As to what format the anniversary show will take - or what station it will air on - it is too early to say although Whizz Kid CEO Malcolm Gerrie, who produced the show in the Eighties, told Music Week it will come from Newcastle, where the original series was recorded.

Gerrie said the anniversary celebrations could comprise one or a series of shows but either way it would be "classic" Tube.

"We will need to look hard at the ...