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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: zirk on 04 July 2016, 15:27:06
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Evans said, I gave it my best.
About time we had some good News this week.
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I hope he hasn't done it, so he can become Prime Minister, :( :( :(
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Finally some good news.
I really like Matt's individual shoots he did, with the 4x4 and so on.
Last night's show dipped to 1.9m apparently, the lowest ever.
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So that's Nigel Farage's new job then! ;D
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So that's Nigel Farage's new job then! ;D
//Fast Forward 12 months.
NF: "When I came here last year and said I want to present Top Gear, you all laughed at me."
NF: "You are not laughing now are you!"
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So that's Nigel Farage's new job then! ;D
//Fast Forward 12 months.
NF: "When I came here last year and said I want to present Top Gear, you all laughed at me."
NF: "You are not laughing now are you!"
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Could be worse, Presenter Boris doing his own stunts falling off his push bike. ::)
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmhzhfHWAAA62ee.jpg)
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Watched some last night. Just got plain bored.
Corbyn should take heed, know when it's time to go ;D
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I watched the whole series & liked it , Clarkson & co just too childish for me.
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Did he fall or was he pushed?
Ron.
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Did he fall or was he pushed?
Ron.
You know he may just have fallen. He has a huge ego that possibly can't take the criticism
. . . . . . but he well well have had a bit of a nudge from the Beeb powers that be
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Good riddance, cant stand the bloke. I might start watching it again now.
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Good riddance, cant stand the bloke. I might start watching it again now.
Indeed, watched the first episode and knew it would struggle
Wonder how much his severance pay will be?
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might be worth watching without him on it. but for now im watching dave with james,richard and Jeremy searching for the nile
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:-\ Whoever takes over will probably struggle , I think the format has been flogged to death :(
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:-\ Whoever takes over will probably struggle , I think the format has been flogged to death :(
Thats the problem though, isnt it, you cant copy or replace the original Trio's style or format, its unique to them.
Needs a fresh start, wipe the drawing board clean and start again, only this time with brand new format, style and new ideas. Not an easy job admittedly, but with the amount of budget available, well do able.
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:-\ Whoever takes over will probably struggle , I think the format has been flogged to death :(
Thats the problem though, isnt it, you cant copy or replace the original Trio's style or format, its unique to them.
Needs a fresh start, wipe the drawing board clean and start again, only this time with brand new format, style and new ideas. Not an easy job admittedly, but with the amount of budget available, well do able.
The Other Channel seems to got the jest of it, and with a lot smaller budget, no doubt.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmDOIBgXIAAvzbV.jpg)
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Good riddance, cant stand the bloke. I might start watching it again now.
Indeed, watched the first episode and knew it would struggle
Wonder how much his severance pay will be?
Hmm probably not a lot if any. He does a lot of other work for the BBC on TV and Radio. Top Gear was almost a side line in terms of air time. However "not a lot" is relative. "Not a lot" to the BBC and it's obscenely overpaid presenters can be several years income for mere mortals.
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Why don,t they go back to the really old format that tested the cars that Joe Public can afford. Or do the viewers of today require endless "celebs" and supercars only? :-\
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Amen to that, ronnyd! Real-world cars, real-world testing giving realistic performance and consumption figures to provide informed opinion for the car-buying public - possible?
Ron.
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I'm not knocking that idea but, let's be honest, it would be very boring and would disappear on to BBC4. Most modern cars are just clones of each other, with very little to chose between them. There is lots, and I mean lots, of info available on new cars, without having to watch the stig hurtle round in a Nissan micra.
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Why don,t they go back to the really old format that tested the cars that Joe Public can afford. Or do the viewers of today require endless "celebs" and supercars only? :-\
Need to be a better mix of both. I mentally switch off when Ging is just racing around shouting his head off in yet another unaffordable car. Well, unaffordable to most people, not to him
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:-\ Whoever takes over will probably struggle , I think the format has been flogged to death :(
Thats the problem though, isnt it, you cant copy or replace the original Trio's style or format, its unique to them.
Needs a fresh start, wipe the drawing board clean and start again, only this time with brand new format, style and new ideas. Not an easy job admittedly, but with the amount of budget available, well do able.
The Other Channel seems to got the jest of it, and with a lot smaller budget, no doubt.
Errr nope! :o :o
Budget per episode of GT is £4 million.
It's reported the most expensive ever episode of BBC TG was £1.6m, but most came in under £1m. So they have 4x the budget the BBC did.
Netflix picked up the world wide rights to Chris Evans Top Gear dead cheap, but as that looks like a ratings crash, I think Amazon will be very pleased. :)
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Why don,t they go back to the really old format that tested the cars that Joe Public can afford. Or do the viewers of today require endless "celebs" and supercars only? :-\
Because the most interesting thing about the old format was discussing how dull it was.
Clarkson's radical change from the look how smooth the action of this ashtray is format was a big gamble at the time. Another was needed this time, and they wimped out because TG had become a cash cow. Doubling the number of presenters was a daft idea, especially considering the tedious group they came up with.
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Why don,t they go back to the really old format that tested the cars that Joe Public can afford. Or do the viewers of today require endless "celebs" and supercars only? :-\
Because the most interesting thing about the old format was discussing how dull it was.
Clarkson's radical change from the look how smooth the action of this ashtray is[/i] format was a big gamble at the time. Another was needed this time, and they wimped out because TG had become a cash cow. Doubling the number of presenters was a daft idea, especially considering the tedious group they came up with.
Yep...we don't want to return to the days of William Woollard. Watching paint dry was preferable.
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Bring back Noel Edmonds, Chris Goffey & Angela Rippon. :y
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I think they should have girls in bikinis presenting Top Gear! :y
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I think they should have girls in bikinis presenting Top Gear! :y
Nah....they should be naked, or merely topless if full nudity offends. :)
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I think they should have girls in bikinis presenting Top Gear! :y
Nah....they should be naked, or merely topless if full nudity offends. :)
Oh dear! On the BBC? :o ::) ;D
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I think they should have girls in bikinis presenting Top Gear! :y
Nah....they should be naked, or merely topless if full nudity offends. :)
Oh dear! On the BBC? :o ::) ;D
The Mary Millington Whitehouse Motoring Show...
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Put it on at 9PM rather than 8PM.
Problem solved. :y
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Hopefully he'll get busted for historical sexual abuse and then we wont have to see his stupid talentless face ever again. Good riddance tosspot.
The most ridiculous thing about the new lineup is the "token black guy". Nobody has any idea who the hell he is and it couldn't be any more obvious that that's what they've done. It's positive discrimination, the only reason he's there is because he's black, which is disgraceful.
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The most ridiculous thing about the new lineup is the "token black guy". Nobody has any idea who the hell he is and it couldn't be any more obvious that that's what they've done. It's positive discrimination, the only reason he's there is because he's black, which is disgraceful.
No, the most ridiculous thing is Eddie Jordan. What exactly(or generally, or even microscopically) does he have to do with anything?
Who is the other bloke? And why do we need to look up at him through the steering wheel all the time?
A couple of minutes of Sabine Schmidt's shrieking every other series is easily enough.
The only one who is at all watchable is Leblanc, the whole series would have been better with just him doing links and getting a series of confounding challenges from the Producers.
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I think the 2 unknowns are OK. They should just have them with Le Blanc as the front man and get rid of the rest. :y
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No, the most ridiculous thing is Eddie Jordan. What exactly(or generally, or even microscopically) does he have to do with anything?
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Who is the other bloke? And why do we need to look up at him through the steering wheel all the time?
Having not watched any of them I assume you mean Chris Harris? Decent motoring journalist and car enthusiast, although I dread to think what they've done to him on TG :-\
A couple of minutes of Sabine Schmidt's shrieking every other series is easily enough.
I'd like to make her shriek :D :P
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I think it's a pathetic little tv programme that goes out at 8 o'clock on a Sunday when there's no competition. I, for one, would not miss it if it never aired again. The amount of press, social media and forum coverage it gets beggars belief.
It's just highly-paid knobheads messing around in cars that most viewers will never clap eyes on, let alone own or even drive. But...if it's that important.....well..... ::)
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Whereas corrie/eastenders/dancewank/popwank/gogglecrotch.... are all really really high brow entertainment huh. ;)
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Oh yeah......it also 'stars' a middle-aged, plain looking German bint that middle-aged, plain looking men drool over. ;D
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Whereas corrie/eastenders/dancewank/popwank/gogglecrotch.... are all really really high brow entertainment huh. ;)
Don't tell me you watch that, too. Dear me.
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Whereas corrie/eastenders/dancewank/popwank/gogglecrotch.... are all really really high brow entertainment huh. ;)
Don't tell me you watch that, too. Dear me.
IM ON BBC4 DARRRRLING! :)
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Whereas corrie/eastenders/dancewank/popwank/gogglecrotch.... are all really really high brow entertainment huh. ;)
Don't tell me you watch that, too. Dear me.
IM ON BBC4 DARRRRLING! :)
I doubt that very much. ;D
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A couple of minutes of Sabine Schmidt's shrieking every other series is easily enough.
I'd like to make her shriek :D :P
A quickie, or the full two minutes?
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A couple of minutes of Sabine Schmidt's shrieking every other series is easily enough.
I'd like to make her shriek :D :P
A quickie, or the full two minutes?
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D Touché :)
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Just catching up on recordings, how crap was the SVR film of Jag F-Type?
How perfect did the car look when he arrived "just" in time, windscreen was perfect as was body work. No way was that exact car driven through the night, so flat and boring review. How many times did he talk about not making it?
Anyone else notice they had just DLR's on for those night shots, no actual headlights on ::)
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Oh yeah......it also 'stars' a middle-aged, plain looking German bint that middle-aged, plain looking men drool over. ;D
Blimey Steve, say what you really think :D
For the record, I am not middle aged until September :P