BBC1 - The Getaway Car - entertainment show with The Stig and Dermot O?Leary

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BBC One has today announced a brand new commission that will see couples go head to head in a funny, fast-paced and action packed competition where only the best get to face the legend that is The Stig.

Presented by Dermot O?Leary, the Saturday night entertainment show, The Getaway Car, will see couples compete in a series of exciting driving challenges that test the limits of their relationships behind the wheel of a car. Can married couples, grandparents and grandchildren, brothers and sisters or best friends work together to scoop the top prize? Or for that matter, will they still be talking afterwards?

The Getaway Car is packed with thrills, laughter and challenges. At the centre of the show is the fastest driver of his generation: the enigmatic, the iconic, The Stig. Nobody said winning the money would be easy.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2015/the-getaway-car
 
OK so which FG member wants to team up and enter? Probably have to be UK based....
 
So the Stig needed money?


Christ.
 
Which STIG?
 
Oh, look, it's a lame forced attempt at comedy by the BBC to try to stem the hemorrhaging of viewers because the only show they made that's worth watching on a regular basis just died through their own stupidity.

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Caused by BBC's pointless penny pinching killing dedicated catering. As mentioned in the other thread, cutting catering is a WTF move to other people who work or worked in the film industry outside the UK.
 
No, Clarkson decided to sit at the bar and knock a few back instead of waiting to do it while they ate.
 
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GRtak said:
No, Clarkson decided to sit at the bar and knock a few back instead of waiting to do it while they ate.
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So? As a number of people pointed out, what slap-dash kind of quality production doesn't have organic (as in, part of the production's crew, not the food type) catering instead of relying on local resources? Any time you leave any aspect of the production out of the production's control is asking for a disaster to befall you. And 'food' i.e., catering is already often the worst part of shooting on location. You do not eliminate catering unless you want your crew morale to tank and people to quit - the first part of that is pretty much what ended up happening, unsurprisingly.

Even if you leave that out, the BBC killed their series by taking weeks to 'complete their investigation', badmouthing Clarkson - remember the comparison they made between him and Savile? - and just plain incompetence.
 
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Spectre said:
Caused by BBC's pointless penny pinching killing dedicated catering. As mentioned in the other thread, cutting catering is a WTF move to other people who work or worked in the film industry outside the UK.
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The BBC budget was slashed by Jezza's Tory mates in Government
 
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Its never King Clarkson's fault is it?
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You're forgetting that in the other thread I said he should have been terminated for his actions. The thing is, the BBC managed to kill their own show by their inept handling of the incident. He should have been terminated the day he reported it - at the very least kicked off the set as a presenter and kept as an off-set writer through the end of the series, then terminated from that position, allowing the BBC a complete series/season plus time between series to reset and retool the show.

This isn't the first time this sort of thing has happened to a production while shooting on location, not even the first time the catering or lack thereof has gotten people to throw objects or fists at others. It doesn't take weeks and an artificial kangaroo court to have the appearance of 'fairness' to deal with the problem. An ornamental producer's 'assistant' with an apparent IQ only slightly larger than the band size of her very large brassiere can solve it in a few hours, but the BBC took about a month, threw out defamatory slurs comparing Clarkson to one of the worst sexual offenders in British history (who not only worked for the BBC but was actively assisted in his sexual offenses by the BBC) and basically completely mishandled the situation.

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The BBC budget was slashed by Jezza's Tory mates in Government
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Production budgets get slashed all the time, for lots of reasons. You don't eliminate catering. You eliminate travel, use less expensive effects, change your shooting schedule, lots of different things can be done to cut costs.

Catering is the last place you make cuts because doing that will often lose you cast and crew members and often completely kills morale. The BBC's blanket ban on catering service for on location shoots as a cost-cutting move was stooooooooooopid.
 
Spectre said:
Production budgets get slashed all the time, for lots of reasons. You don't eliminate catering. You eliminate travel, use less expensive effects, change your shooting schedule, lots of different things can be done to cut costs.

Catering is the last place you make cuts because doing that will often lose you cast and crew members and often completely kills morale. The BBC's blanket ban on catering service for on location shoots as a cost-cutting move was stooooooooooopid.
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Anyway the odds are if a pub is posh enough to have a helipad, Jezza probably could have got food there, instead of throwing a tantrum because the kitchen was closed after he landed at the hotel. The level of intoxication rather than lack of food was probably a bigger factor in all this.

The last Government wanted to cut the BBC budget by something like 30%, but were talked down to a 15% or so cut. Their current wet dream is to make the BBC subscription only.

Anyway Dermot O'Leary is a good host/presenter and if they get the production right, this show could be ok,
 
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What they should have done is hire Tiff, Chris Harris and Ben Collins (as the Stig) and make a program strictly about thoroughly testing exciting cars, with Ben (the Stig) doing lap times.
Maybe throw Jason Potato in there as well.
The only segments I like on Fifth Gear is when Tiff and Jason did their duels.
 
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