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Surprise switch in TOTP job; Peters replaces Cowey in BBC role. (Television).
Andi Peters has been crowned the new king of the BBC TV's flagship pop show Top Of The Pops.
In a surprise announcement last Friday, Peters was confirmed as the new executive producer of TOTP, replacing Chris Cowey, who is to leave the show after six years.
Peters takes on the TOTP role as part of his new job as executive editor, popular music, for the BBC. Peters will also be responsible for a string of other music programmes, as well as creating new formats.
Peters said in a statement last Friday: "I'm delighted to be returning to the place where I produced my first programme. After an eight-year gap from the BBC, I'm looking forward to working with the new talent at the corporation."
He will report to Mark Cooper, who heads the BBC music entertainment department, handling 200 hours of output every year.
Although Peters will be "tasked with creating a raft of programmes that have Andi Peters all over them", Cooper says running TOTP will be Peters' key role.
"TOTP is a pop show and always has been," he says. "TOTP is a programme targeted at people who buy into singles and pop culture. But it also has to be a mainstream programme. TOTP is a weekly show that has ...