Not so much the acts chosen (though I could live without ever hearing Robbie Williams again) and I can't blame it for the awful No1, but surely the same old format from 45 years ago could do with an update?

If it ain't broke... but it IS broke; the fucking show's been cancelled.

Like The Brits - a bit of originality, fresh imagination, creativity... this is 2012 for God's sake.

But also like The Brits... no-one cares.

Why on earth do tracks - obviously created using ProTools and the like - fronted by fluffy singers always present them in a 'band' context? on TV It didn't used to happen in the 60s, 70s & 80s, but in the past 10 years every pop hit (however obviously computer-generated) is presented for TV miming complete with an earnest-looking band featuring Bass Guitarists miming to a computer keyboard and embarrassed drummers pretending to bash out robo-beats on an acoustic kit. It annoys the f**k our of me!!

And all the tracks I'd have featured (We Are Young; Maroon 5; Diamonds) were buried in tiny montages whilst the crap ones were featured at length.

If we can't give Russell T Davies The Brits (I would), can't we at least let him revive Top of the Pops like he did Dr Who? Please Mr BBC (whoever you may be)?

Rather a good, fair and lengthy defence of the show from Mark Cooper, who shows his heart is still in the right place. He calls me Grinch King and he may well be right. Apologies for being negative. We need all the music on TV we can get and with the poor old BBC having to fight against Mail, Murdoch and Media - the 3 Ms - I think we should all support it!

JK2006 wrote:
And all the tracks I'd have featured (We Are Young; Maroon 5; Diamonds) were buried in tiny montages whilst the crap ones were featured at length.
Ah, but that was a key contributor to the show's final decline in its latter years - always giving "available" artists (so always boybands, girlbands and dance acts) "live" studio time in preference to showing videos of better tracks...

Or coming up with original, clever ways of illustrating music visually; that's my point MM - with No Limits we often used out-of-contract or dead artistes if the tracks were good; and set them to footage of the towns and young presenters; we got huge ratings (just under 6 million on BBC2) and broke some terrific hits.

I'm trying to do the same with my films - Vile Pervert: The Musical, Me Me Me and, coming in 2013, The Pink Marble Egg.

Mainly online at present due to problems beyond our control, but getting hundreds of thousands of viewers and selling quite a lot of downloads.