoof population in general. A BBC spokesperson yesterday gave current viewing figures that were pathetic.

Nothing wrong with it at all. My two watched TOTP until they got into 'serious' (ie non-chart) music, but even then they regarded it as a bit of a joke. I think moving the programme away from its traditional Thursday evening slot was the start of the end.

I only ever saw some of it while flicking through the channels, or waiting for some other programme to start, so I missed the inspired casting by the producer of guest presenter Chris Ewbank introducing “Suggs singing Cecelia”.

Top of the Pops markets was firmly undermined by MTV and VH1.

It’s a pity that its probably too expensive to return to the “In Concert” programmes that used to be on late on a Friday or Saturday night, having said that “Later with Jools Holland” is pretty good.

Will.

This was quite a good clip from TOTP of the 90's.

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Originally posted by Harry K:
Rubbish from the first day it was broadcast. I wonder what rubbish it will be replaced with?

Cheers

Steady on old chap, this is the programme that first put Jimmi Hendrix before the public, and Miss Olivia Newton John, in a skin tight black & red velvet Mr Freedom trouser suit. Not all bad then.

... and the Queen Bohemian Rhapsody video, with DLT's comment about not being able to do this on your super8.

...

/dl

So who was Pan and why were these his/her people?

Is'nt Pan the person whos statue is in Picadilly Circus. Dance and pipes and such???

/dl (NOT a Londoner / Habitual Tourist)

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Originally posted by David Legge:
Is'nt Pan the person whos statue is in Picadilly Circus. Dance and pipes and such???

/dl (NOT a Londoner / Habitual Tourist)

Er, no. That's Eros, God of Lurve.

I thought Venus was the God of Lurve?

Actually I got this from the web:

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Pan had many attributes as a god. He was the god of goats, and sheep, and their shepherds. He was the god of bee keeping. He was also a god of music, playing upon the reed pipes he made from the transformed body of the nymph Syrinx (the one that got away). It was said that this music could inspire panic (the root of the word) in any who heard it. Sometimes he was a minor god of the sea. He was a god of prophesy and was also famous for being randy (Greek women with a track record were known as Pan girls).

So they were girls belonging to a God of music who was randy, and did a bit of bee keeping for him probably. Makes perfect sense now and I feel so foolish for asking.

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Originally posted by Rasher:
I thought Venus was the God of Lurve?

Venus is a goddess, as any fule kno.

Eros, the Greek god of love and sexual desire (the word eros, which is found in the Iliad by Homer, is a common noun meaning sexual desire). He was also worshiped as a fertility god, believed to be a contemporary of the primeval Chaos, which makes Eros one of the oldest gods. In the Dionysian Mysteries Eros is referred to as "protagonus", the first born. But there are many variations to whom the parents of Eros really where. According to Aristophanes (Birds) he was born from Erebus and Nyx (Night); in later mythology Eros is the offspring of Aphrodite and Ares. Yet in the Theogony, the epic poem written by Hesiod, it mentions a typified Eros as being an attendant of Aphrodite, but not her son. Another legend says that he was the son of Iris and Zephyrus.

I think that settles the matter. Harrumph!

Okay, so Venus is a Goddess, but that doesn't explain why you are banging on about Eros Joe. They weren't called Eros's People 'cos it just wouldn't have made any sense, no matter how much you loved them, and with all that traffic it just wouldn't be practical having all that dancing going on. I admit that traffic probably wasn't so bad in the 70's, but it still would have been a problem, especially with those bulky cameras they had in those days.

The statue in Piccadilly Circus is a statue of Eros though! aka Cupid draw back your bow, innit? There's a statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, but he wasn't a god, simply the product of suppressed homoerotic tendencies on the part of the author JM Barrie, who also wrote 'I know of no more impressive sight than that of an ambitious young Scotsman on the make', and who invented the name Wendy.

Are you saying that Eros is the same bloke as Cupid then? I can picture them dancing to Cupid, Draw Back Your Bow, and I expect they probably had bows and arrows too 'cos they did take thing a bit literally didn't they. So is this where Michael Jackson comes into it all then? You know, with Peter Pan an' all?

Yeah, the Lost Boys probably come into it somewhere, too. Michael Jackson and the Lost Boys has a certain 'ring' to it, n'est ce pas?