RE: Top Gear TV gains McGuinness and Flintoff
Discussion
Green1man said:
pb8g09 said:
Any body else been watching the new series of 5th Gear?
I've been really enjoying it as it reminds me of the old Top Gear (earlier Clarkson and co stuff) whereby they do actual real car reviews on cars the average public can afford, it's not heavily scripted and contrived and it contains a nice variety of stuff - and also doesn't have the crap celebrity bit where someone drives a s
t car around a track in exchange for plugging their non-car related guff on a car show.
I’m quite liking the latest 5th gear, just need some better reasearch when VBH is spouting inaccurate ‘facts’ about her test subject 2nd hand cars.I've been really enjoying it as it reminds me of the old Top Gear (earlier Clarkson and co stuff) whereby they do actual real car reviews on cars the average public can afford, it's not heavily scripted and contrived and it contains a nice variety of stuff - and also doesn't have the crap celebrity bit where someone drives a s
t car around a track in exchange for plugging their non-car related guff on a car show.Of those mentioned above I think Coogan sounds like the best option. LeBlanc really improved in the last Top Gear series which was was excellent IMO. At least they are keeping Harris.
What I find most baffling is that it appears a retrograde step - two laddish presenters. It’s like Alan Partridge “Crash Bang Whallop” with these two.
Paddy is likeable but Flintoff plays up to his crass Freddie persona like some kind of performing chimp.
What the show had for me was that dressed up in all the tomfoolery (admittedly very well in some cases) was an erudite and oft well observed show that was smarter than it liked to appear.
Paddy is likeable but Flintoff plays up to his crass Freddie persona like some kind of performing chimp.
What the show had for me was that dressed up in all the tomfoolery (admittedly very well in some cases) was an erudite and oft well observed show that was smarter than it liked to appear.
Shame about losing LeBlanc, he and Harris together really seemed to work and the humour really started to come through towards the end of the last series. Reid needed to go, he brought nothing.
I've nothing against Paddy or Flintoff and so I'm actually quite looking forward to it. Unlike most on here I'll save judgement until I've seen a few episodes.
I've nothing against Paddy or Flintoff and so I'm actually quite looking forward to it. Unlike most on here I'll save judgement until I've seen a few episodes.
blade7 said:
I'd prefer the multi talented presenter/actress/gardener Kelly Brook, I like a bit of timber, and you could at least turn the sound off and just watch...
Fair enough She certainly comes across as up for a laugh, although you may need to watch in full wide-screen mode these days.
Red 4 said:
Oh well, on the plus side at least Jay Kay didn't get a look in.
He may be a petrolhead but that doesn't stop him being a massive throbber with an even bigger ego.
No, not with you on that. He’s just a very normal car geek who happens to be really famous. He had a lot of time at Kop Hill for everyone, didn’t have to bring his GTRS, then go back and get the la Ferrari out for a small charitable event. He may be a petrolhead but that doesn't stop him being a massive throbber with an even bigger ego.
yonex said:
Red 4 said:
Oh well, on the plus side at least Jay Kay didn't get a look in.
He may be a petrolhead but that doesn't stop him being a massive throbber with an even bigger ego.
No, not with you on that. He’s just a very normal car geek who happens to be really famous. He had a lot of time at Kop Hill for everyone, didn’t have to bring his GTRS, then go back and get the la Ferrari out for a small charitable event. He may be a petrolhead but that doesn't stop him being a massive throbber with an even bigger ego.
My opinion was based on his appearances on TV (and Top Gear) when, in my opinion, he came across as an arrogant bighead and was very full of himself.
I've never met him. Don't really want to.
As an oddball choice, how about Stephen Fry ?
Massive petrolhead (believe it or not). I met him at a car show once.
Thoroughly nice bloke ! Rapier wit !
Please just let it retire with some dignity. The halcyon days of Clarkson, Hammond and May at its peak can not be revived despite the efforts of whoever owns the rights desperately trying to reboot with ever more pityfull results. I endured the Evans phase in hope, the LeBlanc phase with a bit more hope but enough is enough. Now looking to get C listers on as an ego trip. I'm out.
THUNDERHORSE said:
Please just let it retire with some dignity. The halcyon days of Clarkson, Hammond and May at its peak can not be revived despite the efforts of whoever owns the rights desperately trying to reboot with ever more pityfull results. I endured the Evans phase in hope, the LeBlanc phase with a bit more hope but enough is enough. Now looking to get C listers on as an ego trip. I'm out.
I don’t think it has, in my opinion the issue is that it’s now a really important brand and the bbc will do anything to try and keep the profile going. What it needs a new approach. Keep CH and find two different, fresh faces. Not ex cricketers and an annoying mug who presents crap dating shows, funny, articulate people to bounce off each other. I seriously question the bosses at the beeb, they seem clueless to be frank. Red 4 said:
yonex said:
Red 4 said:
Oh well, on the plus side at least Jay Kay didn't get a look in.
He may be a petrolhead but that doesn't stop him being a massive throbber with an even bigger ego.
No, not with you on that. He’s just a very normal car geek who happens to be really famous. He had a lot of time at Kop Hill for everyone, didn’t have to bring his GTRS, then go back and get the la Ferrari out for a small charitable event. He may be a petrolhead but that doesn't stop him being a massive throbber with an even bigger ego.
My opinion was based on his appearances on TV (and Top Gear) when, in my opinion, he came across as an arrogant bighead and was very full of himself.
I've never met him.
cj2013 said:
The problem with Top Gear will always be that all the suitable presents are the antithesis of people the BBC employ.
Its kind of like asking the Ku Klux Klan to nominate and script this years mobo awards eh.Not sure I'm familiar with either of the nominated presenters, that they have media~presenter experience rather than being a cool-but-dim actor is probably an upward step in this farcical blunder though.
r11co said:
If you mean s
t rather than politically correct then I get your point.Not that he'd ever do it in a million years, but Guy Martin would be a good presenter because he's knowledgeable, relate-able, but has a unique personality that is watchable. Despite all the barriers, I don't think the BBC would ever employ someone who would tell them how it is. In such that they don't seem to like genuine personalities, anyone with a bit of controversy/rebel in them. They like nodding dogs - people who GM would probably call "TV w
kers"
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