Top gear

[Diflower]

Yeah, that's why I kept saying 'he said'.
Will await with interest what actually happens

[victor]

two seasons? you are being generous Frank

[Workingman]

We cannot really knock it till we see it, but it does not look good.

[Suff]

I remember when Top Gear was about telling people about cars. It wasn't super popular.

Then it became 3 idiots messing about with cars, bringing celebs onto the show, interviewing people like the transport minister and generally slagging off what they didn't like whilst playing with things they did like and praising it to the heavens.

Oddly enough the later rendition was insanely popular and made the BBC tens if not hundreds of millions of £.

There's nowt so strange as Folk as the saying goes.

So what does this bode for some BBC massaged and manufactured facelift of TG?

Nothing good I suspect......

[Diflower]

Maybe Suff, but Chris Evans is a self-confessed uber-fan of TG in its latter format.
And he is a total car fanatic.

P'raps he'll make a really good job of it - whether for purists or not.

[Workingman]

You know what - it's a TV show.

I will miss the old presenters, but if it flops it will be no big deal.

Something new will take over, and when that goes we will outpour our angst all over again, then move on to the new thing.

We always do.

[Suff]

True, but it was a big revenue maker for the BBC and it irks me that people who spend the license fee this way get to ruin something which was so successful.

[Kaz]

Now let's give credit where it's due, Clarkson ruined it all by himself when he threw that punch

[TheOstrich]

Actuallllllllly ...... I've never ever watched it!

[Suff]

Now let's give credit where it's due, Clarkson ruined it all by himself when he threw that punch

The exact circumstances of which, it appears, we're never going to know. Almost certainly he'd had too much to drink on too empty a stomach. However, to his credit, he takes all the blame and does not seek to justify it in any way....