Matt LeBlanc announced as Top Gear co-presenter

[Riley Blue]

Northern Munkee said:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv...

Evans, Le Blanc, Eddie Jordan, hopefully Chris Harris, and Sabine Schmitz.

Hmmm... No I don't think that'll work.

Edited by Northern Munkee on Saturday 6th February 15:31

I've never listened to Evans, never watched Friends, don't know much about Harris, think Jordan is a bit of a prick and reckon Schmitz is overrated - it's gonna be tough viewing...

[johnxjsc1985]

Riley Blue said:

I've never listened to Evans, never watched Friends, don't know much about Harris, think Jordan is a bit of a prick and reckon Schmitz is overrated - it's gonna be tough viewing...

Its got BBC all over this. Just wondering which other very annoying presenter they could employ, how about Paul O'Grady

[cologne2792]

Why are the BBC referring to it as Season 23 ? It clearly isn't - 22 seasons with Clarkson, Hammond, Dawe and May. Must now surely be New, New Season One ?

[FourWheelDrift]

Stephen Moffatt has been employed to write a regeneration sequence so that the continuity to series 23 can be explained.

It's not season either, it's series. There are 4 seasons every year, but only 1 or 2 series.

[cologne2792]

FourWheelDrift said:

Stephen Moffatt has been employed to write a regeneration sequence so that the continuity to series 23 can be explained.

It's not season either, it's series. There are 4 seasons every year, but only 1 or 2 series.

True but the BBC is secretly American

[johnxjsc1985]

the BBC can do what they want but come the day people will make their own mind up and if they have tried to make the TG with Clarkson and his buddies only with Evans and his buddies its going to bomb

[anonymous-user]

MarshPhantom said:

tommy1973s said:

Increasingly, status and wealth went to his head. He ended up being one of those self-regarding bores that, as Billy Bragg once sang, ‘only ever laughs at his own jokes’.

You could say the exact same thing about Chris Evans.

Couldn't you just? And Irvine.

[dickyf]

does Eddie 'i love being argumentative so i can talk more' wear a wig?

[johnxjsc1985]

dickyf said:

does Eddie 'i love being argumentative so i can talk more' wear a wig?

his friends call him "wiggy" what do you think

[SevenR]

I was visiting Gleneagles last year and asked the Barman who the most horrible celeb was that he had met or served. Without hesitation he said " Eddie Jordan" Some others on the bar that night agreed, Seemingly he's a stuck up rich tt who looks down on those around him, allegedly…. No place on real car telly for him. Stick to boring F1 Eddie.
Bring in Steve Sutcliffe

[RemyMartin]

SevenR said:

I was visiting Gleneagles last year and asked the Barman who the most horrible celeb was that he had met or served. Without hesitation he said " Eddie Jordan" Some others on the bar that night agreed, Seemingly he's a stuck up rich tt who looks down on those around him, allegedly…. No place on real car telly for him. Stick to boring F1 Eddie.
Bring in Steve Sutcliffe

Love the irony of calling Jordan boring and asking for Steve Sutcliffe.

Like thats requesting fizzy water instead of still water....its still water

[Konan]

RemyMartin said:

Love the irony of calling Jordan boring and asking for Steve Sutcliffe.

Oh come on... I'm sure Sutcliffe can manage at least three reviews without recycling his generic car waffle

Who else could look in to camera and deliver phrases as insightful as "this thing's a bit of an animal"?

[smilo996]

All the luddites treating TG as if it was the most important thing in anyone's lives.
When you actually look back and take the exceptional specials out there is alot of crud in their work. Series 21 was mostly hopeless.

That said, we now get three old farts mucking about in cars on one programme with the hosts making money from their fans for retirement and another show. Also, unshackled from the BBC's charter they can be free to be more well free. Though it is a US media company so it will likely feature more guns and no cleavage.

The BBC show will be about cars and with Chris Harris in it then I reckon it will be great. He is the best motoring journo there is (apart from PH of course) and for that reason I'm in.

Two motoring shows not one. Win win.

[anonymous-user]

Interesting the different amount of publicity BBC top gear is getting/leaking out, compared to the Amazon prime, Clarkson May and Hammond show..

I suppose Amazon aren't likely to be advertising on UK terrestrial TV but apart from the one cinema advert, I've seen very little information about it at all recently.

[0000]

Well, there is a Clarkson-Amazon TV advert that's been on for a while.

Sun Tzu said:

The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven.

I think to a large extent Clarkson, May and Hammond are the established act regardless of branding and they're probably keeping their cards relatively close to their chest while the BBC are having to convince people they have something worth watching.

[epom]

Surprised LeBlanc was the fastest around the track. Had never imagined him as a petrol head either. So when it comes to presenting Top Gear I'll have to reserve judgement.

[R8Steve]

Must admit i'm surprised to hear that Matt LeBlanc is going to be a top gear co-presenter, i was under the impression he was always stuck in second gear.

[EggsBenedict]

From the BBC:
Broadcaster Piers Morgan called it "a brilliant choice" but former '90s Top Gear presenter Steve Berry said it was "an odd choice".

"When Jeremy Clarkson gives you an opinion you can respect it," he told BBC News. "When an actor says that line, does it have that authority?"

2 things:

1) It's an entertainment show based loosely around cars. It's not really a 'motoring show'.
2) If Steve Berry says it's an odd choice, it's massively ironic. And it's probably OK.

I'm looking forward to it. Something different - if it's st, no drama - plenty of other stuff on telly.

[Scuffers]

epom said:

Surprised LeBlanc was the fastest around the track. Had never imagined him as a petrol head either. So when it comes to presenting Top Gear I'll have to reserve judgement.

I'm pretty sure I could wipe the floor with the top gear lap board (along with probably 100+ people on PH that are pretty decent club racers), I'm a complete petrol head, I love racing cars, etc etc. but I am also sure I would be a st presenter.

[Guvernator]

Just had a juicy bit of gossip passed on about our new would be TG presenter. Apparently when LeBlanc was over doing his fastest lap on Top Gear, he took the opportunity to also do a few laps on his personal trainer which they'd lined up for him in the UK which you are probably thinking is totally in character and par for the course.

Except it just so happens that the said personal trainer in question was married to a mate of a mate who found out his missus had done the dirty with Leblanc when he logged into a shared email account and found LeBlanc had sent some incriminating private pics of himself as well as some dirty messages to her.

So Joey is and Joey does, bloody American's coming over here and stealing our women, nothing changes! Lock up your wife's\daughters.