[TV] Top Gear, RIP? Matt Le Blanc leaving after next series

[vegster]

Never watched Top Gear, not bothered watching the grand tour thing but as an outsider surely Guy Martin would be an excellent host ?

 

[Dick Head]

Top Gear, RIP? Matt Le Blanc leaving after next series

Ant McPartlin's ban should be over by then.

 

[Surrey_Albion]

Clarkson, May and Hammond out of contract with Amazon after the coming series....

I reckon those 3 would be perfect

 

[fleet]

Same difference, apart from one being a fictional creation.

Seriously? Pardew is a fictional creation?

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Jenson Button or David Coulthard for me. Or maybe even both together if they are capable of a bit of banter/ribbing. Not sure if you could keep the other current presenters with either or both of JB & DC.

Knowing the BBC they'll decide they need a woman on there to avert any discrimination headline, so will give the gigg to Claire Balding and Gabby Yorath.

Yes we need more of The Balding. Sadly underused by the BBC. She did a series on a bike so she'd be perfect for this.

 

[beorhthelm]

its got to that point in it life that BBC will decide to go with rotating presenters.

 

[Gary Leeds]

Danniella Westbrook, Charlie Sheen and Robert Downey Jr. Those three know a lot about "Top Gear"

 

[Gary Leeds]

Or give these guys another go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HvJjRDB0gk

 

[Marshy]

I remember Button doing a really good segment on the show before, would like to see him involved.

 

[strings]

didn't know it was still on .......

to be honest it became boring 2-3 years back, same old format week in week out. JC, RH and JM all just doing the same old stuff over and over, same silly pranks and jolly japes.

CE, waste of space on it,
MLB - well he may be good and i have just not given it chance i guess

kill it off, and somehow think of a completely new format of motoring programme

i'll now put on my tin hat ready for the incoming from TG devotees

I agree. It was desperate for a format change even before Clarkson, May and Hammond left. I think there is a future for Top Gear as (contrary to what some people seem to believe), it has been going since the 70's. It simply needs the format to be updated in the similar way that it was updated back in the early 2000's.

 

[beorhthelm]

I agree. It was desperate for a format change even before Clarkson, May and Hammond left. I think there is a future for Top Gear as (contrary to what some people seem to believe), it has been going since the 70's. It simply needs the format to be updated in the similar way that it was updated back in the early 2000's.

been going in a similar sense that VW have produced a car called a "Beetle" for decades, but the new one is a very, very different creature to the old. if the format needs another radical change, its probably time to end it?

 

[Nathan]

It makes the BBC millions of pounds, they will not end it because a presenter has left.

 

[nickbrighton]

Will kill it? It's been decomposing for a long time now, although I suppose a few devotees won't have noticed that yet!

The last series sold to 150 different countries, so making a lot of money for the BEEB, can't see it going just yet.

 

[The Clamp]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44320696

Him and occasional cameo from Sabine were the only things making we want to watch. The other two guys just try too hard, and I don't see the chemistry that the old folks had..

Whole thing has been shit for years, even worse with Matt Le Blanc and those other no-marks.

The problem is when you change the format to something so whizz-bang as they did in the 2000's with Clarkson etc it then becomes popular and has a shelf life. If they had left it as it was in the 70's, 80's and 90's , shockingly dull as it was, it would probably go on for another 20 years.

 

[desprateseagull]

Sabine, Suzi Perry, Jodie Kidd.

 

[Munkfish]

Do people actually still watch this? This is as dead as Soccer AM surely!!!

 

[Garry Nelson's teacher]

Do people actually still watch this? This is as dead as Soccer AM surely!!!

Soccer AM - you're right (in my case). Have not seen it for years but used to be an habitual viewer.

 

[clapham_gull]

Whole thing has been shit for years, even worse with Matt Le Blanc and those other no-marks.

The problem is when you change the format to something so whizz-bang as they did in the 2000's with Clarkson etc it then becomes popular and has a shelf life. If they had left it as it was in the 70's, 80's and 90's , shockingly dull as it was, it would probably go on for another 20 years.

But wouldn't have subsidised the licence fee with all of those overseas sales.



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