CUCK GEAR CONFIRMED DOA, BBC ON SUICIDE WATCH

BBC salty they let Jeremy walk out now

honestly what do you expect?

Of course people were going to watch episode one just to see if it holds a candle to clarkson/may/hammond top gear

>it doesn't but watching gordon ramsay get bitch slapped and do a time attack was very entertaining

>>15214537
Lol top gear BTFO by Antiques Roadshow.

t b h I like Matt, think he's entertaining like the old guys, but not interested in anyone else really

I think everyone expected this

>>15214560
this desu senpai

Is the show really that bad (for an auto enthusiast) or are people just hating on Evans and BBC for sacking Clarkson?
Havent seen any of the new episodes yet

>deliberately make a dumbed-down version TG to appeal to normies
>doesn't appeal it normies because no clarkson
>doesn't appeal to car fans because it's shit

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tfw Extra Gear gets more ratings than Top Gear

>>15214576
it's not funny
The first episode had a laugh track because the studio audience wasn't laughing at any of Evans' jokes.

Personally, I think he just looks like an utter twat. Jeremy was a bit of a twat in character, but he looked and acted like a friendly and likable guy, with big smiles and funny expressions. Evans looks rather condescending (it's partly the hipster glasses) and doesn't so much smile as smirk.

Hammond, May, and Clarkson are Top Gear.

>>15214600
evans genuily looks like The emperor in star wars

>>15214576
I genuinely couldn't finish the first episode because it was so bad

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>>15214626
I genuenly couldnt finish on your mom last night because she was so ugly

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>>15214633

>>15214579
>>deliberately make a dumbed-down version TG to appeal to normies
>normies
it's one of the most widely-watched television series in the world. Just what the fuck are you on about?

The problem is that Chris Evans has about as much personality as a bowl of chicken soup, Sabine Schmitz is about as entertaining as a clogged toilet and Matt Leblanc is just pulled around a like child's wooden dog on a string.

>>15214646
The BBC took the normiest bits of old-new-TG (the challenges, celebrities) and pushed all of the boring car stuff (indepth reviews, news) onto extra Gear

The show is a mess.

Why didn't seasick steve did the race?

Why didn't said the mercedes time?

Eddy Jordan sadly look like a senile old guy.

Evans has no charisma as a presenter.

Show would be better only with leblanc.

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>>15214633

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Just checked his twitter

>>15214954
FACTS!

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>>15214954

>>15214954
Can't wait to see what he'll think of the last episode's ratings.

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Clarkson's face when

>>15214556
Antiques roadshow is p chill tho pham

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>>15214954
>that fucking butthurt
>r-ratings don't matter guys
>please ignore how last week I was all about ratings

>>15214579
>>deliberately make a dumbed-down version TG to appeal to normies

TG was actually quite dumbed down if you think about it.

It was pure entertainment and a lot of "information" in it was blatantly wrong.

I tried to see how bad the new flop gear was

I got 2 minutes into it and had to turn it off

>>15215336
At least it had some 'information'

>>15215248
>FACT

>>15214537
/o/ called this months ago, IIRC.
>>15214579
And that.

>>15214543
> Let him walk out
They FIRED HIM.

>>15215212
Well, you've pretty much got his style of argument in one simple picture there.

I'm still using him as an example of 'what would your ideal job be' when asked in job interviews, though.

>>15214671
The show is a big fat mistake.

>>15214560
Well to be honest, Extra Gear was much better, Sabine and Matt are ok. Thou Matt is bit too monotone, but I think within a season he would be cool. The two guys in Extra Gear are pretty ok, liked them, the thing is the seemed bit stiff during extra gear, if those guys would be given more opportunities to be creatively fun it could work.

All they have to do is get rid of Evans. That's it.

>show goes global under Clarkson and friends
>pick main host no one outside of The British Isles proper has ever even fucking heard of

Bold strategy from the BBC, alienating the audience of the most syndicated show in television must be some sort of ruse.

>>15215415
>They FIRED HIM.
Salty AF

>>15215491
this. who hired this clown.

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>mfw BBC panics and tries to do something immediately to save the show
>mfw they fire Evans and give the show to LeBlanc and Sabine

>>15214556
antiques roadshow is more informative and more entertaining honestly

May's unemployment tube is more entertaining than this crap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbkDiuz9fw

>>15215975
This is comfy as fuck.
He needs a cooking show.

>>15215975
The fuck. Why has it taken this long for me to hear of this?

>>15215975

Watching them assemble boxes is more entertainning than new gear

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>>15215900
LeBlanc and Sabine are awful.

https://youtu.be/I70lhj98dqA

>its a plug

>>15216373
It truly is friendship simulator.

fucking hell i want to like new top gear
production quality is still spot on
the cars are still cool
literally the only thing holding the show back is Evans... can he portray a personality that isn't absolute shit?

>>15216495
Production quality has gone way down, they lost their best directors, cameramen and editors.
They are trying to copy the cinematography of old top gear, but they're fucking up the pacing.

>>15215975
Thanks for the link, this is super comfy.

>>15216510
i haven't noticed, it still looks great to me. where'd the directors and cameramen go?

>>15214537
Every fucking image of this fucker makes me want to punch him in the face even more

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>>15214668
>indepth reviews
>top gear

>>15216527
Who do you think they went with?

>>15216527
>i haven't noticed, it still looks great to me. where'd the directors and cameramen go?

>thinking they did anything besides follow the trio to Amazon

It's not so much an issue now in the first couple episodes, but all the show's industry connections also left with Jeremy. No one knows/gives a fuck about Evans. Would YOU loan him your multi-million dollar hypercar?

Best episode of the day so far is the Breitling watch test and taking the trucks to Canada to get Hammond..

Haven't seen the 2nd newest one yet (1 hr away.).

Am I gonna be impressed?

>>15216527
They went to Grand Tour.
>>15216565
Apparently this was an issue with production - companies were sending cars to Grand Tour to the point that Top Gear had trouble sourcing demo vehicles.
It makes sense - there's not exactly going to be a bunch of excess demo Huayras and P1s.

>>15216605
You figure with ultra high end cars like that, companies probably only have one press demo, maybe 2? And even then, you probably have to be a well established and well respected//liked auto journalist to even have someone like Pagani take you seriously when you rung up the press office

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I don't get the excitement, you keks. Top Gear was on a decline as is: it peaked around 2007-2008, after that it was going downhill anyway. When their show airs on Amazon the ratings aren't going to be red hot either because it's going to be paid content. Plus all the retards who watched Fast and Furious back in the early 00's (aka auto enthusiasts) are growing up now and are starting to get (shitty) jobs, so they won't have time to watch the new show...

>>15216639
>it peaked around 2007-2008
Ok, maybe it's too narrow of a window, probably more like 2007-2010.

>>15216639
the Amazon show affords them the budget to do alot of the things that made the show great though, epic trips through foreign lands with sitty cars.

Imagine Top gear trying to do the Dakar, or a real WRX style event, or fucking building submarine cars to go from Australia to Japan.out of old Volvo wagons. Maybe it's pie in the sky thinking on my part, but I think the budget will free them up to try some really crazy stuff they always wanted to do, but couldn't with the BBC

>>15216637
Most likely it's only one demo car, probably that's going to be sold cheaper on the basis that they used to for demos.

>>15215975
Fantastic

>>15216668
BBC is a government broadcasting corporation and Top Gear had no budget constraints there. At Amazon they're going to be constrained by ROI considerations.

>>15214537
B-but it's so progressive now!

>>15216751
Son have you compare the budget amazon is giving them to what BBC gave them?

They're getting a budget of 7million per episode?

You wanna take a guess as to how much BBC gave them per episode?

Ill save you the trouble.

1.5 million.

>>15216773
And? If the views aren't going to be there that budget is going to be substantially reduced. ROI.

>>15215752
This is what happens when you're funded by stealing money at gun point from people.

>>15216668
I would imagine they'd have less constraints and censorship at Amazon vs the beeb as well.

>>15216794
say ROI again

>>15216751
>BBC is a government broadcasting corporation and Top Gear had no budget constraints there
They have already been handed 250 MILLION for the first season of TGT, they are getting something on the order o 7 times as much funding per episode than they ever got from the BBC, and granted I'm American, but from what I have gathered, trying to do ANYTHING with the BBC was a complete shit show, were as Amazon is not going to give a flying fuck

Return on investment? Amazon could run the show in the red for 5 years and not be concerned. It's going to be a hug draw for Prime, and gets them boat loads of positive publicity that in itself holds a ton of value.

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>>15216639
>>15216650

One of the reasons Clarkson was so eager to leave was, allegedly, increasing BBC interference on the creative side that was slowly ruining the show.

I took that with a grain of salt, until I saw this new "Top Gear". Finally the Beeb got to make the show just the way they want to, and it is a fucking disaster

>>15216864
Still can't get over the BBC dropping in a laugh track when they film the show in front of a real fucking audience. Who the fuck in BBc production thought that was going slip through unnoticed

>>15215336

you can save face by admitting your mediocrity, chris evans

>>15216877
The BBC's current leadership are all mentally ill.

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>mfw I have Amazon Prime anyway because muh free 2-day shipping and I won't even have to pirate Grand Tour
Speaking of piracy, I should go back and watch the old episodes.

>>15214579
TG was already as dumb as possible, breh
It was always normie shit and it still is.

>car fans
what does this even mean.

Either you build show cars or you build/drive race cars. Everything else is normie shit.

>>15216877

I don't think they really understand how social media works

>>15216855
Seconding this. It's not like shows on Amazon Prime have advertisements or anything to give them a clear black/red ROI line each episode. This is completely to draw in more people to Prime, to draw them good publicity, and to draw more content in the future to be on Prime.

>>15216928

t. oisin "human punching bag" tyson

>>15214537
Nah Clarkson & co. are busy making boxes

>>15216917
Shit yes, start some time after season 5/6 because that's when the challenges started.

>>15217035
Thanks for the recommendation bb, will do. Time to get comfy.

>>15217046
Probably a good challenge to see if you like it is Bolivia or Botswana, both are top tier.

>>15216944
leave oisin alone

>>15217087
The funniest thing is that he copped the punch and he's the only one to have his career ruined over this.

>>15214560
Matt is the only reason I'm sad to see the new one fail. I really like him, which is more than I can say for almost any tv personality.

>>15214537
I feel bad for Chris Harris

>>15214537
mannn today I was watching the truck episode from season 12, many keks. All those jokes about murdering prostitutes and pornography wouldn't be allowed these on cuck gear im sure

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>>15216751
>>15216773
>>15216855
Perfect Capitalism vs. socialism comparison right here. Getting funded by the government that forces its citizens to buy a license to watch TV sounds nice, but then you got a private corporation that is continuously looking at what the customer wants.

>Worse ratings than an Antique's Roadshow rerun

>>15219370
fuck me i quite like antiques roadshow. i love how passionate the people are about some old knickknacks, and they know so much about them.

7/10, would watch while somewhat intoxicated

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>>15219367
>the BBC doesn't have to pander its audience

stop being fucking retarded, burgerclap, every state owned TV broadcaster has to meet rating requirements

>>15214600

Watch any of the Clarkson Top Gear's. There's a laugh track in those too. Whenever Clarkson makes a shit joke there's canned laughter where you can one woman's high pitched chuckle

>>15214666
Yes!
Dude I hate Sabine, she was good in the van on the hurrdurring but that was it. Even with the mini Cooper racing I couldn't stand her

>>15214671
Also the lap times were re written so it wasn't the previous casts hand writing

Never have i been so mad

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>>15214537
I'll be kinda sad for Stig, he was a good character to have. Of course Grand Tour will have something like him, but it just won't be the same.

>>15219440
Not just that, the track was reworked and they kept the old times, so all cars are now like 3 seconds faster magically.

>>15219456
no it isn't

>>15219460
They spent a quarter of a million pounds on track repair.
Suddenly cars are placing way higher than they should be.

Pudge Viper nearly makes the top of the board with basic suspension and mid range power.
McLaren midrange racer, a car with admittedly great suspension and very low weight, beats the Huayra, a very light car, with fantastic suspension, a fuck load more power, active aerodynamics, etc.

The track was repaired and they've bodged it.

>>15219440
care to post a screenshot of the new laptimes?
I don't want to scour the episode for it and I haven't watched it.

>>15214564
I thought it was gonna be a watchable generic car show.

Its not, its actually painful to watch.

American top gear is better.

That german ripoff "grip" is a thousand times better.

>>15215975
this shit is cash.

>>15216668
>"Tonight, we go to the moon"
>Remaining episodes are Clarkson, Hammond and May at a cafe near Bolton because they blew their budget on "Grand Tour: Destination Moon"

>>15219513
I'd still watch.

James' unemployment tube is genuinely more entertaining, and it's a fucking iphone filmed vertically with youtubes useless compensation shit making you sea sick while watching.

>>15219513
160 million pounds.

They could legit send shit to the moon and then have money left over to match top gears pathetic episode budget.

>>15219520
James May basically made me the man I am today. All his shows are comfy as fuck and got me into tinkering with cars.

>>15214556
Don't diss antiques roadshow, I love watching retards take their heirlooms and be told it's worth $400

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, get the views up.

Let's see if we can beat the 2.8 mil figure with this shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbkDiuz9fw

>>15219495
>I thought it was gonna be a watchable generic car show.

I'd deal with it if it was just generic car show, but its just shouty annoying and really not funny
Guess there's 5th Gear and might be time to catch up on some Car SoS

>>15214954
I don't even know this faggot and I already hate him

>>15219524
>Hammond is selected because he's the lightest
>After landing, he's informed it's a one way mission
>Kickstarter to rescue Hammond raises enough to land the trio on Mars for a return mission
>Evans is also kidnapped and stranded on Phobos as "orbital insertion ballast"

>>15219530
Or alternatively a little old poor lady takes some crockery her aunt gave her, expecting a couple hundred pounds a d told it's worth tens of thousands.

>>15219560
I cannot abide antiques roadshow. Those fuckers refused to evaluate my mint condition Nazi memorabilia.

>>15219530
>>15219560
>at first
OH SHIT WHAT IS THAT
C-Could it b-be
>a little later
unfortunately this appears to be a knock off and is only worth a fraction of the original item
>random variable
however even the knock off is highly collectable and is worth 10k

>>15219566
at lest they did not report you for hate crimes and have all your items seized

>>15219566
Eh, shit like that gives a lot of them heebie jeebies, you're lucky they didn't call the cops on you.
>>15219574
I've seen that happen so many times, it was really neat.

>>15219468
Though that may very well have had an effect, part of the difference could also be down to the new Stig being a better driver than Ben Collins. Even during the CHM era both the cars and guests were going considerably quicker after he took over.

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>>15215248
reckon ay

>>15219576
>Eh, shit like that gives a lot of them heebie jeebies, you're lucky they didn't call the cops on you.
I'm just glad I didn't take the Hitler autographs along. Unfortunately, they're just basic autographs, I'd give my left nut for a signed copy of Mein Kampf but the Americans seem to own all of them.

>>15219481
Sorry guy I wish I had a screen cap
It's like they had a secretary hand write them all perfect and neat

>>15219581
Definitely, but as I said these changes mean that the board needs to be wiped and started clean.

>>15219592
South Americans?

>>15219597
I think they had Chris redo them because they're babies about Clarkson, but they also removed the jokes from it, which was always one of the best bits.

"The Pagani huuuurrrggghhh"

>>15219600
Both. South Americans are a good source for general memorabilia but Hitler autographs are generally only found in the USA and sometimes the UK.

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>>15217087

>>15216917
How can you pirate something on the BBC when it was already paid for by TV licencing?

>>15215975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biRksy2GrxU
amazing stuff here

What is it about Chris Evans that makes me think he's a whiny self centered man child? I haven't even seen the new Top Gear or followed it very closely because every image or TV spot for it has this dumb kid and his shit eating grin. I don't even have a reason to be so fucking salty but there's something implacable about him that just screams entitled cunt. What is it, why does my douche detector just explode when I see him

top gear should have just gotten chris harris to remake the space saver amg drifting video for 60 minutes

>>15219767
He looks like a used condom.

>>15219640
Better caption: A 56-year-old fat man kicked my ass
He should be fucking ashamed of that, Tymon is 37 for fuck's sake.

>>15219767
Your douche detector seems pretty accurate, especially if you know as little about him as you claim.

>>15219524
>Take two of the Reliant orbiter.
>Attains geosynchronous orbit.

>>15215840
>this. who hired this clown.

He was already on a BBC contract and the BBC hates talent scouting. He owns a bunch of old Ferraris from his radio and cocaine money, so they figured "hey he owns a Ferrari California, he must be a good driver!"

Oh how they were wrong

>>15216321
He had one. He made one dish and then said he'd run out of things he knew how to cook.

>>15220011
I remember he had a battle with Gordon Ramsay and won.

>>15220042
That was a good battle

>Ramsey spends a huge amount of time carefully measuring everything, working hard on it and timing it perfectly
>May drinks half a bottle of wine, dumps the other half all over his meal, slaps it in the oven and forgets about it. and wins

>>15220042
>what are you going to put on top of your pie
>cock

>>15220212
I need a full cooking show of them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3P8lHjFir7k

>>15220212
>>15220283
Call it "Fucking cocks".

>>15220042
>you disappoint me ramsay

every fucking time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOfhQ_SZEg

>>15220339
Ramsay is a twat. He said he'd quit cooking if he lost. Which he did.

>>15220339
May is seriously the alpha's alpha. Even cooks better than Ramsay.

Cooking with James: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFGriqtMSqo ...in real time.

Can't wait for the 17 hour directors cut DVD of him putting together that telephone.

>>15220398
>Gets smashed.
>Cobbles together a fish pie better than a world renowned chef.
>Is a good sport about it all.
>Teaches you how to be a real man.
>Is a ridiculously common celebrity crush.
>Never tied himself down with children.
>Casual reefer.
>Always drops the funniest calmest jokes.
Women want him, men want to be him.

>>15219867
I'm not even kidding, I've been more or less ignoring the Top Gear threads on /o/ until now. I heard something about him maybe being bossy on set or something but nothing I could confirm. I seriously have no clue why I hate him on sight, please explain his douchiness.

>>15220413
I'd watch it.

>>15220426
Men also want him, though

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>>15220426
Alpha Protip:

Always start with hello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3s6TfiA8c8

>>15214556

Antiques Roadshow is the OG of picker/pawn/appraisal shows. And it's the realest. I have no qualms with Antiques Roadshow and I'll put it on and watch it from time to time.

>>15220339
>Are you swearing in my kitchen?
> Fuck fuck, shit, ass, fuck
And he's the professional chef.

>>15220454
>minimum wage paycheck
>new 86twin
hmm

>on guide
>bbc america showing Top Gear
>says "New"
>watch Parks & Rec.
That four eyed faggot's voice really ruined the first episode, apart from the fake laughter

>>15220483
that's a mustang

>>15220483
don't forget the FRESH

>>15220454
ayy

>>15220432
He was married to Billy Piper, a chill woman who gives no fucks. She left him because he was a massive cunt who got pissy at the smallest of things and because he felt threatened by her blossoming career.

He almost wrecked his relationship with the BBC because he was such a cunt, too. But he promised to tone it down a lot. Then he became the most-listened to DJ on British radio after Terry Wogan died and his dickbaggery returned since he views himself as too financially beneficial to the BBC and thus untouchable.

He's even pissing off LeBlanc because he is an absolutely vile human being with more narcissism and ego than Narcissus.

>>15220544
>evans actually believes that he is more financially beneficial to the BBC than jezza was
whew all dat dere denial

>>15220567
>is literally causing rifts on the show
>argues with and pisses off the Hollywood talent brought in specifically by the BBC to broaden the appeal of the show
>losing listeners on his Radio 2 show
>egomaniac who micromanages everything and pissed off the veteran film crews into leaving so he could bring in his own, inexperienced staff
>show is hemorrhaging viewers primarily because of him
>Evans is also pissing off people on twatter and making himself look like an utter fool
I can't wait until he's sacked

>>15220593
the sad truth though is, that if he sells a single one of his ferraris he'll live a wealthier lifestyle than the most of us.

just goes to show that luck is worth much more than talent.

>>15220668
I'd rather lead an average life than the life of that arrogant cunt. Surely he knows that everyone hates him.

>>15220668
>the sad truth though is, that if he sells a single one of his ferraris he'll live a wealthier lifestyle than the most of us.

He's got a massive coke habit, and doesn't try to hide it. If he gets kicked off the BBC even with selling Ferraris he'll be broke in a couple years

>>15220486
>Top Gear on
>Watching Parks and Rec instead

Oh dear, that's desprate

>>15220698
I bet Billie would suck you off for a couple of grams.