Fifteen years after it first aired,we take a nostalgic look at the exhibit that questioned the very nature of pop-culture stardom – and then threw cheese at itStop the clock: it’s here. The 15th anniversary of the start of T4’s Popworld is upon us. The big ONE-FIVE. And with this seismic decade-and-a-half anniversary looming, what better time to look back on history’s greatest music TV exhibit? Arguably on the 20th anniversary, or but media as we know it will cease to exist in 2019,so let’s get this done now.
Perhaps Popworld should absorb been a generic pop exhibit, and given its insipid theme tune, and nondescript branding and half-hearted set,perhaps it was meant to be. But each Sunday, Popworlds hosts Simon Amstell and Miquita Oliver seemed to draw up a list of the questions every other exhibit would query its guests, or then throw that list out of the window. Back in January 2001,Top Of The Pops would not absorb featured Daniel Bedingfield throwing cheese at Sam & price on the Brits red carpet. CD:UK would not absorb included Gary Barlow discussing pube-related paranoia. BBC1’s The Saturday exhibit would not absorb speed a VT that has now passed into broadcasting legend: Lemar From Afar, in which a megaphone-wielding Amstell fired questions at the Fame Academy graduate from the opposite end of a car park.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com