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Sabine and Matt seem to have an element that might work (the others are just car nerds).
But - and this is key to success - they've forgotten why the show was popular. It was never a car show - which is what this version is.
It was successful because it was bloke TV. Three idiots doing stupid things and taking the piss out of each other - it just happened to be in a carry setting. Could have been boats, planes, pottery, sheep farming - anything
While this might aspire to be a good car show (maybe it is?), it's shed the audience that couldn't care less if it's a beetle or a porsche, keeping just the car nerds.
It'll be a struggle for them to recover that audience now they've lost it.
There will be other popular bloke shows. This ain't it.
Are we talking about Countryfile again ?
Evans has always been about Evans - he just can't help himself.
Time to kill the show I think.
Don't forget it took the last lot a couple of seasons with other guys before they settled in Clarkson, May and Hammond.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
There's things I've had, there's things I wanna have"
It didn't work, and Evans didn't cut it (despite his impeccable petrol head credentials).
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Apparently they overran the filming schedule and couldn't get the planned 8 episodes in the can.
I gave up watching the latest series after week 2, it's hackneyed, laboured and has no redeeming features that I can see. Evans is just awful and was the kiss of death. He's also under police investigation for sexual harassment now I see, so I imagine the Beeb will be dropping him like a hot potato very soon.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/1381280/top-gear-host-chris-evans-faces-police-probe-over-sexual-assault/
This version seems to be missing that element. I think they may have tried to make Jordan the ridicule figure but it doesn't work with him the same way as it did with James May.
The bigger problem though is Evans. He is just annoying. When he was presenting stuff years ago it was aimed at a teenage and student audience and his shouty style was tolerable, but it doesn't work on Top Gear.
LeBlanc- fine.
Rory Reid- Really like him, and I thought the bits he did last week with Norman Dewis about Jags were very good.
Chris Harris- TG's future.
They should bring more of a 'car news'/ driving issues element into it to give a nod to the public service remit (you can do this while being entertaining because it essentially involves moaning about how shit some aspects of driving in Britain are).