Top Of The Pops to return for two festive shows on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve
Top of the Pops will return to BBC1 this Christmas with two one-off shows.
Top of the Pops will return to BBC One for two special programmes Photo: BBC
The news comes less than a month after the Corporation announced there would be no Christmas specials of the show this year, claiming that pop music would be better represented by a special, eight-part series of TOTP2.
Under plans announced today, however, the BBC said special editions of the show would be broadcast on Christmas Day and on New Year’s Eve.
The Corporation said the shows form part of an “extended musical line-up” for Christmas, which also includes Jools Holland’s annual Hootenanny on BBC2 and The Big Finish on BBC1.
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates will host both episodes, with the Christmas day edition revealing which song has made the Christmas number one slot.
The New Year’s Eve edition will feature a review of the year in pop.
BBC1 controller Jay Hunt said: “With shows on Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, Top Of The Pops has never been bigger.”
But the Corporation said there are no plans to bring back Top of the Pops full-time, despite calls for the show to be reinstated.
The show was axed from the BBC in 2006 following a decline in ratings.
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