After The End: Occasional Events-led Returns
After being taken off the air in 2004, sister show Top of the Pops 2 was resurrected for a new run on Saturday nights at 8pm which reverted to the old format of mixing archive clips with new studio performances. The new series began two months after the original show ended, on Saturday 30 September 2006, with new studio performances provided by Nelly Furtado and Razorlight and a Top 10 chart rundown. All the episodes in this series followed the familiar TOTP2 presentation of no on-screen presentation, but rather a voiceover from Steve Wright:
- 30 September 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Razorlight: America and Nelly Furtado: Promiscuous
- 7 October 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Richard Hawley: Just Like The Rain and Jamelia: Something About You
- 14 October 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Nerina Pallot: Sophia and Seth Lakeman: The White Hare
- 21 October 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Amy Winehouse: Rehab
- 28 October 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Vincent Vincent and the Villains: Johnny Two Bands
- 4 November 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); All Saints: Rock Steady and Gnarls Barkley: Who Cares
- 11 November 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Emma Bunton: Downtown and Ray Lamontagne: How Come
- 18 November 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Sandy Thom: Lonely Girl and Tony Bennett: Lullaby of Broadway
- 25 November 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Damien Rice: 9 Crimes
- 2 December 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); The Fratellis: Whistle For The Choir
- 9 December 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Lil Chris: Gettin' Enough and Lily Allen: Littlest Things
- 16 December 2006 - Steve Wright (voice only); Kasabian: Empire
- 6 January 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Muse: Starlight
- 13 January 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Just Jack: Starz in their Eyes
- 20 January 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Regina Spektor: Fidelity
- 3 February 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Simon Webbe: My Soul Pleads For You, Duke Special: Freewheel and Kaiser Chiefs: Ruby
- 10 February 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); The Feeling: Rose, Louise Setara: Wrong Again and Findlay Brown: Come Here
- 17 February 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Jack Savoretti: Dreamers and James Hunter: No Smoke Without Fire
- 24 February 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); The View: Same Jeans and Corinne Bailey Rae: I'd Like To
- 3 March 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Madness: Sorry
- 10 March 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Westlife: Total Eclipse of The Heart and Maximo Park: Our Velocity
- 17 March 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Good Charlotte: The River, Lemar: Tick Tock and Muse: Invincible
- 24 March 2007 - Steve Wright (voice only); Kaiser Chiefs: The Angry Mob
Following the 2006-7 run, TOTP2 returned only to mark one-off special occasions and dropped the new performances. Such shows were dedicated to certain musicians such as Wham! and Duran Duran in 2010, as well as the death of Michael Jackson in 2009, or marked special occasions such as Christmas and New Year in 2008 and 2009, or tie-ins with a particular season of BBC programmes such as the School season which featured a back-to-school special to mark the end of the 2010 summer holidays, and 80s-themed show to mark the final series of BBC TV drama Ashes to Ashes, also in 2010.
As well as the intermittent broadcasts of TOTP2 on BBC Two and a yearly Christmas show which remains on BBC One, Top of the Pops is survived by occasional 'event-led' broadcasts. It has twice returned for special shows for the BBC's biennial Comic Relief charity fundraiser in 2007 and 2009, with the following presenters:
- 16 March 2007 – Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – Top Gear of the Pops for Comic Relief 2007
- 13 March 2009 – Fearne Cotton, Reggie Yates, Noel Fielding, French and Saunders, Davina McCall, Jonathan Ross, David Tennant and Claudia Winkleman – Comic Relief does Top of the Pops
An annual BBC One show which looks back at the previous year in music also appears each Christmas Day at 2pm. In 2008, 2009 and 2012, a New Year's Eve party show was also broadcast on BBC One in the early evening:
- 25 December 2006 - Fearne Cotton, Reggie Yates and Edith Bowman
- 25 December 2007 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 25 December 2008 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 31 December 2008 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 25 December 2009 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 31 December 2009 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 25 December 2010 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 25 December 2011 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 25 December 2012 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
- 31 December 2012 - Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates
The BBC has faced repeated calls for the return of the weekly chart show, but has insisted that this will never happen. In August 2010, however, the BBC disclosed that it was in talks with independent production companies with a view to developing a new weekly music show for BBC Three to begin sometime in 2011, although no such show was ever broadcast.
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