RE: Top Gear TV gains McGuinness and Flintoff
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Yup, didn't think that would be a popular choice. Must admit, I'm willing to give most people a go but even I said WTF!
You could speculate about 100 people that would be more suitable than these two but that's who they've chosen.......
Just hope Chris Harris can hold it together but it's a big ask!
You could speculate about 100 people that would be more suitable than these two but that's who they've chosen.......
Just hope Chris Harris can hold it together but it's a big ask!
I knew Top Gear was doomed when the ginger nob go involved, and then they turned it around completely in the last series, it had a bit of everything.
My suspicions are that it will be them two just titting about, a bit like Freddie in 'a league of their own' (which is actually a great show), but I will still be watching and hoping it will be better than our expectations.
My suspicions are that it will be them two just titting about, a bit like Freddie in 'a league of their own' (which is actually a great show), but I will still be watching and hoping it will be better than our expectations.
Alex_6n2 said:
Chestrockwell said:
I mean of course, time is what it is and he does a family but I can’t help but think, somewhere along the line, he missed a trick in the YouTube game, his content was brilliant and drew millions of views, what went wrong
Harris didn't create content for 12 year olds. He didn't open a T-Shirt/Baseball cap store. He didn't do any of the daily VLOG crap. He didn't do clickbait titles with "Just purchased my new Lambo!!11" content.He kept his videos technical, thorough and to the layman...boring.
Sadly, appeal for properly Car journalism is pretty niche.
Just look at Catchpole's stuff on Carfection. Incredible videos, but it will never appeal as broadly on YouTube as "HIII GUYZ IM SCHMEEE", because the average viewer on that platform is a child.
The most amazing thing about McGuinness is that he appears to have found a cure for baldness/ thinning hair.
He had a proper birds nest/ monk look going on a few years ago - now he's got a full head of hair.
Apparently, the going rate for a Top Gear presenter is circa £500k p.a.
That should keep him in wigs if his body eventually rejects the hair transplant.
He had a proper birds nest/ monk look going on a few years ago - now he's got a full head of hair.
Apparently, the going rate for a Top Gear presenter is circa £500k p.a.
That should keep him in wigs if his body eventually rejects the hair transplant.
Gameface said:
I'm sorry but there are loads of people who aren't into cars who still buy a Ferrari. Vacuous z-listers, footballers etc. Plenty of them buy one because they are aware of the badge and little else.
McGuinness and Flintoff's choices of a California and 612 respectively doesn't fill me with hope. Certainly wouldn't be my choices
Or Chris Harris's for that matter...
People not really in to cars buy them along with vacuous z listers and footballers you say ?McGuinness and Flintoff's choices of a California and 612 respectively doesn't fill me with hope. Certainly wouldn't be my choices
Or Chris Harris's for that matter...
Your supercar brand of choice is Lamborghini ?
A stickier wicket than many of Mr Flintoff’s I suspect
As for the new combo, none of us has seen it nor know the editorial direction of the next series.
I’ll reserve judgement other than to say I find all three presenters individually likeable based on what I have seen of them so far.
Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 22 October 15:00
Red 4 said:
The most amazing thing about McGuinness is that he appears to have found a cure for baldness/ thinning hair.
He had a proper birds nest/ monk look going on a few years ago - now he's got a full head of hair.
Apparently, the going rate for a Top Gear presenter is circa £500k p.a.
That should keep him in wigs if his body eventually rejects the hair transplant.
I'd have done it for 10% of his salary and been around 25% as good - but saved the BBC a decent wedge. He had a proper birds nest/ monk look going on a few years ago - now he's got a full head of hair.
Apparently, the going rate for a Top Gear presenter is circa £500k p.a.
That should keep him in wigs if his body eventually rejects the hair transplant.
sly fox said:
+1
I thought this was a joke when the story surfaced on social media last night.
Feel sorry for Monkey actually!
I wouldn’t.I thought this was a joke when the story surfaced on social media last night.
Feel sorry for Monkey actually!
He gets paid a lot of money to travel the world driving a whole swathe of interesting cars.
On top of that he increasing his audience massively, further enhancing his opportunities either within or out with the BBC.
What’s not to like ?
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'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.No interest in cricket, and have only seen Flintoff presenting "Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week" from a couple of years back which was BBC2's rip-off of Ch4's "SAS - Who Dares Wins" series. He was woeful... unnecessarily chipping in occasionally with "when I was a professional cricketer I also had to be at peak physical condition..." in a monotone voice like he'd just had a lobotomy while the contestants and viewers alike ignored him.
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