Chris Harris for Top Gear
Discussion
gottans said:
Just to be controversial, the BBC should just cancel it, it has become an awful programme. With a bit of luck clarkson and the rest of them will fade without a trace.
Burn the witch!Although to be fair he/she has a point.
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k top gear, apart from the Green party/sack of horsest/Russel Brand reboot we've talked about previously. Then we can kill it.C7 JFW said:
However there should be female presenters
Where are you going to find a witty female presenter who knows anything about cars, or cares about cars? Even if you find a witty one, lady wit is a poor substitute for bloke wit, unless you're into mumsnet, but the witty stuff there isn't meant to be witty, so you're stuffed before you start on that score.
C7 JFW said:
Change is good, it is welcome and it is exciting.
Ok, get yourself fixed up with a frock. For a change....
I was being serious, no humour involved. The only positive contribution clarkson made was to get money taken out of his bank account without his permission, everything else which unfortunately seems to be permanently stored and accessible on the Internet is an embarrasment to the human species.
gottans said:
Just to be controversial, the BBC should just cancel it, it has become an awful programme. With a bit of luck clarkson and the rest of them will fade without a trace.
Every revenue or viewing statistic you can find says you're wrong. Given the pleasure the Top Gear team bring to millions of people your "controversial" wish would make millions very unhappy. That says a lot about you.otolith said:
There are loads of car programmes that aren't Top Gear.
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Red wine deployed over screen and keyboard.
Hats off!!
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Chris does not apparently see himself in the role based on his piece above.
Chris does not apparently see himself in the role based on his piece above.
I think there's a lot of tunnel vision going on here, and frankly the jibes about ethnically diverse presenting teams are sad.
A new Top Gear wouldn't and shouldn't be anything like the last one at all, it should be all about action, travel and add real edge. fk the 'anti-PC' crap I want to see men on screen not sniggering boys.
The reboot in 2016 should be like that in 2002 etc - a complete change in approach and style.
I'd love to see Chris Harris, he is funny (in a very laconic sense) and as others have pointed out, he's a proper motoring journalist just like Clarkson and May once were.
For the new show I would drop the studio audience (it was good but got really hackneyed in the end) and be set on a road trip, or event of some sort focusing on a different vehicle or indeed place each episode.
This would take advantage of the one thing that TG continued to do well, and needs to take advantage of going forward: the look and feel of those fantastic location shoots/road trips, and preventing that very experienced production crew from being broken up and laid off. It's the real asset going forward and what the BBC does best.
Harris would work very well with someone like Guy Martin (or another crazy biker), and perhaps with a guest presenter each week too, that would be quite interesting: it would be edgy, it would be entertaining - would it would it be light entertainment? I'm not sure but I'm not sure I care!
The point is it could be made to be very good indeed and something the BBC could export.
I'd just like to see the Beeb do a great show that involved cars, bikes etc.. Clarkson and Co can't be replaced but they could be succeeded with something very cool.
A new Top Gear wouldn't and shouldn't be anything like the last one at all, it should be all about action, travel and add real edge. fk the 'anti-PC' crap I want to see men on screen not sniggering boys.
The reboot in 2016 should be like that in 2002 etc - a complete change in approach and style.
I'd love to see Chris Harris, he is funny (in a very laconic sense) and as others have pointed out, he's a proper motoring journalist just like Clarkson and May once were.
For the new show I would drop the studio audience (it was good but got really hackneyed in the end) and be set on a road trip, or event of some sort focusing on a different vehicle or indeed place each episode.
This would take advantage of the one thing that TG continued to do well, and needs to take advantage of going forward: the look and feel of those fantastic location shoots/road trips, and preventing that very experienced production crew from being broken up and laid off. It's the real asset going forward and what the BBC does best.
Harris would work very well with someone like Guy Martin (or another crazy biker), and perhaps with a guest presenter each week too, that would be quite interesting: it would be edgy, it would be entertaining - would it would it be light entertainment? I'm not sure but I'm not sure I care!
The point is it could be made to be very good indeed and something the BBC could export.
I'd just like to see the Beeb do a great show that involved cars, bikes etc.. Clarkson and Co can't be replaced but they could be succeeded with something very cool.
Perhaps they could rotate the lead presenter around like HIGNFY or NMTB(uzzcocks) as in the old days? They'll eventually end up with some winning formula. On second thoughts, scrub that - too much lefy bias in the BBC!
LuS1fer said:
Angus Deayton turned up in Waterloo Road as an ill-dressed teacher. You never know...
He'd have the edgy humour covered, but as for' Top Gear' .. I thought he was more into Coke and Hookers [allegedly, in case]!Edited by fido on Friday 27th March 16:28
The studio content and the UK location content are in part padding to make the economics of it work. You're going to need a much bigger budget if you want to make every episode a full length overseas challenge. And to be honest, at that point, why call it Top Gear and make it car related, you could just make an adventure travel programme using whatever transport seems appropriate.
Muzztang said:
I think there's a lot of tunnel vision going on here, and frankly the jibes about ethnically diverse presenting teams are sad.
A new Top Gear wouldn't and shouldn't be anything like the last one at all, it should be all about action, travel and add real edge. fk the 'anti-PC' crap I want to see men on screen not sniggering boys.
The reboot in 2016 should be like that in 2002 etc - a complete change in approach and style.
I'd love to see Chris Harris, he is funny (in a very laconic sense) and as others have pointed out, he's a proper motoring journalist just like Clarkson and May once were.
For the new show I would drop the studio audience (it was good but got really hackneyed in the end) and be set on a road trip, or event of some sort focusing on a different vehicle or indeed place each episode.
This would take advantage of the one thing that TG continued to do well, and needs to take advantage of going forward: the look and feel of those fantastic location shoots/road trips, and preventing that very experienced production crew from being broken up and laid off. It's the real asset going forward and what the BBC does best.
Harris would work very well with someone like Guy Martin (or another crazy biker), and perhaps with a guest presenter each week too, that would be quite interesting: it would be edgy, it would be entertaining - would it would it be light entertainment? I'm not sure but I'm not sure I care!
The point is it could be made to be very good indeed and something the BBC could export.
I'd just like to see the Beeb do a great show that involved cars, bikes etc.. Clarkson and Co can't be replaced but they could be succeeded with something very cool.
Be nice if it were possible, but there isn't the market for it beyond UK based petrolheads. The success of TG was based on supercars and 3 middle aged blokes taking the piss out of each other and 'authority' and unsophisticated comedy.A new Top Gear wouldn't and shouldn't be anything like the last one at all, it should be all about action, travel and add real edge. fk the 'anti-PC' crap I want to see men on screen not sniggering boys.
The reboot in 2016 should be like that in 2002 etc - a complete change in approach and style.
I'd love to see Chris Harris, he is funny (in a very laconic sense) and as others have pointed out, he's a proper motoring journalist just like Clarkson and May once were.
For the new show I would drop the studio audience (it was good but got really hackneyed in the end) and be set on a road trip, or event of some sort focusing on a different vehicle or indeed place each episode.
This would take advantage of the one thing that TG continued to do well, and needs to take advantage of going forward: the look and feel of those fantastic location shoots/road trips, and preventing that very experienced production crew from being broken up and laid off. It's the real asset going forward and what the BBC does best.
Harris would work very well with someone like Guy Martin (or another crazy biker), and perhaps with a guest presenter each week too, that would be quite interesting: it would be edgy, it would be entertaining - would it would it be light entertainment? I'm not sure but I'm not sure I care!
The point is it could be made to be very good indeed and something the BBC could export.
I'd just like to see the Beeb do a great show that involved cars, bikes etc.. Clarkson and Co can't be replaced but they could be succeeded with something very cool.
Iran buys TG. I can't see them, and the other 213 territories buying an interesting but sensible car/travel show.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22020822
Muzztang said:
I think there's a lot of tunnel vision going on here, and frankly the jibes about ethnically diverse presenting teams are sad.
A new Top Gear wouldn't and shouldn't be anything like the last one at all, it should be all about action, travel and add real edge. fk the 'anti-PC' crap I want to see men on screen not sniggering boys.
The reboot in 2016 should be like that in 2002 etc - a complete change in approach and style.
I'd love to see Chris Harris, he is funny (in a very laconic sense) and as others have pointed out, he's a proper motoring journalist just like Clarkson and May once were.
For the new show I would drop the studio audience (it was good but got really hackneyed in the end) and be set on a road trip, or event of some sort focusing on a different vehicle or indeed place each episode.
This would take advantage of the one thing that TG continued to do well, and needs to take advantage of going forward: the look and feel of those fantastic location shoots/road trips, and preventing that very experienced production crew from being broken up and laid off. It's the real asset going forward and what the BBC does best.
Harris would work very well with someone like Guy Martin (or another crazy biker), and perhaps with a guest presenter each week too, that would be quite interesting: it would be edgy, it would be entertaining - would it would it be light entertainment? I'm not sure but I'm not sure I care!
The point is it could be made to be very good indeed and something the BBC could export.
I'd just like to see the Beeb do a great show that involved cars, bikes etc.. Clarkson and Co can't be replaced but they could be succeeded with something very cool.
ridiculous A new Top Gear wouldn't and shouldn't be anything like the last one at all, it should be all about action, travel and add real edge. fk the 'anti-PC' crap I want to see men on screen not sniggering boys.
The reboot in 2016 should be like that in 2002 etc - a complete change in approach and style.
I'd love to see Chris Harris, he is funny (in a very laconic sense) and as others have pointed out, he's a proper motoring journalist just like Clarkson and May once were.
For the new show I would drop the studio audience (it was good but got really hackneyed in the end) and be set on a road trip, or event of some sort focusing on a different vehicle or indeed place each episode.
This would take advantage of the one thing that TG continued to do well, and needs to take advantage of going forward: the look and feel of those fantastic location shoots/road trips, and preventing that very experienced production crew from being broken up and laid off. It's the real asset going forward and what the BBC does best.
Harris would work very well with someone like Guy Martin (or another crazy biker), and perhaps with a guest presenter each week too, that would be quite interesting: it would be edgy, it would be entertaining - would it would it be light entertainment? I'm not sure but I'm not sure I care!
The point is it could be made to be very good indeed and something the BBC could export.
I'd just like to see the Beeb do a great show that involved cars, bikes etc.. Clarkson and Co can't be replaced but they could be succeeded with something very cool.
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