I hope he is happy for me to pass this onto you all...

Dear Jonathan

Thank you for your email. Please accept my apologies for the delay in
replying.

I am sorry to hear that you were unhappy that your performance was
edited out of an episode of Top of the Pops recently repeated on BBC
Four. The BBC's complaints process begins with a response from the
relevant programme makers and I therefore asked my colleagues in BBC
Four to address this matter. Their response is as follows:

"We are sorry that Mr King's appearance was edited out of this
particular programme. We accept that this should not have happened and
we would like to apologise for any upset this caused.

We can assure Mr King that there is no policy in place requiring any of
his appearances, or those of any one else, to be removed from repeats we
show on the channel. We can also assure Mr King that his performance
will not be edited out of any future repeat of this particular episode
of Top of the Pops."

I hope this response is helpful, but please come back to me if there are
any further points you wish to raise and I will ensure that these are
dealt with in accordance with our complaints process. I want to join
BBC Four in apologising for this incorrect decision.

Best wishes

Mark Thompson
Director General
BBC

The reply doesn't actually explain why it happened though, or that it won't happen to future episodes. It just won't happen again if that particular episode is repeated again (which is unlikely). I'm sure the BBC has a policy that all letteres are responded to, and you got your response.

Indeed - but I would think it unlikely for any other appearances to be edited out of any other TOTP or other repeats after that endorsed apology. I hope that radio archive shows will also start replaying Gary Glitter hits for example.

Well reading between the lines of M Thompson's reply , it is quite clear that JK was edited out and those with the scapel have been found out.He doesn't care of course, he doesn't know about the quirky footnote JK has in english 60's and 70's pop or of his imaginative broadcasting for the BBC.

Funnily enough he does know about it, Bunk; we first met when he was at BBC New York and I was there making Entertainment USA (9.7 million viewers on BBC2).

And the story, along with the usual Daily Mail errors, appears in the paper today:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050698...leting-Top-Pops.html

Indeed - hacks have been onto me all morning about "the secret world of JK fans" - E-Books (No1 on Kindle - see Photos); Vile Pervert; The Musical (over 65,000 full length views/downloads); Me Me Me; and Top of the Pops.

dixie wrote:
And the story, along with the usual Daily Mail errors, appears in the paper today:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2050698...leting-Top-Pops.html

And here is the brand new address for readers to point out Daily Mail errors:


corrections@dailymail.co.uk