[TV] Top Gear - Season 9

[garcon]

Originally Posted by bf1

*goes of to check the details of a lot of rallycars*

That should be fun.

"Sir, FJH 176P"

"Yes?"

"Blue Ford Escort 1.6"

"Yes?"

"Looks awfully like a white 6R4 to me."

"Ah..."

[Knowlesy]

Apparently there is some confusion over whether Top Gear will return. Clarkson said last week that it would be back in the summer but in his last column for The Sun he said: "Can I just say, here and now, it won't be". But the BBC say it will be back, albeit in Autumn, with a special episode in Summer.

But anyways, look out for "Top Gear of the Pops" this Friday, 22:00 on BBC2!

[andy_b]

Originally Posted by Knowlesy

Apparently there is some confusion over whether Top Gear will return. Clarkson said last week that it would be back in the summer

just watched it. He says he don't know when they (or was it if) they will be back, but that was followed by the Beeb announcer saying it would be back in the summer.

[Kieran20]

it better be ack, whether top gear has lost the plot of not, i still love watching it, it really makes me laugh, and sometimes is the usre to my fustation on s sunday night when i egt home from racing. long live top gear!

[touringlegend]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6439449.stm

Hmm this line doesn't seem to confirm another series will air:

A BBC spokesman responded by saying: "Top Gear will be back. A summer special is planned." A new series would reach screens in the autumn, he added.

A special seems to be the only thing confirmed, I notice they say a new series would air in the autumn, not will!

[Kieran20]

bu why would the show be axed when its so popular. its one of my favourites. it still has the essence of cars in it, although they have gone a bit OTT. but that can be put right. personally i think this is just specualtion that turns out to mean nothing.

[redshoes]

Originally Posted by touringlegend

A special seems to be the only thing confirmed, I notice they say a new series would air in the autumn, not will!

Isn't that the same thing. If the BBC spokesman had said the series should air in autumn, or the series might air in autumn, then you might have a point.

I think you are trying to read too much into it.

[Kieran20]

Originally Posted by redshoes

Isn't that the same thing. If the BBC spokesman had said the series should air in autumn, or the series might air in autumn, then you might have a point.

I think you are trying to read too much into it.

i agree

[peteconnors]

If they do cancel it, I shall be asking for my license fee back as it's the only programme I actually watch on the BBC! (Although somehow I doubt I'll get it...)

[MikeH]

Clarkson said that was all a misunderstanding - he said TG wouldn't be returning in the Summer (i.e it was returning in the Autumn) not that it wasn't coming back at all. He apparently says so in his newspaper column.

[Doc Hollywood]

I was going to say that perhaps the BBC got a heavily increased insurance premium follwing Hamsters crash.

But if Clarkson has said it's a misunderstanding then I guess they'll be back!

[Martin Haven]

Originally Posted by Kieran20

it better be ack, whether top gear has lost the plot of not, i still love watching it, it really makes me laugh, and sometimes is the usre to my fustation on s sunday night when i egt home from racing. long live top gear!

Echoed... Top Gear is like a bunch of friends talking car ******** down the pub... it makes me howl with laughter... long may it continue

As for stereo-typing presenters - do you think that James May is really Keith Flint from the Prodigy, pretending to be a floppy-haired semi-Toff?

Or that The Hamster is really rugby-player Martin Johnson crouching, so as to look small??

And that Clarkson isn't just as opinionated as he's always been?

They aren't acting. Playing it up just a little, perhaps but under it all, if there wasn't a camera there, they'd be the same.

As James May says, "it's basically just three blokes, cocking about..."

If you want facts, figures and sensible non-partisan opinion, read What Car and leave my Top Gear alone...

[Sheila M]

Originally Posted by Martin Haven

Echoed... Top Gear is like a bunch of friends talking car boll*cks down the pub... it makes me howl with laughter... long may it continue

As for stereo-typing presenters - do you think that James May is really Keith Flint from the Prodigy, pretending to be a floppy-haired semi-Toff?

Or that The Hamster is really rugby-player Martin Johnson crouching, so as to look small??

And that Clarkson isn't just as opinionated as he's always been?

They aren't acting. Playing it up just a little, perhaps but under it all, if there wasn't a camera there, they'd be the same.

As James May says, "it's basically just three blokes, cocking about..."

If you want facts, figures and sensible non-partisan opinion, read What Car and leave my Top Gear alone...

Well said Martin. I agree with every word of that.

[safc_fan89]

I am watching 'Best of Top Gear' on BBC2 now...if you wanted proof of what Top gear needs to return to being like, this programme is a good base. So much better than series 9 was.

[spanner]

I think in last months topgear magazine clarksons article did talk about the fact the series 9 was mostly based on the large chalenges, features etc that they had already planned for, and already shot during the summer, and with the series being shortened they decided to use all these features with very little actual car reviews, comparisons etc. Clarkson did realise series 9 was a bit different to S8.

[Super Hans]

Originally Posted by spanner

I think in last months topgear magazine clarksons article did talk about the fact the series 9 was mostly based on the large chalenges, features etc that they had already planned for, and already shot during the summer, and with the series being shortened they decided to use all these features with very little actual car reviews, comparisons etc. Clarkson did realise series 9 was a bit different to S8.

Yes, I read that too. I was one of those who criticised Series 9 for having too much of the 'Last of the Summer Petrol' style features and not enough car stuff, so it was good to read that there was an explanation for it.