New series of Top Gear starts (OFFICIAL THREAD)
Discussion
I fear SIARPC is going to stay for several reasons.
1. It fills a gap in the show and saves them having to think up something else to fill a 10 minute segment.
2. There are always guests plugging something and use it to further their earnings a bit and all to ready to have a go even though they are not interested in cars..
3. The BBC have always had guests on various other programmes and they see this as no different just an excuse to have the 'star slot'
4. It gives them TV time using the track and film crew who are already there filming the tyre smoking scenes from other pieces. If they are there for the day they have to make the most of it.
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
1. It fills a gap in the show and saves them having to think up something else to fill a 10 minute segment.
2. There are always guests plugging something and use it to further their earnings a bit and all to ready to have a go even though they are not interested in cars..
3. The BBC have always had guests on various other programmes and they see this as no different just an excuse to have the 'star slot'
4. It gives them TV time using the track and film crew who are already there filming the tyre smoking scenes from other pieces. If they are there for the day they have to make the most of it.
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
Mr E Driver said:
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
yep Some of the best moments of top gear have been the star in a car but only when it is an interesting person.
Sod the stars bring on the geeks and engineers
Edited by thinfourth2 on Sunday 16th January 09:56
thinfourth2 said:
Mr E Driver said:
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
yep Some of the best moments of top gear have been the star in a car but only when it is an interesting person.
Sod the stars bring on the geeks and engineers
Edited by thinfourth2 on Sunday 16th January 09:56
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MGJohn said:
thinfourth2 said:
Mr E Driver said:
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
yep Some of the best moments of top gear have been the star in a car but only when it is an interesting person.
Sod the stars bring on the geeks and engineers
Edited by thinfourth2 on Sunday 16th January 09:56
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Still at least PH can influence 5th Gear, all beit in a small way
BDR529 said:
Not looking forward to when they smash the 3 E30 325 cabbies up
Were you one of the many who were pleased to see pianos 'accidentally' dropped on various Morris Marinas?...
Look at it this way ..... Just another Bavarian Sierra or two .....common as muck round my neck of the woods in recent years ~ every other car seems to be one and usually silver too...
If true, it's a splendid ploy to get even more controversy an added interest for the programme .... far more BMW users in UK roads than Marina enthusiasts ... more power to their wossnames...
Rarely wish one's life away but, roll on Next sunday ~ Currently watching the excellent snooker in the Top Gear slot on BBC2 at the mo.
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MGJohn said:
BDR529 said:
Not looking forward to when they smash the 3 E30 325 cabbies up
Were you one of the many who were pleased to see pianos 'accidentally' dropped on various Morris Marinas?...
Look at it this way ..... Just another Bavarian Sierra or two .....common as muck round my neck of the woods in recent years ~ every other car seems to be one and usually silver too...
If true, it's a splendid ploy to get even more controversy an added interest for the programme .... far more BMW users in UK roads than Marina enthusiasts ... more power to their wossnames...
Rarely wish one's life away but, roll on Next sunday ~ Currently watching the excellent snooker in the Top Gear slot on BBC2 at the mo.
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I normally like Top Gear, but I have a softspot for E30s..
Edit because of the "spoiler"
Edited by BDR529 on Monday 17th January 03:07
MGJohn said:
thinfourth2 said:
Mr E Driver said:
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
yep Some of the best moments of top gear have been the star in a car but only when it is an interesting person.
Sod the stars bring on the geeks and engineers
Edited by thinfourth2 on Sunday 16th January 09:56
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Oh, does anyone remember the bad press when Daniel Craig was announced as Bond, and they said that when he did the laps, he had to use an automatic?? Did this ever happen? I cant find reference to it anywhere, and dont remember it.
williamp said:
MGJohn said:
thinfourth2 said:
Mr E Driver said:
Maybe they should change it to IPIARPC and have an Interesting Person instead, somebody who is connected to the motor industry, racing world, motoring media, photographers, petrolhead stars rather than the next 'star' who calls the office wanting to go on to plug their latest thing.
yep Some of the best moments of top gear have been the star in a car but only when it is an interesting person.
Sod the stars bring on the geeks and engineers
Edited by thinfourth2 on Sunday 16th January 09:56
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williamp said:
Oh, does anyone remember the bad press when Daniel Craig was announced as Bond, and they said that when he did the laps, he had to use an automatic?? Did this ever happen? I cant find reference to it anywhere, and dont remember it.
I think you're getting two things mixed up here. It was Christopher Ecclestone that did the lap in an auto car- Daniel Craig can't drive manuals either and drove a specially converted auto RS6 in the film Layer Cake.Alfa numeric said:
williamp said:
Oh, does anyone remember the bad press when Daniel Craig was announced as Bond, and they said that when he did the laps, he had to use an automatic?? Did this ever happen? I cant find reference to it anywhere, and dont remember it.
I think you're getting two things mixed up here. It was Christopher Ecclestone that did the lap in an auto car- Daniel Craig can't drive manuals either and drove a specially converted auto RS6 in the film Layer Cake.BDR529 said:
Not looking forward to when they smash the 3 E30 325 cabbies up
Looks like they smash up a 156 with some sort of tank thing in this series as well but hey ho, what can you do?FTR, I don't like it when they smash any car up to be honest, I was brought up to regard wanton destruction as deplorable. A few years ago Clarkson smashed up a mint maserati Bi-turbo. I was quite unhappy at that tbh. But I look forward to this series of TG purely for the car porn when they are not acting the fool and/or destroying things
Radio Times reviewer David Butcher said:
Sunday 23 January
8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC2
1/6, series 16
At the climax of the Christmas special, in which the TG presenters motored across the desert to Bethlehem, they found there, lying in a stable, not the baby Jesus but a tiny newborn Stig. It was a lovely sight gag and a typically cheeky "on that bombshell..." to end with. For fans, it also signalled that, far from the whole Stig idea going up in flames (after previous incumbent Ben Collins unmasked himself), a new "tame racing driver" would materialise for this, the 16th series of the show, and a million key-rings, figurines and T-shirts would be safe from landfill.
Whoever New Stig is, he/she/it gets to grips with a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car tonight, as comedian John Bishop takes to the track.
Meanwhile, Clarkson, Hammond and May take on their opposite numbers from Australian Top Gear in a (belated, frankly) car-based version of the Ashes, with contests including rallying, drifting and an Aussie version of double-decker car racing. It's the tyres I feel sorry for.
John Bishop as the SIARPC? Hmmmm, today's guest didn't take a lot of work searching by the production team, they only looked as far as the canteen at lunchtime....8:00pm - 9:00pm
BBC2
1/6, series 16
At the climax of the Christmas special, in which the TG presenters motored across the desert to Bethlehem, they found there, lying in a stable, not the baby Jesus but a tiny newborn Stig. It was a lovely sight gag and a typically cheeky "on that bombshell..." to end with. For fans, it also signalled that, far from the whole Stig idea going up in flames (after previous incumbent Ben Collins unmasked himself), a new "tame racing driver" would materialise for this, the 16th series of the show, and a million key-rings, figurines and T-shirts would be safe from landfill.
Whoever New Stig is, he/she/it gets to grips with a Star in a Reasonably Priced Car tonight, as comedian John Bishop takes to the track.
Meanwhile, Clarkson, Hammond and May take on their opposite numbers from Australian Top Gear in a (belated, frankly) car-based version of the Ashes, with contests including rallying, drifting and an Aussie version of double-decker car racing. It's the tyres I feel sorry for.
Don't get me wrong I like JB but it looks like they are just picking somebody who is flavour of last year and he has been on just about every other Beeb product.
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