Has Culture Secretary Andy Burnham been scouring the Word blog recently and looking at those entertaining entries in the TOTP competition.
Anyway a desire for a revamped TOTP, family music show was a surprising plea in a speech last night to the RTS.
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/minister_speeches/5483.aspx

"Television at its best has traditionally operated as a showcase for new talent, catapulting the new names into the spotlight. I used to love the fact that Tony Wilson, God rest his soul, used to abuse his position and throw an unknown North West band on to play out the credits on Granada Reports on a Friday.

Where is the successor programme to Top of the Pops bringing the family together to discuss new music? Wasn’t it a good thing to give people a mixed presentation of different music where the same bands couldn’t appear two weeks running? "