Top Gear tonight...

[kellys hero]

Watched it through with my 8 year old boy who has grown up loving Top Gear. Hr laughed so hard he fell off the sofa, i laughed like an 8 year old too. Totally silly but so much fun, will really miss them in Top Gear. Think Chris and co will do an excellent job , shame it ended so abruptly. First program my little boy watched was Top Gear.

[mybrainhurts]

KingNothing said:

Have seen loads of people saying it was getting long in the tooth, and that it needed a "refresh", but nobody has actually been able to say what their idea of that would entail?? All I read it as is; someone who doesn't like it as it stands. But since everything is subjective, and you can't please everyone, it's like me saying something I don't like, needs a "refresh" i.e. "Eastenders needs a refresh".

So what's a "refresh" going to entail?

It's not going to entail anything because it's a verb, not a bloody noun.

...Are you listening, America.. ?...

[castex]

mybrainhurts said:

Whatever turns you on....

Alright, funny guy. Can we have a lady from Countdown - Mme Vorderman or Rachel Riley - to do the cool wall? That would be mint, thanks.

[Laurel Green]

castex said:

Alright, funny guy. Can we have a lady from Countdown - Mme Vorderman or Rachel Riley - to do the cool wall? That would be mint, thanks.

The latter please, Bob.

[EDLT]

The last episode got 5.3 million viewers, a little above normal but less than their peak of over 8 million (presumably the episode after the Hammond crash).

[Moonhawk]

EDLT said:

The last episode got 5.3 million viewers, a little above normal but less than their peak of over 8 million (presumably the episode after the Hammond crash).

It's not bad though - it's right up there with the highest viewing figures on the main terrestrial TV channels. There are few programmes that exceed viewing figures of 5+ million.

http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/weekly-top-30?

[mudflaps]

I can't imagine Top Gear with Chris Evans even being as good as Fifth Gear to be honest.

That reminds me, the new series starts on Thursday.

[Amirhussain]

Watched the final episode. The 4x4 bit gave me some proper giggles. Hammond at the party

It was weird watching without an audience and no Clarkson in the studio, even without the news.

The chemistry between May, Clarkson and Hammond made Top Gear the show it is. They just clicked together. It was proper and genuine friendship.

Chris Evans hasn't got a hope in hell of replicating Clarksons success. Just because his a petrolhead, doesn't mean his gonna be a success on TG.

[Moonhawk]

Amirhussain said:

Chris Evans hasn't got a hope in hell of replicating Clarksons success. Just because his a petrolhead, doesn't mean his gonna be a success on TG.

The fear I have is Evans brand of humour - if his radio programme and TFI are anything to go by, he plays it a bit too wacky and repetitive (how many times have we heard "how do you like your eggs", Candyman, and the Banana Splits).

Whilst the sequences in Top Gear were necessarily staged and in some cases utterly ridiculous - a lot of the humour, laughter (and peril in some cases) appeared genuine.

The worst thing that could happen to TG is to be presented by somebody like this:

[Quarterly]

Just watched it on iplayer, funniest thing I've seen in ages. imo they were at the top of their game when it finished. I really hope they get back together and take it to another channel. Who cares if the BBC have lost it.

[Otispunkmeyer]

kellys hero said:

Watched it through with my 8 year old boy who has grown up loving Top Gear. Hr laughed so hard he fell off the sofa, i laughed like an 8 year old too. Totally silly but so much fun, will really miss them in Top Gear. Think Chris and co will do an excellent job , shame it ended so abruptly. First program my little boy watched was Top Gear.

I think it showed why its so popular. I know a lot of people her roll their eyes at slipping over in the mud and smashing caravans (this is always fun...no exceptions) but if this was the dry car show people here seem to want, where yet another porsche or bmw is talked about at length while it drives round a track, my OH would have gone to eat her dinner without me.

Instead, we were sat together on the sofa, eating our dinner and laughing at the TV. If it can allow a die hard petrol head and someone who'd rather stick pins their eyes than hear about how the new Honda Civic Type-R has had a diff fitted, to enjoy the same show together, then its succeeded.

[MikeO996]

Having watched Clarkson's last day at work, I think we can understand a bit more why he hit someone.

[FourWheelDrift]

MikeO996 said:

Having watched Clarkson's last day at work, I think we can understand a bit more why he hit someone.

It was James May's fault, driving past all those pubs.

[hedgefinder]

FourWheelDrift said:

It was James May's fault, driving past all those pubs.

What... on the day BEFORE his last day of filming??

[Halmyre]

Moonhawk said:

Amirhussain said:

Chris Evans hasn't got a hope in hell of replicating Clarksons success. Just because his a petrolhead, doesn't mean his gonna be a success on TG.

The fear I have is Evans brand of humour - if his radio programme and TFI are anything to go by, he plays it a bit too wacky and repetitive (how many times have we heard "how do you like your eggs", Candyman, and the Banana Splits).

Whilst the sequences in Top Gear were necessarily staged and in some cases utterly ridiculous - a lot of the humour, laughter (and peril in some cases) appeared genuine.

The worst thing that could happen to TG is to be presented by somebody like this:

Isn't that who we're getting?

Specs - check.
Ginger - check.

• unt - check.

[FourWheelDrift]

Andy Wilman on the last episode - http://www.driving.co.uk/news/end-of-the-road-andy...

[Rosscow]

Moonhawk said:

The fear I have is Evans brand of humour - if his radio programme and TFI are anything to go by, he plays it a bit too wacky and repetitive (how many times have we heard "how do you like your eggs", Candyman, and the Banana Splits).

I think you are forgetting just how repetitive Top Gear was!

[Mr-B]

The elephant in the room, Chrome dick wheels, the bunny hopping caravan on the rumble strip, pmsl. Childish, predictable but just right for a Sunday night 8pm slot, gonna miss it.

[Halmyre]

Mr-B said:

The elephant in the room, Chrome dick wheels, the bunny hopping caravan on the rumble strip, pmsl. Childish, predictable but just right for a Sunday night 8pm slot, gonna miss it.

Clarkson's Fiat with the badge reading "F AT"...

[Moonhawk]

Rosscow said:

I think you are forgetting just how repetitive Top Gear was!

There was a formula of course (as there is for any long running TV series) - but it was no worse than for other TV series. Also - crucially, it wasn't on 5 days a week, all year round.