BBC Top Gear 2018 Thread
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In all honestly we all knew Top Gear had given up on actual car fans years ago. I can't remember the last time they didn't play dodgy music over the top of a nice bit of engine sound.
This is just an odd choice. These three have so much personality each I'm going to be surpised if it isn't just a massive ego clash. Maybe they'll get a chance to review cars in between somewhere.
This is just an odd choice. These three have so much personality each I'm going to be surpised if it isn't just a massive ego clash. Maybe they'll get a chance to review cars in between somewhere.
Langweilig said:
I stopped watching Top Gear after the Patagonia special. It wasn't the reg. plate controversy or Clarkson idiotically punching a producer. It was Clarkson idiotically wrecking a Ford Mustang by driving it to destruction on a dry lake bed.
Because they only built 100,000+ Second Gen Mach 1s........
TEKNOPUG said:
Langweilig said:
I stopped watching Top Gear after the Patagonia special. It wasn't the reg. plate controversy or Clarkson idiotically punching a producer. It was Clarkson idiotically wrecking a Ford Mustang by driving it to destruction on a dry lake bed.
Because they only built 100,000+ Second Gen Mach 1s........Flintoff can be very funny and quick witted I like the podcast he does with the ping pong guy, Paddy I'm not so sure of I would have preferred Rory to stay in the main show myself and I really hope CH stops with the false "I'm the manic/angry race car driver" stuff he did in the last series at times, and goes back to being normal that might work against those two who will be stupid/daft and at times no doubt funny.
I really hope they manage to sort out the studio segments which never really worked post Clarkson/Hammond and May, they felt sterile and cold need more warmth and easy humour.
I really hope they manage to sort out the studio segments which never really worked post Clarkson/Hammond and May, they felt sterile and cold need more warmth and easy humour.
People asking for clarkson and co back .. why ?the grand tour was mostly poor, just most of the same silly stunts that top gear had become.
I actually liked the last series of top gear, gutted to see Le Blanc leave but can understand why he felt the need, people are slagging off the new team without even seeing 1 episode. Maybe normal bloke reviews instead of genuine car hacks will work .. we will have to see
I actually liked the last series of top gear, gutted to see Le Blanc leave but can understand why he felt the need, people are slagging off the new team without even seeing 1 episode. Maybe normal bloke reviews instead of genuine car hacks will work .. we will have to see
Adding both I think will be a big mistake. But I actually think Flintoff would be pretty good, if he was alongside Harris and MLB or even Rory. Flintoff tends to be quite natural in his blokey style. Mcguiness on the other hand is proper fake, s
t one liners and the sort that you just know has a team of writers behind him.
t one liners and the sort that you just know has a team of writers behind him. Johnnytheboy said:
TheAngryDog said:
There are too many hateful people that could be on TG.
Piers Morgan
Katie Hopkins
Keith Lemon
They are just 3 candidates from the cesspool of a billion sts that could present it.
How about a line up of lentilistas who probably hate cars (and are annoying)?Piers Morgan
Katie Hopkins
Keith Lemon
They are just 3 candidates from the cesspool of a billion s
ts that could present it. Polly Toynbee
Owen Jones
George Monbiot
Jonathan Bartley
Sian Berry
A stellar line up.
TheAngryDog said:
Deborah Johnson
Jonathan Bartley
Sian Berry
A stellar line up.
Why not pick three whiney millennials - they spend the entire hour going on about how polluting the cars are whilst getting ubers between the shooting locations, and still going on the long-haul jaunts (it's an experience, bro, not pollution).Jonathan Bartley
Sian Berry
A stellar line up.
They could review just electric cars whilst ignoring where the electricity comes from and constantly complaining they can't afford any of them because of Brexit or old people who won't die or something.
The BBC management will wet themselves, especially if all three identified as female....
Fiesta1.0L said:
TheAngryDog said:
Deborah Johnson
Jonathan Bartley
Sian Berry
A stellar line up.
Why not pick three whiney millennials - they spend the entire hour going on about how polluting the cars are whilst getting ubers between the shooting locations, and still going on the long-haul jaunts (it's an experience, bro, not pollution).Jonathan Bartley
Sian Berry
A stellar line up.
They could review just electric cars whilst ignoring where the electricity comes from and constantly complaining they can't afford any of them because of Brexit or old people who won't die or something.
The BBC management will wet themselves, especially if all three identified as female....
I'd echo the sentiment of the article on the PH home page. I was totally done with Clarkson et al., and the first series with Le Blanc et al. was a bit clunky, but it really got into it's stride last season. I'll give this line up a go. Not sold on Paddy, but Freddie I think will work.
Clarkson, Hammond and May were essentially motoring journalists, turned presenters (and mates), who hit upon a formula (with Andy Wilman) that essentially turned them into 'car show presenters'. I'm not sure that formula will ever be replicated. I think they were there at the right time and just got lucky. It was a one off. Top Gear for the future needs to re-invent itself somehow.
Having a 'Car Nut' and some 'celebrity' presenters hasn't worked and is unlikely to work because that wasn't the C... H... M... formula.
Having a 'Car Nut' and some 'celebrity' presenters hasn't worked and is unlikely to work because that wasn't the C... H... M... formula.
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