"...a threat from The X Factor's Simon Cowell to buy the rights and take the show to the opposition."

Well, that's not a very good threat then: if you let me do it, I'll buy your programme from you and give it to somebody else. Hardly a threat when it requires you to agree, is it?

With the BBC bringing out a single of Aled Jones and Terry Wogan singing "Little Drummer Boy" in December, it'll be the icing on BBC's (Xmas) cake if they get Number 1.

A good reason not to watch.

"Top of the Pops has never been bigger" - yet they're only doing two special programmes of it? Right.

"Top of the pops has never been bigger" - they were probably just talking about the amount of hype this will generate...

Ferne and Reggie, on the same show, at the same time? Christ, it must be Christmas if both of them are turning up!

They should ask Jimmy "now then now then" Saville back though, that would be better.

Does this mean no Christmas TOTP2??? Where will I get my Greedies fix this year!!!!

People would have some sort of interest in the charts if the worked the way they used to. And then people would start watching TOTP again.

These they either advertise a single for weeks in advance by getting it played on radio or alternatively you run a show like X-Factor. People order the single in advance and the sales are put on the chart on the release date of the single. You can't stop radio stations playing the single before its release. You can't ban the x-factor, although I wish they would. However you can make the charts more interesting. All you have to do is put pre orders into the chart on the date of the order not the date of the single's release.

This wouldn't make the x-factor single sell any less (unfortunately) but it would make it less likely to go to number 1 because sales would be spread out evenly over three months rather than being banged into a single week. Likewise it would make predicting number ones a lot harder.

In my opinion, it's partly presenters of the calibre of these two that were partly to blame for the death of TOTP. They should bring back forcing Radio 1 DJs (or even better 6 Music DJs) to present the show on rotation like the good ole days - nothing beats the amusement factor of having the likes of John Peel presenting the latest crap in the Top 40.

I will be away in the frozen north, so I won't be able to see Fearne bl**dy Cotton b&££$ up another show, and this other chap, who he???