Television Top Gear

SmashedHombre said:
It's not hard to understand ffs. Everyone has friends* May is a sap. As is Hammond. They have no TV career without Clarkson (due largely to the fact that they don't posses an ounce of charisma between them), so they follow him blindly like dogs with their master.

I don't know if the new format will work, but one thing I'm utterly convinced on is that May and Hammond without Clarkson would fail abysmally. Which, I suspect, they know too and hence why they followed him despite it being the morally bankrupt thing to do. I hope they still fail abysmally tbh.

*Except Cina.
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On the bold - I agree about Hammond but May has other shows on his own or with other people and he's pretty good.
 
May's had a couple of great shows on his own. Hammond...not so much.
 
I didn't mind Man Lab, but that was more for the content of the show itself rather than James May. I've always found him to be a bit smug and unlikable tbh.
 
James may has had some great shows. Toy story, the recent one about cars, the technology one from a couple of years ago.

His own output has been better than most of the recent series of top gear.
 
reelworld said:
I thought Hammond's Crash Course is pretty good. Is it still on?
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I forgot about that tbf. Although I don't think that was good because of Hammond per se, not that he was a bad presenter, but it could have been presented by anyone really. I think it got cancelled in the end.
 
Fitting that there last show will involve the destruction of a caravan!
 
Don't really get the Evans hate myself, but it seems there's a fair bit of it. I thought the TFI reunion the other day was alright tbf. Completely pointless of course, but passable irreverent fun. People forget how much of a midas presenter he was in the 90s. His disappearance from telly was his choice rather than viewer fatigue too, since he'd made so much from fronting his own production company that he decided to sack it off and get pissed with Gazza, coked up with Blur and bang a teenage Billie Piper instead. All of which are far more RocknRoll than Clarkson's faux-Maverick image as "[not really] put upon white guy who says some deliberately semi-silly things"...

I think he'll be good. He ticks all the boxes at least. Affable, competent, semi-controversial petrol head. A lot will depend on his co-hosts though. I'd plump for Gaby Roslin.
 
I think Chris Evans (good Warrington lad by the way) could be good for the show.

If May and Hammond stay with Clarkson and move to another station then it begs the question - Is Chris Evans doing 'Top Gear' or is 'Top Gear' just changing it's name and coming on elsewhere.

Could be two refreshing makeovers for the price of one. Win win.
 
dinners85 said:
I think Chris Evans (good Warrington lad by the way) could be good for the show.

If May and Hammond stay with Clarkson and move to another station then it begs the question - Is Chris Evans doing 'Top Gear' or is 'Top Gear' just changing it's name and coming on elsewhere.

Could be two refreshing makeovers for the price of one. Win win.
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Agree. It needs a shake up imo, especially if Clarkson does his own version elsewhere and takes the other two with him. The show could be as good as ever but the average viewer will still be wondering when Clarkson is going to show up and make a prostitute joke. That's Top Gear, it should be left alone really. Anything after will just be unfavourably compared.

Of course it will never stray too far because of how big a brand it is around the world, but it needs to allow Evans to put his stamp on it.
 
Read it as 'Ched Evans' initially and had a brief moment of bewilderment.
 
TFI Friday last week really was the king of the red herring wasn't it? Nick Grimshaw lined up to host the reboot before going "psych!" and joining X Factor, Evans denying any BBC contact over the Top Gear job...

I mean, does his mum even need that scooter?
 
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Warrington? Rugby League? I like this Evans lad.
 
Rado_N said:
The final Clarkson episodes that got pulled?
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Yep - they had already recorded two films.

The first is about Classic Cars and the second was about budget SUVs

All Top Gear film footage is pre recorded (before the series) and the studio sections are done weekly in front of the studio audiece so it can be 'topical' and 'current'.

The last show is 75 mins and will feature Clarkson, Hammond & May in both films. The studio sections will just be Hammond and May but (from what I've read) without the studio audience.
 
Rado_N said:
That'll be fine, the non studio stuff is the (sometimes) good bits anyway.
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Yeah I agree. I think there was supposed to be two more episodes in this series so I'm not sure quite how they'll do it if this is it. Will the celeb interview(s) (originally scheduled to Gary Linekar and then Henry Cavill) be in there with one of the others taking Clarkson's role for example?
 
Was half expecting the announcement tweet to appear in the Transfer thread :lol:
 
dinners85 said:
Last 'top gear' to be shown 28th June
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Saw them filming in the Yorkshire Dales before the storm in a tea cup at the hotel...

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