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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 13:06:08 GMT
If your starting position is that you like May, Hammond and Clarkson, the The Grand Tour is good. Really, really good.
I just watched the first episode and I will make sure to see more.
The BBC & Top Gear, a bit screwed, IMO. They need to do something quite different, because competing on M, H & C's home ground is not going to work for them.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 13:12:34 GMT
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Post by Alanović on Nov 18, 2016 13:35:42 GMT
Will be giving it a watch tonight, along with Frankie Boyle's American Autopsy and Have I got News For You. Bottle of Pays d'Oc should suffice.
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Post by sooty on Nov 18, 2016 14:13:58 GMT
If your starting position is that you like May, Hammond and Clarkson, the The Grand Tour is good. Really, really good. I just watched the first episode and I will make sure to see more. The BBC & Top Gear, a bit screwed, IMO. They need to do something quite different, because competing on M, H & C's home ground is not going to work for them. i think they might be okay, I'm not sure how many people have got amazon prime in the uk?
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Post by crankcase on Nov 18, 2016 14:18:30 GMT
I enjoyed the show a lot, but bizarrely, I thought it went on a tad too long. Much as I like C,H and M, 50 minutes would have been enough for me.
Worst bit - the American. Best bit - the beginning sequence. Silliest bit - oh, the endless deaths.
I don't think that's too spoilerish.
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 18, 2016 15:12:40 GMT
Mrs Nog as sodded off for a weekend with her mates, leaving her disabled and drug dependent husband behind to care for himself.
Sooo I have a takeaway ruby arriving at 7, some beer in the fridge, and I have downloaded episode 1, in high def, as Amazon stuff usually films beautifully.
I'll let you know
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 18:59:34 GMT
£160 million quid to ensure that every Top Gear viewer (>200 territories >400million people) at least knows who Amazon Prime is, and potentially may become a paying customer. Never mind all the add on revenues. A better bit of brand marketing and product sales one could hardly imagine.
Somebody at Amazon is going to be promoted quite considerably I feel.
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Post by Humph on Nov 18, 2016 19:36:41 GMT
Just watched it.
Fab !
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 18, 2016 20:06:06 GMT
Ok Just watched it. Clearly the old top gear needed a refresh, and a bucket load of cash was thrown at it to provide it. Wasn't keen on the cult of celebrity up front, the dying celebs was silly, the audience "fight" was sillier, but the rest was superb, doing what they are best at, mucking about with cars. I like the fact that Amazon can allow characters to be much more edgy and earthy with little regard to PC or offending anyone,
Good I'll watch the next one
Thebbctopgearfranchiseisdead
Shitmyspacebarhasjustdied
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Post by Hofmeister on Nov 18, 2016 20:22:36 GMT
sorted - curry sauce in me keyboard
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Post by iancapetown on Nov 18, 2016 21:27:14 GMT
Will be giving it a watch tonight, along with Frankie Boyle's American Autopsy and Have I got News For You. Bottle of Pays d'Oc should suffice. Thanks for that, Alan. I was unaware of the Boyle show, which I'm sure will be a cracker. Will go find it now. As far as the CMH goes, I'll catch that over the weekend. I loved the Torygraph quote: "We weren't yet five minutes in and already Top Gear had been thoroughly trumped. Somewhere out there you could almost hear Chris Evans locking his bedroom door from the inside and sobbing."
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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2016 21:34:46 GMT
I find Boyle a bit hard work. For me he crosses over from the biting and incisive into the flat out insulting and mean. A bully with a microphone.
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Post by iancapetown on Nov 18, 2016 21:38:59 GMT
I find Boyle a bit hard work. For me he crosses over from the biting and incisive into the flat out insulting and mean. A bully with a microphone. Has his moments. And IMHO more wheat than chaff. His recent Radio 4 stuff was very good.
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Post by Rob on Nov 19, 2016 0:23:51 GMT
Just watched the Grand Tour. Top Gear of old and quite entertaining overall. Shows that TG really needs new ideas - as they did as soon as Clarkson, May and Hammond left. Hand the producer.
I can see how cinematography and the opening sequence means more money spent. And they got the three hyper cars TG couldn't.... but where has the extra money gone per episode?
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Post by iancapetown on Nov 19, 2016 5:41:39 GMT
I see it has about 20 000 seeds on the pirate sites. Impressive.
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