[Closed] Top Gear new series tonight, h8rz avoid BBC2 @ 20:00

The W12 engine that goes in the Phaeton is non turbo.
So, there isn't a WRX version but there is [url= http://http://www.bentleymotors.com/world_of_bentley/latest_news__events/2012/bentley_announces_new_technical_partnership_for_continental_gt3_concept_racer/ ]This version coming to race tracks this year[/url]

The only thing they modified on the Bentley was the seats? Erm what about the dirty great big sump guard that was (probably zipp tied) on underneath.

It was filmed at Sweet Lamb, mid Wales.

Well shot and edited as per usual, James May very good, and who was that so caled star,about as funny as picolax, i just sat in the bog for 5 minutes just like picolax,he was that boring.

Dragons Den spoof was rather good, with Debs,oh and a rather nice advert for bentley using tv licence fees to pay for it.

Project, do you know how much money TG earns the Beeb?

No? Thought not.

Siliconosus vaginitis, perhaps? Or just your usual grumpy chip on the shoulder?

Project, I think you'll find that 'so-called star' is, actually, quite a big star, it's not his fault you're not paying attention to the wider world of TV. 🙄

The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine. Mathison has come to believe that Brody, who was held captive by al-Qaeda as a prisoner of war, was "turned" by the enemy and now threatens the United States.
The series is broadcast in the U.S. on the cable channel Showtime, and is produced by Fox 21. It premiered on October 2, 2011.[3] The first episode was made available online, more than two weeks before broadcast, with viewers having to complete tasks to gain access.[4][5] The series has been renewed for a third season of 12 episodes,[6] which will premiere on September 29, 2013.[7]
The series has received critical acclaim, as well as several industry awards, including winning the 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, the 2012 and 2013 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama, and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Lead Actress in a Drama Series for Damian Lewis and Claire Danes respectively.

How much CF, do you know,

Basicly bentley lend TG a car, TG then film edit and drive it round and round a trail,film is then put into a programe sold round the world, and people with to much money actualy buy the car featured.

Its called product placement and advertising on the cheap.

How much CF, do you know,

Basicly bentley lend TG a car, TG then film edit and drive it round and round a trail,film is then put into a programe sold round the world, and people with to much money actualy buy the car featured.

Its called product placement and advertising on the cheap.

Thanks for the info, never heard of homeland before tonight, and probably forgotton about it by tommorow.

Looks like I didn't miss much; well that's a shocker 😛

Quality Dragons Den moment to that cock Bannatyne "Sorry I didn't understand a word you said" rofl.

Tried it again -
Usually end up watching the first of the series, just to see if it's any better.

Sorry, but that was a new low.
It so predictable and tedious it was beyond a parody of itself.

Some pretty pictures of the Pagani without any real insight into the engineering or development behind it.

A Volkswagen advert.

Damian Lewis was entertaining, I'll give you that.

The Clarkson P45 thing was excerable - do people really find this amusing? I've had funnier hemorrhoids.
Seriously, that was supposed to be acceptable television?
The Peel thing they did, what, six years ago, was quite amusing - well produced, original, self depreciating.
This was just tedious filler pitched at children and idiots.

And what do they have for the rest of the series?
Wow, less original versions of all the stuff they've done before.
Football with cars? Jesus, give me strength - it was vaguely amusing for five minutes 10 years ago.

Please make this the last series, it's just an embarrasment now.

it all gets very "mary whitehouse" I was so horrified by what i saw that I sat through the whole thing....just to give me something to complain about. It's a thread about top gear, with a very specific haters avoid tag! don't like it don't comment. Or did you come here and read all the comments so you'd be offended and whinge ya bags off about that as well.

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New series? Thought I was watching Dave for a minute there!

No, I watched it hoping it might be entertaining.

I used to like it, when it wasn't sad, tired and preditable crap dressed up as something new:
The cheap car challenges used to be fun, the road trips were entertaining and the banter between the three presenters felt fresh and spontaneous.
Now they sound like they'd genuinely like to kill each other.
It's run it's course, let it go.

It's just an opinion, no more valid or invalid than everyone elses. 🙂

Why do people get so defensive about this rubbish?

Everything on TV has a finite lifespan.
Let's see if they can can come up with something better.
They couldn't come up with anything worse.

Perhaps it's not as polished and preened as some would like and for sure it lacks on the engineering and technical articles that could be shown regarding the engineering marvels that are on the program week in week out but for gawds sake you bunch of moaning cretins it's a frivolous car show with tyre smoke and boys playing with fast cars that is exported around the world to great acclaim and the BBC licenses the show for a fortune, it raises the profile of the BBC and if it were to feature such delights as the intricacies of the Bentleys 15 degree staggered cylinders rather than a quick blast round a rally stage then i imagine people would turn over rather quick. It's not a show to be taken seriously.

It's not a show to be taken seriously.

But this is STW - a forum full of people whose number 1 hobby is taking things too seriously, whilst failing to see that their number 2 hobby (riding push bikes in mud round in circles) is rather daft.

zokes - Member

It's not a show to be taken seriously.

But this is STW - a forum full of people whose number 1 hobby is taking things too seriously, whilst failing to see that their number 2 hobby (riding push bikes in mud round in circles) is rather daft.

Indeed.... There's some miserable sods on here...

Tbh Im tired of big gin palace 2door barges that the three would buy.

They need a younger presenter. Maybe a BIKE segment presenter as well.

Come on. Mix it up. More presenters. Younger.

Im not a Premiership footballer or a pregnant/gout-ridden 50yr old journalist.

Well, I almost coughed up a lung laughing at the p45 thing.

I agree it could do with a shake-up but is still the only decent car programme on tv.

Maybe a BIKE segment presenter as well.

Kerrist, no.

If you want that sort of guff, watch Fifth Gear.

Utterly baffled by the "Bentley advertising" comment 😐

I mean, how do you suggest they get around that in a way that still allows the car some screen time? I presume you'll also be writing strongly worded letters to the BBC about Pagani's blatant consumerist brainwashing segment, and wetting the pen against your tongue in anticipation of the upcoming BBC-license-funded ad campaigns for the new Corvette, Beemer M4, Merc SLS Black, etc..

If you want that sort of guff, watch Fifth Gear.

A small thing but at the weekend I rewatched an old 5th gear with VBH going head to head in a Impreza STI on a rally-cross course against a 17yr old up and coming Rally driver. Love how she got it wrong on tore the rear bumper clean off but carried on without batting an eyelid. Apart from the instudio mincing it just feels better....with less production ££ too.

Nice to see STW hating/debating society have got their spindly claws into this.

🙁

Please make this the last series, it's just an embarrasment now.

Would the BBC be better of without the huge amount of money that it earns from making Top Gear ?

No.

Would [b]less money [/b]be available to make other stuff that people who don't like Top Gear might like.

Yes.

It's not difficult to understand really. Top Gear makes the BBC shed loads of money, rather than "costing license payers" anything.

They can use that money to make other types of programmes that Top Gear haters might like.

I am mildly amused at the program, my 11 year old however is howling with the laughter at the P45 which is making me laugh a lot.

Ditto my 10yo daughter - laughing like a drain, turned a mildly amusing skit into a hugely enjoyable and memorable bit for me.

They need a younger presenter.

Didn't the BBC get in trouble for replacing presenters with younger versions? ...

Maybe a BIKE segment presenter as well.

It's a CAR programme?

Nice to see STW hating/debating society have got their spindly claws into this

There are a lot of people who seem intent on deliberately finding things they don't like or that 'offends' them ... rather than just ignoring them, they whang on about it on social networking sites and forums's 😀

I always remember Damian Lewis for Band of Brothers, never have been a fan of Homeland.

When Clarkson dropped the lid on the P45 it just reminded me of Buzz Lightyear 🙂 But it was drawn-out a bit.

I'd have liked to have heard Bentley's initial reaction when they asked if it was okay if we take your car rallying 🙂

I'd have liked to have heard Bentley's reaction when they asked if it was okay if we take your car rallying

I suspect that they were happy to only spend 150K on prime time advertising on the BBC 😉

It so predictable and tedious

Small air in the Bentley must have been fun.

Small air in the Bentley must have been fun.

I wish all car adverts were as uniquely different as rallying a Bentley, rather than just piddling about a town or whatever with some kid in the back grinning like a cheshire cat ... car ad's are 2nd only to bank ad's on the "totally utterly coma-inducingly boring" scale

I'd have liked to have heard Bentley's initial reaction when they asked if it was okay if we take your car rallying

Bentley were probably happy to do it. They were on the back foot after the Romania thing were Bentley refused to let them have a test car. TG replaced it with an old Yugo and just said it was the new Mulsanne.

It might have made them look a bit petty.

If you want entertainment watch TG. If you want to watch a a automotive programme; 5th gear.

I want to be entertained. 5th Gear can't manage that, it's too po-faced.

A small thing but at the weekend I rewatched an old 5th gear ...blah blah...with less production ££ too.

Sorry, nodded off there, what was that?

The best bits was Clarkson's P45 falling into the potholes on the A281!
Great advert for Surrey roads.

The Bentley part may be seen as "product placement" but every week they have cars on it, some are great, some are absolute tripe, and they tell you if they are.

Surely every bike test/product test in a magazine is product placement? or do the staff at all these magazines buy the bike with their hard earned cash then write an unbiased opinion? I'm not sure that's true.

Top Gear is a telly programme, you don't have to watch it. If you're watching it so you can come on here and moan about it then it says something about your sad little life that you have that much time to waste.

Next week: Call The Midwife and why its not 100% historically accurate because it's not in black and white

Next week: Call The Midwife and why its not 100% historically accurate because it's not in black and white

You do realise it wasn't real life that was black and white in those days don't you ?

Its just the film footage we have of it 😉

I laughed so hard in that P45 skit I choked on me beer!

Its light entertainment people, its not a serious show - get over it! (& yourselves..)

You do realise it wasn't real life that was black and white in those days don't you ?

Its just the film footage we have of it

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Had Deja Vu reading all that ^^^
Same old guff that gets spouted by STW every time a new series of Top Gear starts. Can I join in? 🙂

I thought it was hilarious. I was thoroughly entertained and I'm delighted I have something good to watch on Sunday evening. Even better was the fact The Fighter was on Channel 4 as soon as TG finished, and that was an ACE film. Best Sunday night's TV for a loooonnnggg time.

tazzymtb - Member
it all gets very "mary whitehouse" I was so horrified by what i saw...

Did you see the trailer for TG at about 19.00 on BBC1? Ended with a young lady polishing The Stig's helmet... talk about double entendre, before the watershed too 😯

I was outraged.

Wow, even the religious deal better with criticism than you lot. 😀

So it's just as good as it's always been is it?
Not tired at all?
Riiiight.

As fot the motorbike suggestions, it's supposed to be a motoring programme isn't it, not just about cars?
And they've had motorbikes on before. And tanks. Oh, trucks too.
And bicycles, twice.

James May is very good on bikes, he'd be excellent.

But there wouldn't be as much time for the hilarious, spontaneous banter then, would there?

And as I say, it used to be good, for the first three or four series at least.
It's just not very good anymore, is it?

New presenters?
Well, STW seems to have a lot of time for Guy Martin.
Get him in to replace Hammond.
Gavin Green can replace Clarkson & keep James May.

i thought this thread was pre-empted by a "haters get lost bit"

i guesss why let a bit of reading get in the way of a good moan...

So insecure in your Clarkson adoration that you can't take a bit of criticism?

So it's a show that couldn't, ever, be improved?
Nothing you'd like to see changed?

I knew it was on. I didn't bother watching. It's really up to the BBC to stop commissioning it. They should've dropped it several years ago. Perhaps TG could be market tested on ITV?

Guy martin on tg would be brilliant just the ticket to liven it up.
Much as I like tg I do feel its got a bit sameold thing but guy martin on a motor bike bit now were talking
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Why drop it? Clearly there are many people who are thoroughly entertained by it - me included - so in that respect it is a "hit" for the BBC. Is it perfect? Far from it. We'll all have our opinions on what could make any programme better.

I knew Eastenders was on the other day. I didn't bother watching. It's really up to the BBC to stop commissioning it. They should've dropped it years ago.*

*opinion is my own and no one else's.