New Top Gear, will you be watching it?

ricero

Haha great banter with the ref

BoJack Horseman

The old 'Gladiators' ref!

Still alive..... well there you go.

liam7831

Its fookin terrible

krustydoyle

Im enjoying it.. Evans annoyance will ease like Clarksons did in time

I like the thought of hundreds of thousands of lads in England hating the "Brits" losing all the challenges :cool:

cml387

Hard to say if it's bad or just a dodgy start. Le Blanc certainly doesn't seem to let the side down. Not sure about Evans, which is surprising because this kind of thing should be right up his street.

sonofenoch

It's like they've crammed everything from the last 3 TG series into one episode ....throw everything at it and see what sticks

BoJack Horseman

Augeo wrote: »

I like the thought of hundreds of thousands of lads in England hating the "Brits" losing all the challenges :cool:

Britannia rules the waves today it seems.... because, triathletes.

ricero

Decent start. Will give it time. Expected a lot of sour grapes by fans of the 3 old muppets

Cina

cml387 wrote: »

Hard to say if it's bad or just a dodgy start. Le Blanc certainly doesn't seem to let the side down. Not sure about Evans, which is surprising because this kind of thing should be right up his street.

The only thing up Evans street is being an intolerable tw*t.

NeverWaining

The second half was definitely better than the first. I'll watch it again next week.

Big C

bbc spent £600,000 on that load of sh1t. Can't see this continuing.

BoJack Horseman

And there is an extra show that is broadcast on a channel that does not exist.

Great!

put it on red-button ffs

raspberrypi67

Sick of Evens voice already....jasus

ShadowHearth

Top gear is dead to me. That is all.

El Chapo

Le Blanc has the wit of a wet sock. Evans is a natural and will make this show, in time.

Can't help but feel someone like Gordon Ramsey or Jimmy Carr would've been better suited to team up with Evans.

Decent first show, not nearly as bad as some drama queens are saying.

ofcork

Too many challenges not enough proper car reviews prefer 5th gear.

domrush

Evans was over the top but thought Leblanc was good on his owwn challenge tbh. They're missing the chemistry that made the original so good.

Jesse Eisenburg and Gordon Ramsey a strange pairing of guests?

TherapyBoy

I liked it.

The bits that felt forced or scripted hopefully will settle over time when the guys are more used to the show. I'll watch it again next year week & see how it goes.

Superhorse

A lot better than I expected to be honest. Looking forward to next week.

Lissavane

It's over at last. Probably worse than the worst episode of Top Gear ever broadcast previously.

Evans is abysmally bad. Le Blanc is ok. The whole premise and production is atrocious. It's the end of BBC Top gear.

Pity.

But it used to be great and thank you to the BBC for the enjoyment they provided for many years.

OldMrBrennan83

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btkm8unsl0w5r4

Chris harris stuck doing a bbc 3 after show....what a waste.

Indestructable

Thought leblank was miles better than Evans. Evans is just so irritating

raspberrypi67

It lacks something and I'm bored, time to watch some BILLIONS!!

OldMrBrennan83

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Samsgirl

Evans trying too hard to be Clarkson. Too scripted or too obvious that it's scripted.
Matt isn't the right fit. He is too wooden.

_Kaiser_

Reaction not good...

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/entertainment/viewers-switch-off-as-revamped-top-gear-fails-to-impress-737635.html

NeverWaining

The rapport between Clarkson, Hammond and May is going to be very difficult to replicate. But as a show that wasn't too bad. Matt is a decent Hammond.

kneemos

Turn down Evans and turn up Le Blanc.

Don't think I will get past Evans annoying,overbearing voice though.

trixychic

kneemos wrote: »

Turn down Evans and turn up Le Blanc.

Don't think I will get past Evans annoying,overbearing voice though.

Evans is annoying me. Matt is brilliant and very funny.

adox

Underwhelming but I'll stick with it. Weird combination of presenters.
Evans(who I don't actually mind) is good in front of the camera, comes across very natural, if a little hyper. His voice overs though we're grating and the OB sections didn't really suit him.

Le Blanc is terrible in front of the camera, reading the auto cue he comes across very wooden which makes for uncomfortable viewing but is more natural in the VT segments. They suit him better.

That's a major problem. There's no chemistry between them and both are weak in one half of the programmes content. If the producers decided in scaling three down to two they should have been pretty sure they had a good pairing. It feels very awkward and three presenters would have given them more wiggle room and been more forgiving.

On the plus side the new track with a bit of off road is good, as is a rally grade? Mini.

A lot to iron out and it remains to be seen if it can be but I'll stick with it for now. Were always going to be huge shoes to fill but as I said an underwhelming start.

The show had started to wane on the last few seasons as it was. Although always scripted, it felt even more so in the last few seasons and you did feel the lads were dialling it in.

Who knows, the whole format may have ran its course. I had certainly lost a lot of interest in the show long before Clarkson finally got the boot.

pajor

I'll hold judgement on the show as a whole until I've seen a couple more episodes.

But Evans is a twat. That I'm sure about. :P

GERMAN ROCKS

will this be on rteplayer??

Wanderer78

im wondering would eddie jordan be a better main presenter?

NeverWaining

Patww79 wrote: »

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I wouldn't be surprised if they attempted it but binned it. The rapport isn't there for something like that.

trixychic

"Abyssmal at best!!!" Love it

Ardent

The nomad piece was brilliant. Better than a lot of the equivalent stuff under Clarkson & co.

Let Blanc is good in this I have to say.

liam7831

Wanderer78 wrote: »

im wondering would eddie jordan be a better main presenter?

The fact he is not on Sky F1 says enough for me on Eddie, stick to the drumming is my advice for him

moleyv

5/10

If they can get it to a consistent 7, with the odd 8, I'll keep watching.

The voiceovers were probably the worst bit.

Bigus

Not the worst start, could do better , I'll watch next week , unlike the 5 minute reviewers that turned off .

trixychic

Ardent wrote: »

The nomad piece was brilliant. Better than a lot of the equivalent stuff under Clarkson & co.

Let Blanc is good in this I have to say.

100% agree.

legocrazy505

To be honest I have no sympathy or respect for people who whinge and turn off after five minutes. So that article linked there last page can go die in a hole.

Top Gear has changed a lot, people are going to have their little cry about it and the loud minority are going to throw out their toys and start wailing.

Was it great? No. Was it bad? Maybe. Did I like it? I don't know. That's my reaction to it, parts of it felt like it could work and parts felt way too forced. That's pretty much what happens though every time a new presenting team take over, any F1 fans should know this from the sort of wooden start to the BBC and then Sky Sports coverage. I unlike the children in that article will give them a few episodes to click together and if they don't I'll just stop watching rather than making a scene over it.

To be honest the only real thing that needs to happen is Evans needs to be a less "oh crowd not clapping, I need to be funny" sort of presenter. If the crowd isn't clapping they aren't clapping (though this might be down to them being like the people in the article). Also Evans tried emulating Clarkson a few times but it just didn't work, hopefully he'll just be himself in the future when people move on from "muh Clarkson!" and realise he's not coming back. Le Blanc honestly could be very good but like many new presenters he needs time to get comfortable and get confident, time I'm willing to give.

Did it beat the old Top Gear? Of course not but people expecting that first time out were always going to be disappointed when the trio before had years of history together and were very comfortable in themselves on screen.

What is the massive shame to me though is this Top Gear Extra or whatever it's called. Why not just have them on the main show? Why are they trying to create this extra show as if it's some talent/reality TV show?

the whole brits vs yanks thing is lazy

Deub

I have mixed feelings on it. I will watch it again next week to see if they improved.
They didn't seem natural and it was missing a bit of punch. Maybe the next episodes will be better.

w124man

No chemistry at all, Evans shouts and LeBlanc is too nervous. Not a great start but fingers crossed!

sjoyce87

I enjoyed it.. The first 10 minutes were a bit overbearing.. I mainly watch top gear for nice cars with beautiful cinematography and I was happy enough with tonight's showing.. The nomad section was definitely the strongest

jimmycrackcorm

adox wrote:

That's a major problem. There's no chemistry between them and both are weak in one half of the programmes content. If the producers decided in scaling three down to two they should have been pretty sure they had a good pairing. It feels very awkward and three presenters would have given them more wiggle room and been more forgiving.

The chemistry might develop if you take into account this is the start. Also the show just highlighted how much an arrogant overbearing p that clarkson was.

It turns out that the show actually is about cars and not his ego.

OldMrBrennan83

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Red Kev

Strange episode. A bit like 2002 all over again. It's a bit wooden and stilted at times, only time will tell if it improves, but if you look at TG from the 90's or early shows in the last series then it's not too different.

Some things don't work: Matt was awkward at times but the Nomad review was very good, maybe he'd prefer to just do guest reviews.

The Landie v Willys was fine but overly scripted, they didn't look like they were enjoying it all the time.

SIARPC was a bit odd, seemed rushed and constantly cutting back to the studio doesn't work, I like the new track though.

Overall it wasn't the best first episode, I'd say most people who claimed to switch it off and never watch it again are talking rubbish.

I always thought Clarkson should have been suspended for 6 months for punching your man, and not be sacked, but they are where they are now.

I'll look forward to the Amazon series as well, I suppose I just look on it that two car shows are better than one.

Top Gear itself will have to wait for the end of the second series to see if it has a future in the present format, but Evans needs to massively up his game. They were on a bit of a lost cause as certain people refuse to accept the old crew are gone and no matter how good it was it was always going to be trashed by them.