Top Gear

[Melksham Red]

Top Gear comes across a bit like Last of the Summer Wine lately. I fully expect Clarkson to be screaming down a hill in bath tub before long. I do still love it though.

[suttonred]

I only started watching it about 3 years ago so most of it's still new to me. Some of the clearly scripted stuff is irksome, but overall it's very good. Love that idea of the bathtub, would excpect some rockets or the suchlike on them.

[Langers]

The middle east one on Sunday looks ace.

[Lumps]

the iplayer buffers every minute living where I do. It's crap

Have you thought about downloading it. If you're connection's that shit it might take an hour, but you can always do it overnight.

[walrus]

Top Gear rocks... even if it is scripted!

[Ginginho]

I'll start watching Top Gear again once Clarkson and Hammond have been killed.
I just can't watch those two utter cunts.

I might put them on the 2011 Death Prediction list, if there is going to be one this year?

[walrus]

I'll start watching Top Gear again once Clarkson and Hammond have been killed.
I just can't watch those two utter cunts.

I might put them on the 2011 Death Prediction list, if there is going to be one this year?

Explain.  Clarkson and Hammond make the programme and May is the perfect sidekick.  Clarkson's views are often tongue-in-cheek and he is, in my opinion, the best journalist in the last twenty years.  Hammond is the perfect victim for his bullying, and is a decent journo in his own right.

The programme has lost it's grip on reality, with endless trips in cars no one can afford being an odd thing to show during the time of economic downturn.  However, the old format of a factual review of a Rover Metro was far less successful.

[Ginginho]

I just find them both extremely irritating, especially Clarkson.

[Samdy Gray]

I watched the first part last night. It was ok.

I can see why people find Clarkson (and to some extent Hammond) extremely irritating, but for me that's all part of their charm. I find them managable in small doses.

I think they had the format right a couple of years ago when they did serious reviews of a good mix of cars with the odd joke/sketch thrown in here or there. Nowadays it just seems to be all about getting laughs, which for me is wearing a bit thin. For example, the whole knocking out the studio lights and then setting fire to the Christmas tree thing was rather tedious IMO.

[Bosey]

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[Samdy Gray]

What?

[Bosey]

The presenters of BBC show Top Gear exacted some kind of a revenge on 'The Stig', firing guns at cardboard cutouts of their former colleague, as the new series of the popular motoring show fronted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May got underway on Tuesday night

Read more: http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/73156,news-comment,entertainment,top-gear-presenters-shoot-the-stig-in-drive-by-#ixzz191q0B05R

[Samdy Gray]

Yeah, I saw it. I just didn't understand the need to post *************** DRIVE BY ON THE STIG ***************.

[Bosey]

Because it was fuckin quality so it deserved to be mentioned in stars!?!

[Nemo]

I'm looking forward to applying that to the rest of the forum. Come on ****************Charlie Austin*************