Top Gear 2016 who should the presenters be?

[beesonthewhatnow]

Matt LeBlanc - He's a known peteolhead, a huge star, has a likeable TV persona and iirc holds the guest record round the track so must be a pretty decent driver. Makes perfect sense.

 

[Cid]

There's a US Top Gear anyway so the point is somewhat, though not entirely, moot.

That sort of is the point though... Top Gear (UK) is popular in the US because it's not a US motoring show (to generalise massively).

 

[8den]

Nevertheless, I couldn't really see how even the mooted Brit replacements would match up to the appeal of Clarkson and co.

I don't even see how Evans will appeal TBH. Nobody really knows who he is there, and he's not really funny in a way I can see how Clarkson may be to Americans (plus there's a more well known actor called Chris Evans in the US to add to matters). Meh.

No one knew who Clarkson May or Hammond was.

 

[mauvais]

Evans - not particularly charismatic, bit of a joke. Well suited to Radio 2...

LeBlanc - I quite like him, but he's American.

More generally - white men again. See who third is.

There's not a fixed cast of three any more. AIUI, there's already Sabine Schmidt, Chris Harris and David Coulthard in the lineup.

 

[8den]

There's a US Top Gear anyway so the point is somewhat, though not entirely, moot.

I think US top gear was cancelled, because it was genuinely terrible. Like when they tried to make a British version of the Golden Girls awful.

 

[Mogden]

Presumably they're going with 2 fixed and 1 changing presenter for each episode.



And for anyone who has watched Friends, it's a moo point, not moot

 

[mauvais]

I think US top gear was cancelled, because it was genuinely terrible. Like when they tried to make a British version of the Golden Girls awful.

I think it's still going, but I'm not sure. Last ran in 2014, for its fifth season. It looked pretty bad though, but then so are most car things.

 

[weltweit]

Matt LeBlanc - He's a known peteolhead, a huge star, has a likeable TV persona and iirc holds the guest record round the track so must be a pretty decent driver. Makes perfect sense.

I thought Rowan Atkinson was fastest guest?

 

[gosub]

If new TopGear tries to be old TopGear but with other people doing Clarkson et al impressions it will fail.
Evans, like him or loathe him, has a decent record of format invention, and they need to change the format


Le blanc doesn't seem a bad choice

 

[danny la rouge]

I like Le Blanc. I have never watched an episode of Top Gear, I have no interest in watching a car show, I can't stand Clarkson or Chris Evans, but I might even watch an episode of Top Gear if this is true.

So smart move, I'd say.

 

[ska invita]

I think US top gear was cancelled, because it was genuinely terrible. Like when they tried to make a British version of the Golden Girls awful.

hah that sounds amazing - just the kind of shit tv that doesn't get made anymore
...looked it up - "Brighton Belles" - very vaguely remember it - sadly cant find an episode online... if anyone has a private collection PM me

 

[TheHoodedClaw]

I thought Rowan Atkinson was fastest guest?

Not much in it though.

 

[weltweit]

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Not much in it though.

Fair play, a win is a win!

 

[danny la rouge]

I like Le Blanc. I have never watched an episode of Top Gear, I have no interest in watching a car show, I can't stand Clarkson or Chris Evans, but I might even watch an episode of Top Gear if this is true.

So smart move, I'd say.

Actually, I misunderstood - I thought he was replacing Evans. If Evans is presenting as well I won't be watching.

 

[weltweit]

 

[Cid]

One thing I have learned today is that Evans is unexpectedly tall, measuring in at 6'2".

 

[BandWagon]

Not Eddie Jordan?!? Please, no.....

 

[Indeliblelink]

So this is the line up
Eddie Jordan and Sabine Schmitz join Top Gear line-up - BBC News

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Not Eddie Jordan?!? Please, no.....

I like him

 

[skyscraper101]

I like him

I like his purple shoes

 

[Lord Camomile]

Eddie pissing Jordan

 

[BandWagon]

I like him

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Why all the facepalms? What's wrong with him

Not afraid to speak his mind, owned an F1 team, has a whole world of contacts/inside stories from the world of F1, seems a great fit for a car show to me.

 

[Gromit]

Im just glad the didn't decide to do like Your Fired and have someone like Romesh Ranganathan turn up to do brief little comedy interludes.

 

[weltweit]

Looks alright as a lineup goes, I may watch it, especially as there is a snowballs chance in hell of me subscribing to watch PayTV to watch the other lot.

 

[dlx1]

Sabine Schmitz Great. Never heard some of others.

Heard JK the new stig

 

[BandWagon]

Why all the facepalms? What's wrong with him

Not afraid to speak his mind, owned an F1 team, has a whole world of contacts/inside stories from the world of F1, seems a great fit for a car show to me.

I don't like him. He didn't contribute much to the F1 commentary, imho.

 

[D'wards]

The programme is doomed. It worked so well before because they took 3 very good pals and put them in interesting/exciting situations and the "classic bants" did the rest. It was a dynamic that worked, and Clarkson's arsehole/un-pcness was its USP, not a weakness.

 

[D'wards]

I bet those good folks over at the mail online will be spewing at the diversity aspect -"BBC quotas pah" etc

I'm gonna go have a look

 

[weltweit]

To my mind the star of the new lineup is Schmidt, I hope they give her plenty of airtime. Don't really have any favourites among the rest. Hope it works though it should be about cars but primarily it should be entertainment.