New Series of Top Gear BBC2 8pm Sunday.

[F Body]

Like now !

[Andy]

Cor, you're picking up the youth lingo!

Not to bad, predictably scripted, with a section in the middle of star car thing. Enjoyable hour of three blokes messing with cars!

[Incursus]

Taped it...

[F Body]

I thought it was pretty lame really, the program is getting 99% predictable

[Andy]

For a first show I would say it was pretty lame. Only one feature and that was about three cars that they ended up blowing up.

I would guess their budget might be getting reduced...

[Big Mouse]

Well that was an hour of my life I'll never get back

I thought last year's series was crap towards the end, but I see they are intent on carrying on where they left off! Its become 'the three stooges breaking shit' show.

Where's Fifth Gear when you need it? come back, all is forgiven

[Cunning Plan]

I've said the format has been stale for a while.

Hammond really annoys me. He's like an attention seeking kid

I would much rather watch Roadkill (the series, not the dude on this forum with an OCD for building stuff ) than Top Gear now. Much fresher and from an enthusiasts point-of-view.

I think I will still watch Top Gear when I can as it is still about cars, but only on iPlayer where I can skip large chunks of it.  

[FUBAR]

I've never had any channels where other "Petrol-head" TV shows are broadcast so have literally never seen ANY of them

[Cunning Plan]

Quoting: FUBAR

I've never had any channels where other "Petrol-head" TV shows are broadcast so have literally never seen ANY of them

You must have missed a few threads about Roadkill then!

http://www.mkb.cc/forum/index.php?action=vthread&topic=11913&forum=1&page=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.mkb.cc/forum/index.php?action=vthread&topic=11913&forum=1&page=0

[Roadkill]

"TopGear . . . Because the BBC need more ways to waste your license fee . . . . "

I hate the BBC.

[F Body]

Quoting: Roadkill

I hate the BBC

Agreed the BBC content isn't as good as it used to be, but not watching that much TV it doesn't has something that all the other channels offer me

ADVERTS !

[Roadkill]

That's why I love Sky+ (and the likes) . . . . Record the program, fast-forward through the adverts in 6 seconds  . . . I even FF through the opening credits of the program to save myself an extra  30 seconds !

[art b]

[F Body]

Quoting: Roadkill

That's why I love Sky+

Given the few hours of television I watch a week there is no way I am going to pay for Sky, plus all the decent channels are extra and you can only watch one channel at a time unless you buy more boxes (we have 5 TV's).

Our next door neighbours pay £115 a month on Sky

Edit : Mind you we never see them and the garden is completely overgrown, so they must get their moneys worth

[Fieldy]

Sky+ Rocks....


Top Gear Sunday gone was terrible....

[Fieldy]

Sundays episode just gone was much, much better

[art b]

Quoting: Fieldy

Sundays episode just gone was much, much better

yep that 1st one sucked...

ive been told the 2nd one was better....

might watch it tonite

[Incursus]

Quoting: Fieldy

Sundays episode just gone was much, much better

Indeed

[art b]

a much better episode ...

a nice alfa and a very expensive quad bike ...

[Roadkill]

Quoting: art b

alfa

&

Quoting: art b

quad bike

. . .

Just two more reasons I don't watch Top Gear.

[Big Mouse]

I lasted all of 11 minutes before switching over. TG is now dead to me, fortunately I have a season and a half of Fast and Loud to catch up on. Rawlings may be just as irritating but at least he doesn't dress like a 70 year old and there are cars that are at least worth looking at.

[Roadkill]

Quoting: Big Mouse

Rawlings may be just as irritating but at least he doesn't dress like a 70 year old and there are cars that are at least worth looking at.

A-Ron is the man, too.

[art b]

it was a rather different quad bike ....

http://www.gibbssports.com/quadski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.gibbssports.com/quadski

FYI ...

Top Gear is the most watched factual TV show in the world with an audience of over 340 million worldwide.

[F Body]

Didn't bother watching last nights episode, but here is an interesting write up on how the show is filmed :

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/the-day-i-went-to-watch-top-gear-be-filmed-1523994592/@ballaban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/the-day-i-went-to-watch-top-gear-be-filmed-1523994592/@ballaban

[F Body]

Quoting: F Body

Didn't bother watching last nights episode,

Just watched it on iplayer, best one so far this series