[Closed] PSA - New series of Top Gear Tonight BBC2 8PM

Do you think it will be any different to the past 3 series? It's tired, contrived and cringeworthy.

Seeing as i've enjoyed the last 3 serious i hope not

Must be honest, I stopped watching about three seasons ago, just the same old tired and formulaic c**p trotted out year after year.

I reckon they'll try and change it a bit, but not enough
last series?

I'm looking forward to it.

today is the volcano in Iceland 🙂 we will see how it all started 😀

I find it entertaining and much better use of our Licence Tax than freaking Doctor Who, Holby City, Eastenders and the F***ing ONE SHOW to name a few!!!

I find it entertaining and much better use of our Licence Tax....

Top Gear earns an absolute mint for the BBC iirc. I'm only an occassional watcher but usually enjoy it when I watch.

it's sold the rights to a few countries including the US I think.

I wouldn't consider myself a 'petrolhead' but I do find Top Gear entertaining, and for all his faults Jeremy Clarkson is quite amusing and brutally honest!

Ill bet all those who said they don't like it have watched Gee Atherton Race James May through a Portugese Street? Something for everyone!

The Reliant Robin bit is hilarious!!!!! 😀

I'm loving the robin reliant bit, no wonder he had a helmet on

Article in one of the newspapers (Guardian I think) last week where the producer cited the example of his two kids, both under eight, as an example of the audience he is trying to appeal to.

Personally, I think it's been going downhill since William Woollard left.

Top Gear has got to one of the funnist things on TV. My missus can't stand cars, yet she finds it really funny 🙂

5th gear is like watching paint dry in comparision!!!!

were ribin reliants really that bad?

The 'funny' thing is all well and good, but I'd quite like a proper motoring show, with decent, quality journalism - not another version of 'Men Behaving Badly'.

And it would be far, far better if it was presented by Vicky Butler Henderson and Suzi Perry. 😀

Sexism, Homophobia and crashing a reliant robin, have we just arrived in the 70s?

As far as I can tell,some people never left.

Same old, same old.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Penrod Pooch - Member
Sexism, Homophobia and crashing a reliant robin, have we just arrived in the 70s?

Maybe Clarkson is really Gene Hunt 😀 lol

No, not Gene Hunt, but certainly he's something that rhymes with the surname 🙂

Tedious.
Fatuous.
Hateful.

"hur hur hur... Pants! hur hur hur..."

Repeat ad nauseum

Oh, go back to your Guardians.

Very, very, funny - especially the Reliant Robin bit at the end. Wonder if the Look North bit was staged like the rest of it since the reporter looked genuinely shocked.

Well, it's better than the Wendyball that's being forced down the collective public throat at every second.

Reliant Robin. hur hur. Brilliant! They're pants! hur hur.

[i]Article in one of the newspapers (Guardian I think) last week where the producer cited the example of his two kids, both under eight, as an example of the audience he is trying to appeal to.[/i]

[i]Wonder if the Look North bit was staged like the rest of it since the reporter looked genuinely shocked.[/i]

Epic Producer WIN!

Flaperon - Member
Oh, go back to your Guardians.

Very, very, funny - especially the Reliant Robin bit at the end. Wonder if the Look North bit was staged like the rest of it since the reporter looked genuinely shocked.

Totally agree! Top Gear is funny, and one of the best things on TV.

Well, it's better than the Wendyball that's being forced down the collective public throat at every second.

🙄

Grow up. This constant need to assert your supposed social superiority by the denigration of our most popular national game, along with your refusal to even attempt to separate an appreciation of the game itself from the crass marketing that surrounds it does you no favours and says far more about you than it does about football.

Oooh, touchy....! 🙂

My "social superiority", you say? Erm, no. It's just that I really don't like soccer. I find it very dull. Very dull indeed. It's not a class thing, it's not a superiority thing. I just find soccer incredibly boring.

I don't reeds the Guardian. And apart from the six or seven people on this thread, everyone else hates it.

That's not an opinion, that's a fact.

FeeFoo - Member
I don't reeds the Guardian

Ah, I see. Do you proofread for them, perhaps?

Yus, yus, I do's Cap'n.

CaptainFlashheart - Member

Oooh, touchy....!

My "social superiority", you say? Erm, no. It's just that I really don't like soccer. I find it very dull. Very dull indeed. It's not a class thing, it's not a superiority thing. I just find soccer incredibly boring.

Really? I suppose you may be the exception that proves the rule, but many people I've met recently seem to think they may acquire a tattoo and a glottal stop just by standing next to a football fan.

And I much prefer the Telegraph (James May is very good in the Saturday Motoring section)& the Indie at the weekend 🙂
The Observer has gone right off recently.

Robin Reliant bit was genuinely funny, the rest was just a bit tired; like many successful series these days they flog them all the way to the glue factory.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Maybe not, but had I seen that on Dave I probably would have thought it was a show from a previous series that I'd missed.

Format is getting tired.

Loved the reliant bit. Having lived next to the factory for most of my life it made me howl.

Funny. 😀

Just watched on BBC Iplayer. totally amusing esp. the Reliant Robin. That just never tires. I had tears and now need a hernia op from laughing!

I've always thought they were fairly funny. Perhaps you have to be a non-petrolhead to like them?

I wouldn't stay up to watch them though, I think the only TV I'll make a point of watching nowadays are decent films and interesting looking documentaries.

IT Crowd is good too although the latest series didn't make me laugh too mcuh.

reliant bit was sooooooooooo funny PMSL

I don't particularly like cars, but this show is funny. We're not supposed to take it seriously.

The Reliant bit was so true - I've had a number of 3 wheelers and rolled all of them.

How about the Toyota up the volcano? - I was wondering how they were going to extract James May when it caught fire.

I'd be interested to hear the type of programmes that people who don't like Top Gear actually watch?!

Considering the amount of people who "hate" the programme they know what went on in last nights episode! Why the hell did you watch it if you hate it that much?

I love it! One of the most entertaining programmes on TV, it's not to be taken seriously it's just good fun.

I said it earlier but I'll say it again - It much better that some of the tripe that Auntie puts on!

I welcome TopGear on to my screen and I am proud that my TV tax goes towards funding it!

It's one of the few programs that I activeley plan to watch (as oppose to flick on telly sift through monotomous rubish and turn off.) I think it still has a huge appeal to a large number of people and will continue to do so for a long time but for viewers that have been watching it for many years it is the same over and over, the epsiode last night would have been good if I hadn't watched the episode in the second series that had exactly the same reasonably priced car bit when then wheeled out the liana on Dave a while ago. Top gear will always appeal to the casual viewer because it's like nothing else on tv, however to the car fan they have done it all before.

Iain

Really enjoyed it & plan on watching the rest of the series ..if I am out I shall even record it & watch later!

Quite happy if Amy Williams does come back for more laps, she is quite easy on the eye (IMHO)