Wednesday, December 19, 2018

I hadn't heard that Guy Martin had been offered a gig with Top Gear after Clarkson, Hammons, and May left.

He turned them down of course, as the last couple years have shown.

But it makes me wonder how much more entertaining Top Gear could have been with Martin, but when the new producers took over after Andy Wilman left, they screwed up the successful formula and hired Chris Evans and Matt Le Blanc to wreck Top Gear.

Now that both of them, Evans and LeBlanc have been fired, what's next?

Charisma. Top Gear has shifted Rory Reid to 2nd tier, and has hired a comedian and a cricket team captain, Paddy McGuinness and Andrew Flintoff, to co-host alongside current host Chris Harris.

That's actually smart. Getting rid of the American from the British show, is a good idea, and frankly, though LeBlanc might be a better driver lapping the test track, he wasn't the right chipper personality needed to give the show a light funny atmosphere the way it successfully was when the banter between Hammons, Clarkson, and May made the show worth watching. Could you ever get the image of Joey Tribbiani out of your head? I couldn't.

just try.



I think you'll agree, the entire artifice was too predictable, poorly acted, and not entertaining

https://www.bennetts.co.uk/bikesocial/news-and-views/racing/isle-of-man-tt/news/guy-martin-on-why-he-turned-down-top-gear

2 comments:

  1. I think Evans and Leblanc were sacrificial. They were like George Lazenby in the Bond role :-D Whoever replaces them will be seen as an improvement over what came before, rather than being compared to the original. A fresh slate. But like Bond, I think the formula is tired now anyway.

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    1. Bond formula tired Iain? Never sir, never.

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