New top gear lineup..

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Rotty said:
Of course I know what friends is and I know it was huge (in the US, not sure how it did in UK) but personally I have never seen it so how would I know the actors?
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We have a channel over here which seems to do nothing but play friends re-runs. It was pretty huge over here also tbh.

It's un expected and I don't have a clue if it will work, but look forward to finding out.
 
Rotty said:
Of course I know what friends is and I know it was huge (in the US, not sure how it did in UK) but personally I have never seen it so how would I know the actors?
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You've never seen friends ? I didn't know such people under the age of 50 existed !
 
How can you go through life without ever seeing an episode of friends....

It was on channel 4 pretty much everyday for like ever.
 
Rotty said:
I'm only under the age of 50 by 7 weeks :p

I thought it was a program for women anyway :D
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It's for anyone who has ever been bored and channel hopping, if they don't fancy Storage Hunters or A Police Interceptors repeat :p

That's ignoring the fact he's been on Top Gear a couple of times and was the fastest celeb.
 
Kenai said:
It's for anyone who has ever been bored and channel hopping, if they don't fancy Storage Hunters or A Police Interceptors repeat :p

That's ignoring the fact he's been on Top Gear a couple of times and was the fastest celeb.
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I always skip that bit of TG :p
 
Clarkey said:
About as much as Chris Evans, yes. I can't fathom how an American presenter would work either.

What happened to Sabine and Harris anyway?
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Harris was in the photo with the production team yesterday and Sabine we know has been driving. We don't know the format of the show though - nothing is suggesting it will be just three presenters as it used to be.
 
Eddie Jordan, Chris Evans & Matt Le Blanc. I have to say Whose ******* idea was this ???
 
Hasn't Chris Evans recently stacked an old Jag and puked whilst driving a hot lap?

I have to admit it's second hand info though. I find the whole Evans Top Gear show a bit of a BBC toss off.
 
The Times is also running the Jordan story:

The former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan is set to become the third member of the Top Gear trio, adding some racing firepower to the team.

The yacht-owning, drum-playing Irishman is expected to be named within days as part of the Top Gear family, joining Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc.
While LeBlanc, the Friends actor, is bringing some international glamour to the motoring show, Jordan comes with racing and television expertise. He is a former racing driver and was part of the BBC’s Formula One presenting team.
The corporation has been in talks with Jordan since he was left on the sidelines in December when Channel 4 snapped up the Formula One racing rights and poached David Coulthard, another name in the Top Gear frame, to front its new show.

BBC executives hope that the presenters will offer Top Gear fans a package of expertise, glamour and comedy as it goes head-to-head with the old crew — Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond — who are launching a rival show on Amazon.

Jordan, 67, has not yet signed his contract but this is a formality, according to Radio Times.

A BBC spokesman said last night: “We don’t comment on speculation.”
He founded and owned the Jordan Grand Prix from 1991 to 2005, giving Michael Schumacher his Formula One debut. He then moved into broadcasting, becoming the lead analyst for the BBC’s Formula One coverage from 2009 to 2015.

He is known for speaking his mind and attacked BBC bosses last year for “gut-wrenching” timing after they announced plans to ditch F1 just before Christmas.

While BBC bosses and Jordan appear to have buried the hatchet with this near-certain deal, the real surprise this week for Top Gear fans was the signing of LeBlanc.

The actor called into Evans’s BBC Radio 2 breakfast show yesterday to discuss the motoring show, admitting that he had been bowled over by the reaction to the news. “I knew Top Gear was a big show,” he said. “But wow, I was on the front page of the New York Times.”

The actor said he now had someone house hunting in the UK in preparation for joining the programme, which is due to be broadcast by early May. Evans has spent months filming sequences alone as the BBC cast around for suitable co-stars.
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Welcome to Top Irritation the show that wants to make you turn off...
 
I think Matt LeBlanc might be a good fit for the show. But Eddie and Chris could make it unwatchable.

I'll reserve judgment until the first few episodes at least though. I am wondering what the original trio's Amazon show will be like though. I wonder what sort of budget / content restraints they might have. And if Dave will pick it up in 5 years time for terrestrial viewers...
 
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