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You can tell from this thread who's been to England and been unable to get a hot meal at 9 loving PM and who hasn't
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CommieGIR posted:Let's be honest: Has there ever been a British show that the US did better? Sanford & Son
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Mar 27, 2015 20:46
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No!!! Did you not hear? Clarkson savagely killed, skinned, raped and beat a poor innocent grown adult man who worked on the production staff and we cannot condone abuse OR exploitation of the powerless Sent from my iPhone 6
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Mar 28, 2015 02:48
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Chris Harris is undoubtedly not American... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MDTcXGsjuo
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It's funny, the only people in the UK who ever get nicked for speeding are olds who are afraid to stomp the brake and go from 70 to 30 in fifty feet like everyone else does when they see those white lines on the tarmac.
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InitialDave posted:Yeah, he's great, I'd happily see him on board. Or replacing Mike Brewer in anything he's involved in. Tonight!.... Lloyd from Coronation Street drives a cab
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WAR CRIME SYNDICAT posted:Wish the show were still around right now to make jokes about the David Cameron pigfucking situation. The problem is that Jezza and Dave are buddies so likely nothing would have been said.
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If you didn't want your pseudo-racecar to get driven like a racecar by idiots, perhaps you should not have lent it to a television show that is well known for driving racecars like idiots?
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James is doing an AMA on Reddit today. https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bhnq4/iama_james_may_ama/
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Evans is a ging and that's pretty traditionally nonsexual
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Apr 6, 2016 23:47
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Chris Evans sucks and all but he's not exactly precious about his car collection. http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/10529039.display/ that article posted:The BBC Radio 2 breakfast presenter and The One Show star joined by son Noah handed over the keys of seven Ferraris and five classic cars to strangers to raise more than £800,000 for Children in Need.
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Who's cars are they then?  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2356604/Petrolheads-chance-drive-Chris-Evanss-fleet-luxury-cars-bidding-800-000-Children-Need.html Meaningless words that have no power here posted:Cruising with Chris Evans: Petrolheads get chance to drive DJ's fleet of luxury cars after bidding £800,000 for Children in Need Quit making me defend Chris Evans
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Jenson ripping the poo poo out of that McLaren confirms to me that F1 drivers are actually a lot better at driving cars than everyone else.
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It ended up that hollywood is in california, as it turns out.
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I got one, my wife got one, we both wrote witty commentary as to why we should be selected + live in Los Angeles + have been Prime customers for like 10 years. e: They just called me and asked if I'd be interested in the Sept 23/24 weekend show and asked a few other questions, I'll find out this weekend if I'm in. Ether Frenzy fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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Cat Hatter posted:"Is your wife hot enough to be in the front row of Yes, and I told them as such, I know how this works.
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My wife got the call yesterday as well, and told them her husband was hot enough to stand in the front row so I guess we'll see if they know how to use facebook and look up whether that's true or not. 
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So apparently 1.2 million entrants applied, 400 were selected initially for the saturday taping, and 350 for the sunday. I assume they had stand-ins for cancels/declines on the RSVP but they didn't mention that statistic. We were allowed a +3 for each invite, both my wife and I got in individually and brought no one with us because all of our friends who would have liked it had prior engagements. All of the guys were remarkably accessible, wandering around in between shots and signing tons of shirts and hats and wristbands. We got to chat with Richard & James for about 15 minutes of downtime while filming multiple angles of something other than the hosts for one segment (a surprise!), and I got high-fived on camera by Jeremy and James during one of the shoots that's almost certainly going to be used. Can't wait to see the footage on November 18. We couldn't bring phones/electronics with us, and the production team asked the crowd not to give out details of what happened, but it was epic as gently caress and you guys are going to love the new show. On a scale of 1-10 the day's events and sights were a 30. 
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spog posted:"Hey, I've got this Golden Ticket for Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, do you want to come with me?" Yeah, they asked that we try and keep guests to a 50/50 male-female split, I could have easily found 2 of my dude-bros to come along but tried to respect that request/wanted to bring actual fans, not just people who wanted to be on TV - and figured they would invite more ticketholders if we couldn't bring guests on the RSVP. It was short notice, but I was surprised it became a challenge to get people along to this - of our potentials, one couple had a birthday party, one couple had a wedding, and one couple was in... loving North Korea. (seriously. He works vaguely somehow in diplomatic relations, or so he tells us.)
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Sep 26, 2016 18:03
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Richard did not have a goatee at the taping, and he is legitimately short. That's not just clever angles.
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davebo posted:Speaking of TV, I hope the Grand Tour release gets staggered on a weekly basis so I can follow the thread when each episode is released. That is how they're planning to release it, right? If it all came as one lump sum the thread would just explode at once and I would just avoid it until I had watched the whole season, and that's a lot less fun. Yes, they said that they'd be released weekly on Friday nights instead of as a batch like Netflix shows. Data Graham posted:Jesus Christ those sunburns. Was their previous challenge hiking out of Death Valley? Close.
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Oct 5, 2016 19:37
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Amazon being on the internet doesn't get it out of complying with music licensing and other legal agreements that are different in each country/region.
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Good news, Australia fans! US people will be able to watch it at 4:01pm tomorrow, a day early. http://jalopnik.com/the-grand-tour-will-actually-debut-a-day-early-in-the-u-1789056123
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So since we're a couple hours from the show airing, here's some spoilers. Do not read this unless you want to know what happened. Both my wife and I were given invites to the filming of the Grand Opening sequence after a phone interview in which they asked questions like "Have you been to any outdoor car shows recently" and "do you like to attend rock and roll shows". We both answered yes to each. After we'd signed up they told us we could each bring 3 guests but in the interest of making our local friends appropriately jealous, we didn't bring anyone. We assembled in the desert at Apple Valley high school's football stadium parking lot at 9am on a saturday morning - about 90 minutes NE of Los Angeles. Lots of cool cars in the lot, I counted 3 E92 M3's, a bunch of GTRs, a couple Focus RS's, and various Lotus/Mustang/Corvette/Challenger drivers. From there, we waited in line to get past security (had to return our phones to the car, no videos/photos leaked!) and into the main waiting area, only go get in and find we had to wait 45+ minutes to use one of two porta-toilets they had provided for the crowd of 2000 people. At one point a huge roar went up from the mob while we were still queuing to get past security - we looked up, thinking maybe the boys had arrived due to the cheers - but it was just the arrival of 3 more porta-toilets on the back of a truck. From there, we all boarded a series of about 40 school buses, and were taken for a ride of about 25 minutes to a location into GTA V Trevor Country - the desert methlands in the Mojave desert - here: https://www.google.com/maps/@34.4653709,-117.0419409,9804m/data=!3m1!1e3 Arriving on the scene, we were greeted by a bunch of Mad Max vehicles, a huge gathering of interesting and rare supercars/racers, and a variety of art cars including a giant VW bus, a 3-masted galleon, and a giant scorpion-car-thing that shot fire from all orifices, and a bunch of Cirque/circus performers in various states of apocalpytic costuming. There was also a burning caravan hanging from a crane. Burning Van, eh? Coolest rare car of the day was a genuine Vectra V12. The majority of the action took place in front of a stage in the middle of the dry lake where Hothouse Flowers were playing on and off all day, basically whenever the director wanted shots of the crowd clapping and cheering. Needless to say we had to do a lot of "big audience reactions!!!" on cue. They played endless refrains of "I Can See Clearly Now" as necessary to fit the needs of the filming. Clarkson, Hammond and May emerged to do some autographs and flesh-pressing before they got to work and then scurried away on golf carts to get shots in a huge convoy of all the roadgoing vehicles - it seemed to be that they were filming the end of a "race" so we saw them all rushing towards us from half a mile away across the lake bed, in a massive cloud of yellow dust. All the cars were caked in it and it will look properly Mad Max on film, I'm sure. It's most likely going to all look epic on film, because it was amazing seeing them making the sausage. The crowd was asked to look as though we were unaware of the convoy and simply enjoying the rock concert - at one point the AD asked for more women to move to the front of the crowd because it was a bit of a sausage party, so I tagged along as my wife was grabbed and dragged to the front - and then we were to part like the Red Sea as the three cars driven by Clarkson, Hammond and May arrived at the finish line and then pushed through the crowd up to the stage. The cars (a trio of Mustang GT350 variants) were driven into place by stunt drivers first of all, while the cameras got close shots of us all leaning in to clap and cheer them. Later, they repeated the stunt with the Trio driving the cars themselves. (Clarkson seems to have 'won' the race, needless to say, with May second and Hammond third). The production crew had asked us to try and bring a 1:1 male to female ratio in our guest invites, but it was probably more like 3:1 dudes. As the actual stars were driving up through the crowd, I dawdled in my eagerness to appear to be ENJOYING THE MUSIC and nearly got run down by Jeremy. I hope he shouts "GET OUT OF THE WAAAAAY" at me. My wife blew Jeremy a kiss through his window as he drove by and he looked a bit startled to see a woman. I gave requisite thumbs up and shouts of encouragement to each of them as they drove by me, on camera. Clarkson has got very very blue eyes. Hammond is very short. James looks exactly like he does on TV. Eventually we did some shots with them on the stage - this is the opening sequence for the show and so the shot was basically Jeremy talking to the camera over the crowd, and telling the home audience what's coming up throughout the series. They warmed the crowd up a bit first, though, each taking turns to introduce each other with piss-taking and increasingly vulgar roasts mainly centering around pornography and pedophilia, which somehow I doubt will make the cut. What will make the cut, because they had to do it three or four times to get their comic timing right including taking a 10 minute break off-stage to focusgroup the joke, was Jeremy saying "..but what this is really about is that we're three automotive journalists who've spent the last twenty years..." "GETTING FIRED" pipes up Hammond. Cue LOLs. Each of the 4 or 5 times we required to LOL. The last shot we did, we had the three cars back in place in front of the stage as though the race has just finished, and each of the three guys were filmed getting out of their cars into the crowd and being high-fived and celebrated. Then they all just stood amongst us by their cars signing some autographs for people and waiting for the next take. My wife and I were by Hammond (who was very jolly and kind, exactly the same as his on-camera personality) and May was just ahead of us, being May-like. Jeremy was sharing his cigarettes with fans near him, whilst we waited for a flypast by a formation of nine Breitling jets for the grand finale. The camera helicopter was higher than the planes and filmed them from above. They did the flypast three times and got the angle perfect on the third go, coming at us straight over the stage really low. Getting to enjoy James and Richard honestly being excited by the fly-over like they were proper punters was pretty awesome. All three were super cool and accommodating to all the fans, we shook hands with Richard at the end since he was so close to us for the fly-over bits, and then on the way out I shouted over the top of the Mustang James was at "We love you James!" And he looked up from the hat he was signing and said back to me "I love you too" and the crowd got a good kick out of that. Clarkson was walking parallel with us as we were heading to the buses back home, noted my wife's british accent (she's fairly tall so stands out anyway) and said "Thanks so much for coming!" un-provoked. All in all, they seemed just like they are on TV and it was a lot of fun. Then it got really weird. Due to the crush getting on the bus (and our understanding that the parking lot back at the high school was going to be a clusterfuck), we got towards the front of the bus line and onto the 2nd or 3rd bus, but there were only single seats so my wife and I got separated. I ended up sitting next to a chick I'd seen during the shoots, since she and the guy she was with had on cool "Grand Tour" shirts that looked official but turned out to be bootlegged by her (I asked where she'd gotten them.) In the course of conversation on the ride back to the high school, it came up that she'd travelled from [other city] , and as we were pulling into the lot the older gentleman sitting on her other side pointed out his car to her, and she starts mentioning the cars she and her husband (the aforementioned guy with the GT shirt I'd seen before) owned... and I'm like "I only know 1 person from X town who owns Cars Y and Z"... so I say 'This is a pretty weird question to ask a stranger on the bus... but Is your last name <theirlastname>?" Lo and behold, it turns out this woman is the wife of a guy I only know through the internet. I've never even met him other than through POASTING and I somehow identified his wife out a group of randoms on a bus in the desert by the cars she said they owned, and the location they had traveled from. Plot twist: That poaster is someone from here. I'll let him out himself if he likes, but it was truly one of the all-time "What a small world!" moments of my life.
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DJ Commie posted:I didn't even watch most of the last 2 seasons of Top Gear, but I definitely enjoyed this. As mentioned before, it was extremely indulgent, but they looked like they had fun and the cinematics were the best of the best, as I had hoped Andy wilman would have brought over. Dude in the tie with her was an Amazon exec. No one else in the world was wearing a shirt & tie in the desert in 85 degree temps. My wife & I were in quite a few of the crowd shots. Pretty fun to see the show after all the sausage-being-made part.
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Nov 18, 2016 08:43
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The fat American driver needs to shut the gently caress up because he wasn't funny in the slightest. Alternately he can be this show's Jason Dawe
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Eb posted:Thanks for the report! How long ago did they film this? It was Saturday Sept 24th for the opening sequence filming, and Sunday Sept 25th for the in-tent studio show.
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Nov 18, 2016 22:03
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Basically the opposite of what the subtitles said. Ferrari is magnificent, McLaren is very twitchy and uncontrollable/a handful.
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If they don't genuinely like each other then they're all three the greatest stage actors in the history of the world because they were all hanging out and joking and having fun in-between takes and seemed to be thoroughly enjoying the entire event almost as much as us punters at the shooting of the opening sequence. They did the opening roasts on the stage repeatedly to get the best sick burns/warm up the crowd, and all three x-ratedly bashed the poo poo out of each other and no one ever looked cross or at all taken aback by being called a pedophile/shopper for used dildos on ebay/horse-sex aficionado etc.
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The commonly accepted 'how much did this cost' figure came from someone who was at the taping and spitballed it on the spot for a UK journo  (not me)
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Nov 21, 2016 20:28
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sean10mm posted:There isn't one, even though the e-ticket says there is and that it's very important. It's probably just leftover/laziness from the Opening Sequence invite that looked identical, which said "Dress Code: There will be a lot of standing as well as walking over uneven ground so sensible footwear is essential. Time with us will be mostly outdoors, and there will also be transport to climb into, so suitable clothing is required and please be prepared for the sunshine and heat."
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Nov 21, 2016 23:33
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Mine was a phone interview about a week after signing up, and then got confirmation about a week after that, the show was taped 8 days later.
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My thinking based on a tiny understanding of the hoops involved with immigration and entertainment acts working in the US is that in order to get their work visas for shooting primarily in the US they had to agree to have an American cast member/percentage of the crew be American, and you can't have a full-faced helmet on a guy who doesn't speak and expect there to be a valid understanding that he's American. Thus all the hyping how American he was, with the goal of it being critically panned so they can say to the Amazon brass next season "See, everyone hated this, we need an english racing driver to do this, and Ben Collins *IS* key personnel" which they couldn't quite get Amazon to co-sign on the first time around.
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Nov 23, 2016 08:15
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It's just what I've seen on a billion tours produced by companies much larger than Amazon that would also seem to have the power to make everything completely trivial to accomplish, and yet the US immigration status requires that if 'there is an american that can do the job, he has to be hired first unless the position is held by key personnel that the tour cannot survive without. Like one of the band.' It's just a theory though, combined with wishful thinking that they should get rid of the guy because he sucks.
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Yeah, seeing relatively talented journalist/semi-pro drivers utterly toddlerized by driving F1 cars is always a real big reminder of just how insanely good those guys are. Also watching the usually flawless wheel to wheel racing at insane speeds at insane G levels with relatively 'cold' tires in the first 45 seconds of any F1 race (because you'll know who wins after that) compared to the total clusterfuck in even 35hp cars on the first corner by just about everyone else's ability to 'drive' in Forza/GT/Etc.
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Nov 23, 2016 21:43
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The military segment was exactly how my group of RL friends plays CoD/GTA V so it spoke to me, except they didn't have the two of us who are competent dragging them through it while #3 who is useless but at least follows orders provides some support and #4 who is useless and cannot follow orders despite being in both the Marines and the Army IRL shoot each other over slights/start fights with randoms we are trying to avoid/run up behind those of us trying to rescue the queen and stand there providing "cover fire" which either results in a friendly kill or more likely, results in the enemy spotting us hiding prone who then drops a nuke on us.
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Dec 6, 2016 02:06
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Xelkelvos posted:But do they have the best scraps? God I wish they sold those by themselves in the US mythadile posted:I had fish n' chips twice last week. Once in Yorkshire and once in Lancaster.
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There's like 30 michelin starred chefs from the UK. Two of the best meals I've ever had in my life were in England, and I have lived in Chicago, NYC and LA. You can get a delicious ready-made meal from any grocery store (M&S wins of course), or even an edible sandwich from goddamn Boots. There are Pizza Expresses every 100 yards. I have had exactly one 'honestly bad' meal in the UK and that was at the Wendy's in Heathrow's arrivals. Fish pie at the Inn at Whitewell isn't even in my 2 best meals there and god-drat that's some good food.
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