BBC Top Gear Thread 2021/2022
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CH definitely seems to like MLB though.Wills2 said:
Red9zero said:
Boleros said:
Do tell!
"Contaminated by faceless gobs
tes" 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. My 'home' on the internet for years was the Westfield Sports Car Club boardroom, as it was back then, before they became know as forums. Then after I left that club, this became my new internet 'home'.
There is a large part of me that wants to move on for the reasons above, but I need to find a new internet home first.
Megaflow said:
UTH said:
Terry Winks said:
So as predicted Top Gear will be “rested” for the foreseeable future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67333907I think they will want to dust it off and reformat it however, which should have happened post CHM rasther than try to replace them.
All good things must come to an end I guess. It was a big part of my childhood and teenage years but in the end, it became a caricature of itself. I never really bothered watching the new format.
A great man once said "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
A great man once said "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"
Edited by Motoring12345 on Wednesday 22 November 16:59
Dashnine said:
Megaflow said:
UTH said:
Terry Winks said:
So as predicted Top Gear will be “rested” for the foreseeable future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67333907I think they will want to dust it off and reformat it however, which should have happened post CHM rasther than try to replace them.
Personally, I think they should look back at the CHM prime era around 2005-2010, when they actually reviewed cars in every show and just did something silly once a series. It's gradually become increasing silliness with a once a series car review. Move it back onto BBC2 where it belongs, more informative than pure entertainment, and don't bother having headline presenters.
I don't see why a mix of the sort of stuff you get from Chris Harris On Cars and TG's own Youtube channel wouldn't work as a TV show. I don't think anyone would complain if their recent T50 review was shown on the TG TV show, for example. Ollie Marriage is a far better presenter than McGuinness or Flintoff as well, IMO.
Top Gear is dead because they made a massive error…. Hiring in two people that just can’t drive well enough as fronts for the show.
Flintoff seemed to have no sense of when things were getting out of hand, no fear. He’s already and numerous accidents, and probably far more near misses than we’ve seen.
Motor sport is dangerous, as the saying goes, and many of the things they were doing was getting away from testing cars and more into using them for stunts and sporty driving.
Flintoff seemed to have no sense of when things were getting out of hand, no fear. He’s already and numerous accidents, and probably far more near misses than we’ve seen.
Motor sport is dangerous, as the saying goes, and many of the things they were doing was getting away from testing cars and more into using them for stunts and sporty driving.
We just have to consign TG to history from a distant time when the BBC made great TV. I would put them on the same shelf as The Fast Show, Black Adder, Fools and Horses, and the early Planet Earths. Shame but all good things come to an end.
YouTube is now the place for blokes to get their motoring kicks. There's a plethora of great channels who are as entertaining as TG was...maybe in slightly different ways, but still entertaining if not quite so endearing as the classic years.
YouTube is now the place for blokes to get their motoring kicks. There's a plethora of great channels who are as entertaining as TG was...maybe in slightly different ways, but still entertaining if not quite so endearing as the classic years.
Timothy Bucktu said:
We just have to consign TG to history from a distant time when the BBC made great TV. I would put them on the same shelf as The Fast Show, Black Adder, Fools and Horses, and the early Planet Earths. Shame but all good things come to an end.
YouTube is now the place for blokes to get their motoring kicks. There's a plethora of great channels who are as entertaining as TG was...maybe in slightly different ways, but still entertaining if not quite so endearing as the classic years.
I do agree, however I'd say it's more that they don't make great shows for me rather than they don't make great shows period, as we age we get pushed out of the mainstream and I believe every generation has and will go through this, there is nothing for me on the BBC these days in terms of the current LE output, but I do use them for news/sport and films/old programs on the iplayer. Same with BBC radio I've moved to greatest hits where all the old BBC presenters are. YouTube is now the place for blokes to get their motoring kicks. There's a plethora of great channels who are as entertaining as TG was...maybe in slightly different ways, but still entertaining if not quite so endearing as the classic years.
But it is what it is.
Dashnine said:
Megaflow said:
UTH said:
Terry Winks said:
So as predicted Top Gear will be “rested” for the foreseeable future.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-67333907I think they will want to dust it off and reformat it however, which should have happened post CHM rasther than try to replace them.
Timothy Bucktu said:
simonrockman said:
Dr Who rested for nigh on a decade between Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston
That's another one that should be left to die with dignity.Mark-C said:
Timothy Bucktu said:
simonrockman said:
Dr Who rested for nigh on a decade between Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston
That's another one that should be left to die with dignity.
SydneyBridge said:
Top Gear reimagined by Russel T Davies could be very interesting...
Hmmm... Top Gear re-imagined by Doctor Who writers...Based on recent Doctor Who series', that would require Chris Harris to suddenly turn into a woman, who immediately makes friends with an unlikely social group of fellow car enthusiast who just happen to tick every possible PC box. Then the following season he would revert back to being a man but also his face would change to a guy who has already been a TG presenter, I assume Clarkson since he was the fan favourite.
The Daleks cunning plan to stall human civilisation by swapping all 30mph zones to 20mph...
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