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Top of the Pops closing, BBC One continuity including programme promotions for It’s Only TV…But I Like It and Monday Comedy Night (4th March 2001)

Posted on 5th March 2023
By The Rewind Team
Last updated on 6th March 2023
Filed under Channel Presentation, Programmes, Promotions

The 2.40am BBC One junction.

VIDEO: Top of the Pops closing, BBC One continuity including programme promotions for It’s Only TV…But I Like It and Monday Comedy Night. Announcer: Dean Lydiate. Voiceover: TBC (Monday Comedy Night trail). TX DATE: 4th March 2001. COPYRIGHT: BBC.

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[00:00:00] PROGRAMME: the final minute-and-a-half of a late-night repeat of Top of the Pops. We join as Atomic Kitten are on stage performing Whole Again.

[00:01:26] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for It’s Only TV…But I Like It.

The programme airs on Friday at 10.40pm on BBC One.

[00:01:46] PROGRAMME PROMOTION: for Monday Comedy Night on BBC Two.

Programmes featured:

9pm Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

9.30pm Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

10pm Room 101.

[00:02:17] IDENT: one of the standard BBC One idents – Balloon/Welsh 9 – is used to link into the overnight simulcast of BBC News 24.

[00:02:35] PROGRAMME: we join BBC News 24, during an edition of Europe Direct.

In fact, BBC News 24 is off air at this time, due to an explosion just over an hour earlier, outside BBC Television Centre. BBC World is being broadcast instead.

RELATED ARTICLE: you can view the junction that preceded this one (on BBC One Northern Ireland) here.

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Broadcaster/Channel: BBC, BBC One
Broadcast Area: UK: National

OSP Category: Closedown, Full Junction, Ident, Programme Promotion, Standard Presentation

OSP Package: BBC One: October 1997 - March 2002

Ident: BBC One ident: Balloon/Welsh 9 (1997)

On Air Talent: Dean Lydiate, Voiceover TBC

Programme Genre: Comedy, Factual, Music

Title: It's Only TV...But I Like It, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Room 101, Top of the Pops, Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

Design/Marketing/Post-Production Services: Lambie-Nairn

Decade: 2000s

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