Section : Television

Bring back Top Gear!

Posted By : Stephen Pratt, 25-Sep-2006, 08:46pm

Just given up watching C4's Fifth Gear - not a patch on the Beebs finest - Hope the Hamster recovers soon and the Beeb don't bow to pressure to water down the programme to the level of Fifth Gear tonight!

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Bring back Top Gear!

Posted By : Jon Wolfe, 25-Sep-2006, 09:15pm

Agree, 5th Gear tonight was lame...
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  Posted By : Dan Owen, 25-Sep-2006, 09:31pm
  
  Think yourself lucky you can get channel 5 at all- We can't even get 4 here in the Valley of the Damned.
Bring back Top Gear!

Posted By : Mark Stradling, 26-Sep-2006, 08:57am

Well part of your problem if that your watching the wrong channel - Fith Gear is on C5, not C4 but even then the I only made it to the first ad break before thinking .oO(This is pants)Oo. and giving up on it.

As for the content of Top Gear, personally I'd be happy to loose some of the silly stuff and have a bit more car stuff. Driving a Transit around the 'ring is fun. Staging a bad slapstick caravan badly skit isn't.
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  Posted By : Jon Wolfe, 27-Sep-2006, 02:18pm
  
  What!? are you saying it was staged!!
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  Posted By : Andy Cook, 27-Sep-2006, 03:28pm
  
  Vroom Vroom and Sky TV is even more pants than 5th gear..............
  
  However, in their defence, at least Sky are still showing programmes presented by the Hamster and haven't pulled them like the Beeb have with TG. Brainiac was on last night, I do like to see a few Caravan's blown up......
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    Posted By : Andrew Mills, 16-Mar-2007, 00:09am
    
    Top Gear was only "pulled" because the Hamster was unable to film them - the studio days are done on the Wednesday before the show is aired. I first applied for tickets over a year, ago, still no bloody luck in getting them. Bah.
    
    Fifth Gear is what Top Gear used to be (and with most of the old presenters), only more boring. Vroom Vroom is a poor attempt to imitate Top Gear, and failing badly.