BBC Top Gear Thread 2021/2022

[UTH]

Terry Winks said:

So as predicted Top Gear will be “rested” for the foreseeable future.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67333907

[EmailAddress]

All other Top Gear activity remains unaffected by this hiatus including international formats, digital, magazines and licensing.

Got to keep that gravy train rolling.

[PinkTornado]

The right call IMO; the last version of it often veered towards the boorish side of things.

[Terry Winks]

Do we finally get to find out how much a knob Chris Evans might have been now?

[TikTak]

A little sad, still watched it and as a trio thought they were definitely getting better. That said, as Chris Harris said recently, the main thing is that Freddie is well and healing and that his friend is still here.

Be nice if they can get back to it at some point though.

[Hippea]

Hopefully they will do some sort of car show with Chris Harris

[skwdenyer]

Hippea said:

Hopefully they will do some sort of car show with Chris Harris

That was the implied suggestion in the statement, which would be positive I think.

[Langweilig]

I've just watched an item on the BBC lunchtime news. "Rested for the foreseeable future", they say. Hmmm.

[WPA]

Langweilig said:

I've just watched an item on the BBC lunchtime news. "Rested for the foreseeable future", they say. Hmmm.

Scrapped in other words, it will not be back

[daqinggregg]

I guess production costs started to exceed perceived income. Probably no longer inline, with how the BBC views itself. In addition, not the global brand it once was.

Even though I much prefer the CHM days, still sad to see it go, although lots of good content on Youtube.

[brickwall]

WPA said:

Langweilig said:

I've just watched an item on the BBC lunchtime news. "Rested for the foreseeable future", they say. Hmmm.

Scrapped in other words, it will not be back

Scrapped, unless/until a new team comes along with a new proposal for a format that they think will work.

There’s still a lot of value in the brand, and many options outside of the traditional format of 6x1hr shows broadcast on terrestrial TV.

[Dashnine]

daqinggregg said:

I guess production costs started to exceed perceived income. Probably no longer inline, with how the BBC views itself. In addition, not the global brand it once was.

Even though I much prefer the CHM days, still sad to see it go, although lots of good content on Youtube.

Pretty high production costs to exceed the £50M income it brings (see other TG article on BBC News site).

[Wills2]

Red9zero said:

Boleros said:

Do tell!

"Contaminated by faceless gobstes" was one comment, then another about the "real nastiness of a place like PH" where someone copied a video that he had deleted from his website and threatened to release it. In other comments he does say that the actual website (rather than the forum) is very good.

Well he's not wrong is he.

[Evercross]

Not surprising that the BBC's opinion-piece on the news is topped by a picture of C, H & M.

2 Decades of Cars and Controversy

To the majority of the viewing public around the world those three were, are and always will be Top Gear.

I am still predicting that at some point in the future the Clarkson/Hammond/Wilman/May production company W. CHuMp & Sons will make a successful lowball offer to the BBC for the rights to TG, if only to stick a framed copy of the agreement on their mantlepieces as a trophy.

I reckon that 1 year of their retainer to Amazon would probably cover it.

Edited by Evercross on Tuesday 21st November 15:06

[bobthemonkey]

Evercross said:

I am still predicting that at some point in the future the Clarkson/Hammond/Wilman/May production company W. CHuMp & Sons will make a successful lowball offer to the BBC for the rights to TG, if only to stick a framed copy of the agreement on their mantlepieces as a trophy.

Clarkson and Wilman weren’t idiots; wouldn’t surprise me if they had some kind of revision clause in the contract if the BBC officially cancel the format, hence the very specific language with words like ‘rest’.

Edited by bobthemonkey on Tuesday 21st November 15:23

[Old Man Peabody]

It's a shame, but it hasn't been unmissable for a long time.

Replacing C, H & M has proven to be a tough task and it shows, but added to that everything in life gets a bit boring after constant repetition, with only slight tweaks here and there to try and keep it fresh and even CH & M would have struggled with that. (See 'The Grand Tour' as proof)

Obviously, I'm hoping that there weren't any corners cut with the safety aspect of Freddie's accident (there are no excuses for that), but he's never possessed much self-preservation and just goes at things without much thought for the consequences. He was an accident waiting to happen and unfortunately it has in quite a spectacular way.

Sometimes you've just got to know when to play it a bit safe, but that ain't Freddie!

Inevitable really

[suffolk009]

I only watched it in the Flintoff years if they were reviewing a car that interested me. I'd FFWD through all the rest.

[Mercdriver]

The old runs on TG just now show how entertaining they were, but don’t think it would be the same even if they could return.

It was good in its time

[surveyor]

It's a shame. It was not always riveting TV, but it was a nice way to spend an hour watching blokes cocking about with cars, rather than whatever celebrity drivel that the wife would otherwise have been watching...

[Paul Dishman]

Terry Winks said:

Do we finally get to find out how much a knob Chris Evans might have been now?

That's in Chris Harris' book