RE: Top Gear TV gains McGuinness and Flintoff
Discussion
yonex said:
blade7 said:
If chaps with flaps do it for you I suppose.
A bit harsh, but there's definitely more Jar Jar Binks about her than Vogue these days.Kidd is 6'1" though and I find her strangely intriguing ... Until she opens her gob.
People keep mentioning Guy Martin, but Guy himself admitted back when Clarkson and Co left, that he wouldn't be interested in presenting TG.
Guys programmes are entertaining, but he isn't a studio tv presenter. He'll gladly speak about stuff he is interested in, whether it's restoring a tank or driving an F1 car, but he never speaks direct to the camera, it's almost like a fly on the wall documentary where he is speaking to someone off camera.
That works okay on that type of programme, I don't think it would suit Top Gear.
As for Top Gear, disappointed about Matt leaving, even more disappointed that Paddy McGuinness has been appointed. Apart from Phoenix Nights, I've never found him remotely funny.
I can't remember the name of it, but he did present a car programme where a different celeb joined him each week, and he took them back through their car history, and he would bring along similar cars from their past to drive during the programme. He was okay at that, because he did actually shut up alot of the time!
Freddie Flintoff, never really watched anything he has been in, but it doesn't sound like a brilliant presenting team.
I'll probably tune in to see what it's like, but I can't help feeling it's another change of team too far in such a short period of time. It'll end up like The One Show for cars.
Guys programmes are entertaining, but he isn't a studio tv presenter. He'll gladly speak about stuff he is interested in, whether it's restoring a tank or driving an F1 car, but he never speaks direct to the camera, it's almost like a fly on the wall documentary where he is speaking to someone off camera.
That works okay on that type of programme, I don't think it would suit Top Gear.
As for Top Gear, disappointed about Matt leaving, even more disappointed that Paddy McGuinness has been appointed. Apart from Phoenix Nights, I've never found him remotely funny.
I can't remember the name of it, but he did present a car programme where a different celeb joined him each week, and he took them back through their car history, and he would bring along similar cars from their past to drive during the programme. He was okay at that, because he did actually shut up alot of the time!
Freddie Flintoff, never really watched anything he has been in, but it doesn't sound like a brilliant presenting team.
I'll probably tune in to see what it's like, but I can't help feeling it's another change of team too far in such a short period of time. It'll end up like The One Show for cars.
Red 4 said:
yonex said:
Red 4 said:
Whilst I like Guy (and his documentaries) I'm not sure he would be right for Too Gear or if Top Gear would be right for him.
If you know much about Guy you'll probably understand what I mean.
Kidd should be banned from presenting anything "motor" related following her appalling coverage of the TT this year. Sour faced, boring, posh totty.
She was appalling on The Car Show (or whatever it was called) with Quentin Wilson too.
She's got the charisma of a dead fly.
If you know much about Guy you'll probably understand what I mean.
Kidd should be banned from presenting anything "motor" related following her appalling coverage of the TT this year. Sour faced, boring, posh totty.
She was appalling on The Car Show (or whatever it was called) with Quentin Wilson too.
She's got the charisma of a dead fly.
Have to agree on Jodie Kidd. I think Top Gear need to cut this crap out and use CH to employ some decent journo's. It could be an Evo reunion
She couldn't have been less enthusiastic/ interested if she had tried.
She had a face like someone had just kicked her in the sponge.
Don't get me wrong, I'd quite like to spend some, er, quality time with her (in a kind of live out your fantasies "Land of The Giants" type of erotic scenario).
But she's a s
t presenter. Personality isn't her strong point.pb8g09 said:
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 st car around a track in exchange for plugging their non-car related guff on a car show.
I’m quite liking the latest 5th gear, just need some better reasearch when VBH is spouting inaccurate ‘facts’ about her test subject 2nd hand cars.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.Of those mentioned above I think Coogan sounds like the best option. LeBlanc really improved in the last Top Gear series which was was excellent IMO. At least they are keeping Harris.
No idea about Paddy but willing to give Flintoff a chance (he's surprisingly good on his podcast)
Guy Martin isn't a presenter but there should be a section every week "can we kill guy" where they get him to drive more and more fast / dangerous machinery. Would be right up his street.
Guy Martin isn't a presenter but there should be a section every week "can we kill guy" where they get him to drive more and more fast / dangerous machinery. Would be right up his street.
It's a poor choice. Reid has also been shuffled off to the graveyard follow up show in isolation, retained one suspects only because his ethnicity allows the BBC to tick a box somewhere.
It's actually a shame that LeBlanc is going, but at least he had some credentials prior to his hiring as a petrolhead and car collector. I cannot see what bringing these two retards into the show is going to add to it, aside from making it more like just another BBC2 panel show with cars in.
Perhaps we should be grateful that the BBC have spared us from Sue Perkins, Sandi Toksvig or Graham Norton. Perhaps we should be grateful that the BBC, with all their Guardian politics, haven't tried to kill the show altogether. But it seems to me that they are attempting to slowly kill the show off by slowly making it unbearable to watch.
It's actually a shame that LeBlanc is going, but at least he had some credentials prior to his hiring as a petrolhead and car collector. I cannot see what bringing these two retards into the show is going to add to it, aside from making it more like just another BBC2 panel show with cars in.
Perhaps we should be grateful that the BBC have spared us from Sue Perkins, Sandi Toksvig or Graham Norton. Perhaps we should be grateful that the BBC, with all their Guardian politics, haven't tried to kill the show altogether. But it seems to me that they are attempting to slowly kill the show off by slowly making it unbearable to watch.
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