Chris Harris for Top Gear
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As others have said, Chris harris just wouldn't work for Top Gear. Too dry, too serious, too wooden.
If the OP wants a motoring show, watch 5th Gear. If he can find it as it continues its relentless slide onto ever more obscure satellite channels. [Hint: there's a reason why it's sliding down the channels...]
If the OP wants a motoring show, watch 5th Gear. If he can find it as it continues its relentless slide onto ever more obscure satellite channels. [Hint: there's a reason why it's sliding down the channels...]
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.
Chris 'look at me and my car collection and ex-racer friends for thinkly veiled charidee wnakfests' Evans?I think Chris Evans would be good, but apparently he's ruled himself out of it.
Oh dear God no!
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.
Y0ou misunderstand - I certainy didn't mean that Ant and Dec was a GOOD thing!!!! 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 like Chris Harris, find his videos interesting. Gets a lot of stick on here for his presenting style; I don't mind it, comes across as quite natural I think. I wouldn't want to see him on TG though - don't think he'd really suit the program, but purely for selfish reasons, I'd rather he keep making his current content.
Who in their right mind, other than a deluded lunatic, would even attempt to take over Top Gear once the Three Stooges leave?
The programme will be a poisoned chalice for whoever dared to take over from Clarkson & Co. Professional suicide, IMO. The BBC should shut it down for two or three years before attempting a reboot.
The programme will be a poisoned chalice for whoever dared to take over from Clarkson & Co. Professional suicide, IMO. The BBC should shut it down for two or three years before attempting a reboot.
Personally I cant see it surviving in this country,
1, Make it a proper motoring program again and it will fail rapidly only car nuts might watch it and that won't be enough.
2, Try to carry on with the same format and it won't work it will be crap, just won't be the same
3, 3 funny lady's messing about ? Not sure that would work tbh
I think there only hope is to bring it back in a few years time if at all
1, Make it a proper motoring program again and it will fail rapidly only car nuts might watch it and that won't be enough.
2, Try to carry on with the same format and it won't work it will be crap, just won't be the same
3, 3 funny lady's messing about ? Not sure that would work tbh
I think there only hope is to bring it back in a few years time if at all
Ali_T said:
StevieL99 said:
Why can't people envisage a car programme that isn't Top Gear?
It may be hard to believe but there are other engaging people in the world apart from those three.
You need only look at Fifth Gear to see what happens if things are more factual. Now lost, somewhere, on the History channel.It may be hard to believe but there are other engaging people in the world apart from those three.
Fifth gear holds no appeal for me. If I want a review of a bog standard road car - i'll simply Google for it or better still, book on a test drive and review it myself. Given the viewing figures of TG vs 5G - it seems a lot of people hold similar views.
The internet has (IMO) made the "factual" car review show pretty much redundant. It's no coincidence that old TG died a death around the same time as the internet became mainstream in peoples homes.
Europa1 said:
As others have said, Chris harris just wouldn't work for Top Gear. Too dry, too serious, too wooden.
If the OP wants a motoring show, watch 5th Gear. If he can find it as it continues its relentless slide onto ever more obscure satellite channels. [Hint: there's a reason why it's sliding down the channels...]
The Problem with Fifth gear though is its terrible :SIf the OP wants a motoring show, watch 5th Gear. If he can find it as it continues its relentless slide onto ever more obscure satellite channels. [Hint: there's a reason why it's sliding down the channels...]
As someone who enjoys the buffoonery of top gear and the more "serious" car content we see from various youtube channel (Harris included) watching the new fifth gear recently was cringe worthy and boring as it was very much trying to be top gear but on a much lower budget
Andy665 said:
James Martin could present a revised / re-formatted Top Gear - a real petrolhead and his programme that covered his entry in to the Mille Miglia was very watchable
Petrolhead programs die very quickly on mainstream TV it's all about the comedy which has made top gear uk a success Without that comedy it's finished basically imo
StevieL99 said:
Top Gear isn't just three presenters. It is one of the best produced and post-produced programmes on TV. Some of the editing is unsurpassed on a tv show.
Imagine that with some different presenters.
Top Gear primarily is (was) about the three presenters, the production qualities are just polish. It simply wouldn't work with Chris Harris and especially not with Guy Martin, as much as I like the bloke.Imagine that with some different presenters.
Samjeev said:
The Problem with Fifth gear though is its terrible :S
As someone who enjoys the buffoonery of top gear and the more "serious" car content we see from various youtube channel (Harris included) watching the new fifth gear recently was cringe worthy and boring as it was very much trying to be top gear but on a much lower budget
And that is exactly the point. Put serious presenters in TG who talk about actual relevant cars, boot space, economy etc. and you have yourself another Fifth Gear, or more to the point you go back to the old style of Top Gear with William Woollard et al.As someone who enjoys the buffoonery of top gear and the more "serious" car content we see from various youtube channel (Harris included) watching the new fifth gear recently was cringe worthy and boring as it was very much trying to be top gear but on a much lower budget
Edited by Mr2Mike on Thursday 26th March 09:47
StevieL99 said:
Why can't people envisage a car programme that isn't Top Gear?
It may be hard to believe but there are other engaging people in the world apart from those three.
Quite right, there are many such people. Sadly, they aren't commercially viable. Look at modern British TV, the masses don't want fact. They want sound bites, controversy, the comfort of a relationship with the presenter. It may be hard to believe but there are other engaging people in the world apart from those three.
Most genuine car enthusiasts probably favour May over the other two and would like to see him do more of his nerdy stuff but the BBC aren't stupid, they know that the masses who buy into TG don't want that.
Of course the BBC could find 3 new people, change the format and relaunch the brand but it's a huge risk. TG got really lucky in the fact that the three presenters offered something for everyone and it worked.
I suspect that it is the end of an era and that TG may be dormant as a brand for a while and then be relaunched in a new format with new presenters.
I suspect the three current presenters may go and do something with a commercial station and dissapear from terrestrial TV to someone like Sky unless the BBC do manage to pull a replacement for Clarkson out of nowhere, which they have done before on other shows so not impossible. Especially as the three work in a very 'public schoolboy' manner adding a 'new boy' after the 'expulsion' might actually be quite easy?
loose cannon said:
Andy665 said:
James Martin could present a revised / re-formatted Top Gear - a real petrolhead and his programme that covered his entry in to the Mille Miglia was very watchable
Petrolhead programs die very quickly on mainstream TV it's all about the comedy which has made top gear uk a success Without that comedy it's finished basically imo
SidewaysSi said:
Ali_T said:
StevieL99 said:
Why can't people envisage a car programme that isn't Top Gear?
It may be hard to believe but there are other engaging people in the world apart from those three.
You need only look at Fifth Gear to see what happens if things are more factual. Now lost, somewhere, on the History channel.It may be hard to believe but there are other engaging people in the world apart from those three.
Top Gear is primarily light entertainment that just happens to revolve around cars, so CH is obviously not the man, but I don't get all these dull & wooden comments.
Watch the 2CV film and tell me that's not a half decent & engaging presenter. Not quite as polished as some maybe, but not half bad.
Watch the 2CV film and tell me that's not a half decent & engaging presenter. Not quite as polished as some maybe, but not half bad.
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