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The Mighty Mopdecai

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TOTP -Can you save it?
« on: 11 Aug 2005, 14:29 »
Right Andy Peters has just been fired. You have been given the job of saving Top of The Pops. What do you do.
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« Reply #1 on: 11 Aug 2005, 14:43 »
have a "new music" section.
only studio/live performances.
better presenters.

that might be a start ...

also add a celebrity deathmatch section where whoever has been feuding the tabloids that week get to do battle
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« Reply #2 on: 11 Aug 2005, 14:56 »
I would gather the entire British pop, NME rock and watered down 'urban' scene together for some sort of awards ceremony, and then break out my own special cocktail of agent orange, zyklon B, mustard gas, flourine and sarin, with some napalm for afters.

Then I would turn it into a show about extreme cookery.
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« Reply #3 on: 11 Aug 2005, 14:56 »
Begin job-hunting because I know that this will only end in a torrent of fear and anger.
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« Reply #4 on: 11 Aug 2005, 15:28 »
Move to the US!
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« Reply #5 on: 11 Aug 2005, 19:16 »
Quote from: KharBevNor
I would gather the entire British pop, NME rock and watered down 'urban' scene together for some sort of awards ceremony, and then break out my own special cocktail of agent orange, zyklon B, mustard gas, flourine and sarin, with some napalm for afters.

Then I would turn it into a show about extreme cookery.


Now that's a party!
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« Reply #6 on: 11 Aug 2005, 20:25 »
The question is not so much "Can I save it?", as "Would I want to save it?"

To which the answer is emphatically "No."
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trolley

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« Reply #7 on: 12 Aug 2005, 05:52 »
Capture Fern cotton, and bring her back to my place for punishment.

SEXY PUNISHMENT.
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trolley

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« Reply #8 on: 12 Aug 2005, 15:07 »
Top of the pops. A now ailing music show on the BBC that was mega popular in the 60's-90's but has since fallen on hard times. It's a vehicle for quality music such as Ciara and 50 cent. It's gotten so poor that it recently moved from primetime friday night, to some time on sundays.

It's craporama basically.
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« Reply #9 on: 12 Aug 2005, 15:15 »
I could save it... Easily.

Step 1: Shoot every chav in the UK
Step 2: Threaten to remove Topshop and other such stores unless people like what I give em.
Step 3: Play lots of punk...
Step 4: Dominate the UK
Step 5: World domination!!

Bow before your future Queen!
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« Reply #10 on: 12 Aug 2005, 17:33 »
The inherent problem with top of the pops, is that by its very nature, and implied by its very name.. its supposed to be about pop acts. Now this is all very well when pop music is good, but in an era when big label music is getting so much less creative, there is honestly nothing that can be done to make the programe watchable.

Sure, you could turn it into a credible clone of MTV and make fistloads of cash, but i wouldnt call that "saving" it.
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« Reply #11 on: 12 Aug 2005, 17:52 »
But you'd have fistloads of cash.
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« Reply #12 on: 12 Aug 2005, 18:09 »
and cash is way better than being "credible" or "not a fucking sellout", because you can buy and sell those assholes for more cash or people who think you're awesome.
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but the music sucks because the keyboards don't have the cold/mechanical sound they had but a wannabe techno sound that it's pathetic for Rammstein standars.

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« Reply #13 on: 12 Aug 2005, 18:11 »
Seriously.

I have principles and all.

But if I was ever in a position to sell out, I'd probably be in the bahamas the day after.
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« Reply #14 on: 13 Aug 2005, 00:15 »
Fun fact: you can get various diseases, hepatitis included, from simple things such as ice down in the Bahamas.

Just lettin' you know.
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trolley

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« Reply #15 on: 13 Aug 2005, 02:54 »
THAT'S WHAT YOUR MUM SAID LAST NIGHT.
Yeah, I went there.


But seriously folks, Totp is dead, long live Jools Holland!
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« Reply #16 on: 13 Aug 2005, 03:14 »
I think im going to have to go with Khar's extreme cookery thing...

Anybody seen "Full on Food"

It's like Top Gear but with food.

TO THE X-TREEEEEEME!
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« Reply #17 on: 13 Aug 2005, 03:18 »
I don't think anyone can save it.

I personally think it should be allowed to die in peace. It's the only humane thing to do.....
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Praeserpium Machinarum

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« Reply #18 on: 13 Aug 2005, 05:46 »
I would make it feature actual pops, let the audience consist of five pops(think the grandpas from Muppets) slagging the music off. Example:

"Where does that noise come from?"
"Turn that down or I'll take away your allowance!"
"Son, that isn't exactly music now is it?"
"I think there is something wrong with the cd"

etc.
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« Reply #19 on: 13 Aug 2005, 07:37 »
Quote from: trolley
Capture Fern cotton, and bring her back to my place for punishment.

SEXY PUNISHMENT.


Ah, Fern Cotton. The poor man's Lauren Laverne.

Save TOTP? I wouldn't bother.
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The Mighty Mopdecai

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Thanks Guys
« Reply #20 on: 15 Aug 2005, 17:22 »
Its good to see that I am not alone
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