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Restarts Sunday 2nd Feb 2014 on BBC 2 and BBC 2 HD at 8pm
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Series record set. No it's not in any way relevant to motoring, but it is fun!
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It is purely an entertainment show. The clip online of the new series looks good. |
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It would never get the audience it does if it was still actually a motoring show. Be honest, would any of you watch it if they were doing a straight review of the latest version of the Vauxhall Insignia SE? Of course not, which is why the old cardigan wearing, pipe smoking version gently died.
Personally, I love watching an hour of usually pretty funny stuff, vaguely based around cars. I'm looking forward to tomorrow night |
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Best show on TV by a mile, no pun intended. What can I say I am looking forward to tomorrow night too, spending an hour watching three men on a show that I seem to be unable to get tickets for, we have applied to no avail, may try again, or perhaps just considered too old to get in!
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I disagree that it's not still a motoring show. I think their p155take reviews are more helpful then the 5th gear proper reviews. Take for example the caravan towing one they did last season with the mini 4x4s. I thought that was excellent at being informative, got a better sense of how much oomph the cars had for towing and controlling a trailer then Tiff Needell talking about this one or that one feeling a little sluggish, or skittish in the corners.
Almost all modern (built 2000 onwards) cars are reliable, albeit with a couple of bits to watch out for. a lot of the purchasing criteria are available online (like mpg, towing capacity in this case, etc) car reviews are about the little indescribable details which you'll only get from a long term test or a "Lets make this do more then it was meant to do" type test. Most people buy their cars second hand with a thought to "I want a convertible for 2 grand" or something like that, they usually come up with an obvious choice and something you hadn't thought of. |
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it's ****.
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I used to like old top gear and would still watch a cardigan car reviews. In fact I watch such reviews on YouTube all the time. Top gear has now not only turned into an entertainment show but it's also now a kids show. I still watch it and enjoy it but wish there was a proper motoring show on as well
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I thought it was all just a bit silly and not funny at all. The format feels tired, same overworked jokes, and the challenge now is pretty much the whole show with the 'star' lap is just an advert for whatever film, book or album they want to plug to a huge audience.
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Disappointing... it's gotten far too OTT on the ridiculous staged events that clearly haven't happened
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Andy Wilman was on Radio 2 the other day and although I missed it apparently they think up things to do and base it around "Would a 9 year old enjoy this?"
I found last night just a bit too silly and as always I recorded it so I could FFWD through the SIARPC... |
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The ending last night was rubbish. Nova on its side was amusing like, but blowing the cars up was ridiculous
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As others have pointed out TopGear is almost all about the spectacle of BIG entertainment. With decent budgets, good humour, tight scripting and capable presenters the show has provided some great laughs and brilliant footage of cars being enjoyed all around the globe.
However it seems the pudding is all too often grossly over egged in recent episodes. Yes we all know it's shot to plot, but there's no attempt to even feign impromptu moments or ad libbed segments. It feels, to me anyway, that the quality of the programme has tailed away markedly over the past few seasons. I thought last nights programme was a fine example of what the show can do when it's misfiring. The highs aren't so frequent and the lows too commonplace it seems. |
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without the blowing up cars it was entertaining. |
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I've found in the last couple of series that there is an episode or two of d1cking about on something kinda funny but not really. Like the hovercar last year. I didn't find that particularly funny or informative. but there is usually a special, which they are very good at. The hill climb stuff and vinyl wrap stuff was cool this week, the jokes about moustaches were unoriginal and tedious.
I just rack this episode up as the rubbish they need to put in to fill out their 6 week slot to fit in with other scheduling. |
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I'm not normally one to jump on the bandwagon and criticize these things, but that episode was crap. I know they are about entertainment and can deal with a few scripted parts. But buying three cheap old hot-hatches and ****ing about does not make a whole hours worth of entertainment.
They didn't even bother to have a stunt driver flip the Nova, just turned it over off camera. In the old days when something was scripted it at least involved so much effort and planning that you were too busy laughing to care. |
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I just rack this episode up as the rubbish they need to put in to fill out their 6 week slot to fit in with other scheduling.[/QUOTE]
I REALLY hope your right............last series was the same 2nd show (??) "pants"........ rest of series v. good/watchable. "Gas it w###a"......... |
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It was all just silly stuff. Did they even drive one new car? The silly stuff wasn't even as fun as usual
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yep its getting more and more like this lot :)
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Just reinforced my views about Nova drivers, what they said is complete fact
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BBCA is showing Top Gear shows from 2011. :(
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I quite enjoyed it, blatently staged at times. Took me back when Hammond rolled into the car park in the nova lol.
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When they go off script every now and then it can be really funny. Remember the house demolition episode? Stood beside the big white mine clearing thingie with the rotating flails Clarkson said "Princess Diana had one of these" and the whole crew started laughing. I love those moments. Playing musical chairs and climbing on to the roof of a moving car was frankly stupid.
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I've found before that BBC i-Player usually blocks IPs from outside the UK.
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Episode 2. Good for the first 3 minutes talking about the Alfa then it got silly and had to be a race with a quad bike. Boring.
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But the p1!!! Serious machine!!
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Headphones? BBC2HD with proper surround sound speakers much better! I was quite impressed with Tom Hiddleston's lap actually, I think that's the wettest I've ever seen the track.
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That wasn't a lap, that was swimming in a car
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Jennifer Clarkson.....has a nice ring to it. Not normally a Porsche fan but I'm prepared to make an exception!
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I suspect he (and indeed Hammond) may well be privy to information about how fast the Porsche is likely to be. I will laugh like a drain if he's wrong though!
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Can't find a boat quad on eBay yet!! Be handy for you southerns at the mo!!
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Thought that was a brilliant episode. Complete opposite to last week. Two proper car reviews, an interesting celebrity and a piece about military veichles which was 100% fact. More of the same please
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Far better than the first episode. Decent hour of entertainment.
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