chris Evans confirmed as new TOP Gear presenter

firestarter51

wil wrote: »

Judging by this photo from 2015, weirdly freakily accurate

https://www.flickr.com/photos/lgilly/17911817966/

It's a coincidence
This series it terrible, only good presenter is Matt le Blanc the rest are crap
How is Evans comparing his rolls to a present day model
Different cars for different types of driver
No comparison
Miss the old boys

OldMrBrennan83

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Bigus

Patww79 wrote: »

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The whole show is moving along nicely very quickly,improving.

the old three were getting tiresome and old hat + painfully staged.

No wAy would clarkson praise Eire as Chris Evans just did.

D0NNELLY

Schmit/Jordan/Evans/LeBlanc together are like the oscars presenters.. scripted, and terrible.

BBC should forget about trying to appeal to every possible demo and just go with Harris and Reid..

Their geniune enthusiasm really comes across on screen, see Reid in the Focus RS peice and Harris in pretty much everything

lertsnim

Get rid of Evans, Jordan and Schmit and they are really onto something.

bnt

lertsnim wrote: »

Get rid of Evans, Jordan and Schmit and they are really onto something.

Almost agreement, but I don't get what Sabine has done wrong. She's barely been on the show at all so far. IMHO nowhere near the annoyance level produced by Eddie and his bloody spoons. He was playing them in Azerbaijan too, during the Grand Prix weekend, and I will not be surprised if we see him in Austria walking like he has a spoon up his jacksey.

lertsnim

bnt wrote: »

Almost agreement, but I don't get what Sabine has done wrong.

She comes across very wooden in the studio. I wouldn't mind her doing a pre recorded segment though.

Captain Chaos

lertsnim wrote: »

She comes across very wooden in the studio. I wouldn't mind her doing a pre recorded segment though.

She is just not comfortable in front of the camera, just let do what she does best and drive, I reckon she is better than Stiggy.

Evans to be questioned over alleged sex assault:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3671964/Chris-Evans-quizzed-police-sexual-assault-allegations.html

Sean Quagmire

Is it me or is this clown wearing the same outfit for every show? Yellow tshirt with black jumper, stupid black boots. What the hell is wrong with this fool?

robinph

Chris Evans quits:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36707266

gumbo1

I wonder a) who's going to replace him b) will viewer numbers rise again?

bnt

In his own words:

https://twitter.com/achrisevans/status/749969917055799296

https://twitter.com/achrisevans/status/749970092969123840

krustydoyle

Hopefully LeBlanc stays on now and lets get another petrol head to replace loudmouth evans

Harry Palmr

Matt Le Blanc, Sabine Schmitz, Chris Harris, Rory Reid and leave it at that.

Walter H Price

Well that didn't last long :P said it at the time Evans was a disastrous appointment , he's like a kid on a sugar rush running around the place and shouting , just made the whole thing kinda goofy which as never what top gear was about ... To be honest the whole new format sucks , BBC should just let it go now it will never be the same or as good as when it was Clarkson , May and Hammond , BBC shot themselves in the foot bowing to the PC pressure to sack Clarkson, Top Gear is finished.

py2006

The original 3 were not great when they first started out. Years of experience and people grew with them.

No matter who they were replaced with the ratings would have gone down and they would have been hated. If they were there 10 years from now you would have a different opinion.

Duggy747

I'd honestly be more inclined to watch the show now without Evans, I just found him cringey.

ScumLord

I don't think they need to bring in anyone to replace him, they already have loads of presenters.

py2006

The guy who hosts the spinoff show afterwards is pretty good, may be they will use him or do you think they need a big name?

ScumLord

py2006 wrote: »

The guy who hosts the spinoff show afterwards is pretty good, may be they will use him or do you think they need a big name?

I don't think they ever needed a big name. Chris Harris already comes with a big following, Rory Reid is very good in front of the camera, just move those two up with Le Blanc and they have a trio again. Sabine isn't great as a front presenter because of the language barrier but she's great in the pieces they do.

robinph

Whoever was brought in as the replacement was destined to be slammed for not being Clarkson. Evans was that sacrificial offering.

The next presenter will be better just due to the fact that they are not the presenter directly after Clarkson. If they had had anyone else in for this series they would still have been slated, you could then bring in Evans to replace them and everyone would love him.

py2006

I like LeBlanc and I am quite surprised there isn't more of a furore about him too. He is inexperienced as a presenter and it shows. He is a nervous and awkward and his timing is off. With time he will get the hang of it of course, but time is not something Top Gear fans are willing to give it seems.

OldMrBrennan83

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colm_mcm

py2006 wrote: »

With time he will get the hang of it of course, but time is not something Top Gear fans are willing to give it seems.

It's not 2fm or the sugababes where you can just go in with no relevant employment history and do work experience and hopefully get the hang of it. Top Gear is a massive deal for the BBC.

py2006

colm_mcm wrote: »

It's not 2fm or the sugababes where you can just go in and do work experience and hopefully get the hang of it. Top Gear is a massive deal for the BBC.

Well they took him on in the first place...

Deagol

py2006 wrote: »

I like LeBlanc and I am quite surprised there isn't more of a furore about him too. He is inexperienced as a presenter and it shows. He is a nervous and awkward and his timing is off. With time he will get the hang of it of course, but time is not something Top Gear fans are willing to give it seems.

I'm finding LeBlanc is relaxing into the role and getting better each time. He's much more comfortable in front of the camera and I like his dry delivery. I hope he's kept on. I do think however if they are going to persist in the chat show segment they need someone who can do interviews and is funny and can do cars too. Not an easy ask I guess...

py2006

Deagol wrote: »

I'm finding LeBlanc is relaxing into the role and getting better each time. He's much more comfortable in front of the camera and I like his dry delivery. I hope he's kept on. I do think however if they are going to persist in the chat show segment they need someone who can do interviews and is funny and can do cars too. Not an easy ask I guess...

Yea he seems to get better each week. I like him when they do the out of the studio stuff. He is more himself.

Nody

py2006 wrote: »

The original 3 were not great when they first started out. Years of experience and people grew with them.

They may not have been great but they sure felt far more cohesive than this team and that's before you add Chris "Sugar Rush" Evans to the mix.

Also keep in mind:

Evans, who had signed a three-year deal to present and oversee the show, was its executive producer in all but name.

So if you produce the lowest showing Top Gear over 20 years with dropping numbers there's an accountability factor there as well.

sligeach

I just heard the good news.

fryup

Walter H Price wrote: »

Well that didn't last long :P said it at the time Evans was a disastrous appointment , he's like a kid on a sugar rush running around the place and shouting , just made the whole thing kinda goofy which was never what top gear was about

wha...........thats exactly what its about, middle aged men acting the twat

ScumLord

Deagol wrote: »

I'm finding LeBlanc is relaxing into the role and getting better each time. He's much more comfortable in front of the camera and I like his dry delivery. I hope he's kept on. I do think however if they are going to persist in the chat show segment they need someone who can do interviews and is funny and can do cars too. Not an easy ask I guess...

Chris Harris has done some good interviews in the past but they tend to be more on the technical side. It may be hard to stop him getting to bogged down in details that most people don't care about.

py2006

Nody wrote: »

They may not have been great but they sure felt far more cohesive than this team and that's before you add Chris "Sugar Rush" Evans to the mix.

Also keep in mind:
So if you produce the lowest showing Top Gear over 20 years with dropping numbers there's an accountability factor there as well.

All that was going to happen regardless of who took over.

The originals were more cohesive because they became it. The show didn't have huge ratings when it first started. Years with the same crew and it did.

Harry Palmr

Deagol wrote: »

I'm finding LeBlanc is relaxing into the role and getting better each time. He's much more comfortable in front of the camera and I like his dry delivery. I hope he's kept on. I do think however if they are going to persist in the chat show segment they need someone who can do interviews and is funny and can do cars too. Not an easy ask I guess...

Its the studio section/s that are by far away the worst - I recorded it mainly because of the football but it does mean being able to skip through SIARPC and the awkward standing about bits. Drop all that an just do self contained segments which mix solo and multi-presenter films.

inforfun

Agricola

Can't see it ever really working with this bunch. I suppose it will work in that it will be something very different but it will still feel like a bad TG tribute act.

Harris is great, Reid is fine too. Le Blanc I thought was a bit wooden but he's growing into it and I thought his Porsche segment last night was the best car review on TG since the old crew left. Sabine Schmit isn't given anything to do or say bar the odd soundbyte to underline her Germanness. Eddie Jordan I think could be good but like Sabine is being deployed as a joke character.

Don't know which of them could take over from Evans as the main presenter, celebrity wrangler, etc. He was the closest to Clarkson at that job. Le Blanc would be the only option unless they get a new face.

lertsnim

Good riddance. I hope they don't replace him. There's enough there already.

Mr.Nice Guy

He was a dreadful choice. I think they should scrap them all and start over as it seemed like they were Evans's picks anyway.

bnt

I don't think it's right to call the other presenters "Evans' choices". Evans was not the producer or showrunner, there was no way he alone could decide something that important. The lineup struck me as more of a committee decision, for better or for worse.

The Sun is saying that Matt is probably going to be sole Presenter. Back in the "good old days" the line between presenter and reporter was blurred: did we call Jeremy the presenter, and the other two reporters? Last season it was Matt & Chris introducing segments, with the other reporter/presentert popping in to discuss it afterwards.

My main wish for the next season is that they slim down the Sleb section - it's too long and is even more of a momentum-killer than in the old days. One person, quick interview & pimpage of whatever they're working on, drive the rallycross track, done. I'm not too bothered about the choice of presenter: the cars are the real stars of the show.

sligeach

More good news for Chris.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chris-evans-faces-tfi-friday-axe-following-top-100738351.html

_Kaiser_

sligeach wrote: »

More good news for Chris.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/chris-evans-faces-tfi-friday-axe-following-top-100738351.html

No loss there.. TFI (like Evans himself) is terribly dated and wasn't really ever that good to begin with.

OldMrBrennan83

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lertsnim

Patww79 wrote: »

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No.

OldMrBrennan83

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fryup

can't understand all this love for LeBlanc, i think he's crap

inforfun

Probably has to do with the guy who he was presenting with.
Next to Evans it is hard to be disliked.

They just ****ed up with those presenters.
Working from a checklist of "we need one of this, one of that...." to keep The Guardian happy.
And then pick people who once or twice had a cameo on the real Top Gear and were pretty watcheable in that cameo.

_Kaiser_

fryup wrote: »

can't understand all this love for LeBlanc, i think he's crap

I feel the same about Sabine.. excellent driver yes, but absolutely terrible as a host/presenter/guest star - or whatever the format they were using was.

There's 2 options here as I see it..

- This time completely revamp it with a must smaller presenting team that can do their own thing rather than copying CHM

- Scrap the show entirely (or for a few years at least)

Option 3 - get the lads back - would never fly, especially if TGT on Amazon does well which, given the abysmal performance of Evans and co, is almost guaranteed as people go back for "real" Top Gear.

Dempsey

Felt the show got better as it went along. The cars they looked at this season were very interesting.

Harris & Reid are good additions, their reviews were informative.

Evans was getting better at it but the first episodes left their mark with the viewers. Not fussed whether he stayed or left

You always feel like Le Blanc is acting his way through alot of it. Not fussed whether he stays or leaves

Jordan & Schmit dont offer much at all unless its a segment that needs more drivers.

I imagine the Grand Tour will come along to land a KO punch.

bnt

Chris has written a "wrap-up" piece for the Daily Mail: I was a square peg in a round hole - but am I down about Top Gear? No, it was one heck of a thrill!. He's putting a positive spin on his departure, and has some particularly nice things to say about Matt:

For me, he is the man. He is the captain Top Gear truly needs going forward, the perfect torso for the rest of TG’s limbs.

Not only does he eat, sleep, breathe and dream engines, propshafts and trail-braking, but the overwhelming quality that struck me about him is that he’s just such a pro.

The whole time I worked with him, he never once looked at the clock, was never late on set, knew his lines inside out and back to front and, most importantly on such an intense production, he always had time for everyone, especially the crew.

quad_red

I just watched the last three episodes last night. And I enjoyed them more than any Top Gears in the last ten years.

I really like Le Blanc, Harris and Reid. Evans is borderline ok. But Schmitz and Jordan are both awful.

The Harris piece on the M2 was really enjoyable as was Le Blanc's sojourn in Kerry with the Rolls.