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Top Of The Pops: Review Of The Year 2022 confirmed to be on Christmas Eve at 10:40pm on BBC Two
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TV Cream's billing is brilliant as always:

Well, who'd have thought the two longest continually running fixtures on Christmas Day would end the same year? Because, as our fun fact always had it, as The Queen took a year off in 1969, Pops had actually been on the big day for longer, not missing a Christmas Day engagement since 1967... until now! To be honest, it had been drifting back towards the morning for a few years, and if they wanted to axe it they could have done it years ago, but this is a real jolt, now in the old Val Doonican slot on Christmas Eve and on a different channel to boot. Looks like as well the model for this one is Noel [Edmonds] in the office in 1978, Clara Amfo and Jack Saunders spending much of the show linking pre-recorded performances with just a couple of acts popping in for some small-scale acoustic sets. So all change, but doubtless it'll reflect the year's pop in no-nonsense fashion, and if you're that devastated you can always watch it on iPlayer before your dinner tomorrow.

Anyone know where it's coming from this year? Riverside (as last year and the year before), or somewhere smaller?

Jack will be TOTP's 243rd presenter - the Popscene forum has Noel Fielding, Claudia Winkleman and David Tennant, all of whom popped up alongside Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates for the 2009 Comic Relief special, as numbers 238, 239 and 240 respectively (Wossy popped up too, but he'd done it before and so is number 208), and after that there were no new presenters until Clara replaced Reggie in 2017, followed by Jordan North replacing Fearne last year.