Top Of The Pops is back for festive special with glam host
THE BBC will welcome back Top Of The Pops for a festive special this December.
The music chart show may have finished in 2006 but it will return to the BBC for a festive comeback.
Radio 1 DJ Clara Amfo, who has been a host on the legendary chart music show before will return to highlight musical performances from some of the biggest pop stars of 2024.
Highlighting some of the best chart topping performances and the best hits of the past twelve months will see Amofo on screens this Christmas.
Top of The Pops: Review of The Year 2024 is a BBC Studios (1 x 60) production for BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
It was commissioned by Jonathan Rothery, Head of Popular Music TV.
The Commissioning Editor for BBC Popular Music TV is Rachel Davies. The Executive Producer for BBC Studios is Alison Howe.
Top Of The Pops: Review Of 2024 will air this Christmas on BBC Two.
In 2006, the BBC cancelled the pop chart show after years of viewership decline following its prime in the 1970s.
During its heyday in the 1970s, it attracted over 15 million viewers each week.
Yet by 2002 the figure had dropped to just 3 million.
During the last 18 years, sporadic specials of the show and retrospective episodes have continued to air.
At the time of its cancellation in 2006, Mike Read, who was a presenter in the 1980s, said to the BBC: “It was a situation that was obviously coming because of dwindling audiences.
“There are lots of people who say `I used to watch it years ago but I don’t like the music’. There needed to be a mix of old and new.”
History of Top of the Pops
Top Of The Pops is returning to BBC One This Christmas.
Top of the Pops (TOTP) is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006.
The programme was the world’s longest-running weekly music show. For most of its history, it was broadcast on Thursday evenings on BBC One.
It’s been fronted by various presenters including Fearne Cotton, Jamie Theakston, Jimmy Saville and Anthea Turner.
Since its final show in 2006 it has returned annually for a festive Christmas special to highlight the best music hits of the past twelve months.