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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 07:32
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Lets face it, as I said before TG is dead as we all knew it. Now, it doesn't matter who will host the show now, they will never live up to Clarkson. You can forget all the shenanigans of the past. The show is dead.
As for Evans, he's not all together the worst choice, I don't find that annoying.
I'm an old git & happy with it,most of the time
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 10:04
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As the show is popular (for all it's failings, there certainly seems to be enough people watching it to say how shite it is if the threads on here are anything to go by) the only way I can see it remaining popular is to attract the C/M/H haters. Their supporters will hate the new format because they have to. He can't be more of the same without trying to be Clarkson. He can't be anything less without being a pale imitation of him (which applies to his co-hosts The Gerbil And Capt Not Fast?). If he attempts to out-Clarkson Clarkson he'll be off air He irritated the shit out of me on TGIF, I can't listen to him on the radio, so whichever way it goes, I'm out!
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"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 10:35
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I'm in!
Well could be - depends what the sidekickery, if there are any, turns out to be. Loudmouth? check, irritating? check, boring, juvenile public school schtick? not check. It can only be better.
and I used to drink in the same pub as him (Steele's) when he had a Spitfire.
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 11:16
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As long as he does not bring along the TFI mentality he should be ok and will hopefully be a return to form for TG. He does like his cars............
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 14:29
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Really can't make it more clear than I've already stated ....Top Gear is dead as we all knew it. The capers that the trio got up to, good bad or whatever made the show. All the haters that come on here & give their tuppence worth still used to watch & obviously in doing so felt the need to let off steam, perhaps making them feel better. Although it seems Top Gear is going ahead with Evans, it's never going to be the same. I was never a huge fan of Clarkson "but" he was very good at what he did in TG & along with my wife we were entertained & liked what we saw, so it would seem the rest of the world thought so to. Evans is a very different kettle of fish altogether. I think his manic style may indeed irritate some fans. I'll be watching, I don't find him too irritating, after all it's only a show, nothing really to get all worked up about...no wait, ach lets see what the haters come up with....
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 14:56
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You can't help who irritates you. Alan Carr, Keith Lemon, Paul O'Grady and Graham Norton are never on my TV, not even as guests on shows I do watch. So although I don't like Evans, I won't be posting on here about how crap TG is now he's on it!
"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 15:11
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Lets face it, as I said before TG is dead as we all knew it. Now, it doesn't matter who will host the show now, they will never live up to Clarkson. You can forget all the shenanigans of the past. The show is dead.
As for Evans, he's not all together the worst choice, I don't find that annoying. Top gear will change and providing they get the other two presenters right it will be good . Clarkson and evan are similar they are both like marmite people hate them people like them . Clarksons stupidness was ruinning the show . I am not a fan of evans but hope the show works . Most likely takes a couple of years
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Re: new series of top gear
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17/06/2015 16:29
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most on here wished that top gear needed tweaking as it was getting a bit stale, now we have our wish. Maybe we should just wait and see what he brings to the role and then air our views. Must be a better viewing spectacle than that rubbish with Quen and Jodie. [ 2 people who couldn't blend together in a blender ]. Roll on the last of TG when they air it.
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Re: new series of top gear
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18/06/2015 09:33
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I think Chris will do quite well on a motoring show with some light entertainment thrown in, I also think he will do well with a female co-host. Think back to Big Breakfast with Chris and Gaby Roslin, they had some hilarious moments. Add the big budget the BBC throws at Top Gear and it should make an entertaining show. Evans confirmed earlier that there will be a female co-presenter. So who will it be................
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Re: new series of top gear
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18/06/2015 12:36
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Based on her F1 performance, it'd be another reason to body swerve the new TG!
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"RK's way seems the most sensible to me". ali_hire 16 Dec 2010
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Re: new series of top gear
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18/06/2015 15:22
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The thing is, little of those points are relevant. It doesn't matter how quick witted and funny the presenters are, the show is scripted within an inch of its life - which is why James Kay's opinion of the nurburgring and car development on TG are identical to Richard Porter's in his Eco column.
Pretty well all the track driving, apart from the bits to camera are performed by a batallion of current and ex professional drivers, so the presenters don't have to be handy behind the wheel. Pretty much my thoughts. What ever line up happens I'll watch, but I'm pretty sure this wont cut the mustard. Can't see me making the effort I used to do when Clarkson was on Top Gear. As for the girly bit nah! most, if honest just want to see female bits, nothing wrong with that, but for me it's a man show Obviously not all will agree with me on that one
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Re: new series of top gear
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18/06/2015 17:06
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Pretty well all the track driving, apart from the bits to camera are performed by a batallion of current and ex professional drivers, so the presenters don't have to be handy behind the wheel. Other way round - because Clarkson, Hammond and May aren't particularly brilliant drivers, they have to draft in pro drivers. If at least one of the presenting crew is a handy pedaller, they won't need to. Fifth Gear get on just fine with Tiff, Jason and Vicky - they don't need to draft in anyone else
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Re: new series of top gear
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18/06/2015 17:22
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Fifth Gear get on just fine with Tiff, Jason and Vicky - they don't need to draft in anyone else [/quote]
Fifth gear is an entirely different show altogether.
I'm an old git & happy with it,most of the time
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Re: new series of top gear
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18/06/2015 18:20
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I think you're missing my point, I'm only pointing out Top Gear is what it is, & is liked simply for the very thing that others don't like it. 5th gear was mentioned, different set up altogether. I'm not wanting people to be exactly like me & agree that TG is the best ever, I accept some will hate the show. Hell I come from a time black&white telly (if you could afford one) was the norm'. Car shows back then in fact any kind of bloke show was dire. Top Gear for me is/was two fingers up to the establishment & entertaining along with schoolboy humour. OK not the end of the world because of it's demise, but I really can't see anything coming close to fill the shoes of the TG trio. Just my thoughts, but at an educated guess there will be more like me the world over. RIP Top Gear as we all knew it. OK I went a bit overboard
I'm an old git & happy with it,most of the time
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