TOTP, R.I.P.
The BBC has decided to cancel Top of the Pops, the longest-running music program(me) in TV history. Say it ain't so, Joe!
OK, so maybe the program is as outdated as It's Academic, and maybe host Fearne Cotton seems vapid and is, um, Britishy-looking. And fine, so I can't name a groundbreaking appearance on the show since, say, The Smiths. And maybe I've never even seen the show live on a telly. It was still nice to know the show was out there somewhere.
You'd think folks would be bummed out. And -- as commenters on Fearne's MySpace pages make clear, many are. But that doesn't stop the BBC -- motto: government entertainment and news, and government news about entertainment -- from attempting to bury the body before the heart stops beating.
OK, so maybe the program is as outdated as It's Academic, and maybe host Fearne Cotton seems vapid and is, um, Britishy-looking. And fine, so I can't name a groundbreaking appearance on the show since, say, The Smiths. And maybe I've never even seen the show live on a telly. It was still nice to know the show was out there somewhere.
You'd think folks would be bummed out. And -- as commenters on Fearne's MySpace pages make clear, many are. But that doesn't stop the BBC -- motto: government entertainment and news, and government news about entertainment -- from attempting to bury the body before the heart stops beating.
posted by TtP Staff @ 6/21/2006
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