Some very funny comments here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/live/2016/may/29/top-gear-chris-evans-and-matt-leblanc-launch-new-series-live?CMP=twt_gu
I'll probably watch the Dave repeats even more and avoid Amazon and this like the plague.
Circa 2005-2014 TG has quality moments. It lost it recently.
Just started watching on catch up.
Same old really but Chris Evans is annoying - he's trying too hard to be JC but without the proper tone.
They are not comfy with each other yet, it takes a while to settle in and for the lads banter to begin.
That's what I'm hoping for Russell.
I thought the Twitter reaction was a great watch.
I think the audience must have been paid off to show such enthusiasm. Also, what was the point of that Robin Reliant section? Dulldulldull.
In contrast to what seems to be the general consensus above, I thought Chris Evans fitted in really well, and I found LeBlanc a bit dull.
Evans did follow Clarkson's style a bit too closely at times, but I thought he did pretty well, and it's early days.
Kind of warmed to LeBlanc during the 4x4 stuff, just got on with it and had some genuinely funny one-liners too.
The rest of it was crap. SIARPC was dull, doesn't Evans realise it worked due to it being an excuse to talk to celebs using the car (Liana was the best one as it was so crap) as an icebreaker? The audience participation could be good once they get the idea but my heart sank when they plugged the BBC3 Top Gear Extra (or whatever...) at the end. Just put the decent stuff in the main show!!
So glad I already have an Amazon sub, it was the chemistry between the 3 Amigos that made Top Gear for me. At least Clarkson & Co will have to be different to avoid any lawsuits.
Matt Le Blanc was the best thing on it but that's not saying much. Struggled through twenty minutes of Chris Evans SHOUTING everything and the framework of the old show without any of the content.
They were always going to be on a sticky wicket but keeping random pieces of the old show and executing them badly was only going to make things worse...
le blanc is decent enough actually.
you'd like to think they largely stuck with the forumla and with evans doing a bad mimic of clarkson, as a bit of a laugh/to give to some crossover continuity. So with that you'd hope it would improve into it's own style after a few episodes. Evans was just irritating tbh.
Flopgear
Needs better photography, music, and slow mo and they'd be there, but ended up being lame and trying too hard for the challenge features, which is just a re-hash of old TG.
As for'stars', Ramsay had no personality and rally cross needs 600+ bhp not just a mini with fogs.
not looking promising but will give it one more go.
Pitiful
Never been Chris Evans' biggest fan, but arguably he's been successful for a reason. Original TFI Friday was good (the recent re-hash reeked of being made only for financial gains), and he's not bad on the radio to be fair. Don't think I've ever seen or heard him so out of place as hosting this.
But then the "it's nothing like old Top Gear" new Top Gear, is exactly like old Top Gear with the thing that made it funny removed... The ridiculously magical chemistry between Clarkson, May and Hammond.
Only thing that will see it last more than one series is if Evans steps down. Otherwise, Top Gear should have died when the terrible trio left the BBC.
Flopgear
The Nomad / camera chase thing isn't bad actually. Nice photography anyway.
Flopgear
Plop Gear
I'm out !!
It is scripted. Matt Le Blanc is an actor. The Nomad feature proved he can deliver a line. This was the best feature.
The studio stuff was all a bit "TGI-don't forget your-Top Gear" with Evans shouting and enthusiam
The nomad but was the stand out but that is really saying something. And that was me keeping an open mind
It is scripted. Matt Le Blanc is an actor. The Nomad feature proved he can deliver a line. This was the best feature.
The entire show over the years has been scripted and staged to the hilt!
It was just better scripted with the other 3.
Maybe they'll find their feet.
It is scripted. Matt Le Blanc is an actor
See, I thought that's where it went wrong. Matt LeBlanc constantly came across as if he was reading a script and 'acting', to me. Whereas Chris Evans was much more relaxed and casual, much more like the old bunch.
I'm genuinely a bit confused why everyone else appears to see this differently.
Matt Le Blanc is an actor
Well in the loosest of terms but I get your point.
What a crock
Not brilliant, but not totally terrible.
I want a Nomad.
Chris Evans used to work at KWIK SAVE in Warrington, Latchford Branch, sadly the chain went bust, so he cant apply for his old job back, but he certainly needs to look for a new job.
Who where the 2 in the mini car, no idea,
No banter, crap purile jokes,and at least my remote control has the ability to swap channels to save having to watch this stuff.
also isnt it illegal to drive a 3 wheeler on a motorway, and to sit in a vehicle on the back of a moving vehicle, eg tow truck.
Series link cancelled.
at least my remote control has the ability to swap channels to save having to watch this stuff.
And yet, judging by your comment above, you watched much of it.
also isnt it illegal to drive a 3 wheeler on a motorway,
Well depending on the engine size.
Who where the 2 in the mini car, no idea,
You've never heard of Gordon Ramsay? Bollocks!
It was ok.
Whoever told Evans that those boots were a good idea though wants a talking to.
Whoever told Evans that those boots were a good idea though wants a talking to.
/stares at Flashy.
Drac, I'm currently wearing a pair of these;
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Admit it, you're hot for me right now. 🙂
(They're effing awful to look at aren't they? Hideous, in fact. Spend lots of time running up and down the tracks after Little Miss CFH and these replaced another older pair of Brooks. Fit my running, my thanks to the nice people at Sole Obsession in Salisbury.)
I just turned it off after 3 mins or so!
It's trying to be like the old topgear, surely it should've tried to reinvent itself.
Even chris evans is trying to use language and style of jeremy clarkson.
I'd think I'd rather pay to watch jeremy's new programme in all honesty.
apart from shouty Evans trying move friday night to Sunday it wasn't too bad, though I will miss the casual racism, [s]paunch[/s] fat git hiding baggy shirts, leather and denim.
I just turned it off after 3 mins or so!
Did I get too much for you?
well sorry to upset the apple cart but tonight's show was way better than most of the last series of top gear which was getting oh so boring and way too predictable, the banter in the studio of old was cringeworthy at best.
I enjoyed it, the whole Blackpool part was a bit weak but I enjoyed the rest of it, not bad for a first go.
Those of you who turned off after only a few minutes, did you really though? And if so, did you really turn it on to see what it was like, or just to trash it? You must have shorter attention spans than my kids.
It wasn't too bad. The presenters clearly need time to bed in but on the whole I thought it was a decent enough start. The follow up program on BBC3 Extra Gear is actually very good and in some ways it would make sense for some of that footage to be shoe horned into the main show.
I honestly can't say I miss Clarkson, his beer gut or his tired cliched ideas.
I do agree, and I think it's why there's more dissapointment with this than there should be, it's a programme that's been ripe for a rethink for a while, which clearly this wasn't.Big Dave - MemberI honestly can't say I miss Clarkson, his beer gut or his tired cliched ideas.
As I said earlier though, hopefully this develops over the next few eps.
Why did they need to turn over the left overs of the British reliant? It wasn't like it was in the way. Am I just being over picky?
Watching it now on catchup. First impressions are that they have played it safe, too safe. They are still crashing into eachother FFS.
I rather hoped for a bit of a shake up but they have Chris Evans doing Clarkson impressions and Matt le Blurgh with less on screen charisma than James May. If you watch carefully you can see the splinters coming off him.
It was getting repetative and predictable before the punch up. A couple of new faces and a water splash bring F all to the table.
The only good thing is no Hammond. But at best thats like a cancer patient being told they dont have AIDS.
I quite liked le blanc.
However I'm so disappointed that with all Evans' talk of 11 months of creativity so little was change. The old format has almost entirely stayed. Depressing.
What will be interesting will be what the original trio do for a format - if we effectively end up with the same show twice. It will be depressing if the originals are more capable of reinvention than a brand new team were.
Yes, yes I like the new series.
I wuz entertained innit.
There wasn't anything new but it wasn't as disastrous as it could have been. Some great cars, the presenters just need a bit more time together to get the rapport with each other.
