SERIES DOWN; KICKING COMMENCES

After all the hoopla surrounding the move of Top of the Pops from BBC ONE to its "new home" on Sundays on BBC TWO, they're already starting to shunt the thing around the network: this week's show is actually, erm, going out next week, on Monday. It's making way for The Proms, which you can understand to a certain extent ("Roly, should we prioritise Mahler and Mozart, or KT Tunstall and the new track from the Black Eyed Peas?"), but so soon after repotting the show, to send it riccocheting off round the darker corners of the Radio Times is hardly the way to help it build an audience in its new slot. Also: wasn't there something hugely important about the programme going out live just after the new chart had been announced?

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