New Top Gear

[thinfourth]

If the BBC want 3 middle aged blokes who travel together and have a laugh they already have a very good team

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[BiggestNizzy]

LeBlanc is a bit wooden, I expect him to get better as he goes from actor to presenter.
Harris does a really good job when he films a peice (vulcan peice was a good exmple) however he looks like he has just been given a free pass in a brothel when he is on set.
Evans is so-so it's presenting style is a bit out of date, fine in small doses but I feel he hasn't moved on. (He can't copy Ray Cokes anymore either) you could see it when they did TFI again fine as a one off crap as a series.
Eddie Jordan is just meh.
Sabine is wooden and needs someone there to compensate when she did the laps at laguna she worked well with Evans
Rory comes across as a bit BBC3

But the thing that shines through more than anything is there is no spark between the presents.

[istoo]

But the thing that shines through more than anything is there is no spark between the presents.

agreed, the best of which are not Chris Evans.

Very surprised to see the BBC not recognise that relationship. I suspect it was a case of Evans is the front man let the team mould around him, I would like to see another rise out of it. It does existing better in pre-recorded bites. Harris one ot one sets are still good, as are leblancs. But the studio pieces are just horribly wooden.

off to watch extra gear, which i think works.

[pshanks76]

But the thing that shines through more than anything is there is no spark between the presents.

The high-fiving and man-hugging feels particularly unauthentic... not sure why they feel the need to force it so much, the previous team took time to develop the on-screen rapport and these guys just need to do the same.

[Scuffers]

LeBlanc is a bit wooden, I expect him to get better as he goes from actor to presenter.
Harris does a really good job when he films a peice (vulcan peice was a good exmple) however he looks like he has just been given a free pass in a brothel when he is on set.
Evans is so-so it's presenting style is a bit out of date, fine in small doses but I feel he hasn't moved on. (He can't copy Ray Cokes anymore either) you could see it when they did TFI again fine as a one off crap as a series.
Eddie Jordan is just meh.
Sabine is wooden and needs someone there to compensate when she did the laps at laguna she worked well with Evans
Rory comes across as a bit BBC3

But the thing that shines through more than anything is there is no spark between the presents.

I think Rory is actually the surprise find here, yes, he's still a bit excitable and green, but he is getting better fast, as is Monkey.

Evans is just out of his depth and embarrassing, and I am not a fan of Sabine either, and Matt really needs to 'find' his own style, at the moment he's simply way to wooden.

[Victor Meldrew]

It really annoys me when Evans introduces his fellow hosts. Previous top gear never did any of that, they were all just accepted as being part of the show, the way Evans does it it feels like they have to be invited back each week " and here he is". He introduces the other hosts in the same way he introduces guests. Dick head.


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[Scuffers]

It really annoys me when Evans introduces his fellow hosts. Previous top gear never did any of that, they were all just accepted as being part of the show, the way Evans does it it feels like they have to be invited back each week " and here he is". He introduces the other hosts in the same way he introduces guests. Dick head.

Kind of with you there, it's the "I'm the host here" crap.

Also, forgot to mention the village idiot - Jordon, why? just why?

[Stevoraith]

On the plus side, I think it's getting better every episode.

I think it's starting to become obvious where each of the hosts fit (or not as the case may be) too.

Get rid of Jordan and Sabine. She adds nothing that Harris doesn't.
Evans, if he has to stay, should be kept away from the cars and left to do the interviews and maybe the road trips.
Harris and Rory Reid have to be the testers with as much screen time for Harris as possible.
I'm not sure where that leaves LeBlanc- I like him but he can't read an autocue and we haven't seen any journalistic pieces from him. Keep him for the quirky tests like the Nomad he did?

I genuinely feel sorry for them with the amount of criticism it's getting, with the exception of the first show I reckon the entertainment to dross ratio is far higher than it has been for about the last five series.

[Mr Momo]

Last one recorded yesterday - run of 4 ? That's good value

[Shug]

Last one recorded yesterday - run of 4 ? That's good value

Same format as the last 4 or 5 series. 4 main shows, two specials. Check it on Netflix. Rubbish, yes, but not Evan's specific problem.

[jason]

Last one recorded yesterday - run of 4 ? That's good value

Eh? There are two more episodes, the next two Sundays. …so that's a run of 6.

Same format as the last 4 or 5 series. 4 main shows, two specials. Check it on Netflix. Rubbish, yes, but not Evan's specific problem.

This (or sometimes 'best of' substitutes 'special') is said so often here, yet the last CMH series was 8 episodes plus 2 specials *. In fact, getting geeky and checking Wiki there's never been a paltry 4+2 series.


* it was going to be 10+2 but steak-gate meant the 8th/final episode was the composite of 8/9/10 broadcast later

[Shug]

Last season, they upped the number of shows to 10. Prior to that for at least 4 seasons/series/whatever, max 6 shows - min 1 special as part of that.

Only know as I was flicking through Netflix last night looking for something to watch.

[jason]

The previous series was 5 main + 2 Burma. That's 7 shows. Seems Netflix is broken?

Not specifically a response to only your post, Shug. A response to folk here so often commenting, e.g. "only 4/5 episodes then 'a best of' again", which just ain't correct about the past several years' series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Top_Gear_episodes I expect to be called pedantic now…

[thinfourth]

Well

Last nights show was quite good

If you ignore the chat show bit which is frankly dire

The brief bit where evans was on screen wasn't mind meltingly annoying either

I Think the Rory could be the star of the show.

I just want to see them tackle something serious as one of my favourite bits from the old show is when they went over th death of Saab as many folk forget Topgear could do serious very very well

[j2 lot]

Being reported that Mat LB has given the Producers an ultimatum - Evans goes or I do.