Life after Top Gear

[CalNaughtonJnr]

Sorry to start another thread related to TG, but whilst having a rare night in front of the telly tonight, it struck me that we as petrolheads might actually be better off after the demise of Top Gear? 8pm, Channel 4 - For the Love of Cars, 9pm, More4 - Car SOS, 10pm, BBC2 - James May's Cars of the People. Thoughts?

[chibbard]

I had forgotten all about it until I read this. Hahahaha!!!!

[Number 5]

They are cashing in on its absence it seems

[strummerville]

The main benefit of course is the lack of extreme opinions that ran into multiple pages on here... So tedious.

[jas xjr]

Discovery turbo

[Langweilig]

From MSN News -

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/top-gear-jodi...

NO, NO, NO, NOOOO! IT'S MY WORST NIGHTMARE!

[Ilovetwiglets]

I read that yesterday but thought it had to be just rumour, have they not seen Kidd and Glenister in action on their current programmes? Guy Martin is ok but he's not really the right man for the job, they should just leave it to die on its own.

[trickywoo]

Ilovetwiglets said:

I read that yesterday but thought it had to be just rumour, have they not seen Kidd and Glenister in action on their current programmes? Guy Martin is ok but he's not really the right man for the job, they should just leave it to die on its own.

Couldn't agree with this more.

Kidd and Glenister are charisma black holes. They may be able to carry a single feature once in a while, just, but to think about them fronting it??

Martin isn't right for it either and he'd be well advised to stick to what he already does well.

[Foliage]

Id like to see some form of scrap heap challenge come back but being more mainstream and doing top gear style big challenges, travel from the north pole to Shorpe etc.

[S10GTA]

Ilovetwiglets said:

I read that yesterday but thought it had to be just rumour, have they not seen Kidd and Glenister in action on their current programmes? Guy Martin is ok but he's not really the right man for the job, they should just leave it to die on its own.

That Ant bloke would be okay tho imho.

[FurtiveFreddy]

Langweilig said:

From MSN News -

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/top-gear-jodi...

NO, NO, NO, NOOOO! IT'S MY WORST NIGHTMARE!

Made up nonsense, like 99% of tabloid/web 'journalism'.

Guy Martin has a contract with channel 4 so he can't do it. Glenister has been talked about in other publications so they've nicked that and Kidd always crops up when there's any sort of car-related 'talent' required but she couldn't present her way out of a paper bag.

[confused_buyer]

If this is true (which I doubt) the BBC are really coming at it from the wrong way.

The reason the "old" Top Gear worked is that they started with some motoring journalists who knew about cars and taught them to present. It isn't so easy to start with someone who can present and then teach them 20 years of car knowledge.

For all Clarkson, May and Hammond's general pratting about, falling over and setting fire to caravans they always knew their cars and always knew how to write (very well) about them.

Taking some presenters and telling them to read a script is how "old old" Top Gear was and it got cancelled.

[Pesty]

CalNaughtonJnr said:

Sorry to start another thread related to TG, but whilst having a rare night in front of the telly tonight, it struck me that we as petrolheads might actually be better off after the demise of Top Gear? 8pm, Channel 4 - For the Love of Cars, 9pm, More4 - Car SOS, 10pm, BBC2 - James May's Cars of the People. Thoughts?

James Mays cars isa repeat and the other two are st. Your argument is invalid.

[Timbergiant]

The line up that the internet seems to be pushing is ok at best, I like the idea of Philip Glenister, he has a personality to cary it off and his CH4 show clearly shows his love of cars, Jodie Kidd is a bit too over the top posh Vs the 100% regional 100% regional (repeats everything twice) of Guy Martin, who is superb but grates after a while.

[98elise]

Timbergiant said:

The line up that the internet seems to be pushing is ok at best, I like the idea of Philip Glenister, he has a personality to cary it off and his CH4 show clearly shows his love of cars, Jodie Kidd is a bit too over the top posh Vs the 100% regional 100% regional (repeats everything twice) of Guy Martin, who is superb but grates after a while.

He'll need subtitles or dubbing for the rest of the english speaking world

[Ilovetwiglets]

Timbergiant said:

The line up that the internet seems to be pushing is ok at best, I like the idea of Philip Glenister, he has a personality to cary it off and his CH4 show clearly shows his love of cars, Jodie Kidd is a bit too over the top posh Vs the 100% regional 100% regional (repeats everything twice) of Guy Martin, who is superb but grates after a while.

Really? I get the impression Glenister couldn't care less about cars, he certainly doesn't know anything about them and admits he's not a good driver. Kidd is terrible as well, I'd rather see Sandy Toksvig and Sue Perkins present it.

[Steve126]

When the first series of For The Love of Cars was broadcast, Glenister admitted in a Radio Times interview that he isn't into cars. It is pretty obvious watching the programme that he hasn't got a clue unlike Ant who clearly knows his stuff and is far less annoying.

[paranoid airbag]

Foliage said:

Id like to see some form of scrap heap challenge come back but being more mainstream and doing top gear style big challenges, travel from the north pole to Shorpe etc.

Scrapheap Challenge was ace . Definitely wouldn't pass up on a replacement.

Possibly O/T but if Clarkson et. al do make the jump to netflix, I think I'd probably prefer if they chucked the studio altogether and did, say, 3-4 travel specials a year. Partly because an attempt to recreate the studio format from afresh would emphasise how old it and they are, but also - I've a lot more options for brain-off crap than I did when non-Wollard TG first aired. IMO the travel specials a lot better than the studio segments do (with the exception of India, but that was ste to start with). Particularly relevant to, say, a streaming business.

Fewer, better episodes worked for Sherlock, it would work for new-TG and not-TG too .

[campermanj]

That ant fella and the dude from car so... Not Tim (nice but dim)

[sammi]

Ilovetwiglets said:

I read that yesterday but thought it had to be just rumour, have they not seen Kidd and Glenister in action on their current programmes? Guy Martin is ok but he's not really the right man for the job, they should just leave it to die on its own.

Could live with Martin and Glenister, but Jodie Kidd is just too irritating. What happened to Vicki Butler-Henderson, or even Amanda Stretton, or Sabine from Germany - at least she can drive !