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The Top Of The Pops brand will be absent from UK TV screens for just two months, as the BBC finalises a new series of TOTP2 to air at the end of September.
The new series is to continue in the vein of the established TOTP2 formula and combine vintage material from the Top Of The Pops archive with new performances, for which studio time has already been booked.
The first show in the series is scheduled to be broadcast on September 30 and the season runs until Christmas in a Saturday teatime slot on BBC2.
TOTP disappeared from screens at the end of July, when the BBC announced it would be continuing TOPT2 and promised a Christmas special at the very least. The latest news means the name will not be off the airwaves for as long.
Pluggers have been told that the BBC will be recording 12 performances on September 14 and 15, with two performances featuring each week between September 30 and November 4. The plan is then to book more studio time for recording either in late ...