We're back!!!! Clarkson, Hammond and May finally came up with a new name for their show and confirmed the release date, well sort of, they went full blizzard and said "Autumn 2016" 18th November 2016 - Season 1 Episode 1!
Not only will the guys travel to different locations, but for the first time ever the studio audience recordings will travel every week, all housed within a giant tent. Amazon customers will have the chance to be in the audience when tickets are released through prize draws this summer.
Seems like it will be a moving show, up and down the UK? Across Europe, who knows but more information will be coming out sooner rather than later.
I'll add more and more information when possible but for now, we wait
I'd hope they come to some location in the states I could get to but Minnesota isn't exactly known for anything that would interest these guys. Maybe Chicago.
Hmm. Interesting. I thought they said they were going to do away with the studio bits. Either we misunderstood and they meant they were doing away with a set location, or they changed their minds.
I was hoping it was gonna be called Gear Knobs. Still, great to see it moving forward, with a name and (sort of) launch date. I also hope they keep the studio bits, that was part of the variety that kept every Top Gear show fresh.
Also i have found out the first Grand Tour's first episode will be filmed from Johannesburg - South Africa! This will come to us sometime in July!! Well at least recorded in July, but they are doing the same set up as the Top Gear, where it is just gonna be a big tent with them showing pre recorded clips and talking. So i assume that will be the episode and air roughly the same time?
In terms of episodes per seasons/series it is. However the BBC episodes were all 60 minutes long. Used to run 20:00 - 21:00 and if you have access to Dave you can remind yourself too. Nothing beats Top Gear
On June 29 2016 22:44 Pandemona wrote: In terms of episodes per seasons/series it is. However the BBC episodes were all 60 minutes long. Used to run 20:00 - 21:00 and if you have access to Dave you can remind yourself too. Nothing beats Top Gear
Old Top Gear didn't count their episodes through seasons tho, they counted them pr year. They got 14 episodes (at 60 min) a year, which they split into 2 seasons (sometimes the episodes could skew into the next year). So if Amazon TGT only gets 12 episodes pr season, and one season is once a year, it's 2 less than before.
I was worried for a second that maybe the trio wouldn't work out as well after changing shows and format. After seeing the video above and this fairly recent video from their live show, I am not worried anymore. They're as comical and awesome as they've always been:
Hope Ben Collins is going to be a regular on TGT. Having been the stig for so many years he's as much part of the crew as anyone else. Even if he did sell them out a bit, they seem to have gotten over it by now.
Holy fuck, thank god the BBC sacked Clarkson. Best ever blessing in disguise. The creative freedom and the money they have to work with... just makes everything a million times better.
From Reddit, what D'Ambrosio actually said: -So we will start with the Porsche. The easiest to drive; very neutral and a lot of grip in the slow corners. Very good traction. You're very comfortable straight away - you only need 2 or 3 laps to get the confidence.
- The Ferrari is magnificent with a very neutral balance. Between the three it's a very good compromise. It gives you confidence straight away.
- The McLaren is, I think, the hardest to drive. Very easy to make a mistake - it's a big boy's car so you have to be careful. Not easy to do a lap. I think it's a little less efficient.
Oh Clarkson Hammond and May <3 what a dream that was.
I just think in the super car showdown, the Ferrari has to win because of the way it looks, it is absolutely beautiful, pure Ferrari at its best. Beautiful.
You can see why the McLaren lost in the track times even though it wasn't by much but its just so wild it was hard for even D'Ambrosio to handle.
Oh i also laughed way to much when Clarkson was responding to Hammond about his Porsche's 94mpg...."who owns Porsche?"....."Volkswagen" LOLOLOL
Just watched the first episode, its different but feels familiar. You can see from the beginning (gypsies don't have car insurance joke) that they are just rubbing it into the BBC. Every segment of the show had its quotable/memorable parts so aside from the American its was great, though the 'everything is communist' bit was funny.
I can guess the 918 is the fastest however, in the drag race segment they all had turns winning it and winning it comfortable at times. However imo those 3 cars it just comes down to personal choice, i mean i already expressed i would go for the Ferrari.
On November 19 2016 21:08 Pandemona wrote: I can guess the 918 is the fastest however, in the drag race segment they all had turns winning it and winning it comfortable at times. However imo those 3 cars it just comes down to personal choice, i mean i already expressed i would go for the Ferrari.
If I was really going to buy one of these supercars I'd get the Porsche, it just seems like it has cheaper spare parts. And you probably don't have to take the whole thing to Germany to fix it.
On November 19 2016 21:02 zeo wrote: Just watched the first episode, its different but feels familiar. You can see from the beginning (gypsies don't have car insurance joke) that they are just rubbing it into the BBC. Every segment of the show had its quotable/memorable parts so aside from the American its was great, though the 'everything is communist' bit was funny.
Best part were the subtitles.
It's definitely a bigger jab when you know the song they used
On November 19 2016 21:02 zeo wrote: Just watched the first episode, its different but feels familiar. You can see from the beginning (gypsies don't have car insurance joke) that they are just rubbing it into the BBC. Every segment of the show had its quotable/memorable parts so aside from the American its was great, though the 'everything is communist' bit was funny.
Best part were the subtitles.
It's definitely a bigger jab when you know the song they used
What did people think of the last episode? I was not impressed. Not "new top gear" levels of bad, but the jokes became a bit too repetitive, and they steered a bit too far away from cars in their main segment.
On November 27 2016 20:41 Excludos wrote: What did people think of the last episode? I was not impressed. Not "new top gear" levels of bad, but the jokes became a bit too repetitive, and they steered a bit too far away from cars in their main segment.
I agree.
I rationalized it by thinking, "Maybe they're trying to seem different at the outset of their show for intellectual property reasons." That explains the very long, very mediocre segment in Jordan. Also, that helps explains why there hasn't been a celebrity on for a chat.
Overall, I felt the episode was okay but certainly not great.
I know Top Gear was always extremely edited, scripted, etc. But it always had the casual, off-the-cuff feel to it.
This episode was just not what I want from these guys. A badly-scripted comedy show that takes its laughs and its audience for granted. Best part of the episode was, of course, the car. That Vulcan Aston was some glorious car-porn.
But I loved the first episode, and am hoping that the rest of the season is more like that first episode.
I think the first episode went to show we can still film car porn just as well as we did with the BBC, but this second episode I'm failing to draw an apt analogy to an existing Top Gear episode off the cuff. There was no pseudo competition between the three; it was just them sort of messing around together. It wasn't abysmal, but if I handed this episode in as a paper to a teacher who liked me I'm sure I'd see, "You can do better," written somewhere in the header.
The best Top Gear episodes to me were the international challenges or the group build ones which were just good fun. If they nail those, I'll be a happy camper.
On December 05 2016 02:59 Durak wrote: Great episode: back to their roots.
I agree, this was a good one. I still think they're repeating their jokes a bit too much, both in the main segment and in the studio. But over all much better than the last.
I really don't get the part where they kill the celebrities that doesn't function in my head lol.
This episode was great as i am pretty much Hammond 2.0 i hate Nissan Juke drivers and the car in general and i am a sucker for American Muscle cars. The hellcat was beautiful in terms of looks and sound, not saying the Aston wasn't nice (lol brown) but i would choose the hellcat over any of those!
I would surely choose the aston but i agree, twas a good episode. Anyone know why jeremy wanted his house gone for real? Because this bet was staged for sure like all of it is.
On December 05 2016 20:06 Kleinmuuhg wrote: I would surely choose the aston but i agree, twas a good episode. Anyone know why jeremy wanted his house gone for real? Because this bet was staged for sure like all of it is.
On December 05 2016 20:06 Kleinmuuhg wrote: I would surely choose the aston but i agree, twas a good episode. Anyone know why jeremy wanted his house gone for real? Because this bet was staged for sure like all of it is.
The snow bit will be funny af. Looks like Colorado maybe based on the left side drive and mountains? I could see James May having fun with the legal pot too.
So first episode is out and I liked it. I liked the first season and so far it looks better than last year, simply because they listened to feed back and cut out some of the more stupid stuff they had last year. The new celebrity race thing has potential, but fuck me it needs a better guest than Hasselhoff. There was more of the banter that makes the show great, both in studio and in the main film, so that is always good.
However, there is still way too much scripting in the movie. The entire closed tunnel, bad road with the Lamborghini ground clearance and returning to the town three times because of the supercharger all was so forced and weird. I know there always was scripting in Top Gear, but it never felt as obvious and as forced as it did all of the 1st season and in this episode, let's see if they can improve that some more.
On December 09 2017 20:13 Pandemona wrote: Was great first episode indeed also i didn't realise Hammond crashed AFTER the race finished haha what a guy! :D
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