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Top gear
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Source? Can't find anything online. Top Gear USA has been axed for sure.colthe3rd said:Show is AXED.
Show won't be recommissioned.0 -
It was in response to the link posted above that post.0
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Ah, you mean TFI, sorry0
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New series last night.
What did we think?
Much better than last year imo0 -
Was there?0
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Was much much better without Evans. A little forced in places, but a very good show overall1
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They try too hard. The jokes weren't that funny but the presenters laughed as if they were the best in the world.
Then they lost me with the goat 'polo'.0 -
Was still a bit wooden, but as has been pointed out before, so was the old top gear in the early series. Less time chatting to celebs, no Chris Evans, and I laughed more during last night's episode than during the whole of the last series. Good enough that I'll tune in again next week.1
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Thought it was much better.....1
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Yes, definitely better than the last series, where Reid and Harris were wasted just doing the solo stuff
Even the star section was better, last season it dragged for ever, and having the GT86 gives it a new feel1 - Sponsored links:
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Bit wooden and forced at time, especially with the celebrity interview bit. But I felt the out of the studio bits were of better quality and more natural. Will get even better. I'll be tuning in next week.0
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Thought it was ok, much better without Evans on it. Give it time and I reckon they'll all gel nicely.2
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I haven't seen it but will give it a go tonight.
I'm not one to bash the show - or The Grand Tour - just take them for what they are, a bit of light entertainment.1 -
Felt the same. Bearing in mind the previous incumbents had a number of series to build it to what it was, I wouldn't criticise them heavily. Didn't watch the last series bar one episode, but I feel Chris's H needs to chill a touch - he seemed to be the most forced, but it's only my opinion.Horsfield9 said:Thought it was ok, much better without Evans on it. Give it time and I reckon they'll all gel nicely.
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That's a joke. If they were to have any hope if it succeeding they should have stuck with Chris Harris and Rory Reid. Both proper car people that were capable of being scripted funny on TV.stackitsteve said:
You don't need a big name to front it up.3 -
Good call - I have thought for a while laddish banter - the sort you get in a dressing room - carries the show. I think McGuinness and Flintoff would work. They should also look for a Robbie Savage type to add and it could work.2
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Andrew Flintoff - quite possibly the least funny human being alive.1
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And add Karl Robinson as well.MuttleyCAFC said:Good call - I have thought for a while laddish banter - the sort you get in a dressing room - carries the show. I think McGuinness and Flintoff would work. They should also look for a Robbie Savage type to add and it could work.
Seems like the BBC want to kill the show off. Chris Harris could easily front the show successfully but he's not a celebrity.
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When Clarkson, May and Hammond first started presenting Top Gear they were not celebrities (Clarkson came from Performance Car magazine) and the show didn't have a great following. They became celebrities and it then did so, ergo, the school of thought is that the show needs celebrities.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
And add Karl Robinson as well.MuttleyCAFC said:Good call - I have thought for a while laddish banter - the sort you get in a dressing room - carries the show. I think McGuinness and Flintoff would work. They should also look for a Robbie Savage type to add and it could work.
Seems like the BBC want to kill the show off. Chris Harris could easily front the show successfully but he's not a celebrity.
RIP Top Gear
Just kill it - or bring Clarkson, May and Hammond back.5 - Sponsored links:
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If Harris and another motoring journalist front up the show I'm sure it would be fine and if they become celebs along the way then so be it.bobmunro said:
When Clarkson, May and Hammond first started presenting Top Gear they were not celebrities (Clarkson came from Performance Car magazine) and the show didn't have a great following. They became celebrities and it then did so, ergo, the school of thought is that the show needs celebrities.hoof_it_up_to_benty said:
And add Karl Robinson as well.MuttleyCAFC said:Good call - I have thought for a while laddish banter - the sort you get in a dressing room - carries the show. I think McGuinness and Flintoff would work. They should also look for a Robbie Savage type to add and it could work.
Seems like the BBC want to kill the show off. Chris Harris could easily front the show successfully but he's not a celebrity.
RIP Top Gear
Just kill it - or bring Clarkson, May and Hammond back.
Getting Freddie and Paddy in for some contrived laddish banter is as far as I can see the last thing the show needs.7 -
Are Chris Harris and Rory Reid staying?
Chris Harris is an excellent motoring journalist, his YouTube reviews were brilliant1 -
Harris is one of the 3 main presenters, Reid is sidelined to Extra GearCarter said:Are Chris Harris and Rory Reid staying?
Chris Harris is an excellent motoring journalist, his YouTube reviews were brilliant
A strange choice for me, it feels like going back to the Chris Evans experiment, of employing celebs who like cars, which failed.1 -
That's a shamekillerandflash said:
Harris is one of the 3 main presenters, Reid is sidelined to Extra GearCarter said:Are Chris Harris and Rory Reid staying?
Chris Harris is an excellent motoring journalist, his YouTube reviews were brilliant
A strange choice for me, it feels like going back to the Chris Evans experiment, of employing celebs who like cars, which failed.
The three previous presenters were all car enthusiasts and journalists rather than being popular tv presenters or personalities0 -
world class cricketer and responsible for some of my favourite sporting moments in my life. But jesus what an uninspiring choice.Croydon said:Andrew Flintoff - quite possibly the least funny human being alive.
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Chris Harris is good although Rory was a bit wooden, although not in the same wooden class as Eddie Jordan.
Just can't imagine Flintoff and McGuiness working.
absolutely this.kentaddick said:
world class cricketer and responsible for some of my favourite sporting moments in my life. But jesus what an uninspiring choice.Croydon said:Andrew Flintoff - quite possibly the least funny human being alive.
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Has a loud voice and big ego - seems to be enough for a secure future in TV. I'm sure he has a host of unfunny anecdotes stored up.kentaddick said:
world class cricketer and responsible for some of my favourite sporting moments in my life. But jesus what an uninspiring choice.Croydon said:Andrew Flintoff - quite possibly the least funny human being alive.
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Agree. Plenty of good presenters of car shows on YouTube they could have gone with, to go with these two morons is baffling.killerandflash said:
Harris is one of the 3 main presenters, Reid is sidelined to Extra GearCarter said:Are Chris Harris and Rory Reid staying?
Chris Harris is an excellent motoring journalist, his YouTube reviews were brilliant
A strange choice for me, it feels like going back to the Chris Evans experiment, of employing celebs who like cars, which failed.2 -
They should rename it bottom gear. A Tribute act to the original.1
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Steady on! Andrew Flintoff is cricket royalty and good value allbeit overused and fawned over a lot for being a big bloke who likes a pint, Patrick McGuinness is a really good and humorous presenter and completely inoffensive
Don't get me wrong I don't think either has a place doing top gear but then the boat where top gear was a programme about cars has sailed0
