I HATE the USA edited Top Gear... HATE IT!!!

[///M]

I'd still rather have them as they are shown in UK but on dvds. They should make dvd sets of each series and playable worldwide.

I would gladly pay for those.

With surround sound.

And anamorphic support.

*drools*

 

[hokiethang]

I'd still rather have them as they are shown in UK but on dvds. They should make dvd sets of each series and playable worldwide.

I would gladly pay for those.

With surround sound.

And anamorphic support.

*drools*

Put it on Discovery HD, and you could get that too

But, what I see the Americanization of TG doing actually, is testing the waters for creating a real American TG. Of course it wouldn't have Jeremy, Richard and James, but if TG on Discovery works out, Discovery might fund bringing more parts of the show to this side of the Atlantic (by creating Star in a reasonably priced car segments and news segments) and offering car reviews like TG UK, but in the US. Maybe its just me dreaming, but still, it makes sense to me.

 

[roundhead]

Put it on Discovery HD, and you could get that too

But, what I see the Americanization of TG doing actually, is testing the waters for creating a real American TG. Of course it wouldn't have Jeremy, Richard and James, but if TG on Discovery works out, Discovery might fund bringing more parts of the show to this side of the Atlantic (by creating Star in a reasonably priced car segments and news segments) and offering car reviews like TG UK, but in the US. Maybe its just me dreaming, but still, it makes sense to me.

do you reckon that bbc would allow them to use the name, say, "top gear usa"? or would they just "invent" their own show based on top gear?

 

[hokiethang]

Put it on Discovery HD, and you could get that too

But, what I see the Americanization of TG doing actually, is testing the waters for creating a real American TG. Of course it wouldn't have Jeremy, Richard and James, but if TG on Discovery works out, Discovery might fund bringing more parts of the show to this side of the Atlantic (by creating Star in a reasonably priced car segments and news segments) and offering car reviews like TG UK, but in the US. Maybe its just me dreaming, but still, it makes sense to me.

do you reckon that bbc would allow them to use the name, say, "top gear usa"? or would they just "invent" their own show based on top gear?

I'd say the BBC (as long as they were tenuously involved, possibly by providing some of the TG UK reviews to TG USA) wouldn't have a problem. Discovery runs BBC America, as well as a few other things that bear BBC trademarks.