Top Gear is BACK!

OfflerCrocGod

In case there are some people living in a cave on Mars and have just this moment returned Top Gear is back on air first show coming up on the 28th. Also watch this movie; it's worth it

Wishbone Ash

Does anyone know if it's repeated during the week? Sunday night at 8pm is a very bad time for me.

OfflerCrocGod

I have BIT no idea TORRENT tbh

*cough*

CyberGhost

Wishbone Ash wrote:

Does anyone know if it's repeated during the week? Sunday night at 8pm is a very bad time for me.

http://www.finalgear.com/

You can get it there.

Blitzkrieger

Think it's repeated Tuesdays on UKTVG2 or something like that.

jimogr

repeated wednesday at 7pm on BBC2

Wishbone Ash

Thanks for the info lads.

greine

Heard that they are showing "the crash" on the first show, heard that on the radio during the week, is there any truth in that? Great 2 have the boys back regardless!

Mitch Connor

yeah - if you look at the link in the first post they say what will be on the first show.

Wishbone Ash

Next episode: Series 9 Episode 1
Four months after Richard's 'upside down' thing, Top Gear returns and the Jaguar XKR is the first car to be featured. Now, Jaguar's are well known to be a bit thirsty, which could well be the reason why Jeremy, James and Richard try to make their own petrol. At the very least, a small fire is expected. Also, the 288mph jet car crash which left Richard fighting for his life in September 2006, a crash from which he has made a complete recovery.
Jamie Oliver is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
Airs: Sunday January 28, 2007


(Jamie Oliver back again :eek:)

Big Nelly

Is it been shown over in Oz?:p

Seth Brundle

Wishbone Ash wrote:

a crash from which he has made a complete recovery.

complete?

superfly

why when do you leave?

Wishbone Ash

kbannon wrote:

complete?

Not my words kbannon - I was quoting from their web page!

Kinetic^

Ya complete......so far. They'll be monitoring his behaviour for a while yet.

Lex Luthor

anybody have a link that I can watch the show on the web? I'll be out of the country from tomorrow for a week and they don't have BBC

Big Nelly

superfly wrote:

why when do you leave?

See below!!

Owen

Herself wants to go the Cinema tomorrow night when Top Gear returns. Should I dump her now and be done with it?

peasant

Wishbone Ash wrote:

(Jamie Oliver back again :eek:)

Not a great fan of Jamie, but that one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCLYGoM1GrU
was hilarious !

Arthur Daley

Oh I remember good old top gear with William Wollard but anyway.........

But seriously, I watched the first episode of new top gear on you tube, which know I watched back in oct 2002, and I couldn't believe the difference to the show now.

-There was no audience - well a few guys just in that big hanger
- The first car they drove was the citroen Berlingo (nice little practical motor)
- The guest (harry enfield) hung around for most of the programme.
- I've a better looking tv in my living room (and it was going cheap in 2003), so if you've forked out at Harvey Norman recently it'll look very cheap to ya.

The stunt they did in May where they wasted the fire brigades time while trying to prove that caravans are a waste of time was pathetic and smacked of somethig coming to the end of it's life creatively. When Richard had the accident I thought it was a natural end to the series in it's current format.

If they quit at the end of this series the BBC can be relied upon to come up with something that brings the top gear name forward. Otherwise it'll struggle on slowly getting out of touch while making temporary stars out of Clarkson, Hammond and May.

Wishbone Ash

Arthur Daley wrote:

Oh I remember good old top gear with William Wollard but anyway.........

I wasn't mad on that "Tomorrow's World" format but I suppose it's now designed to appear to peole who aren't necessarily into cars. 'Dumbing Down' I think they call it.

Arthur Daley wrote:

The stunt they did in May where they wasted the fire brigades time while trying to prove that caravans are a waste of time was pathetic and smacked of somethig coming to the end of it's life creatively

I think that many of those stunts are boring and stupid especially making a car go on cow dung, using cars as giant conkers etc. but I do enjoy the car versus train, boat, aeroplane races and the "buy a classic sportcar for £1,000" type of challenges.

ned78 wrote:

Herself wants to go the Cinema tomorrow night when Top Gear returns

:eek: She needs to be educated!

mike65

Oh harsh! Clarkson is a star name, his books have sold over a million copies in the UK in the last year alone. As for the Willam Wollard era that was 15-20 years ago fer petes sake, some may miss the old magazine format with a bit of everything - rallying, best used buy, new hatchback test, etc but frankly I don't. TG 2002-on style works on its own terms perfectly, if you want old style TG then there are plenty of alternatives like various M&M progs and Fifth Gear.

Mike.

Wishbone Ash

mike65 wrote:

some may miss the old magazine format

Noel Edmonds. :eek:

zuutroy

Still say there's something different about hammond

connundrum

zuutroy wrote:

Still say there's something different about hammond

Yeah, in the studio he seems a bit zonked, but I'm sure that'll just work itself out. He's exactly the same in the features!

So glad its back on

plonk

Thats coz that was filmed before the crash. He seems to be very monotone with no expression in his speech

Big Nelly

Just showing crash now

plonk

plonk wrote:

Thats coz that was filmed before the crash. He seems to be very monotone with no expression in his speech

He doesnt seem bad at all really talking about it and he seems to be better at talking --back to himself

zuutroy

Big Nelly wrote:

Just showing crash now

meh...I've walked away from worse....LOL!

Sizzler

He looks a shadow of himself (Understandable in fairness). In good form but has aged and looks like he hasnt eaten in months :eek:

Mad Dog

WOW :eek: That was unbelievable, he is very lucky to be alive after that crash especially when it rolled over and roll cage dug into the grass. :eek:

Guy:Incognito

It was a lot less spectacular than I thought it would be.

Big Nelly

Sizzler wrote:

He looks a shadow of himself (Understandable in fairness). In good form but has aged and looks like he hasnt eaten in months :eek:

Didnt think he looked that bad myself but only seen from the road section, was in car driving on N3 with a load of muppets doing 40mph and blocking the whole road up:eek: speed kills my ass! slow dumbasses kill

netwhizkid

The hamster looked terrible, he aged and got skinny, really looked weathered but as could be imagined considering the crash. Jamie Oliver in the blue car was gas as was Jeremy Clarkson's "Jade Goody" comment.

Wishbone Ash

I thought the show was a bit lame. They wasted half of it on that silly roadworks stunt. :rolleyes:

Hammond looks a bit "failed" alright.

mike65

If you had been through a severly emotional time you'd be looking a bit thin, I lost a stone or more (and some hair) after my dad died so stress does that sort of thing. He'll plump up (not that he was anything other than slim to start with).

As for the show, only 6 out of 10 and most of that for Jamie Olivers lap and
Clarksons inspirational tarmac-laden speeches.

Mike.

wba88

Ahh, dont ya just love it!!!

chrislad

I only caught the end of it where Clarkson went 'and remember, speed kills' and the camera panned to Hamster checking himself over.

Great stuff.

sdanseo

The piece on the Jag started to bore me after a while, but the rest of the show was pure class (well, except the crash, but you know what I mean)

Great stuff and hopefully fook loads more to come.

mloc123

netwhizkid wrote:

Jeremy Clarkson's "Jade Goody" comment.

Missed that. What did he say?

Mossy Monk

great to have it back

Jade Goody comment, something about her being pig faced. i enjoyed it even if i dont rememebr exactly what he said

Fizman

mloc123 wrote:

Missed that. What did he say?

Was brilliant....dont take this as verbatim....but he was talkin bout big brother it went somethin like this..." thanks to big bro we all saw what jade is really like....a racist pig-faced waste of organs"

LMAO

ARGINITE

Great to see it back and the hamster in good form.

mloc123

Fizman wrote:

Was brilliant....dont take this as verbatim....but he was talkin bout big brother it went somethin like this..." thanks to big bro we all saw what jade is really like....a racist pig-faced waste of organs"

LMAO

Lol.

Creamy Goodness

i thought the hamster looked grand, a bit in awe to the reaction he was getting i think but otherwise looked fine.

was a good show, not the best one but i'm just glad it's back on the air.

unkel

Missed it (as usual). Will comment when I get to see it in the next few days

Creamy Goodness

i missed it myself and forgot about it but when i got home i booted up my sky+ box and seen that i set to series link record ages ago.

i then preceeded to kiss the sky+ box.

Big Nelly

What did they guy shout out of the audience when they where looking at the crash? couldnt hear it but it took Hamster aback!!

Mitch Connor

Fizman wrote:

Was brilliant....dont take this as verbatim....but he was talkin bout big brother it went somethin like this..." thanks to big bro we all saw what jade is really like....a racist pig-faced waste of organs"

LMAO

no, no, no, that wasn't it!

They were going to the Stig segment, where they'd show his lap in the Jag. Clarkson was saying he usual "some people say..." bit and said: "Some people say he knew before everyone else that Jade was an ugly pig-faced racist waste of organs".

Seth Brundle

The media should go easy on her - she just had kids...

Fizman

Tauren wrote:

no, no, no, that wasn't it!

They were going to the Stig segment, where they'd show his lap in the Jag. Clarkson was saying he usual "some people say..." bit and said: "Some people say he knew before everyone else that Jade was an ugly pig-faced racist waste of organs".

I wasn't far off to be fair