Top Gear is back

ciarsd

Sunday October 7th @ 8pm

1huge1

Sweet, i'll never forget the episode last season with their makeshift limo's going around london.

Plug

ciarsd wrote:

Sunday October 7th @ 8pm

Lovely juvly;)

patrickc

there is a top gear forum here http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=900

_Kaiser_

Ah damnit.. I thought it was tonight when I saw the title - remind us next week ciarsd!

E92

Can't wait, but I hope that there will be more in the way of cars this time. It was becoming less and less of a car show IMO.

woop

great! discovery turbo and that mike brewer will be given a rest then

cantdecide

How many episodes to a season?- it seems like your glad it's back and a month later it's the last of the season-

Remember the halloween special when Bart made Krusty put his show on 24hrs a day 7 days a week- Lets hope for top gear's sake I never end up omnipotent....

ciarsd

patrickc2006 wrote:

there is a top gear forum here http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=900

And this is the motors forum here - just as relevant! :rolleyes:

Yup, will bump this one up next saturday/sunday!

The tax man

**BUMP**

Just in case it slipped your minds folks.:D

leeroybrown

After this long off air it ends up clashing with the rugby...

ciarsd wrote:

And this is the motors forum here - just as relevant! :rolleyes:

The Top Gear forum should never have been created to begin with.

mike65

Ohhh I forgot about the match, the repeat of TG is on BBC3 next Saturday

Producer Andy Wilman speaks

We have, and I think we're all agreed that chasing the eight million is bollocks; a false dawn, a night with a hooker when you're drunk. The thing is, the Top Gear audience is made up of several million who like cars, and then several million more bonus viewers; the ones who say "I'm not interested in cars but I like Top Gear..."

It's human nature that as TV makers we'd feel the impulse to go chasing those bonus viewers because it's good for the ratings and good for the ego - like pulling a standoffish girl - you get immense satisfaction in winning the harder prize.

But if we decided to go that way with TG we'd go mad. The bonus viewers want the next film that tops the space shuttle, or the next challenge that out-loonies the limos, and you just can't keep going like that. We'd burn out in two series and look like tits.

So what we've done is retrench to somewhere where we can be more comfortable, and in essence gone back to cars. You know when a huge band brings out a new album and they say "This time we just wanted to get back to guitar, bass and drums and instead of taking three years to make the new record we recorded it in just two weeks," - it's a bit like that.

The big film in the first programme, where the boys take three lightweight supercars and go looking for the best driving road in the world, is probably the essence of what I'm on about. It's just us being comfortable with cars.

But you know what? Secretly I'm hoping the bonus viewers, the ones who normally tune in for an exploding space rocket, will actually love this film because it transcends cars. The cinematography is as good as anything we've ever done, and there's plenty of laughter as the three of them fuel their road movie with bickering. And as for the end, it's emotional. Ultimately, even when they're doing a petrolheady film like this one, those three can still grab millions of kids and grown-ups on a Sunday night, people facing work or school in the morning, and make their weekend finish with a smile.

And anyway, don't think for a moment that we've lost any ambition or drive or vitality, or got tired of being nine years old. We're pushing ourselves as hard as we've ever done. The Botswana road movie, a one hour special, is as spectacular as anything we've ever done, Amphibious: The Sequel is better than I could have ever dreamed of, the 24 Hour Race is a proper soap opera, and as for the Veyron versus the Eurofighter, I know there's pikey mobile phone footage of it all over sodding You Tube, but wait till you see what we've done with it. I hate You Tube and the internet at times; whatever happened to people being patient and waiting whilst you cooked them up a nice surprise? I am 45 though.

So tonight we'll see what happens. I know the eight million viewers madness won't happen again - that last series, what with Richard's crash and everything, was mental. But even if some people do bugger off to watch Wife Swap or Heartbeat, I think we'll keep plenty of non-car people, because I can guarantee we'll still make you happy on a Sunday night.

Mike.

kikel

Well? what am i missing? I don't have cable or sky, so theirs no point plugging in the tv

colm_mcm

they're looning around in supercars at the minute....

cyclopath2001

colm_mcm wrote:

they're looning around in supercars at the minute....

Car pornography?

Atomic Pineapple

wasn't a great first episode, that road they were on looked amazing but that was about it for the whole show

vengeance52

Was funny watchin may suffering

junkyard

It was a bit of a let down this time around I'd say.:(

TommyT

Quite boring and predictable.

gary the great

Wasnt the best episode ever and the star guest was really crap, whats the point in having people like her who dont care about cars on the show?

Volvoboy

The ''News'' section was the only good part of the show, and the other two swearing at Jezza (i know its staged) but thats about it from the show.



-VB-

mike65

Agreed, I'd have made more of the road and less of Mays suffering tbh.

Mike.

Cmar-Ireland

Crap! I missed it, Is it repeated during the week?

Cionád

mike65 wrote:

Ohhh I forgot about the match, the repeat of TG is on BBC3 next Saturday

I thought it was quite good

Stephen

They used to repeat it on BBC2 on wednesday evenings too, dunno if that is still the case.

kilasser

Repeat Wednesday @ 7pm on BBC 2.

RobAMerc

I enjoyed it - it was the first TG in a long while about driving with just enough nonsense in it to keep the not so car minded amused.

just shows what beautiful roads there are around - that must be what inspires the Italians, Germans etc to build supercars like that - So the superich playboys can enjoy them while heading off on long weekends in the hills with supermodels!

I particularly liked the reference to the Italian Job - a wonderful piece of cinema that.

Fey!

I enjoyed it. Some of those scenery shots were tremendous.

I wouldn't mind a spin down that spirally road...

Andrewf20

I didnt feel too jealous watching the show last night, because the roads on the 1st half of the show were too windy for cars with that much power. An Mx 5 would of had me content. Also, I reckon some roads in the West of Ireland would give those roads a run for their money, even if the scenery isnt as large a scale.

1 gripe I have about the show is their staged slagging off of each other. Its a bit long in the foot.

Cmar-Ireland

kilasser wrote:

Repeat Wednesday @ 7pm on BBC 2.

Cheers...!

fletch

I liked the Golf with the V12 engine too

Agree with Cmar-Ireland, some of the jokes are getting tiringly predictable.