YOP GEAR AUDIENCE
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Saturday, January 2, 2010
SACK RICHARD "SHORTS ASS" ANNOYING HAMMOND!
This guy is the most annoying prat ever! He along with that complete TIT James May have ruined Top Gear!
SACK HIM!
SACK HIM!
Andy Wilman has screwed up Top Gear! SACK HIM!
Andy Wilman is the producer of and writer for Top Gear. You probably haven't heard of him because he typically stays behind the scenes (I would love to throw a bucket of shit over him), but it's largely him and not Clarkson, May or Hammond that we have to thank for the show being so CRAP and un-connected to Cars!
Who does this guy think he is? He has ruined my favourite TV show, put loads of stupid looking people in the audience that are told to laugh!
This guy is responsible - SACK HIM!
Wilman admits than no-one has been especially happy with the latest series of Top Gear, apparently because it has all been rather rushed.
And he acknowledges viewer and fan complaints that it’s all become rather formulaic and James May and Richard Hammond too cartoonish and an annoying pair that should be sacked!
To be honest I hardly watch Top Gear any more. It became jaded and self-satisfied at least two series ago. So much so that I stopped watching it, and if don’t tick every demographic box then I don’t know who does.
I dipped a toe back in a few weeks ago and quite enjoyed Clarkson’s Twingo road test and was grateful for some stuff on the big SUVs. There was some other stuff on it but it was so dull I can’t even remember what it was.
Top Gear’s greatest problem has always been its ubiquity. You can’t escape the three presenters or repeats on BBC2 or Dave. And we all know what familiarity breeds.
There are other niggling problems. Clarkson’s casual yet tiresome politicised asides; his predictable bait-and-switch reviews; the spots with the British Army that are vaguely jingoistic; the scripted moments that jump out as exactly that; and the tedious and sycophantic interviews.
But the recurring one is the three presenters themselves. Wilman acknowledges that viewers want their ‘three mates’ back, rather than the tiresome caricatures they’ve become.
‘…Jezza the walking nuclear bomb, Richard the daft Norman Wisdom, and James the bumbling professor,’ as Wilman has it.
From what I saw of it Season 14 of Top Gear was nearer Last of the Summer Wine than anything else.
Just as a tin bath would inevitably end up tumbling down a hill with our three heroes snugly inside, any car on a public road in Top Gear will end up embarrassingly stalled in traffic at rush hour, with all three mugging and ‘cock’ing at the absurdity of it all.
Another annoyance of recent times about Top Gear’s is Clarkson’s repeated insistence that the show won’t return. Wilman offers his own version of that empty threat, although coming from the series producer I expect it carries rather more weight.
So, is that a none-too-subtle suggestion that the end is nigh? It certainly wouldn’t do Top Gear any harm to have a sabbatical, or even exist from now on as an infrequent visitor to TV schedules.
I expect the financial imperatives driving the series make than unlikely in the here-and-now, but it’s a nice idea.
Wilman acknowledges, and fair play to him for doing so, that the threat of over-familiarity is a big problem in these autumn days of the show. But there’s not a lot to suggest that’s going to change.
All of which is probably cold comfort for anyone wanting more stuff that’s actually about cars, rather than about Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow – the presenters’ shagged-out and thoroughly over-exposed alter egos.
Strap yourself in for a couple more years of diminishing returns.
Who does this guy think he is? He has ruined my favourite TV show, put loads of stupid looking people in the audience that are told to laugh!
This guy is responsible - SACK HIM!
Wilman admits than no-one has been especially happy with the latest series of Top Gear, apparently because it has all been rather rushed.
And he acknowledges viewer and fan complaints that it’s all become rather formulaic and James May and Richard Hammond too cartoonish and an annoying pair that should be sacked!
To be honest I hardly watch Top Gear any more. It became jaded and self-satisfied at least two series ago. So much so that I stopped watching it, and if don’t tick every demographic box then I don’t know who does.
I dipped a toe back in a few weeks ago and quite enjoyed Clarkson’s Twingo road test and was grateful for some stuff on the big SUVs. There was some other stuff on it but it was so dull I can’t even remember what it was.
Top Gear’s greatest problem has always been its ubiquity. You can’t escape the three presenters or repeats on BBC2 or Dave. And we all know what familiarity breeds.
There are other niggling problems. Clarkson’s casual yet tiresome politicised asides; his predictable bait-and-switch reviews; the spots with the British Army that are vaguely jingoistic; the scripted moments that jump out as exactly that; and the tedious and sycophantic interviews.
But the recurring one is the three presenters themselves. Wilman acknowledges that viewers want their ‘three mates’ back, rather than the tiresome caricatures they’ve become.
‘…Jezza the walking nuclear bomb, Richard the daft Norman Wisdom, and James the bumbling professor,’ as Wilman has it.
From what I saw of it Season 14 of Top Gear was nearer Last of the Summer Wine than anything else.
Just as a tin bath would inevitably end up tumbling down a hill with our three heroes snugly inside, any car on a public road in Top Gear will end up embarrassingly stalled in traffic at rush hour, with all three mugging and ‘cock’ing at the absurdity of it all.
Another annoyance of recent times about Top Gear’s is Clarkson’s repeated insistence that the show won’t return. Wilman offers his own version of that empty threat, although coming from the series producer I expect it carries rather more weight.
So, is that a none-too-subtle suggestion that the end is nigh? It certainly wouldn’t do Top Gear any harm to have a sabbatical, or even exist from now on as an infrequent visitor to TV schedules.
I expect the financial imperatives driving the series make than unlikely in the here-and-now, but it’s a nice idea.
Wilman acknowledges, and fair play to him for doing so, that the threat of over-familiarity is a big problem in these autumn days of the show. But there’s not a lot to suggest that’s going to change.
All of which is probably cold comfort for anyone wanting more stuff that’s actually about cars, rather than about Jezza, Hamster and Captain Slow – the presenters’ shagged-out and thoroughly over-exposed alter egos.
Strap yourself in for a couple more years of diminishing returns.
Bring back Quentin Willson
Get rid of James "soppy" May & Shortass cocky git "Richard Hammond"
and bring back : Quentin Willson
Quentin Willson used to let us know about great value cars, what to look out for, how much to pay and most importantly what the car will be worth in 2/3 years time!
Quentin Willson is one of Britain’s best-known motoring authorities. He spent over a decade presenting BBC's Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and was largely responsible for bringing the once scandalously high prices of new cars in the UK down to the same level as the rest of Europe. Wiping over £2 billion off the car industry’s balance sheets overnight may not have made him very popular with car makers, but he remains a much-loved champion of Britain’s beleaguered motorists.
He regularly gives government ministers a hard time on the GMTV sofa, and in 2004 was awarded Motoring Writer of the Year. Quentin is a regular face on all terrestrial, and many satellite TV channels, and is the creator and owner of the Britain’s Worst format, which has been sold in 27 different international territories.
Willson pens a weekly column for The Sunday Mirror, writes and presents consumer programmes and documentaries, is the author of ten books and has appeared on scores of radio and TV shows.
I suggest that the current Producer of Top Gear should get down on his knees and beg Quentin Willson to return to the Top Gear show...
and bring back : Quentin Willson
Quentin Willson used to let us know about great value cars, what to look out for, how much to pay and most importantly what the car will be worth in 2/3 years time!
Quentin Willson is one of Britain’s best-known motoring authorities. He spent over a decade presenting BBC's Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and was largely responsible for bringing the once scandalously high prices of new cars in the UK down to the same level as the rest of Europe. Wiping over £2 billion off the car industry’s balance sheets overnight may not have made him very popular with car makers, but he remains a much-loved champion of Britain’s beleaguered motorists.
He regularly gives government ministers a hard time on the GMTV sofa, and in 2004 was awarded Motoring Writer of the Year. Quentin is a regular face on all terrestrial, and many satellite TV channels, and is the creator and owner of the Britain’s Worst format, which has been sold in 27 different international territories.
Willson pens a weekly column for The Sunday Mirror, writes and presents consumer programmes and documentaries, is the author of ten books and has appeared on scores of radio and TV shows.
I suggest that the current Producer of Top Gear should get down on his knees and beg Quentin Willson to return to the Top Gear show...
SACK HAMMOND, MAY & PRODUCER OF TOP GEAR!
I have just spent an hour watching the two annoying idiots, James May and Richard Hammond ride scooters through Vietnam, I feel sorry for Jeremy Clarkson who has been left to work with these two annoying, scripted aresholes that have absolutely no talent and helbent on appaeraing on as many adverts as possible!
SACK HAMMOND
SACK JAMES MAY (what a wet blanket)
SACK THE CURRENT PRODUCER - NOW!
This has been one of my favourite shows for many many years, it has now been reduced to a pile of shite! where are the reviews? where is the information on new cars that 90% of viewers actually buy? It has lost its identity and is solely focussed on ratings instead of providing information about cars!
Found this :
First, a confession. For all its faults, I love Top Gear. Always have. So what I'm about to say comes from a caring place.
It's losing it. It has peaked. It has become the TV equivalent of the Royal Bank of Scotland a few years ago - swaggeringly successful around the world, headed by cocky men, everyone riding the crest of a big wave. But riding for a fall.
At its best it's still sublime TV, but at its worst it's embarrassing. Much of the latest series felt laboured, forever trying not to sound scripted but failing, particularly in the studio. Jeremy Clarkson's rants aren't getting any funnier, either. In the final episode of the series (2 August BBC2), he hinted that gangs of people picking up electric cars and throwing them into a river might not be a bad idea.
At times like that Clarkson is like a TV joyrider, hoping to be chased by the sirens of political correctness. You get the feeling that he would almost prefer Top Gear to crash and burn in a blaze of controversy than go into a slow decline.
The trouble is, it has become untouchable. What other show could air so many four-letter words when children are watching? Or joke about porn and orgasms before the watershed? What other show would feature, as TG did earlier in the recent run, middle-aged men joshing with 17-year-old girls about sex, as part of a dodgy piece on handbrake turns?
That may have been the moment when TG succumbed to hubris and lost the plot - in TV parlance, "jumped the shark". It's still extraordinary television, of course. It still makes you laugh out loud as often as it makes you wince. But you wish it didn't make you wince so often.
SACK HAMMOND
SACK JAMES MAY (what a wet blanket)
SACK THE CURRENT PRODUCER - NOW!
This has been one of my favourite shows for many many years, it has now been reduced to a pile of shite! where are the reviews? where is the information on new cars that 90% of viewers actually buy? It has lost its identity and is solely focussed on ratings instead of providing information about cars!
Found this :
First, a confession. For all its faults, I love Top Gear. Always have. So what I'm about to say comes from a caring place.
It's losing it. It has peaked. It has become the TV equivalent of the Royal Bank of Scotland a few years ago - swaggeringly successful around the world, headed by cocky men, everyone riding the crest of a big wave. But riding for a fall.
At its best it's still sublime TV, but at its worst it's embarrassing. Much of the latest series felt laboured, forever trying not to sound scripted but failing, particularly in the studio. Jeremy Clarkson's rants aren't getting any funnier, either. In the final episode of the series (2 August BBC2), he hinted that gangs of people picking up electric cars and throwing them into a river might not be a bad idea.
At times like that Clarkson is like a TV joyrider, hoping to be chased by the sirens of political correctness. You get the feeling that he would almost prefer Top Gear to crash and burn in a blaze of controversy than go into a slow decline.
The trouble is, it has become untouchable. What other show could air so many four-letter words when children are watching? Or joke about porn and orgasms before the watershed? What other show would feature, as TG did earlier in the recent run, middle-aged men joshing with 17-year-old girls about sex, as part of a dodgy piece on handbrake turns?
That may have been the moment when TG succumbed to hubris and lost the plot - in TV parlance, "jumped the shark". It's still extraordinary television, of course. It still makes you laugh out loud as often as it makes you wince. But you wish it didn't make you wince so often.
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