"commentary at Eurovision Song Contests. Jacobs presented ""Juke Box Jury"" on BBC television between 1959 and 1967. This was a weekly show in which a guest panel reviewed newly released pop records and forecast whether each would become a ""hit"" or a ""miss"". By 1962 the programme attracted 12 million viewers weekly on Saturday nights. He was one of the four original presenters of ""Top of the Pops"" when it began in 1964, but remained a presenter of the programme for only its first two years. ""I became too square for the pop scene,"" he once commented. In 1963 he"
"Top of the Pops 2 Top of the Pops 2 (also known as TOTP2) is a British television music show broadcast on BBC Two, showing archive footage from the long-running ""Top of the Pops"" show, some dating back to the 1960s when the programme first aired on British television. From its debut in 1994, the show was narrated by BBC Radio 2 DJ Johnnie Walker. Steve Wright took over in 1997 and hosted the show until being replaced by Mark Radcliffe in December 2009. The presenter never appears in-vision, but provides voice-over commentary that introduces each performance. The original show"
"Top of the Pops Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was shown every Thursday evening on BBC One, except for a short period on Fridays in mid-1973 before being again moved to Fridays at 7:30pm in 1996 and then to Sundays on BBC Two in 2005. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music artists, with a rundown of that week's singles chart. Additionally, there was a"
"called ""Summer 2001"", a sister DVD to the album of the same name. Top of the Pops Top of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly between 1 January 1964 and 30 July 2006. The programme was shown every Thursday evening on BBC One, except for a short period on Fridays in mid-1973 before being again moved to Fridays at 7:30pm in 1996 and then to Sundays on BBC Two in 2005. Each weekly programme consisted of performances from some of that week's best-selling popular music"
"he replaced David Jacobs for ""Pick of the Pops"", which was then part of a Saturday-evening programme called ""Trad Tavern"", after traditional jazz which had a following at the time. ""Pick of the Pops"" became a separate programme in January 1962. It was produced by Derek Chinnery. Denys Jones (producer 1961–1972) and Freeman split the programme into four: chart newcomers, new releases, LPs and the Top 10. The programme attracted large audiences as the BBC had restrictions on ""needle time"" and could play relatively few commercially available recordings each week. Freeman continued with the show when it moved to Radio"
"the French & UK versions of Jackson's greatest hits album ""King of Pop"". The music video for ""Black or White"" premiered on MTV, BET, VH1, and Fox (giving them their highest Nielsen ratings ever at the time) as well as the BBC's ""Top of the Pops"" in the UK on November 14, 1991. Along with Jackson, it featured Macaulay Culkin, Tess Harper, and George Wendt. The video was directed by John Landis, who previously directed ""Thriller"". It was co-choreographed by Jackson and Vincent Paterson. It premiered simultaneously in 27 countries, with an audience of 500 million viewers, the most ever"
"package, and at one point various versions of the show were shown in nearly 100 countries. Editions of the programme from the 1970s (and now 1980s) are being repeated on most Thursdays and Fridays on BBC Four, although episodes featuring disgraced presenters and artists such as Jimmy Savile, Dave Lee Travis and Gary Glitter are not repeated. ""Top of the Pops"" was created by BBC producer Johnnie Stewart, inspired by the popular ""Teen and Twenty Disc Club"" which aired on Radio Luxembourg. It was first aired in 1964 and was originally based on the Top 20. By 1970 the Top"
"in 1992, and remained close friends with Carradine until his death in 2009. His first role, in 1993, was a hit in both Canada and United States. He also appeared on ""Silk Stalkings"" and provided the voice of Gambit for at least the first four seasons of the X-Men animated series. Aside from acting, Potter is also a singer and songwriter. He recorded the CD ""Tourmaline"", for which he wrote all the songs. He also plays guitar, drums, and piano. Potter was featured in ""Rocket's Red Glare"" (2000). He appeared on the first season as Dr. David Cameron on ""Queer"
"than ""Popstars"" or ""Pop Idol"", was created by Simon Cowell—""The X Factor"". Popstars (UK TV series) Popstars is a UK talent show series that was broadcast on ITV in early 2001. It was the first UK series of the international ""Popstars"" franchise, and was billed as a documentary on the formation of a modern pop group. The series began with audition rounds of aspiring singers (good and bad) performing songs before a panel of judges. The best performers were selected to come to London for further rounds of auditions. Over the weeks, the judges eliminated various singers from the auditions"
"X Factor"" as of 2017. After ""Popstars"" producers threatened legal action, a deal was struck that, among other clauses, does not allow the use of the word ""pop"" in the title of ""Pop Idol"" editions outside of the UK. Pop Idol Pop Idol is a British music competition television series created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new young pop singer (or ""pop idol"") in the UK based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast—one in 2001–2002 and a second in 2003. ""Pop"
"Jacob was eliminated on 8 October 2007. His last performance on Idol was on Brit Pop night. He performed The Beatles hit ""Let It Be"". At the end of 2007, Jacob performed at the Sydney New Year's Eve Concert alongside fellow Idol contestants Ben McKenzie and Tarisai Vushe. Since Idol, Jacob has released his debut album ""Reason"" in Germany and other countries across Europe. The album was released in Australia and New Zealand in August 2013. Mark Da Costa is a 28-year-old from Sydney, New South Wales, thus was the oldest finalist. He was advanced by the public to the"
"and David Jason was located by Kaleidoscope Publishing in 2010 in the archives of UCLA, and brought to general public attention in February 2011. Early episodes of the pop music-chart show ""Top of the Pops"" were wiped or never recorded while they were being transmitted live, including the only in-studio appearance by The Beatles. Clips of the Beatles miming ""Can't Buy Me Love"" and ""You Can't Do That"" on an episode from 25 March 1964 were found online by missing episode hunter Ray Langstone in 2015. The last lost edition dates from 8 September 1977. There are only four complete"
"the world, including original ""Pop Idol"" winner Will Young, ""American Idol"" winner Kelly Clarkson and ""Australian Idol"" winner Guy Sebastian, competed in a one-off competition, complete with a large judging panel featuring one judge from each country (Simon Cowell officially representing ""American Idol"", with Pete Waterman the ""official"" UK judge). The surprise winner was Norway's Kurt Nilsen, who proceeded to minor UK chart success. Cowell was strongly critical of ""World Idol"", and it is highly unlikely to be staged again. After the second series of ""Pop Idol"", ITV put the show on indefinite hiatus when in April 2004 judge and"
"and innovative television program director despite having no previous professional experience. He directed ""The Beat Room"", a highly popular British pop program as well as other successful British pop shows, including the Juke Box Jury, ""Dad, you’re a square"", ""Exit, It's The Way Out"", ""Gadzooks, It's All Happening"", and the Tom Jones BBC TV series. While producing in the music industry, he discovered David Bowie and helped launch Tom Jones' career, managing them both for a time. He also managed the American singer P.J. Proby. Barry Langford was involved in the discovery of the Who, featuring them on the Beat"
"'pop-up' live studio in a road-bus to the Olympic venues capturing the events targeted for the teenagers of the world. The Beat of London was a joint venture between ITV and Coca-Cola covering more than 30 countries. The Beat of London The Beat of London was a variety program aired on Fox8 on 30 July 2012 until 10 August 2012, hosted by Darren McMullen, Laura Whitmore and Dave Berry. The programme had world celebrities, sports personalities, comedians and live music gigs including Grammy Award-fame singers like Mark Ronson, Katy B, Dizzee Rascal, and many more. ""I'm extremely excited to be"
"producing on his own. Tony featured 1956 to 1992. Blackburn was fired by the BBC in February 2016. Paul Gambaccini took over ""Pick of The Pops"" in July 2016. In 2016, it was announced that the show was now being produced by 7 Digital Productions. Paul also features Billboard charts along with The UK 20 twenty normally in the first hour then the Billboard chart in the second hour, over the Christmas/ New Year period, he has featured 1965, 1970, 1975 & 1982. He features charts from 1958 to 2006 and also tells listeners what was number one in America"
"UK when his health deteriorated. He died in East Dereham, Norfolk, aged 87. Johnnie Stewart Johnnie Stewart (born Lorn Alastair Stewart, 7 November 1917 – 29 April 2005) was a British television producer who worked for the BBC, noted mostly for his role in creating the long-running music programme ""Top of the Pops"". Born as Lorn Alastair Stewart, in Tonbridge, Kent, Stewart was the son of Dr Haldane Campbell Stewart, who was also musical but in a different sphere - he was organist and choirmaster at Magdalen College, Oxford, the director of music at the Tonbridge School, Kent, and also"
"Karaoke (TV series) Karaoke is a British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying from cancer of the pancreas. It forms the first half of a pair with the serial ""Cold Lazarus"". The two plays were filmed as a single production by the same team; both were directed by Renny Rye. Both plays were unique in being co-productions between the BBC and rival broadcaster Channel 4, something Potter had expressly requested before his death. The show was first aired on BBC1 in April 1996 on Sunday evenings, with a repeat on Channel 4 the"
"Pop Idol Pop Idol is a British music competition television series created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new young pop singer (or ""pop idol"") in the UK based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast—one in 2001–2002 and a second in 2003. ""Pop Idol"" was subsequently put on an indefinite hiatus after series judge Simon Cowell announced the launch of ""The X Factor"" in the UK in April 2004. The show has become an international TV franchise since, spawning multiple ""Idol"" series"
"Dennis Potter Dennis Christopher George Potter (17 May 1935 – 7 June 1994) was an English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist. He is best known for his BBC TV serials ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1978), ""The Singing Detective"" (1986), and the television plays ""Blue Remembered Hills"" (1979) and ""Brimstone and Treacle"" (1976). His television dramas mixed fantasy and reality, the personal and the social, and often used themes and images from popular culture. Potter is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative dramatists to have worked in British television. Born in Gloucestershire and graduating from Oxford University, Potter"
"from Rock Steady Crew, Timothy ""Popin' Pete"" Solomon and Dane ""Robot Dane"" Parker from the Electric Boogaloos, and locking dancers Alpha ""Omega"" Anderson and Lewis ""Deputy"" Green also appeared on Solid Gold during a performance to the song ""What a Feeling"" from the movie ""Flashdance"". In 1982 during a performance in London on ""Top of the Pops"", street dancer Jeffrey Daniel performed popping and the ""backslide"" during the song ""A Night to Remember"". This was the first time popping was shown on British television thus spreading its popularity in the United Kingdom. A year later, Michael Jackson also performed the"
"Ed Stewart Edward Stewart Mainwaring (23 April 1941 – 9 January 2016), known as Ed ""Stewpot"" Stewart, was an English broadcaster. He was principally known for his work as a DJ on BBC Radio 1 (particularly the Saturday morning ""Junior Choice"") and Radio 2 and as a presenter for ""Top of the Pops"" and ""Crackerjack"" on BBC Television. Stewart was born Edward Stewart Mainwaring, the son of a Treasury solicitor, in Exmouth, Devon, on . He attended Eagle House School, Sandhurst, Berkshire and St Edward's School, Oxford, and his broadcasting career began in Hong Kong. While touring there as bass"
"British Forces Broadcasting Service and was chief announcer on Radio SEAC in Ceylon (1945–47). Jacobs was later assistant station director. A BBC staff announcer in the early 1950s, his voice intoned the title for many of the 53 episodes of the space adventure series ""Journey Into Space"". He played 22 parts in the series. He also broadcast on Radio Luxembourg. He had, between 1957 and 1961, established the chart show format of the Light Programme's ""Pick of the Pops"", to which he briefly returned in 1962. Between 1957 and 1966, he presented ""A Song for Europe"" and provided the UK"
"""Record Mirror"". De Paul performed the song live on BBC TV's ""Top of the Pops"" on 17 July 1975 with the show being presented by Dave Lee Travis. The show was thought to have been lost from the BBC archives, but was tracked down in 2013 and found to be in the private collection of record producer and songwriter Ian Levine. It was the 10th song of this episode, being preceded by David Essex and being followed by Typically Tropical. This version of the song suffered from part of the backing music being omitted. De Paul also performed the song,"
"the programme deftly crossed generational boundaries – younger viewers revelling in the appearance of their current pop stars, while older adults identified with the often anti-pop sentiments of the panellists from a non-musical or older background, confirming ""adult and youthful prejudices at the same time""'. In January 1967, the Sunday tabloid newspaper ""News of the World"" in a series of attacks on the new hippy sub-culture and LSD, castigated David Jacobs in one article for playing the Mothers of Invention single ""It Can't Happen Here"" on a ""Juke Box Jury"" broadcast in November 1966 as it was 'recorded on a"
"shown by the BBC on 30 January 1979, uses the dramatic device of adult actors playing children, including Helen Mirren, Janine Duvitski, Michael Elphick, Colin Jeavons, Colin Welland, John Bird, and Robin Ellis. Potter had used this device before, for example in ""Stand Up, Nigel Barton"". A lucrative deal with LWT, and semi-independence, followed an aborted project to adapt Anthony Powell's ""A Dance to the Music of Time"" for the BBC. A series of six single plays by Potter for ITV, with a further three written by Jim Allen, was planned. Budget overspends meant only three of the Potter plays"
"timeslot of 22:00-22:30. The figures made it the most watched show of its timeslot, with it attracting a 28% audience share. Top Gear of the Pops Top Gear of the Pops was a one-off special programme that aired for BBC Two on 16 March 2007, as part of Red Nose Day 2007. The episode combined the elements of ""Top Gear"", with that of BBC music chart show ""Top of the Pops"", the latter of which was cancelled by the BBC in 2006. In the episode, presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May hosted their own version of the chart"
"of senior golf's major championships. The following year he added a second senior major title at the 2005 Senior Players Championship. Away from competing, Jacobsen has presented two shows on the Golf Channel. ""Plugged In"" was a variety show, featuring music, story-telling and skits performed with co-host Matt Griesser, former star of the FootJoy SignBoy campaign, and ""Peter and Friends"" was a panel discussion show. Jacobsen appeared as himself alongside Kevin Costner in the 1996 movie Tin Cup, where he was the winner of the fictional U.S. Open. A self-taught guitarist, Jacobsen was a founding member and lead singer of"
"BBC HD. In 2008, the head rock and pop critic of ""The Guardian"", Alexis Petridis, claimed the programme featured a ""distinct lack of spontaneity"" and was failing to showcase enough dance music, pop, hip-hop, experimental music or present R&B artists. He also argued ""all the artists it breaks are essentially the same: MOR singer-songwriters"". In 2010, Joe Elliott, lead singer of rock band Def Leppard, criticised the programme for excluding the band from appearing on it, claiming ""Jools Holland won't have us on his show because we're not cool enough."" Executive producer Mark Cooper responded to this comment in 2013,"
"Pick of the Pops Pick of the Pops is a BBC Radio programme, originally based on the Top 20 UK Singles Chart and first broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1955. It transferred to BBC Radio 1 (simulcast on BBC Radio 2) from 1967 to 1972. It was revived for six years in the 1980s. Its current production run started in 1997. Initially the show did not feature the charts, but in September 1957 Alan Dell introduced the format of running through the charts of the week, playing the top tens from various music papers plus entries to top"
"Jury"" took a format where a guest panel reviewed new record releases in a 25-minute programme, extended to an hour for some Christmas shows. The format was drawn from that of the US TV series, ""Jukebox Jury"". Host David Jacobs each week asked four celebrities (the 'Jurors') to judge newly released records on his jukebox (a Rock-Ola Tempo II) and forecast which would be declared a ""hit"" or a ""miss"" – the decision accompanied by either a bell for a 'hit' or a hooter for a 'miss'. A panel of three members of the audience voted as a tie-breaker if"
"Steven Jacobs (television presenter) Steven Jacobs (born 8 January 1967 in Wollongong, New South Wales) is an Australian television presenter and actor. Jacobs has previously been a weather presenter on the Nine Network's breakfast program ""Weekend Today"" and ""Today"". Before he made it to national television, he hosted a children's news program known as ""Kids News"", which was produced at WIN Television studios in Wollongong. Following this, Jacobs started his career in radio, presenting a weekly Top 40 music countdown. He has since appeared in many Nine Network productions, the first notable one being ""All Together Now"", which aired from"
"Joby Harte Joby Harte is a British television personality. He has worked on many hit shows including the BBC's ""Strictly Come Dancing"". Joby was part of the original production team and played a vital part in the creation of the worldwide hit reality series ""Pop Idol"" along with series producer Ken Warwick. As a television actor his credits include ""the baker"" for the hit ITV children's show ""SMTV Live"". Before being a warm-up artist he was a radio presenter for local UK radio station 97.6 Chiltern FM. Harte has been involved in shows that have received numerous awards for the"