Bit unfair to use this last one as any example. It being bang on the same time as the football and all.
Bit unfair to use this last one as any example. It being bang on the same time as the football and all.
Watched it last night and when the best bit of the show has a 'what's the point' feel to it you know you're in trouble.
With the alternative being France v Switzerland ratings should have been through the roof.Originally Posted by phonics
Its the kind of thing people want to fail anyway. Kinda unfair on the guys involved, really.
Something about Sabine in the last episode has got my juices flowing.
Matt Le Blanc has tired of Evans being a twat quite quickly, it would seem.
The ginger has left the building.
Presumably the real reason is that he's about to get done for being a dirty bastard, not because he realised he's a loud tit and was ruining things.
A dirty bastard in what sense? Is he a paedo too?
He's being investigated for a sexual assault but it's nothing to do with kids.
Good, I was only able to get through the first episode because he was too fucking annoying.
Glad that Joey is staying on which I really didn't think I'd be saying.
It's no real surprise, has Evans really done any regular 'prime time' entertainment recently? There's probably a reason he's mostly on the radio these days.
Having caught up with the last few episodes, I think too many twats wanted it to fail. Launching it during a football tournament hasn't helped, and you were always going to lose half the audience who only watched for lol caravan banter, but the series was better than half of what Jeremy Clarkson presided over.
Wrong. The old re-runs on Dave are leagues better than the shit the new one has offered up.
The last episode was dull as fuck. I don't want to watch a car review show, I want car challenges and trips I can laugh at no matter how crap the jokes are.
The challenges were mainly crap for the past few years now.
The India one was the only shit one I can recall. I watched the Africa special, it was great. Also the Vietnam special was brilliant.
They got tamer because two of the three were significantly older, I don't think you'd get Clarkson and May doing Botswana or Bolivia again for example.
He said challenges, like the cringe-worthy ambulance one, or all of the aforementioned caravan banter. The current team could make a decent special.
I hope that it'll be Le Blanc fronting it, primarily assisted by Harris and Reid.
Suspect they'll get somebody in to do Evans' job though, unnecessarily.
Sabine whatsherface was decent in sporadic appearances in Old Top Gear but she's rubbish when she's expected to speak too much. "I LUFF PRESSENTER CHALLENCHES!!!"
Yeah. Hopefully if Evans is the fall guy they can ditch the celebrity wank as well.
"And our guests tonight........... Gordon Ramsay and Jesse Eisenberg!!!!!"
"u wot"
"Yeah!!!!"
I'd watch Gordon Ramsey race cars.
Fair play to Evans for seeing he wasn't suited/was pissing everybody off and doing the right thing.
I thought the series was ok overall. Joey was a real find, but there were too many segments of people just driving, the shelebrity stuff made time stop and the challenges were poor.
Joey I'd keep, but the rest of the presenters could be lost and I wouldn't bat an eyelid.
Would you watch Gordon Ramsay pretending to have any kind of interest in the career of Jesse Eisenberg?7
EDIT: Didn't even like Harris and Reid, Yev? I think they've been genuinely good. Despite Reid's Youtube clips looking like the worst thing ever.
Just let LeBlanc pick his co-host so there's actually a connection there.
They're quite good at doing actual car stuff perhaps, but that was never why I (and millions of others) watched the show in the first place.
Just scrap the whole thing, it has always been shit. No one care about cars, you can just go get your bantz elsewhere.
They should just fucking can it.
Yeah keep that shit to YouTube and your channel subscribers, you fucking wet weekends.
Voluntarily dissolve a massive brand and one of the most syndicated shows in the world?
Yeah, that's going to happen.
Can we just remember Clarkson is more synonymous with 'Top Gear' than the BBC. It was shite before and it will be shite after.
Oh I agree with you, but they have to try.
Why? It's going to be an unsuccessful, expensive mess, as has been proven and we're only half way through the new one's first season.
They should can it and re-invest it in live sport.
It'll cost fuck all in relation to the revenues it generates.
Probably right. Seems like everyone is still watching even though they all call it shit afterwards.
My interest in car stuff is limited but I'll watch them because I like them. Similarly I would watch Clarkson (for being a yobbo twat) and May (for actually being good) talking cars but would often skip Hammond unless I actually had any interest in the car in question because fuck Hammond.
I thought it improved a fair bit as the series went on. They've done the right thing in losing Evans and just need to dump Schmidt and Jordan now, replace none of them, and it'll be all fine.
Anyone watched the first episode of the Grand Tour yet?
Not sure how long it's been up but I just spotted it.
I'll do it sometime tonight.
Had a ridiculously late night at work and just got in, so why not?
I really don't understand the decision to release this in 5 countries now, and the other 200 odd next month. You are literally encouraging people in those other 200 countries, like me, to torrent it.
Such a bizarre decision.
Torrent time.
Is this likely to be on that Exodus thing then?
That is dumb.
It was alright, but it focused very much on cars, so I was bored for large stretches.
In order to let the reception guide the marketing in the other territories. There are very, very few people around who actually torrent things compared to those who watch by conventional methods.
Never copped first that was the Hothouse Flowers in the opening sequence in the desert.
I would imagine so. I'll prob be having a look for it tonight.
It's on TBP for anyone interested.
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