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!
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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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Sack the arsehole producer that has totally ruined a great show! what a prat! surely the british public should be able to vote?
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