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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #15 on: 03 February 2011, 19:57:47 »
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yes mate. Everything changes ;)

however i really dont think a show that continued that format (from your video) would get many viewers now compared to the existing TG.

maybe a meet in the middle somewhere??   :y :y :y :y :y
5th gear?!!!!! ::)
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« Reply #16 on: 03 February 2011, 20:00:45 »
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yes mate. Everything changes ;)

however i really dont think a show that continued that format (from your video) would get many viewers now compared to the existing TG.

maybe a meet in the middle somewhere??   :y :y :y :y :y

Which, I imagine, is why the Beeb cancelled it years ago before it came back in it's current format (if memory serves)..
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #17 on: 03 February 2011, 20:06:17 »
more than likely aaron.

yeah fifth gear gets a lot of viewers but compared to TG its a drop in the ocean  :y :y
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #18 on: 03 February 2011, 20:08:45 »
oh and sorry what i meant was TG just including a few more normal car reviews as fifth gear is completely rubbish.... partly cos theyre trying to be as witty as TG but not having the presenters to do it! (the fat bloke with the beard is just unlikeable and annoying)
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #19 on: 03 February 2011, 20:18:55 »
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This is what i meant to post. Better bloody work this time!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFzMTSfFPGs :y
:oWhat type of road test was that? she never got it sideways once! :y
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #20 on: 03 February 2011, 21:39:42 »
VBH doing that little giggle while drifting a Monaro is pure lovely filth!!! :P :-*
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #21 on: 03 February 2011, 23:39:56 »
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VBH doing that little giggle while drifting a Monaro is pure lovely filth!!! :P :-*

close enough.(must of been a cold morning)

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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #22 on: 03 February 2011, 23:56:52 »
i have fond memories of William Woollard or that guy with the beard that wasnt Noel Edmonds sitting on the bonnet of some dismal rust box from British Leyland telling everyone how good it was  ;D
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« Reply #23 on: 04 February 2011, 14:35:46 »
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oh and sorry what i meant was TG just including a few more normal car reviews as fifth gear is completely rubbish.... partly cos theyre trying to be as witty as TG but not having the presenters to do it! (the fat bloke with the beard is just unlikeable and annoying)

The fat bloke would be a lot more likeable if he wasn't trying to copy the likes of Clarkson quite so obviously. 

The most annoying one though is that Smith person.  How does someone with the charm and wit of a miserable librarian in Whitby get on the googlebox surprises me.   Someone set the bar incredibly low. He is Troy Queef, the oxygen thieving little runt.

It's a tragedy that Russell Bulgin died before he got a crack at entertaining and informing us on the box instead of useless halfwits like Smith.  Now he was someone who really knew his onions, and knew how to get you hooked too.
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #24 on: 04 February 2011, 14:37:29 »
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i have fond memories of William Woollard or that guy with the beard that wasnt Noel Edmonds sitting on the bonnet of some dismal rust box from British Leyland telling everyone how good it was  ;D

You mean Chris Goffey.

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« Reply #25 on: 04 February 2011, 15:21:39 »
Son is a drummer.

TG has gone a bit too far away from cars - needs to move back slightly.

We want reviews of exotics.

We want road trips

We don't want 3 men waffling for ages.
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #26 on: 04 February 2011, 19:33:54 »
I would guess they spend 5 out of nigh-on an hour on their stage talking about Mexicans or whatever, about another 5 interviewing the guest, and probably another 5 doing links etc.  That leaves about 40 minutes of their various capers, which sounds a fair mix to me.

As for Fifth Gear, their format needs sorting out.  A bin would be the simplest answer.

Now, if you were really desperate and lived in the Central region you could also watch Pulling Power, which was (w)anchored by Mike Rutherford, the presenter who made hacking your right arm off with a blunt butter knife sound an appealing alternative to watching him.
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #27 on: 04 February 2011, 19:50:12 »
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i have fond memories of William Woollard or that guy with the beard that wasnt Noel Edmonds sitting on the bonnet of some dismal rust box from British Leyland telling everyone how good it was  ;D

You mean Chris Goffey.

10 Brownie points to who can name his son.

That'll be Supergrass band member Daniel Robert Goffey then (shortened to Danny )  8-) 10 Brownie points to me  ;D
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #28 on: 04 February 2011, 21:33:59 »
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I sometimes wish that Top gear would revert somewhat to it's old format. I have gone off it lately, it now seem more about big boys playing with there toys and more about the presenters personal egos than a programme for car enthusiasts.

I agree; I think that the laddish side of the programme can sometimes get a bit silly nowadays and Jeremy Clarkson can often be smug to the point of being annoying ::)
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Re: How Top Gear's changed.
« Reply #29 on: 05 February 2011, 11:23:57 »
i absolutely love VBH. shes gorgeous and i'd love to lock her in my dungeon BUT THIS IS THE PROBLEM.

when i watch top gear i dont want a gorgeous bird (or an ugly one for that matter) presenting it cos even if shes the funniest person and knows the most about cars i can only ever concentrate on her breasts  :D :D :D

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