TOTP bows out to just 3.9m viewers
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Top Of The Pops' last-ever show attracted just 3.9 million viewers on Sunday night, despite the widespread media coverage preceding its airing.
The BBC's flagship music show, bowing out after seeing viewing figures slip from around 15 million in its heyday to today's much-lower number, was presented by a selection of hosts on Sunday night: Sir Jimmy Saville rubbed shoulders with Janice Long, who in turn shared screen time with both Mike Reid and Edith Bowman. No wonder I didn't watch it.
Although 3.9 million viewers is hardly worth getting excited about, it nevertheless marked a dramatic improvement compared to shows broadcast in the not-so-distant past. Fewer than a million people had been tuning in for certain recent editions.
You can read DiS's chart round-up here.
the actual program...
was shite, unfunny and apart from the odd clip of insperation, was rubbish. and the countless programs about TOTP's that followed. i saw that Ronnie Barker joke about pans people 3 times in one evening.
actually... i'm the bigger twat for watching them all. i was tired. and hungover. couldn't reach the remote.
RIP TOTP :(
The programme last night was rubbish. Tony Blackburn doing his best impression of a crab, and no Smiths. Not to mention some tool smirking about Wham!. Bah.
how on earth...
do you stop that terrible green clash advert to the right from flasing? It's giving me a right headache. It really is making me think twice about opening up news stories / reviews. (Oh and TOTP was awful last night. How can you do a recap of the 80s and 90s without mentioning rave or the naughties without So Solid?)
unfortunately
I caught some glimpses of it whilst channel hopping last night.
They wheeled out all old crusties - Saville, Reid, DLT, Blackburn etc and mixed 'em in some of the new cretinous presenters Reggie and alike.
It was crap on paper and even worse in reality.
Rood riddance to shite television.
it was shit
not exactly good ratings when the chuckle brothers get 3.2 million per episode.
not that i'm insulting the chuckles though, in fact, they're the greatest comedy duo of all time. no really.
no.
really.
my mate reckons
the Chuckles are really father and son and they fuck eachother.
that's
coz art brut weren't on.
right click on the advert
unclick loop and play.
It stops.....
I watched the
first 15 mins of it and it was shite so i changed the channel to Celebrity Love Island or something
it was shit
they could have at least shown the manics miming along to faster
as
shadyadie said
the last episode
was total fucking crap, i lasted about the first 5 mins.
i think
they're taking the easy way out saying mtv and the internet are to blame.
i blame andy peters and the various producers etc.
also the cuntish presenters, richard famous for being a cokehead bacon, fern popular cos people wanna fuck a mousey young blonde girl, and the other lets keep this PC, trendy and reprasentitive presenters.
appaling grammar in this post.
er yes
she's popular for exactly that reason, it's not a bad thing! But yes, moving it to sunday, mixing it with bullshit and chatshow elements was just unnecessary, apparently in a yahoo poll it lost out to jools holland as best ever music show!
And even so, they don't move fucking watchdog on early evenings do they? cunts.
Or
Get the adblock extension for Firefox, then you don't even have to see it.
reggie is the worst thing I have ever seen on tv.
The last ever number 1 didn't even perform on the show, whilst the presenters continued to tell me what an honour it was to be the last ever number one on totp. Poor showing. POOR.
the show
was shit. who chose the music? the 80's with no smiths, the 90's with no radiohead. infact, the show pretty muuch summed up why no one watches it anymore; because it is shit, and because it has always been about shit music. the only thing that used to get it any ratings was the ladies dancing with not much clothing on.
nowadays, we can watch shit music with scantily clad ladies dancing on numerous 'music' tv channels.
Tony Blackburn is the anti-christ.
Or is it DLT? i can't quite decide.
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we could in the 90s too but the show was still had more viewers.
shit music is as popular as ever.
its purely down to the presenters/producers
i maintain that mtv has little to do with it.
3.9 million!!!
You know, if those kind of ratings were ever approached over here in Australia it would be one of the biggest TV success stories of the year. And in New Zealand it would mean that every single person who had access to a TV would be watching...
wow,
so there are different numbers of people in different countries, eh?
(20.6milllion aussies, 59.8million brits)
blimey, strewth, mate, y' flamin' gullah! who would have thought it?!
would 1.3million viewers be a record figure in oz?
it was so poor
It made me embarrassed that it was my favourite program for years. Some of the choices of artists was terrible - Ricky Martin, Shania Twain, an awful performance by pink-haired Madonna. Who chose these terrible clips? I think they just wanted to say "see, it was rubbish, you won't miss it!"
put anduda shrimp on the barbie
im guessin around 7-8 million would be the equivelent of our record, which i reckon would be around 20m for football or Dianas funeLOL
Janice Long
Needs taking out the back, lined up alongside Cheggers, and shooting.
That is all.
What?!
But Australia is the country of Neighbours. Surely the entire Aussie population tunes in?
excuses
For all the argument of "There's no call for a live music show in this day of MTV" I can't help but feel it's a little bit of a confused argument. Not only are most music channels crap, but if we can have 17 shows about gardening remaining popular in the digital age I'm sure TOTP was in for a fighting chance at popularity. The ratings only dropped because they kept rescheduling it to such awkward times no one could ever figure out when it was on!
I thought some of the clips they showed were great, while some of the full-length performances they played *really should've been clips*. But what REALLY got me was that the FINAL performance EVER was.........a music video.
If the artists weren't available, WHY DIDN'T THEY BRING IN THE PANS PEOPLE?!??????
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