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Re: American "Top Gear"?

It’s absolutely guaranteed they’ll screw it up, big time. Hopefully it’ll die before they even try to start shooting.

If not, it will at least give Jeremy and the boys something to make fun of.


PC.
 
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Jay Leno says it all in the article!!! If he HAD accepted, it MIGHT stand half a chance, but like he said, he doesn't mix his work and his hobby!!! NBC is just not BBC so it might be interesting to see what they do with it, but that's about it!! I hope we don't lose the original!!!
 
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NBC have bought it, so they'll use it. That kind of coin to buy a license and no follow through isn't good for share holders.
Those shows are best left to Speed Vision, where the audience base is already there.
 
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I can see it now

Top gear

Hosted by

An ex wrestler
A retired sports player
A jessie james type personality

Like all the other good british shows that get americanized its going to be a horible souless show.


Boooooooo
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

"I don't want it to be my job"


...'nuff said.
 
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NBC will make it artificially "wacky" and "zany" with a laugh track and tell you what is going to happen 3 times before it does. All clips will have stupid sound effects and not be longer than 2 minutes because they don't think that anyone has an attention span that is capable of handling that. Like versions of European cars that any of the big 3 bring over here, it will be softened and made more comfortable and then they will wonder why it doesn't sell.

Clarkson may be condescending and have a lot of Brit snobbery which drives me nuts (I am one by the way), but it doesn't work without the fun factor that you get with him, the Hampster and Captain Slow. That isn't going to happen in this overly litigious country. Can you imagine them launching a space shuttle replica made from a Pinto; someone will soon file a law suit claiming that - "insert trumped up reason here".
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

Ian said:
it will be softened and made more comfortable and then they will wonder why it doesn't sell.
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See my prior.
 
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Stewart said:
I can see it now Top gear Hosted by An ex wrestler
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Hey, watch what you say! Bill played football at the University of Colorado and was in classes with my oldest son. :wink:

OK, now you can say anything you want about him--I just had to get that in the thread. :thumbsup:
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

.... and it,above all,MUST be PC!
I hope it's on cable,so I won't have
to see it.

- Doug
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]I said on The Tonight Show recently that the new Kia was available with a heated rear window, so if people needed to push it in winter they could keep their hands warm.[/QUOTE]

Gotta love it.
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

Baz said:
NBC have bought it, so they'll use it. That kind of coin to buy a license and no follow through isn't good for share holders...
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Neither is dumping a wad of cash into production and then broadcasting a flop.


PC.
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

TR6oldtimer said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]I said on The Tonight Show recently that the new Kia was available with a heated rear window, so if people needed to push it in winter they could keep their hands warm.
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Gotta love it.
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He is of course, first and foremost, a comedian!! :thumbsup:
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

Stewart said:
Like all the other good british shows that get americanized its going to be a horible souless show.
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Well, thats what happened with <span style="font-style: italic">Coupling</span>, but I would argue that NBC has made <span style="font-style: italic">The Office</span> a very good show, and unique compared to the UK version.

I would also agree with you if I felt that Top Gear was a good show.

-Wm.
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

TR6oldtimer said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]I said on The Tonight Show recently that the new Kia was available with a heated rear window, so if people needed to push it in winter they could keep their hands warm.
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Gotta love it.
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He should be ashamed- I first heard that as a Yogo joke in '87, but I'm sure it was a Gremlin joke, a Corvair joke, and a Maxwell joke long before.
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

problem is that if its on NBC they will not be able to say half the stuff theu can on BBC,

it will just be the host reading prepared Press releases .....
 
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It's bad enough that BBC America bleeps out the naughty bits, I can't imagine how it will play with 'standards & practices' looking over NBC's shoulders, waiting for a wardrobe malfunction.
 
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I don't think the BBC is doing the bleeping of their own accord, just for re-broacast here in the US to keep the FCC happy!!
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

lawguy said:
[He should be ashamed- I first heard that as a Yogo joke in '87, but I'm sure it was a Gremlin joke, a Corvair joke, and a Maxwell joke long before.
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The Corvair had a heated rear window? Only from the heat coming off the rear engine through the "bonnet"! It didn't even have much of a windshield defroster or heater if I remember correctly. :nonod:
 
Re: American "Top Gear"?

A captive hard breathing hamster.
 
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