Top Gear is now on BBC America!
I caught a few episodes this weekend and a new season starts 2/25!
I now have my DVR set to tape the series.
Thought I would share...
hahaha Ok well it was new news to me. :)
Dunno about that. The next episode where they build a bunch of stretch limos was aired in March 2007. I've been getting the actual new episodes from usenet. Thanks, UK posters!Originally Posted by XM_Rocks
I don't care if it is old or new. I never saw most of them so they are new to me. Plus with DVR I rarely watch a show live.
Ok well knew to us...
From the BBC America website:
BBC America’s International Emmy-winning car show, Top Gear, returns for a new U.S. premiere season with ambitious challenges only the very brave or very foolish would dare to undertake. The intrepid three hosts race through the Kalahari Desert in 20-year-old clunkers and attempt to break Sir Richard Branson’s record by crossing the treacherous English Channel in a fleet of amphibious cars.
Miles away from earnest road tests or statistics, here cars are just a starting point for the adventures of three refreshingly irreverent hosts. The tall and witty Jeremy Clarkson leads the trio with his heavy right foot. Richard Hammond is the feisty daredevil with soap star looks. James May (aka Captain Slow), with his amiable shaggy dog appearance and wry humor, is the show’s third host. Rounding out the team is the silent and mysterious racing driver The Stig, who pushes cars and celebrities to their limits on the Top Gear test track.
This season features a transcontinental trip to find the world’s best driving road, a drag race between a Bugatti Veyron and a Eurofighter Typhoon jet, man vs. machine experiments, and weekly power tests featuring the world’s most exotic super cars. Once again, The Stig puts the rich and famous through their paces in the ‘Star in the Reasonably Priced Car’ feature. Getting behind the wheel on the test track this season are Academy Award®-winner Dame Helen Mirren, Simon Cowell, Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood, Doctor Who’s David Tennant, Absolutely Fabulous’ Jennifer Saunders, and rhythm-and-blues maestro Jools Holland.
Top Gear takes extraordinary and ordinary cars to the limit and beyond to find out if they’re as good as their manufacturers claim. Full of extreme stunts, challenges, and weekly features, Top Gear is exciting, inclusive, and passionate – there are no boring stats and impenetrable conversations about camshafts and tire pressures. But it is the sharp wit of Jeremy, Richard, and James that make it more than just a motor show.
Top Gear's new season airs Mondays at 8 pm et/pt, starting February 25th.
I'm still waiting for the names of the hosts for NBC's version of the show.
Without Clarkson, May, and Hammond it's gonna suck imho. Most of the fun of Top Gear is watching three grown men larking about, acting like eight year olds.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
I don't know... with the right casting, it could work. They were originally going to cast with automotive journalists, but they have since switched gears to a celebrity direction. Seinfeld and Leno have both been rumored. I'm thinking Joe Rogan might be a good fit too.
What about Christopher Titus? (no relation, I presume)
Though part of the enjoyment of the whole thing is the accent. Clarkson's description of Lambo A/C as being "spit on by an asthmatic blowing through a straw" is funny, but coupled with the accent nearly had me falling off the couch.
Plus the whole "let's take a successful European show and crap it up for America" game has gone far enough, thanks.
'96 M-edition
Other than the fact that they are both set in wite collar office environments, the two shows really have nothing in common. Had NBC just remade the British version of The Office with the same scripts and American actors, it would have tanked.
Anyone remember the NBC comedy Coupling? Probably not, since I think it only aired two episodes before it was canceled. It was a verbatim copy of a very funny British sitcom, but it just flat out didn't work with an American cast.
To me, Top Gear wouldn't be Top Gear without the hosts, so I'm really leery of what an "Americanized" version would be.
Iain
"We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." - George Bernard Shaw
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