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So basically they are saying themselves that the second episode will be as shite as the first one...
Mark Linsey, director of BBC Studios, the corporation?s production arm, defended the decision not to radically overhaul the programme.
He said this week: ?I?m delighted with the first show, it's BBC Two?s highest rating programme of the year. We wanted to be faithful to the original for the people who do love it. We want new people to come to it. It will evolve and change as the series goes on but definitely we wanted to be faithful to a much loved show by the viewers.?
Positives - nil
Negatives - everything
Inane rubbish, worse than Top Gear Australia at it's worst. Curiosity is the only excuse one could use to watch the second episode.
They should've bought back Quentin Wilson, William Wollard and Steve Berry .. made a motoring magazine show (like in the olde days), saved millions of pounds and made something worth watching rather than insulting the audience with this poorly done parody of three middle aged men who have run out of ideas.
What the BCC does not have, though, is a pool of people who have the charms, the charisma, the chemistry and the public appeal to be loved by viewers of all ages -- from small children to elderly people. One of the reasons why CHM were so popular was because they didn't have a problem making a fool out of themselves. It's the Laurel & Hardy effect: Adults behaving like children are funny. So be an idiot. People respect you more and might get to love you when you don't take yourself too serious and have a knack for self-mockery.
If you watch all Top Gear episodes again (like I did not too long ago), you will find out that merely a handful episodes were as bad you insinuate -- and even those had good moments.
In hindsight things get kinda blurry.
New Top Gear is feeling like the Total Recall remake
The name is the same and the main plot is somewhat similar, but the main char is a wuss, it's not on Mars and there's no midget stripper with a uzi.
Great analogy, I refused to watch the new one for the exact reason I won't watch TG anymore. The original was a classic and can't be replaced.
I actually just came on here to see if the reports I heard were shared by the TG fans. I have no desire to watch Chris Evans kill all that was good about Top Gear by being his annoying Big Breakfast, Toothbrush TFI Friday - overbearing self.
I'm not aware that Paul Verhoeven's "Total Recall" was a remake. What was the original then?
Along comes the literal internet, Top Gear with Clarkson Hammond and May wasn't the original it was the remake.