"Famous and Fearless" on Channel 4 right now

I watched about 3 minutes of it and turned over, it was utter crap.

Have to agree that the stadium parts were crap . The bits where they trained were ok but the best bit is that they had a slot later in the show where another "Star" did something far more heinous and fearsome than that lot did . They had Sean Maguire do some wingwalking which was absolutely awesome .... I was peein myself laughing as he was nervous , then strapped in he went to "I don`t wanna do this" , then they took off and he went into "Oh gOD oH GOd OH GOD" mode and then he finally just went into that state where he stared straight ahead and just rode out all the spins and loops and dives .

Some comedian is doing Britains biggest backwards Bungee Jump on tonights show , so I think I will Sky+ the rest of this week and just fast forward to the bits that are of interest like the training and the Guest tasks , the stadium crap can go and do one . They seem to have purposely hidden all of that from the trailers and mention of it as they probably knew that most of the British public would not bother with it .

This programme is the TV version of when you buy the biggest firework rocket in the store, get home,light it and see it sparkle and fizz for a few seconds and then die a quick and dissapointing death.

[G]

I saw a clip where it looked like chris evans did a moto x jump... so watched the first show for about 5 minutes then switched off.

saw the clearly staged advert, so set the sky plus
happened to be watching TV when it was on anyway and caught the bit where richard bransons son and kelley holmes fliped a car...
wasnt impressed sky plus link has been removed.

Originally Posted by Owenski

saw the clearly staged advert, so set the sky plus
happened to be watching TV when it was on anyway and caught the bit where richard bransons son and kelley holmes fliped a car...
wasnt impressed sky plus link has been removed.

Pretty much did the same, although I gave it a bit longer, fast forwarding between the ENDLESS talking carp...

Won't be watching any more of 'em.

what a load of rubbish.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by xXBADGERXx

Is this going to be some camera trickery , in the advert we see Chris Evans fire up a MX bike and go off an impressive launch ramp , perform a whip and then land badly , the landing is obscured so this has to be a load of Bull ?

I am saying this now before the show starts with the tiniest hope that these people have actually become heroes overnight to do these stunts but I highly doubt they have had the years of training and dedication required ....... should be good viewing though in the land of "What if ?"

I thought that, then i watched it properly next time around and its not him on the bike. As the camera cuts to him putting his glasses back on, its not him.

[christopher]

I've just put this on now, and the 'boys' are... inline skating round an oval. Seriously. What's fearless about this!? And what's Branson's kid, Sam, famous for? It's switched off now.

ive tried watching this, but i seriously think with no 'training' i could easily give these folks a run for there money on these events. its torture!