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I enjoyed it - good humour, interesting facts with a bit of tom foolery mixed in. Even the MLB played his part well I thought.
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All the gear and no idea...won't bother watching that again. Trying too hard to be like The old top gear. Which it's not. Hopefully this will be the last season.Little blonde boy using Clarksons format/ mannerisms and sayings? Cringe worthy to say the least....
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It did feel a little try hard but, as one of the only motoring programs left on terrestrial tv, I will give it a few episodes to find its grove. Have to admit that Matt was surprisingly good, in fact you could get rid of Evans! I don't think that The Grand Tour has much to worry about though.... P.  |
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it was ok to me only let down i found was chris evans volume of his voice and he was bit too excited like a 4 year old who has eaten too many smarties it was like a crossbreed of tgi friday and top gear i will still watch it as its a car programme
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They had a blank canvas and still came up with the same drivel as dished up by Clarkson and co.
I didn't get past the curse word acting by sabine before I switched off.
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TBH i was finding old top gear a bit boring apart from the main adventure in each episode. The news , star in a car and the minor feature had all got way to samey and boring .
To repeat these bits when you could have refreshed it seems to be a huge mistake in my eyes .
Also Evans is just the wrong man for the job , he is like a excited child , spewing what he things are ' blokey' phrases and affecting Clarksons mannerisms is cringeworthy.
I thought Matt LeBlanc was pretty good though.
Oh and i don't think Evans can actually drive well or know to much , he seemed to get confused narrating Stigs [ boring feature ] lap .
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I've always found Evans an arrogant annoying 'twerp' and he was just that last night. LeBlanc was wooden and showed his full range of acting skills........
Maybe it will improve as they settle down, not really bothered.
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I watched it trying to keep an open mind. By the end, I'd enjoyed it. It's worth remembering that it's the very first episode with the new format, and it'll take a few to warm up, and for Evans and MLB to find their feet properly. I remember when TG was originally reformatted and the three public schoolboys plonked in front of the camera, and it seemed fairly awkward at times. Evans quoted that he didn't want to completely redo a winning formula, and I'm sure the haters would have been all over it if the for at was completely changed. Overall, a good start, and I'll be tuning into the next episode. What I won't be doing though is paying to watch the ex presenters on a random sky channel... Let's have some photo content so this remains in the ethos of RR... Here's the old TG Hilux leaving when the hangar was cleared last year. Anyone know where it ended up?  Possibly the best TG influenced Hilux model yet:  And a quick reminder that there have been some other presenters apart from the previous three!  |
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I am hoping that Chris Evans deliberately mimicked the old show in this first episode to show how stale the format had become.Fingers crossed the rest of the series will be completely different,or maybe i'm just deluded.I just hope he hasn't wasted a great opportunity based on the first show.
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The only improvement in my eyes was the rally cross lap. The rest was just a poor impression of the old top gear.
If the producers didn't want people comparing they should of changed the format completely.
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I watched it trying to keep an open mind. By the end, I'd enjoyed it. It's worth remembering that it's the very first episode with the new format, and it'll take a few to warm up, and for Evans and MLB to find their feet properly. I remember when TG was originally reformatted and the three public schoolboys plonked in front of the camera, and it seemed fairly awkward at times. Evans quoted that he didn't want to completely redo a winning formula, and I'm sure the haters would have been all over it if the for at was completely changed. Overall, a good start, and I'll be tuning into the next episode. What I won't be doing though is paying to watch the ex presenters on a random sky channel... Let's have some photo content so this remains in the ethos of RR... Here's the old TG Hilux leaving when the hangar was cleared last year. Anyone know where it ended up? Possibly the best TG influenced Hilux model yet: And a quick reminder that there have been some other presenters apart from the previous three! its at the national motor meuseum |
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I kept an open mind when watched it this morning. Some of it was good and some not so good,a bit like the old series. I can't help but feel that some want it to fail. But it right that Evans seemed to mimic clarkson,but I guess that's down to the script writers. Will Chris Harris be on the main show instead of extra gear? He seems to have more skill I think,and would be better on the main show. As for extra gear itself....hmm. Not so much as what's in it but more of why does it exist.
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it's been a tired format for the last few series and only the stunning production of the filmed sequences, the Clarkson inspired script and the chemistry and banter between Clarkson, Hammond and May carried it.
To try to carry on that format with a completely new cast was never going to work successfully to the same degree and for me last night showed that.
Zero on-screen chemistry between Evans and his LeBlanc and as for the 'challenge'..... seen it all before.
BBC should have started with a completely clean slate and re-invented the show or preferably drop it altogether ( which they were never going to do due to the revenue it brings/brought in)
Clarkson, Hammond and May were bigger than the show and without them it's dead in the water.
To be fair to LeBlanc, I thought he was pretty good out of the studio whereas Evans is equally as annoying wherever he is.
It'll be interesting to watch the viewing figures once the initial curiosity wears off.
I thought it was boring.
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The rally cross track took too long and was a bit boring. Even the studio audience were silent
Le blanc and Evans just don't work together
Evans is annoying
I found it a let down and got bored rather quickly
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It looked like top gear, didnt feel like top gear. The show kept enough of the old format in a bid to appear not too different from the old show, but the presenters just arnt 'getting on' like the old three, it might take a few more episodes for them to settle in to what their doing so i'll reserve judgement on if i thought it was faliure or success untill ive given it another couple of watches, at least i enjoyed it enough to do that.
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Awful in every way. Evans has to be the most irritating man on the planet.
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And a quick reminder that there have been some other presenters apart from the previous three! [/quote] Ohhhh vicky butler-henderson one of the reasons i used to buy lax power |
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As mentioned above, Clarkson's reboot of TG was initially really quite dull. IIC correctly Hammond wasn't on board initially and it took time to gel. I think the same applies here. Plenty of potential but bits of it need a bit of work. Overall I enjoyed it and will look forward to next week's. I think lots of people are very keen for it to be a miserable failure. If that's what floats their boat, that's fine but I'll base my opinion on what I see and hear.
I'd grown tired of Clarkson more than the format I think. Casual racism and psuedo anti-establishment public school educated bullies aren't really my thing. I'll pass on their new show for that reason.
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Tried to watch it, didnt last more than two minutes I just do Not Like Chris Evans.
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They should have started with a completely new format, but having said that, no matter the format I would still be thinking that Evans is too excitable for the role. Also what the heck was that Reliant piece. It had no challenges, nothing exciting, they didn't turn the cars into something daft at the end (submarine, boat, helicopter, etc). It was just a drive up to Blackpool with one car on the back on an AA van - boring  |
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