Chris Harris for Top Gear
Discussion
TheAngryDog said:
lord trumpton said:
Cyder said:
TheAngryDog said:
Jimmy No Hands said:
No. Find him awfully dross if I'm honest. Probably a nice bloke but I can't watch his videos.
This. I dont get the hero worship, I find him dull.OK he can drive a car but the required charisma and appeal is non existent for me. I don't understand why half of PH start fapping themselves off as soon as he releases a video
And I'm not called Neville.
Macadoodle said:
Ooo....I hadn't thought of him. He's charismatic and knowledgeable too. I've heard he's quite good at going fast, as well 
I think Chris Evans would be good, but apparently he's ruled himself out of it.
I admire Guy Martin for his tenacity and bravery/fool hardedness, but he is an awful presenter. Just cringeworthy, and I think he knows that as well, hence he wants to retire from the media.I think Chris Evans would be good, but apparently he's ruled himself out of it.
As for Chris Evans...dear God, no. People accusing Top Gear of turning into Ant and Dec have obviously fotgotten how pathetic the likes of TFI Friday and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush were. They made Ant and Dec look like BBC 4 arts shows.
mybrainhurts said:
TheAngryDog said:
lord trumpton said:
Cyder said:
TheAngryDog said:
Jimmy No Hands said:
No. Find him awfully dross if I'm honest. Probably a nice bloke but I can't watch his videos.
This. I dont get the hero worship, I find him dull.OK he can drive a car but the required charisma and appeal is non existent for me. I don't understand why half of PH start fapping themselves off as soon as he releases a video
And I'm not called Neville.
Ali_T said:
I admire Guy Martin for his tenacity and bravery/fool hardedness, but he is an awful presenter. Just cringeworthy, and I think he knows that as well, hence he wants to retire from the media.
As for Chris Evans...dear God, no. People accusing Top Gear of turning into Ant and Dec have obviously fotgotten how pathetic the likes of TFI Friday and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush were. They made Ant and Dec look like BBC 4 arts shows.
I think Guy Martin would work perfectly alongside Jay Kay and Rowan Atkinson. Also ditch the masked stig and put DC in for the fast laps and I'd start watching Topgear again.As for Chris Evans...dear God, no. People accusing Top Gear of turning into Ant and Dec have obviously fotgotten how pathetic the likes of TFI Friday and Don't Forget Your Toothbrush were. They made Ant and Dec look like BBC 4 arts shows.
He's good on youtube, but he's all wrong for top gear. His personality doesn't quite fit. Plus he once slated "a popular TV show" saying that all of the powerslides were the result of camera trickery.
The thing with Top Gear is that they have a trio that works. To go forward, they need to find another trio that gel well that are into cars. Strangely enough, the trio at Car Throttle are the best fit, but they cater to a different audience.
The thing with Top Gear is that they have a trio that works. To go forward, they need to find another trio that gel well that are into cars. Strangely enough, the trio at Car Throttle are the best fit, but they cater to a different audience.
Agree, Chris Harris is dull, particularly for the wider public. I found Guy Martin pretty s
t too. His thing on India was cringeworthy at times
I think the Been will struggle to replicate Top Gear, particularly the viewing figures with anyone else.
The 3 of them should just go to Sky. It's all about the money after all.
t too. His thing on India was cringeworthy at timesI think the Been will struggle to replicate Top Gear, particularly the viewing figures with anyone else.
The 3 of them should just go to Sky. It's all about the money after all.
With the exception of UK Top Gear every other motoring show in the world is boring. Even the Aussies, who have a decent line up, can't even come close to the chemistry that our guys had.
The BBC will set up a left wing focus group who will choose politically correct faces that will bore everyone to tears. If the other TV networks have any sense at all they will already have contacted our trio and made them an offer to continue what they do without all the BBC BS. For me I would subscribe to an extra SKY channel to watch Top Gear because it is the only program on tv produced for politically incorrect males who love cars and love being silly. It's the best program on TV by miles.
The BBC will set up a left wing focus group who will choose politically correct faces that will bore everyone to tears. If the other TV networks have any sense at all they will already have contacted our trio and made them an offer to continue what they do without all the BBC BS. For me I would subscribe to an extra SKY channel to watch Top Gear because it is the only program on tv produced for politically incorrect males who love cars and love being silly. It's the best program on TV by miles.
SonicHedgeHog said:
Oh, and if you're reading this BBC executives, I am now firmly in the camp that resents paying a TV licence fee. You make no programs I am interested in and your political bias stinks.
So true. TG was the only BBC programme I watched. Don't like their news channels, don't like BBC National Radio, don't like BBC local radio. I already persuaded The Vikingettes to ditch Sky because the main TV hadn't been used for one month over Christmas.What would be the point of trying to recreate the '3 morons in an an increasingly unamusing boat' format?
The best thing for Top Gear's continuance would be an entirely new format. Something more fitting with the BBC and it's agenda.
Perhaps something promoting alternative modes of transport, highlighting the drawbacks and environmental damage caused by the combustion engine and the selfish use of non self powered personal transport?
It could be hosted by Natalie Bennet, Bill Oddie and a 'still steaming' fresh sack of horse st.
The best thing for Top Gear's continuance would be an entirely new format. Something more fitting with the BBC and it's agenda.
Perhaps something promoting alternative modes of transport, highlighting the drawbacks and environmental damage caused by the combustion engine and the selfish use of non self powered personal transport?
It could be hosted by Natalie Bennet, Bill Oddie and a 'still steaming' fresh sack of horse s
t.I can't see Harris being interested, or the BBC being aware of him to ask in the first place. Possibly he might be good as a presenter of a different, more serious show about cars rather than simply 'the new face of Top Gear'.
To be honest the Top Gear format needed a refresh anyway, with or with Clarkson and his mates. When it first launched it was a breath of fresh air, but in the past couple of years the special trips were getting repetitive, the in-jokes and banter were getting stale and it was all becoming predictable and therefore forgettable. Add to that Clarkson and the others seemed to begin deliberately playing up to their percieved outrageous/eccentric/daft personalities and what had at first seemed natural and endearing was becoming forced and naff, and in some instances quite clearly deliberately designed to be provocative.
If Clarkson hadn't bopped this guy on the nose, the best thing they could have done would be to replace one of the blokes with (or add) a woman with a strong personality who could take some innuendo-y slightly sexist blokey humour and dish it back in her own way just as forthrightly. That way a new element would be created while addressing some of the valid criticisms of the show.
With Clarkson and co. off the scene, the BBC need to not just recast the presenters but revise the whole show format. They would be on a hiding to nothing just doing the same old with a different cast, and would be doing a disservice to whoever they recruit to present it. The danger is, as someone has pointed out, the nature of the BBC will be to over-research, focus-group and blue-sky-think its way into some naff, directionless, overly PC version of "Top Gear Mk.2" that will inevitably flop. What made Top Gear great when launched in its current format was the fact that it was Clarkson's baby in terms of the format and content - it had that singularity, love it or hate it, and although that got out of control and ultimately became it's reason for being, a successor show has to be informed by someone with a distinct vision rather than a focus group panel or committee recommendation.
To be honest the Top Gear format needed a refresh anyway, with or with Clarkson and his mates. When it first launched it was a breath of fresh air, but in the past couple of years the special trips were getting repetitive, the in-jokes and banter were getting stale and it was all becoming predictable and therefore forgettable. Add to that Clarkson and the others seemed to begin deliberately playing up to their percieved outrageous/eccentric/daft personalities and what had at first seemed natural and endearing was becoming forced and naff, and in some instances quite clearly deliberately designed to be provocative.
If Clarkson hadn't bopped this guy on the nose, the best thing they could have done would be to replace one of the blokes with (or add) a woman with a strong personality who could take some innuendo-y slightly sexist blokey humour and dish it back in her own way just as forthrightly. That way a new element would be created while addressing some of the valid criticisms of the show.
With Clarkson and co. off the scene, the BBC need to not just recast the presenters but revise the whole show format. They would be on a hiding to nothing just doing the same old with a different cast, and would be doing a disservice to whoever they recruit to present it. The danger is, as someone has pointed out, the nature of the BBC will be to over-research, focus-group and blue-sky-think its way into some naff, directionless, overly PC version of "Top Gear Mk.2" that will inevitably flop. What made Top Gear great when launched in its current format was the fact that it was Clarkson's baby in terms of the format and content - it had that singularity, love it or hate it, and although that got out of control and ultimately became it's reason for being, a successor show has to be informed by someone with a distinct vision rather than a focus group panel or committee recommendation.
Ali_T said:
Nope. He's a motoring journalist rather than a TV presenter.
So what are those things he does on YouTube - if that isn't being a TV presenter I don't know what is.Personally I think he'd be fine - "new" TG should not try to emulate "old" TG - we need a new format and new presenters that can bring a completely different approach. Maybe what we need is one or two core presenters who are there each week with extra "guest" presenters doing something different each week.
Monty Python said:
Ali_T said:
Nope. He's a motoring journalist rather than a TV presenter.
So what are those things he does on YouTube - if that isn't being a TV presenter I don't know what is.Personally I think he'd be fine - "new" TG should not try to emulate "old" TG - we need a new format and new presenters that can bring a completely different approach.
I personally think the format was getting a little stale anyway
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