'All new' TOTP set to go live: live broadcast to help create 'event'.(Television)

Andi Peters says he is aiming to turn Top Of The Pops into a weekly "event" with his dramatic new move to broadcast it live from the end of November.

"All New Top Of The Pops" is to be beamed live from BBC TV Centre at 7.30pm every week, starting on November 28, in a move which has received approval from BBC1 controller Lorraine Heggessey.

Peters--who will this week have been in his new role full time as BBC TV's executive editor, popular music, for just two weeks--says he wants to turn the show into the BBC1's stepping stone into the weekend schedule. "The thinking is that I need to create an event," he says. "I want it to be the launch for the weekend on BBC1."

Peters adds, "At the moment, the show is recorded in a modular fashion. The performances and the links are recorded separately and then sewn together in the edit. I think that, as an audience, you can tell that."

The new live show will continue to go out at 7.30pm every Friday, with its entire production encapsulated on the last day of the week, with rehearsals starting early in the morning.

Peters--who this week tells Music Week of a range of changes to the BBC's flagship music show--says confirmation of each week's line-up ...