it was pretty crap lately

haven't watched it since i was ten and stopped being the target audience.

yeah me thinks its a generation thing

I imagine it'll be back one day. These things tend to be cyclical. My personal TOTP highlight was watching Al Jareau mime the theme to Moonlighting pretty atrociously. An age of innocence.

It tended to have at least one band on that I liked. I hated the TOPT2 integration it had towards the end. 40 years of archives and yet every one they picked was cheesey s**te

We didn't have the BBC in my house when I was growing up so it was never a major thing in my life. I hardly have any memories of it at all but I did watch the tribute to it that was on late last Sunday and thought that it was quite good.

we didn't have BBC either when I was young but RTE showed it until around 1992. I watched it until I left Ireland a couple of years ago - and it's syndicated to French TV where a there's a French presenter, French acts and then some of the BBC acts.

i used to watch it every thursday night with my mum and dad and we'd all sing along... memories of 'hit me with my rythym stick', 'happy birthday' by altered images, dancing along with legs 'n' co (but not pan's people - too young for that)... later memories of a couple of tremendous performances by the wedding present, the all about eve fiasco, the infamous nirvana performance, the happy mondays / stone roses show and the klf being the klf... ...it was s**t really, though... won't miss it in the slightest

It certainly is a generational thing. For anyone who grew up in the seventies, it was literally the only show in town. The only other music show of any consequence was the Old Grey Whistle Test which was on way to late for us seventies ankle biters. What you forget is that even in Dublin with cable, you only had five channels and music was such a low priority. I used to watch it religiously on a Thursday and there was invariably one act you would want to see in amongst the chart dross. Also, there was the occasional excitement when an Irish act managed to creep into the charts in England and get on the show. In those days, this was a close to 'making it' as could be guaged. Of course, it was completely obsoleted by the advent of MTV and the demise of the singles chart having any demonstrable meaning from the late eighties where decent marketing could get a single to No.1. Most of us migrated to The Tube for our musical fix and the Chart Show on a Saturday morning waiting for the 5 minutes where they would run down the Indie chart - which would invariably be a list of records who didn't even have a video so they'd show Jesus and Mary Chain or Sisters of Mercy every week! Oh, and let's not forget to mention MTUSA with the late Vinnie Hanley, three hours of American music on a Sunday; a whole generation weaned on the full gamut of Americana from John Cougr to ZZ top! TOTP was always sh*te, but then the occasional gem in there shone so much more brightly for it. It'll not be missed.