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Join Date: May 2007
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Sorry Gents but I enjoyed the first hour, the second was a disappointment as it was the Winter Olympic Special so I flicked to 31 watched Gasolene at 8.30 and Classic Resto's at 9.00pm can't beat Fletch
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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just got the full epp from itunes for 2.99 not too bad but i will be looking into final gear
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I don't understand why they just don't run the full episode over an hour and a half. They will still get all their ads in. Why slash it down to run for just an hour.
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i really wish top gear would get rid of James May. they've got Jeremy as the 'gentleman racer' and Hammond as the 'boy racer', May is just a slow copy of jezza. maybe they should pinch that chick from 5th just to spice things up a bit... |
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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i think the show would really suffer if they lost James May and his dry humour
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James May is a very smart man, he can also drive a car,( Bugatti wouldn't let just anyone do a top speed run in a Veyron ) something that isn't shown on the show much as he IS the straight guy of the trio. I love this bit about one of his previous jobs. Dismissal from Autocar magazine James May's hidden message In an interview with Richard Allinson on BBC Radio 2,[13] May confessed that he was fired in 1992 from Autocar magazine after putting together a hidden message or acrostic in one issue. At the end of the year, the magazine's "Road Test Year Book" supplement was published. Each spread featured four reviews and each review started with a large, red letter (known in typography as an initial). May's role was to put the entire supplement together, which "was extremely boring and took several months". He went on to say: So I had this idea that if I re-edited the beginnings of all the little texts, I could make these red letters spell out a message through the magazine, which I thought was brilliant. I can't remember exactly what it said, but it was to the effect that "You might think this is a really great thing, but if you were sitting here making it up you'd realise it's a real pain in the ****". It took me about two months to do it and on the day that it came out I'd actually forgotten that I'd done it because there's a bit of a gap between it being "put to bed" and coming out on the shelves. When I arrived at work that morning everybody was looking at their shoes and I was summoned to the managing director of the company's office. The thing had come out and nobody at work had spotted what I'd done because I'd made the words work around the pages so you never saw a whole word. But all the readers had seen it and they'd written in thinking they'd won a prize or a car or something. May's original message, punctuated appropriately, reads: "So you think it's really good, yeah? You should try making the bloody thing up. It's a real pain in the ****."[ And as for Vicki Butler-Henderson(from 5th gear) she would have to be the most irritating woman that has been on TV. I would stop watching Top Gear if she were on the show. But then again it is possible that she turn up there as her husband has Directed quite a few episodes of Top Gear. |
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Hey leave Vicky alone .....She is my mistress !
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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I was just peeved because ch9 is the worst channel I get, kept dropping out and going all garbled.... Oh and the fact I've seen the winter olympics special umpteen times before didn't help either...
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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The trio work well togather, IMO. Leave it be.
And I got so narked by Channel 9's "broadcast", that I've finally done the decent thing and got it from finalgear.com. Having watched episode 1 of the new series (the full version) I'm not surprised people are grumbling. When episode 2 airs this week on 9, I'll be plugging my laptop into my TV and watching the full version, thanks. And did anyone have a good read of the comments on Channel 9's website? You can count the happy viewers on one hand, and there's about 400 comments there... surprised they haven't taken the page down!
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just checked the channel nine website 400 comments and I counted 6 that were happy with what nein aired for the record I submitted a scathing assault on that website over the total amateur hack job that somebody performed on this great show - the center of my argument was based around how badly nein destroyed a winning formula you don't see coke changing their formula or chopping bits out people would go off tap cadbury anybody? ring a bell I drew comparisons to this and the public backlash over some cocoa butter and palm oil the Australian public went nuts.
I can but wonder how many comments to that site were so scathing or downright nasty and/or brutal that they didn't make the cut. I bet every positive one was written by a nein staffer and shoved in there to give their - hm tailpipe stuffing acceptance.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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I posted a comment that they did a total hatchet job on TG, and that its no wonder Ch 7 continually spanks them in ratings. That would hurt.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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Its shocking how much is missing from the BBCs 'international package' that networks like 9 buy.
The first epsiode of TG on 9 lost: The middle of the Bana interview The News disappeared save for May's segway into his story about the BMW 7 Series (some of that story disappeared too) Some of May driving the Romanian hatch during the Romanian adventure There may have been more but I didn't bother to check the rest of the cut down. |
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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I have voted with my feet already channel nein has been oblitterated from my STB IT CANT BE WATCHED in my house at all. drastic measure but they are so crap and as for mr "right after this" mcguire he can get stuffed too I hate that guy absolutely. sorry wandering.
yes channel nein has been removed from my STB so I dont see any of their shyte at all no commercials or anything. I am angry as heck that they destroyed a great show with a winning formula how hard is it to play an episode in FULL and not bullcrap ""2 hour season premiere" which implies 100% new footage when we got a hack and smash job on the show and some old winter olympics stuff that is cool yes but has massive chunks omitted which is not cool. I am certain they used the show to pull ratings and to slam as many commercials down our throats as humanly possible - and I would bet those advertisers paid handsomely to be advertising during top gear too. It is possible that they have heard the outcry and will air the show properly after the "cricket" is it? We can only hope.
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Pardon my ignorance guys, but isn't Top Gear supposed to be on channel9 Tuesdays at 7:30? Sydney has the cricket on and then the winter Olympics. Am i losing the plot or have i missed something?
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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No, you're not missing anything. Top Gear was bumped for the cricket and Olympics.
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I could explode right now. Its my first Tuesday night off, and i was excited because i missed last weeks episode! Arrrgggg!
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Only one week in and channel 9 has treated its viewers with contempt.
Just like the formula 1 which was always relegated to last screening even behind infomercials, channel 9 upsets the regular viewer for their own brand of incestuous self promotion. Despite the fact that cricket has a snore rating of over 300 (out of a possible 301), they persist with interrupting regular viewing for what is arguably the most boring sport around today (from a viewers standpoint). Meanwhile, SBS should have kept top gear as atleast we got to see more of the program as well as re-runs when the show wasn't on in the UK. I think I'll start an online petition for a new 20 to 1; "20 to 1 reasons why channel 9 suck major shaft" - Bert can host it infact, he can be in the top 10 of the reasons. Then they can dole out all of their "celebrities" (sic) and sit around in an orgy of arrogance and self promotion. Actually, narrowing down why channel 9 suck will take more than 20 to 1, it would have to be a week long special of 2000 to 1 reasons.
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Yes I'm also part of the majority so 9 is doing what the majority of people want to see. Especially considering this was the last game of the Australian summer. This could have been a non issue if 9 hadn't decided they wanted to poach it though. Much better on SBS, as is everything.
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Join Date: Dec 2004
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And sadly, don't think that by boycotting one show it will hurt 9's coffers either. I typically don't watch 9 at all - didn't really before, as none of the shows they broadcast appeal to me. So I can whinge and stamp my feet as much as I want, but it'll make no difference to them. Same with the majority on this forum who worship Top Gear - won't make a tiny bit of difference to 9. Just go to finalgear.com, download uTorrent and watch the full UK episodes... just make sure you've got a big hard drive, a fast PC and a big broadband plan!
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