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Previously on "Top Gear how would you fix it?"
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Should have allowed the producer to take a swing at Clarkson, it's what he'd have wanted.
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Get Steve Berry back on, could do with some decent rock chunes on it.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWHS
The polar one was great
He was telling me that most people's perceptions of the presenters are completely wrong.
Hammond was a complete diva & refused to come out of his tent on more than one occasion while Clarkson is nothing like the bluff, boorish oaf some people like to make him out to be.
Really nice bloke according to this doctor.
Originally posted by d000hg View Postfinding new ones to do must be tricky though now.Last edited by Big Blue Plymouth; 7 March 2017, 17:15.
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Originally posted by PurpleGorilla View PostMy favourite TG items were/are the road trips.
There is something very entertaining about taking unsuitable vehicles across breathtakingly beautiful, deadly, and dangerous far flung places of the world.
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My favourite TG items were/are the road trips.
There is something very entertaining about taking unsuitable vehicles across breathtakingly beautiful, deadly, and dangerous far flung places of the world.
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I stopped watching The Grand Tour after a few episodes, I just couldn't be arsed watching it.
MLB is an actor, not a presenter. It just isn't his natural forte. He's there to make Top Gear UK continue to be sellable to an international audience.
Car reviews are a side story to Top Gear, it is like a man equivalent of Loose Women ('Loose Blokes' if you like) with a car based theme. Shows which focus too much on just the cars don't succeed (Fifth Gear, for example).
Top Gear is an established show with an all new presenting team, who need to make the show their own. That will take time, but an established audience wont give it the time. Clarkson turned Top Gear from a motoring magazine into The Clarkson Show - MLB cannot front The Clarkson Show, so Top Gear needs to be re-invented or it will just die.
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Originally posted by vetran View PostI think they are enjoying Amazon too much I'm pretty sure Clobber Clarkson never goes hungry, in fact most nights they are shown eating top notch grub.
qh
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I can't shake the impression of Rory Reid that he got lost on the way to the Blue Peter studio. LeBlanc just seems to be trying too hard, though Chris Harris is okay.
Maybe they all need to relax a bit. It's so forced. Of course it was always scripted, but maybe Clarkson & co. were a lot better at making it seem natural and it's that that's lacking.
The Grand Tour had two really duff episodes, but for the most part I thought it was pretty good. Maybe not them at their best, but better than the previous years had been.
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Top Gear format is ok maybe a bit stale but then if the only thing you can do is drive cars in different locations, talk about cars and then interview someone who is going to drive a car then you maybe a little limited in your creative options.
If you watch some of the earlier episodes of top gear it took a while for clarkson, hammond and may to gel.
So give them some time.
Although not sure about Rory Reid - he is a bit 'gangsta wannabe'
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They seem to have moved the format ok to Amazon but
Celebrity Brain crash is just sad.
Conversation street is hmmm
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I wouldn't bother. MLB is doing his best but he's playing a role, not his enthusiast self. Rory is annoying as hell right now but may improve as he settles down. "Let's Race" Harris thrashing a pointless car around a deserted racetrack is equally pointless and ultimately boring (hint: you don't drive racing cars like that anyway...). The Kazakhstan thing was tedious and too staged to have any meaning. Net entertainment value of Sunday's show was close to zero.
So basically, finish showing this series since we've already paid for it, then go away and think about what it is you're trying to achieve. As it stands it's lost its way.
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