Chris Evans... new Top Gear presenter

Dardania

WHat about the boys from Wheeler Dealers?

CianDon

Dardania wrote: »

WHat about the boys from Wheeler Dealers?

Emmmmmmm No. Sooo very much no. Dear god no!

edburg

I think evans is a good choice, he has a bit character about him and think he has an ability to connect well with co hosts.

Also if you look at his car collection history he is not all about ferrari/super cars, he's has/had all types of classics from uber rare to escorts. He is probably as close to Clarkson you could get petrol head wise.

Jodie Kidd I not seen much of her on tv, but she seemed pretty down to earth and that from her top gear appearances.

I don't like Chris Harris much, watched a few of his vids on drive channel and he tells what's what and then bang nothing. Type of personality anyone who knows ins and out can be.

bucketybuck

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

This will be TG in name only and will die a quick death from fans who watched it because of the banter between the three lads.

Might as well be a quick death now as opposed to the slow death the old format was suffering. The Clarkson/May/Hammond format was as stale as shite, if they start up again on Netflix or whatever I know I'll have no interest at all in watching them.

At least Top Gear has the chance to reinvent itself a little now, maybe it will fail but better that than continuing on as a show that had completely lost its fizz.

Brief_Lives

http://www.theweek.co.uk/jeremy-clarkson/62887/jeremy-clarksons-top-gear-sequel-very-very-expensive

just a rumour.....

Two male candidates, F1 drivers Mark Webber and Jenson Button, have also been linked with both the rebooted Top Gear and Clarkson's new show.

RandomAccess

Kimi Raikkonen would be my choice.

He doesn't say much but when he does speak its usually worth the wait.

13. Interviewer: “The helmet has a special meaning for many drivers. How important is it to you?”
Kimi: “It protects my head.”

http://kimiraikkonenspace.com/2012/10/18/33-classic-kimi-quotes/

jimgoose

RandomAccess wrote: »

Kimi Raikkonen would be my choice.

He doesn't say much but when he does speak its usually worth the wait...

Oh yea, Kimi is an absolute peach:

Martin Brundle: "Kimi, you missed the presentation by Pele."
Kimi : "Yeah."
Martin: "Will you get over it?"
Kimi: "Yeah. I was having a shit."

corks finest

Brief_Lives wrote: »

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-33158464

"TV and radio personality Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all-new Top Gear line-up, the BBC has announced.
Evans said he was "thrilled" to get the job, describing the motoring show as his "favourite programme of all time".
"I promise I will do everything I possibly can to respect what has gone on before and take the show forward," he added.
Clarkson was dropped in March after punching a producer while on location.
Car enthusiast Evans, who has signed a three-year deal with the BBC Two show, had been tipped to replace his good friend Clarkson but had previously insisted he was not interested.
An "all-new" line-up means Clarkson's co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May will not be involved."

I think Evans is a good choice...
he knows his ferraris cars, and is a brit Lad at the same time...
I was hoping for some left field additions too.. Eddie Irvine, that German female driver, Tiff Needle....
but I´m fine with Evans...

Sabine Schmidt,,,, not a patch on Clarkson and co,,,,Evans I'm referring to, ,,,,,,watch Sabine no sweat

Brief_Lives

Quick Update....

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35490238

Matt LeBlanc to be Top Gear co-presenter

LeBlanc has twice appeared on Top Gear on its popular "star in a reasonably priced car" segment and holds the record for the fastest ever celebrity lap.

dr.fuzzenstein

Brief_Lives wrote: »

Quick Update....

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35490238

Matt LeBlanc to be Top Gear co-presenter

LeBlanc has twice appeared on Top Gear on its popular "star in a reasonably priced car" segment and holds the record for the fastest ever celebrity lap.

I was checking if that said 1 April, if that was on any other website I wouldn't believe it. I'm not entirely sure about this line-up. When it was Clarkson, Hammond and May it just made sense. This somehow doesn't.

Toyotafanboi

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure about this line-up. When it was Clarkson, Hammond and May it just made sense. This somehow doesn't.

yeah, the director general said something like

"quick lads, don't let the dust settle, i need 3 famous car guys a.s.a.p."

i know it's been nearly a year since the "fracas", but imo they should have taken a year out. just to let the dust settle, have a calculated fap and then sleep on it. just digest the events and have a bit of a re-think.

instead they are just trying to mush circles into square shaped holes to be seen to keep on keeping on and hoping nobody will notice.

BoJack Horseman

Is Sabine still going to be a host?

Car99

BoJack Horseman wrote: »

Is Sabine still going to be a host?

I hope so . I can't see Matt le Blanc fitting the bill.

Hunter Mahan

Matt Le Blanc hosts a highlights programme about British Top Gear, and is not too bad at it either, albeit heavily scripted.

bucketybuck

I don't see the point in getting worked up now about Leblanc or anybody else that they get to join the team, he could easily have great chemistry with the other presenters and thats the main thing, so we sorta just have to wait and see.

Not many would have chosen May or Hammond to be Top Gear presenters either, so who is to say Le Blanc won't fit in with the other presenters this time around. Its the producers call to make, and as Le Blanc is rather out of left field I suspect they put a lot of thought into the choice.

edburg

Seeing all the comings and goinds and reasons, BBC seem to be trying to make a politically correct 'Don't upset anyone' car program. I not really sure where they are going, but cant help thinking it will be a Quentin Wilson style top gear modern revamp of the late 80's/early 90's.

FirstinLastout

edburg wrote: »

Seeing all the comings and goinds and reasons, BBC seem to be trying to make a politically correct 'Don't upset anyone' car program.

Not having an asshole presenting their programming don't make it PC.

166man

I wonder what happened to that German wan, Sabine, thought she was going to be a host?

Senecio

Is Chris Harris still rumoured to be joining? I like his stuff.

corks finest

bazz26 wrote: »

Tiff Needle is a co host of Fifth Gear which is successful in it's own right. I'd doubt he would want to move over to a now dying horse being flogged by the BBC.

R.I.P. Top Gear.

Bang on,think tiff and co do a great, entertaining,, informative job,and your wans a cracker,

dr.fuzzenstein

corks finest wrote: »

Bang on,think tiff and co do a great, entertaining,, informative job,and your wans a cracker,

VBH? I have to say watching her get damp underwear when flooring a supercar through a tunnel never fails to give me a funny turn. Sabine Schmitz is also one heck of a women.
Anyone seen classic cars with Quentin Wilson and Jodie Kidd? The BBC missed a major trick not signing her. I think it took them a year to get this crew together, because they were too busy kicking themselves. I am a bit of a non PC dinosaur, but these girls really do a better job than most guys.

jimgoose

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

VBH? I have to see watching her get damp underwear when flooring a supercar through a tunnel never fails to give me a funny turn. Sabine Schmitz is also one heck of a women.
Anyone seen classic cars with Quentin Wilson and Jodie Kidd? The BBC missed a major trick not signing her. I think it took them a year to get this crew together, because they were too busy kicking themselves. I am a bit of a non PC dinosaur, but these girls really do a better job than most guys.

You can't beat a bit of proper posh. In elder days VBH would have been out on the estate testing the latest horses. "Fawtha has made me the happiest gaal alive with this one, rah-THAHH!!" :pac:

smash

Lads, VBH and Sabine are as rough as a badgers arse. Give me Carmen Jorda or Danica Patrick any day.

JJJJNR

bucketybuck wrote: »

I don't see the point in getting worked up now about Leblanc or anybody else that they get to join the team, he could easily have great chemistry with the other presenters and thats the main thing, so we sorta just have to wait and see.

Not many would have chosen May or Hammond to be Top Gear presenters either, so who is to say Le Blanc won't fit in with the other presenters this time around. Its the producers call to make, and as Le Blanc is rather out of left field I suspect they put a lot of thought into the choice.

Well its going to be a massive ego battle, they went through a lot of presenters before they arrived with May and Hammond, personally I dont think they are going to gel.

I'd prefer Chris Harris and Bob Flavin working together, over Chris Evans and Leblanc any day, Bob Flavin is hilarious at times, and is a complete petrol head, minus the massive ego.

dr.fuzzenstein

JJJJNR wrote: »

Well its going to be a massive ego battle, they went through a lot of presenters before they arrived with May and Hammond, personally I dont think they are going to gel.

I'd prefer Chris Harris and Bob Flavin working together, over Chris Evans and Leblanc any day, Bob Flavin is hilarious at times, and is a complete petrol head, minus the massive ego.

Well, that was old Top Gear, new TG had Jason Dawe for one season and he was blood awful. Watch season one TG and you will have to agree, he just looks so wrong and out of place. From season 2, new TG settled on Clarkson, Hammond and May and that lineup remained unchanged till the end and is still going.
One cannot deny it's a good lineup, since it has lasted for 13 years. Those three just worked together, it was just right.

ARGINITE

Weekly TG production meeting


Looks like Chris Harris is still on the presenting team.

H3llR4iser

Matt Leblanc could be good; Again, I don't think they can replicate the success of old Top Gear in the short term, but maybe they eventually will.

Again, what made TG a worldwide phenomenon was how the three hosts worked together and the fact they managed to cater for the non-enthusiast public. In a nutshell, Top Gear was able if not to "convert" non-petrolheads, at least to make them see what car-nuts are going on about.

Chris Harris...I don't understand why people like him so much. He sounds to me like a younger Tiff Needell: condescending, patronizing, extremely biased while pretending to be neutral. If he doesn't personally like a car he goes into a lot of trouble in order to nitpick issues; If he likes one, then he'll essentially just gush over how good it is like a teenager - give him a Porsche and he nearly wets himself.

Mind you I do enjoy some of his stuff, the way he genuinely has fun while trashing some 900HP monster and the technicality of his reviews - but I don't think he'd work on TV; The vast majority of the public, the ones who never heard terms such as "torque vectoring" or "release oversteer" would change channel in a heartbeat.

H3llR4iser

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jimgoose

smash wrote: »

Lads, VBH and Sabine are as rough as a badgers arse. Give me Carmen Jorda or Danica Patrick any day.

No, I won't have that! The Hyphenated One be well-tasty, bah. :cool:

Thargor

Does Matt Le Blanc even know anything about cars?

Dardania

Thargor wrote: »

Does Matt Le Blanc even know anything about cars?

He seemed very knowledgeable about a Porsche once!

ohnonotgmail

Thargor wrote: »

Does Matt Le Blanc even know anything about cars?

he holds the record for SIARPC.

Thargor

Oh yeah totally forgot about that.

mickdw

Leblanc makes a great guest. Hope he works out presenting.
I think there is room now for a serious motoring journalist with Evans and le blanc.

mickdw

Leblanc makes a great guest. Hope he works out presenting.
I think there is room now for a serious motoring journalist with Evans and le blanc.

quadrifoglio verde

Wasn't it the 3rd or 4th season that the three presenters appeared outside the studio together on one their challenges

New top gear will take time to work, it certainly won't be plain sailing from day 1

jimgoose

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Wasn't it the 3rd or 4th season that the three presenters appeared outside the studio together on one their challenges

New top gear will take time to work, it certainly won't be plain sailing from day 1

It'll be difficult to see them manage without this sort of thing:

https://twitter.com/MrJamesMay/status/664524128859365380/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

:pac:

H3llR4iser

"Jurassic Dorset Knob" is a number of levels of awesome!

Anyway, that's another reason why they can't have a woman on the team. I would really love to see one in there mixing it on the very same level but it just can't happen in the current PC climate - she would need to be subjected to the same slagging, jokes and slightly heavy handed play as the male co-hosts, and that wouldn't go down well with a lot of the media/public - cries of discrimination would be herd as far as Neptune. The classic "american comedy" dynamics would be created - where the woman is the smart and sensible one, with the guys doing their best "bumbling idiots" impression...

H3llR4iser

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jimgoose

H3llR4iser wrote: »

"Jurassic Dorset Knob" is a number of levels of awesome!

Anyway, that's another reason why they can't have a woman on the team. I would really love to see one in there mixing it on the very same level but it just can't happen in the current PC climate - she would need to be subjected to the same slagging, jokes and slightly heavy handed play as the male co-hosts, and that wouldn't go down well with a lot of the media/public - cries of discrimination would be herd as far as Neptune. The classic "american comedy" dynamics would be created - where the woman is the smart and sensible one, with the guys doing their best "bumbling idiots" impression...

Indeed. It's possibly even better than Theakston's Old Peculier. And if the new crowd can find a sensible, risk-averse, middle-aged woman who knows as much about engineering as James May, more power to them. :pac::pac::pac:

heroics

H3llR4iser wrote: »

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I think double post happen when replying from the mobile app sometimes

Agricola

Think LeBlanc could be good. He strikes me as one of those yank celebrities that isn't completely up his own hole, I think he could fit in fairly well. Good sense of humour and is enthusiastic about this stuff.
It will never be like old (new) Top Gear. The "we the British", mildly zenophobic, Clarkson vehicle has moved on so they have to go with something completely different. Evans for the madness, LeBlanc for the ordinary viewer needing reviews of diesel saloons, and Harris for the technical stuff like testing supercars.............sounds good to me!

Dardania

H3llR4iser wrote: »

"Jurassic Dorset Knob" is a number of levels of awesome!

Anyway, that's another reason why they can't have a woman on the team. I would really love to see one in there mixing it on the very same level but it just can't happen in the current PC climate - she would need to be subjected to the same slagging, jokes and slightly heavy handed play as the male co-hosts, and that wouldn't go down well with a lot of the media/public - cries of discrimination would be herd as far as Neptune. The classic "american comedy" dynamics would be created - where the woman is the smart and sensible one, with the guys doing their best "bumbling idiots" impression...

Does sound awful - could Carol Vordeman do it?

dr.fuzzenstein

Dardania wrote: »

Does sound awful - could Carol Vordeman do it?

Oh fcuk yes, I don't even care if she knows zilch about cars, but Carol does it for me anyway. The thinking man's crumpet.

JamboMac

Le Blanc is a bit of a puzzler for me as one of the hosts, not really sure what to make of him. Of course time will tell whether this dynamic actually works but I feel the first couple of episodes could take some getting use too.

edburg

FirstinLastout wrote: »

Not having an asshole presenting their programming don't make it PC.

Didn't say anything about the 3 leaving I am referring to the 2 producers and other staff that have come and gone since Evans has started, Sabine was virtually on board by all accounts then was suddenly not interested after meeting executives.

GustavoFring

Eddie Jordan's now being tipped to host it.

ba_barabus

What about Eddie Irvine? A good guy I'd think

Dardania

ba_barabus wrote: »

What about Eddie Irvine? A good guy I'd think

He's surely in need of a bit of cash now

And he's a bit lively to personality wise so happy days to watch

Dardania

dr.fuzzenstein wrote: »

Oh fcuk yes, I don't even care if she knows zilch about cars, but Carol does it for me anyway. The thinking man's crumpet.

Thinking about it - if they were to go the non PC route, they would only employ people if they were right for the show (entertaining, knowledgeable etc) not if they were to fit a demographic (female)

Reason I thought of her was that programme she did a few years ago on the Airbus a350 - she was able to hold the audience, explain technical stuff, represent the history of the site - she might just be what would work in a non PC sense (and then if she was token woman - I don't think she'd be overbearing)