Chris Evans "stepped down" from Top Gear..........who now

Chris Evans "stepped down" from Top Gear..........who now

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JJ55

659 posts

117 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Excellent news, Jordan should go too. Keep the rest, swap stig for Sabine & it has the makings of a much better show.

GreatGranny

9,177 posts

228 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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orangeknight said:
I was wondering why it took the person this long to come forward and then I read this:

"In a statement released this morning, the Met confirmed that a woman had made an allegation of “non-recent sexual assault” to officers on May 23, six days before Evans’s newly-revamped Top Gear returned to the BBC."

AMGJocky

1,407 posts

118 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Who cares who's next. TG has bombed.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

188 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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JJ55 said:
Excellent news, Jordan should go too. Keep the rest, swap stig for Sabine & it has the makings of a much better show.
Exactly this.

Eddie Jordan is otiose.

Sabine is underused, and the Stig joke is wearing thin, so make her the on-hand professional.

Toyoda

1,557 posts

102 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Get rid of Sabine, Rory and Eddie and it's becoming a decent show. Harris and Le Blanc is all it needs.

Tonsko

6,299 posts

217 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Johnnytheboy said:
Exactly this.

Eddie Jordan is otiose.

Sabine is underused, and the Stig joke is wearing thin, so make her the on-hand professional.
Nice word. Had to look it up.

ukaskew

10,642 posts

223 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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AH33 said:
Top Gear WAS the presenters. Once they've gone, you've got nothing but nice shots of cars. I can get them elsewhere.
Disagree with that. There are few programmes as beautifully shot as TG, and only one or two Youtube channels that even come close. I hope the crew and most of the existing presenters are retained.

Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

188 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Tonsko said:
Nice word. Had to look it up.
For some reason it pops in to my head whenever Eddie Jordan popped his annoying little head up.

finnie

166 posts

188 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Excellent. Dont need anyone else yet. There are enough of them, let Harris, Rory and Matt get on with it for a while. Forget the world audience and entertainment, we want the car show and we want Harris to get on with what he's good at. The rest do a decent job of the remainder of the show. Ditch the star in a rallycross car and some say BS . The normal star in a car lap and interview format was fine if they really need some padding

finnie

166 posts

188 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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New idea.

Get rid of the anonymous stig. get Harris, Sabine and anyone else interested to do a fastest lap, this could even be done over the course of a season. The winner could be the racing driver timing all the cars n the coming seasons. Then we could even here about what a real driver thinks about all the super cars

AMGJocky

1,407 posts

118 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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finnie said:
Forget the world audience and entertainment,
Won't happen. That's the sole reason TG is still going in this format.

Halb

53,012 posts

185 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Makes sense why Farage has stood down now.


confused_buyer

6,661 posts

183 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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I thought the ending of "Extra Gear" was significant - it was Reid, Harris, LeBlanc & Schmidt saying "that's all from this Series" and they looked like the definitive presenting team.

Evans and Jordan were oddly absent.

Piersman2

6,609 posts

201 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Tonsko said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Exactly this.

Eddie Jordan is otiose.

Sabine is underused, and the Stig joke is wearing thin, so make her the on-hand professional.
Nice word. Had to look it up.
Me too, and was about to post the same.

In fact, this post is otiose. smile

Juicetin1

609 posts

192 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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I can see Rory Reid stepping in for Evans, he's the most natural presenter out of all of them and I can imagine them putting him and Le Blanc together with Harris and Schmitz doing the driving/Extra Gear etc

Muzzer79

10,201 posts

189 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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I'm actually a CE fan and wanted him to do well but he made the fatal mistake of not being himself.

He always looked a little awkward doing it - like a child running a race at sports day and desperately wanting to do well but just not having the talent at that particular sport.

Compare it to him doing TFI Friday; where he was totally at ease and it was like a different person.

I think they should have LeBlanc and Harris as main presenters, keep Rory Reid who has potential and possibly Schmitz but lose Jordan (he didn't really do anything and didn't actually seem that interested)

VUB

69 posts

164 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Tonsko said:
Johnnytheboy said:
Exactly this.

Eddie Jordan is otiose.

Sabine is underused, and the Stig joke is wearing thin, so make her the on-hand professional.
Nice word. Had to look it up.
Yeh, I had to look up FTFY as well. Interesting stuff this thread ......

Shakermaker

11,317 posts

102 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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I feel like the 4x4 Response chap now, I'm going to sleep with one eye on the phone at all times in case I get the call to go and present.

Hopefully the presenters saw the 40 minute laugh-fest that was me and my mates driving into Bristol on a stag do playing "punch Mini" and insulting our mate the stag?

xjay1337

15,966 posts

120 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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confused_buyer said:
I thought the ending of "Extra Gear" was significant - it was Reid, Harris, LeBlanc & Schmidt saying "that's all from this Series" and they looked like the definitive presenting team.

Evans and Jordan were oddly absent.
Yup, I agree.

confused_buyer

6,661 posts

183 months

Monday 4th July 2016
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Juicetin1 said:
I can see Rory Reid stepping in for Evans, he's the most natural presenter out of all of them and I can imagine them putting him and Le Blanc together with Harris and Schmitz doing the driving/Extra Gear etc
Nah, they'll all be replaced by David Cameron, Jeremy Corbyn, Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage with special European correspondent Jean-Claude Juncker.