BBC Scrooges have axed the Christmas Day Top of the Pops after 57 years on TV. Cost-cutting measures have seen them pull the festive favourite from the schedules despite it being traditional viewin…
Cost-cutting measures have seen them pull the festive favourite from the schedules despite it being traditional viewing for generations of Brits.Even after the weekly Top of the Pops was axed in 2006, the corporation kept the annual show on BBC1 every December 25
It was considered so important that, even after the weekly Top of the Pops was axed in 2006, the corporation kept the annual show on BBC1 every December 25. A TV insider said: "Beeb bosses felt the cost involved in creating a one-off show like this were too high to justify. "Creating the studio and bringing together a string of artists to perform for just this programme required a disproportionate amount of resources.
"But it will be seen as the sad end of an era by millions of Brits who saw it as a Christmas Day must-watch along with the Queen's Speech."
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