So Top Gear has to avoid staging accidents...anywhere...because they get reported on badly whether they do something intentionally or not.
So now we're down to *one* six-or-so episode season/series per year?
"Keep 'em wanting more" if extended out like Top Gear's been doing lately has a problem - eventually people give up when the wait is too long and move on to something else. That's why US marketers are dialing back or even abandoning the tactic entirely these days.
That's true as well. I have also wondered if the creation of a 13 part series is partly a sap to the overseas market - its an easier sell than a 6 or 7 ep one.
The other downside to the idea is that they've just made damn sure expectations are going to be sky high for this next series/season. With all this time to work on it, get it just right, etc., etc., they don't have any excuses for the next series. If they churn out another dog like S14, it won't be pretty.
This worries me too...I have long thought that they do their best stuff when they are under pressure and churning stuff out fast - it's when they have time to sit back and think about things that they tend to over-complicate stuff and end up with Geoff and the Indian Special.
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It loooks like a race of some sort (Hammond on bike, James in an electric Renault, the Stig using underground Metro train). No idea of what Jeremy was using though, a boat probably.
Top Gear filmed new episode in St-Petersburg today... It's incredible but I've seen one of Top Gear stuff unfortunatly not a James, Jeremy or Richard
Pics taken here
Wilman looks happy for a change.
Dunno, I like when Clarkson does a review in the same style with newer generation of cars, but this one seems to me like a "copy & paste"... It just seems too much.EDIT: And there's no point in moaning about them re-using their own ideas. Clarkson has been plagiarising himself for decades now and it's not stopping any time soon.
I prefer to look at this positively: James in an electric car should be interesting as he is always good value on stuff like that, the Moscow Metro is one of the most visually pleasing in the world and if Jezza really is going to be hooning around Red Square in a hovercraft could be worth the price of admission on its own.
It is not possible, the road of bones runs out somewhere in Siberia and you have to use a train - long way round about 14 April 2004 to 29 July 2004 - see links below.Oh my god. That would be massive! Just imagine the scenery...
Please, do this. Two part Christmas Special. With Russian communism-made cars?
It is not possible, the road of bones runs out somewhere in Siberia and you have to use a train - long way round about 14 April 2004 to 29 July 2004 - see links below.
"From 14 April 2004 to 29 July 2004, McGregor, Boorman, motorcycle riding cameraman Claudio von Planta and their support crew travelled from London to New York, via Western and Central Europe, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia and Canada, for a cumulative distance of 18,887 miles (30,396 km). The only sections of the trip not undertaken by motorcycle were 580 miles (930 km) by train in Siberia, which circumvented the Zilov Gap; a short impassable section towards the end of their Russian journey, which was undertaken by truck; and a 2,505-mile (4,031 km) flight from Magadan in eastern Russia to Anchorage, Alaska."
http://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Long_Way_Round
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Way_Round