If you watched new Top Gear was it any good, yes or no?
Poll: If you watched new Top Gear was it any good, yes or no?
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I do wonder if the BBC made a bit of a mistake with the schedule, this series I think started slightly later in the year and on top of that has clashed with other high viewer shows.
I for one was late switching over to it (although was recording) due to Canadian F1? and then there is obviously the football. One thing that has shocked me is the number of people who claim to be trying to ruin the viewing figures yet watching, is this really possible and if so doesn't it make them more than a little sad.
I usually watch the things I want and miss those I don't, is this not normal?
I for one was late switching over to it (although was recording) due to Canadian F1? and then there is obviously the football. One thing that has shocked me is the number of people who claim to be trying to ruin the viewing figures yet watching, is this really possible and if so doesn't it make them more than a little sad.
I usually watch the things I want and miss those I don't, is this not normal?
The viewing figures are still falling because people like me who have watched TG since it was almost in Black and White will not entertain an hour of homage to Evans. more than happy to watch all the others but not him and not Jordan. This is not because of some perverted love for the Old TG it needed a shake up and you had to watch it because there were always moments even in the poorer shows that made you chuckle.
So if they want the ratings to go up get shut of the reason they are low and falling and FFS stop copying the old format we keep getting told it was stale so why copy it.
So if they want the ratings to go up get shut of the reason they are low and falling and FFS stop copying the old format we keep getting told it was stale so why copy it.
johnxjsc1985 said:
The viewing figures are still falling because people like me who have watched TG since it was almost in Black and White will not entertain an hour of homage to Evans. more than happy to watch all the others but not him and not Jordan. This is not because of some perverted love for the Old TG it needed a shake up and you had to watch it because there were always moments even in the poorer shows that made you chuckle.
So if they want the ratings to go up get shut of the reason they are low and falling and FFS stop copying the old format we keep getting told it was stale so why copy it.
I am a bit confused about the whinging about format, maybe a bit over simplified but to me the format has been pretty much the same since I started watching in the 70's, short pieces by various presenters set around cars, with different levels of nerdyness / humour depending on the time period / hosts. The main thing that had become tired if we are truly honest is the previous presenters enthusiasm. I wasn't really expecting anything too radical purely a freshness and hopefully a balance of the nerdy / humour which seems to be what they have gone for.So if they want the ratings to go up get shut of the reason they are low and falling and FFS stop copying the old format we keep getting told it was stale so why copy it.
Totally agree it would have been nice if they had gone more into why they picked the cars they did for the challenge, but credit to them for doing something radical and resisting the traditional side splitting humour of crashing into each other!
hornet said:
Challenge was hit and miss, mostly because they never really explained why they were doing it.
Yes - absolutely agree with this (and the Reliants to Blackpool and the 4x4s and musicians nonsense are two more examples). The old show's challenges always made sense in some universe or another - these seem to have been picked by the Family Guy Manitees.On another subject, Eddie Jordan needs to chuff off and take his spoons with him.
I concur with many of the comments above.
RR's Tesla thing had some passion and reality to it, though I suspect he got carried away with the love until MLB tripped him up about the Jaguar. But that was good.
CH was thoroughly enjoyable.
MLB's Stig introduction was excellent.
The challenge had so much promise but really under delivered. I must have lost interest somewhere along the line because I have absolutely no clue how it ended.
Bear Grylls looked like he'd been sprayed with milky coffee, which was about the only noteworthy thing about that segment. And that's an improvement on the previous 3 alone, so it's hardly praise.
It's improving. Just.
RR's Tesla thing had some passion and reality to it, though I suspect he got carried away with the love until MLB tripped him up about the Jaguar. But that was good.
CH was thoroughly enjoyable.
MLB's Stig introduction was excellent.
The challenge had so much promise but really under delivered. I must have lost interest somewhere along the line because I have absolutely no clue how it ended.
Bear Grylls looked like he'd been sprayed with milky coffee, which was about the only noteworthy thing about that segment. And that's an improvement on the previous 3 alone, so it's hardly praise.
It's improving. Just.
LDM said:
Totally agree it would have been nice if they had gone more into why they picked the cars they did for the challenge, but credit to them for doing something radical and resisting the traditional side splitting humour of crashing into each other!
Radical? What on earth did they do that was "radical"?Some funny, well edited, expensively shot scenes of escapades by professional TV personalities in cars and expensively shot scenes of some guy driving an ridiculously expensive car around a deserted race track.
Some incredibly badly presented cringeworthy studio stuff where gooning morons watch some middle aged man read an auto cue and pour sycomphancy onto some b list celebrity...
It's Top Gear, same as it ever was, no better no worse, just the same. IT'S THE SAME!
Except for Eddie Jordan, whilst I'm always impressed by a man that can play the spoons, I'm not quite sure what Eddie Jordan is all about...
Some incredibly badly presented cringeworthy studio stuff where gooning morons watch some middle aged man read an auto cue and pour sycomphancy onto some b list celebrity...
It's Top Gear, same as it ever was, no better no worse, just the same. IT'S THE SAME!
Except for Eddie Jordan, whilst I'm always impressed by a man that can play the spoons, I'm not quite sure what Eddie Jordan is all about...
FredClogs said:
Some incredibly badly presented cringeworthy studio stuff where gooning morons watch some middle aged man read an auto cue and pour sycomphancy onto some b list celebrity...
Its the one thing Evans has brought to the table that has done nothing to improve the show - pandering to his sleb 'mates', but it was always going to be like that, wasn't it.The CHM era never allowed the celebrity moments to take over from the car content (even when Tom Cruise was on), apart from the one time when Kristin Scott Thomas's appearance was more about her, or actually more about Clarkson's crush on her so still played for laughs.
cologne2792 said:
Clarkson, Hammond and May talked TO the viewers.
Evans talks DOWN to them.
He talks down to his co-presenters too, especially the new guys. His comment to Harris after the Vulcan film about it being 'probably the best track piece on Top Gear ever' didn't sound in the least bit patronising.Evans talks DOWN to them.
Raygun said:
Where's the 'Sack Evans' on the poll?
It's broken, apparently you can't have two options to "Sack Evans" 
r11co said:
Its the one thing Evans has brought to the table that has done nothing to improve the show - pandering to his sleb 'mates', but it was always going to be like that, wasn't it.
That reads as though you meant he's brought other things 'to the table' that HAVE improved the show.Or did you mean "It's the one thing Evans has brought to the table, but it has done nothing to improve the show"?
M.
Edited by marcosgt on Tuesday 21st June 08:16
FredClogs said:
Some funny, well edited, expensively shot scenes of escapades by professional TV personalities in cars and expensively shot scenes of some guy driving an ridiculously expensive car around a deserted race track.
Some incredibly badly presented cringeworthy studio stuff where gooning morons watch some middle aged man read an auto cue and pour sycomphancy onto some b list celebrity...
It's Top Gear, same as it ever was, no better no worse, just the same. IT'S THE SAME!
Except for Eddie Jordan, whilst I'm always impressed by a man that can play the spoons, I'm not quite sure what Eddie Jordan is all about...
My SIL organised a round the world yacht tour recently and Jordan was one of the participants in his boat. Compared with some of other owners he was apparently a really nice bloke.Some incredibly badly presented cringeworthy studio stuff where gooning morons watch some middle aged man read an auto cue and pour sycomphancy onto some b list celebrity...
It's Top Gear, same as it ever was, no better no worse, just the same. IT'S THE SAME!
Except for Eddie Jordan, whilst I'm always impressed by a man that can play the spoons, I'm not quite sure what Eddie Jordan is all about...
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