Archive for the "Top Gear" Category

The Bolivia Special

This whole season I’ve been pretty disappointed in Top Gear. It’s felt different, with the boys off doing things that are only indirectly connected to cars for the majority of  every episode (and is it just me or have the interviews with the Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car seemed longer this season as well?), [...]

Scripting Top Gear

We’re two weeks into the fourteenth series of Top Gear, and I felt I should say something. Despite the fact that the show’s won awards for unscripted television, they’ve never hidden the fact that some of the gags are staged (the first Stig driving off an aircraft carrier and dying, for example). But this season [...]

And They`re Back

Last night saw the premiere of the thirteenth season (or series, to be overly British about it) of Top Gear. Since the death of the new American Gladiators it`s become the only unscripted (well…. not-fully-scripted) show I watch. Serialized drama is kinda my thing, so anything else TV-wise will have to be really amazing to [...]

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