Fifth Gear back Thu 3rd June

[R60EST]

Just seen a trailer for the new series , gone back to 30 mins but hopefully only one ad break , no competitions and no endless re-caps. As it's the only motoring programme on terrestrial TV at the moment it's got to be better than nothing and the new series of Top Gear shouldn't be far away now

[adycav]

7.30pm Thursday 3 June

From my 7-day electronic TV guide thingy:

"New series of the motoring magazine show. Lewis Hamilton gives his verdict on an amazing new supercar (Mclaren I think) while Jason hits the Italian highways in a Ferrari 458 Italia".

Sounds good to me.

Only four of the myriad of presenters remaining: Tiff, Plato, VBH, and the impressive and likeable (imo) Jonny Smith.

Edited by adycav on Sunday 30th May 20:11

[R60EST]

3rd May , are you sure ? I must have missed a few episodes already

[adycav]

'kin 'ell, meant 3rd June.

[thinfourth2]

30 minutes

By the time they have done the stupid competition, recap what they are going to do an add break and the rest of the pap i guess their will be no time left for anything.

[LuS1fer]

Interesting. 30m is probably more than enough if they fill it with cars, not crap, but it does provide more temptation for an audience to drift to other channels once it's finished...maybe.

[james_gt3rs]

Good news!

[EDLT]

Do they really need four presenters in a half an hour long show?

[goldblum]

VBH.Looks like a horse and sounds like one.Token bird in a blokes program.Should just keep Tiff and Jason then persuade Quentin to rejoin.All this bks about posh totty in the form of VBH - who are they kidding? I wouldn't poke her with a fking tazer.

[adycav]

goldblum said:

VBH.Looks like a horse and sounds like one...I wouldn't poke her with a fking tazer.

Well that's a real shame as I hear that she's gagging for you.

[LuS1fer]

That's unfair. I often dream of poking her with a Tazer. Every time she appears in fact.

[Manks]

adycav said:

Lewis Hamilton gives his verdict on an amazing new supercar (Mclaren I think) while Jason hits the Italian highways in a Ferrari 458 Italia".

Sounds like a departure from the usual, "Beardy bloke test drives the new Renault People Carrier, Vicky does a handbrake turn in a 1992 Fiesta which we'll be giving away in the first of our competitions later. And then after the commercial break we'll go to our second competition: We are going to ask you a pathetically easy question, so even if you are profoundly retarded you can call our premium rate phone number in the vain hope of winning an unfeasibly large list of gadgets and gizmos we bought at the recent SOCA auction. Then the brother of one of our researchers will win it. No second prize, he really is going to get six microscooters, a Kenwood Chef, a lifetime's supply of applicator tampons etc etc".

[FraserLFA]

I've been watching some of the older episodes on Dave, and they were 30 mins, no competitions and generally involved a car review, a challenge (Either for VBH or a celeb) And then a shoot-out between plato and Tiff. I'd deffinitely watch the new series. I never liked it until i started watching it on Dave. You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...

[Johnny Drama]

thinfourth2 said:

30 minutes

By the time they have done the stupid competition, recap what they are going to do an add break and the rest of the pap i guess their will be no time left for anything.

and that'll still be more 'car features' in 30 mins than TG manage in a whole series

[shakotan]

thinfourth2 said:

30 minutes

By the time they have done the stupid competition, recap what they are going to do an add break and the rest of the pap i guess their will be no time left for anything.

Well done for not bothering to read the OP before replying...

[retrorider]

The dave channel will be chuffed when they buy the new series.They wont have to edit all the st out...

[Manks]

retrorider said:

The dave channel will be chuffed when they buy the new series.They wont have to edit all the st out...

Is it me, or does Dave have different edits of shows? I see the occasional Top Gear on there and there seem to be bits that I don't remember from the BBC showing. But then on Sunday nights I am usually very, very drunk.

Manks

[Acehood]

I think 5th gear gets a bad rap for no reason. It's actually pretty decent. The presenters mostly have actual racing experience and know how to drive. I like Plato and Tiff. Not so keen on VBH but it could be worse. I also think Tom Ford and Jonny Smith are quite amusing.

It annoys me how on the repeats on Dave they've clearly edited it to fit into a 30min slot with adverts aswell. It's hardly worth watching as they cut 50% of each segment out. I have no idea what their logic was with doing that, they should have just aired the full show and cut out the competition stuff as that's irrelevant with an old show. Same goes for Top Gear though, it runs at about 55mins on the BBC but Dave only have probably 45mins due to all the fking adverts that they insist on putting on just in time for when I turn my TV on. This means they always cut stuff out.