|
It seems people are incredibly angry about it being apparently both too similar and too different to the old series.
|
#
?
May 29, 2016 22:27
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 22:11 |
|
|
I've not liked Chris Evans since ages back but apparently there's a big Murdoch plot to assassinate him so I guess... Anyone watching new Hollow Crown? I've not been keeping up.
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2016 23:00
|
|
|
People were never going to like it. If you're the fan of a thing, you're never going to like it when a big part of it gets replaced. But then it's not like that show hit the ground running either.
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2016 23:00
|
|
|
Top Gear was just a bit dull. Watch it on iplayer later on and just fast forward the boring bits.
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2016 23:11
|
|
|
Would genuinely love if Top Gear became a full time concern for Evans and he gave the keys to his Radio 2 show to Sara Cox because she gets radio so much better than he does
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2016 23:30
|
|
|
Everything Le Blanc said just seemed so forced for me. Obviously the show has always been heavily scripted but at least the other three sounded natural.
|
|
#
?
May 29, 2016 23:39
|
|
|
It might yet turn into decent brainless entertainment if they can get another couple of years and a third person who can be rude to the other two; and it'll get it as long as the international sales keep printing money for them.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 00:45
|
|
|
ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Would genuinely love if Top Gear became a full time concern for Evans and he gave the keys to his Radio 2 show to Sara Cox because she gets radio so much better than he does I don't really enjoy her so much when she's in for him in the mornings, although I suppose that's because I'm just accustomed to Evans. If she replaced him full time, I imagine I'd get used to her; I didn't think I would get used to Evans after Wogan left. Still, better than Richard Madeley when he's filling in, I suppose. I think my favourite presenter the Beeb has on the radio at the moment is actually Craig Charles.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 01:59
|
|
|
As someone who likes cars but was completely checked out on Top Gear by the time Clarkson and co left I enjoyed the new one. Matt does feel a little forced, but I don't think he's ever done any actual presenting before so it's outside his comfort zone. Hopefully he settles in over time. I like that they've kept very little from the old show, if they'd come back and tried to do the same show with the same look it would've felt extremely forced. They do need a 3rd studio person I feel though, I was hoping Chris Harris would've been that 3rd since he's a solid presenter in his Youtube show.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 02:18
|
|
|
Although he was a little stiff, LeBlanc's deadpanning was better suited than Evan's Excited-Child style. Also, considering how many presenters they announced, it was too much of a duo instead of a trio.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 09:32
|
|
|
Wheat Loaf posted:I don't really enjoy her so much when she's in for him in the mornings, although I suppose that's because I'm just accustomed to Evans. If she replaced him full time, I imagine I'd get used to her; I didn't think I would get used to Evans after Wogan left. Still, better than Richard Madeley when he's filling in, I suppose. I like Ken Bruce and his infinite supply of dad humour, and Charlie Sloth is going to be a breakout star. My main problem with Evans, and this really only applies to his radio show, is that it gives the impression of improvised spontaneity but is regimented and scripted to a tee.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 10:06
|
|
|
Steve2911 posted:So I guess people don't like the new Top Gear? It really was a piece of cringe worthy loving trash. Personally I think Top Gear should about three mates on a road trip taking the piss out of each other, however their new show will soon be upon us and will give me exactly that. I think the only people who celebrated last nights episode of Top Gear now work for Amazon Prime.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 11:46
|
|
|
LeBlanc has hosted some BBC America Top Gear compilation shows but those were scripted links
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 11:51
|
|
|
Evans said anything less than 5 million viewers would be a disappointment. They got 4.34 million.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 12:12
|
|
|
Like most radio deejays Evans is a personality vacuum if you scrape away that wafer-thin layer of middle-aged-lad shtick.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 12:26
|
|
|
ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I like Ken Bruce and his infinite supply of dad humour, and Charlie Sloth is going to be a breakout star. My main problem with Evans, and this really only applies to his radio show, is that it gives the impression of improvised spontaneity but is regimented and scripted to a tee. I like Ken Bruce well enough. I quite enjoy Simon Mayo as well. It's him and Bruce who fit my idea of a Radio 2 presenter. My least favourite daytime Radio 2 shows are Jeremy Vine's one (not because I dislike Jeremy Vine or anything - it's just that there's nothing to spoil your lunch quite like people having a whinge at each other about politics) and Steve Wright (because I'm not really keen on his presenting style, which is like Evans trying to be Bruce). I sometimes listen to U105, which is one of the main Belfast Metropolitan Area stations, but their shows with male presenters always have seem to have the bass turned way up, which is makes for unpleasant listening when you factor in that all the male hosts have rather thick Belfast accents.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 14:40
|
|
|
Iggy Pop does two hours a week on 6 Music, am I allowed to pick him as my favourite?
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 14:44
|
|
|
Well someone's on the defensive already https://twitter.com/achrisevans/status/737278291346903041 https://twitter.com/achrisevans/status/737278995729895424
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 14:48
|
|
|
They would've done a lot better if they'd used my idea to have the cast of Red Dwarf (Charles/Barrie/Llewellyn/John-Jules) as the presenters. 
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 14:56
|
|
|
ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I like Ken Bruce and his infinite supply of dad humour, and Charlie Sloth is going to be a breakout star. I'd have a lot more time for Charlie Sloth if he didn't keep using that loving airhorn effect every 30 seconds.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 16:38
|
|
|
ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Well someone's on the defensive already I've seen a lot of nervous breakdowns on Twitter and that is one of them.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 17:24
|
|
|
Julio Cruz posted:I'd have a lot more time for Charlie Sloth if he didn't keep using that loving airhorn effect every 30 seconds. he's come up on Five Live's Fighting Talk recently and he's been pretty good there. Combo him with Dougie Anderson and it's almost radio gold. And the airhorn must have been left behind when Westwood (for he has no first name) was let go Steve2911 posted:I've seen a lot of nervous breakdowns on Twitter and that is one of them. I'm imaging this will get a load of play tomorrow on the radio, so I'm loading as many Fabric CDs as I can into my car so I can avoid it
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 18:23
|
|
|
Wheat Loaf posted:They would've done a lot better if they'd used my idea to have the cast of Red Dwarf (Charles/Barrie/Llewellyn/John-Jules) as the presenters. That's not a bad idea at all - I know that Llewellyn and Barrie are into cars and I think John-Jules is a biker (when not punching binmen) and Charles can talk about music and not doing crack or corrie anymore.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 18:40
|
|
Doubtful Guest posted:That's not a bad idea at all - I know that Llewellyn and Barrie are into cars and I think John-Jules is a biker (when not punching binmen) and Charles can talk about music and not doing crack or corrie anymore. It is a good idea for British telly, so it'll never happen.
|
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 18:41
|
|
|
Doubtful Guest posted:That's not a bad idea at all - I know that Llewellyn and Barrie are into cars and I think John-Jules is a biker (when not punching binmen) and Charles can talk about music and not doing crack or corrie anymore. There's precedent for it because last time Jeremy Clarkson was replaced as a presenter, they hired Craig Charles. (Everyone forgets that Jeremy Clarkson was the presenter on the first series of Robot Wars.) Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 19:29 on May 30, 2016 |
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 19:01
|
|
|
Doubtful Guest posted:That's not a bad idea at all - I know that Llewellyn and Barrie are into cars and I think John-Jules is a biker (when not punching binmen) and Charles can talk about music and not doing crack or corrie anymore. Hell, Llewellyn and Charles have both presented shows about being irresponsible with machinery.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 19:20
|
|
|
Barrie's mostly into classic motors and Llewellyn's more of a big fan of engineering in general, though he does have a thing for electric cars. I'm not sure any of them could do the "serious" modern car journalism, but then Top Gear's not had that for a while. I also can't remember if they all still like each other.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 19:47
|
|
|
Their Twitter accounts were full of them all taking the piss out of each other when they did their most recent bit of Red Dwarf filming (there's going to be more and it's still going to be terrible), so at the moment it appears to be "yes", and there's no reason why they couldn't have been great at presenting a comedy show with cars in.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 20:25
|
|
|
Alexei Sayle might have been a good choice as well.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 21:37
|
|
|
theres some new Alan Partridge thing on Sky Atlantic right now that I had no idea was being made
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 22:04
|
|
|
This Russel T Davis Midsummer Night's Dream is pretty bad. Since he couldn't do the dialogue, he went all out and made everything else the most RTD thing ever.
|
|
#
?
May 30, 2016 22:19
|
|
|
Top Gear was massively popular because the British public are mainly terrible and like laughing at Clarkson, Hammond and May travelling around the world being a pack of racist, misogynistic, homophobic cunts. The Beeb were never gonna allow that om the new Top Gear so of course people hate it.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 01:36
|
|
|
FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:theres some new Alan Partridge thing on Sky Atlantic right now that I had no idea was being made It was ok, not his best work. It does get points for reminding viewers that David Cameron hosed a dead pig though.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 08:18
|
|
|
Comrade Fakename posted:This Russel T Davis Midsummer Night's Dream is pretty bad. Since he couldn't do the dialogue, he went all out and made everything else the most RTD thing ever. Oh, that was his?
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 09:40
|
|
|
StoneOfShame posted:Top Gear was massively popular because the British public are mainly terrible and like laughing at Clarkson, Hammond and May travelling around the world being a pack of racist, misogynistic, homophobic cunts. The Beeb were never gonna allow that om the new Top Gear so of course people hate it. I also love all the people talking about how Top Gear was supposed to be this hilarious anarchic laugh and how the new one is scripted and awful, as if every word that left Clarkson, May and Hammond's mouths weren't written by committee to appeal to The Lad Demographic.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 12:20
|
|
|
Does anyone else enjoy that Clarkson, the ultimate Europhile, is most widely beloved by the folks who want Nigel Farage to be PM? I reckon if David Cameron was serious about winning this referendum, he should have asked Clarkson to be a Remain spokesman.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 12:55
|
|
|
Gyro Zeppeli posted:I also love all the people talking about how Top Gear was supposed to be this hilarious anarchic laugh and how the new one is scripted and awful, as if every word that left Clarkson, May and Hammond's mouths weren't written by committee to appeal to The Lad Demographic. They were talking about Top Gear on Radio 4 the other day. The first series is/was apparently SO BAD that it has been expunged from all the usual sources. These programmes take a while to bed in and the original Top Gear was no different. I haven't watched the new series, I'm not sure if I can be arsed but I felt the same way when it was the old line up.It ceased being funny to me several series ago... edit- You can get some episodes on Youtube but they look like they were filmed with a potato and are cropped to hell. I guess that is to get round copyright issues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knULaFwpv4k Rondette fucked around with this message at 13:15 on May 31, 2016 |
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 13:13
|
|
|
Squalitude posted:It was ok, not his best work. It does get points for reminding viewers that David Cameron hosed a dead pig though.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 14:58
|
|
|
Watched the first part of Henry VI in the Hollow Crown series - really good adaptation IMO.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 15:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 6, 2024 22:11 |
|
|
Angrymog posted:Watched the first part of Henry VI in the Hollow Crown series - really good adaptation IMO. I worked on that back in 2014. Sophie Okenedo is a huge fucker but Gambon is sound as hell and does not give a gently caress.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2016 15:09
|
|