Last night's Top Gear

[agamad]

Although last nights episode was entertaining, as someone who is trying to get tickets to attend the show, I would have been very p1ssed off to travel all the way from Northamptonshire to Surrey to watch a vt for an hour. Also, a work collegue mentioned he though it was an enourmous waste of licence payers money when you consider the back-up that went with them. What say you?

[daffy654]

Top Gear is about the only BBC show worth paying a licence fee for.
I was just reading on the MSN homepage that the waiting lists for tickets to the show is decades long so good luck with your application.

[daffy654]

http://cars.uk.msn.com/news/car_news_article.a spx?cp-documentid=6568527

[bill preston]

i would of thought that the audience were from either last weeks show or next weeks show if its pre recorded that far in front?

i understand what you say about the costings but if we thought like that about every TV show, most would cease to be aired?

but i thought last nights show was brilliant!

[agamad]

Daffy/Bill

Hey, the comments about the costs to licence payers was not me! Now you mention it Bill, you are probably right in that they used a previous weeks audience to introduce the show. I was expecting the 3 cars to be in the studio at the end of it too! Looks like i've a long wait for tickets...ho hum.

[LoftyLottie]

It's the only programme that my family all love and watch regularly. There is such a lot of rubbish on the TV (reality shows, etc) that to me TG is worth every penny of my licence money.

[spaced]

what did you expect? Tickets to Africa to join them?

I'd rather pay money for licence fee for this programme that the hundreds of sh1t programmes on tv at the moment..

eastenders is one.

They need the back up with them to film, help with breakdowns, translations etc etc.

[agamad]

OK, lets get one thing straight.

The fact that i'm after tickets for the show should give you some indication of my attitude towards it. Personally, one of their best was the trip to southern USA where they bought a car and traversed a few southern states. Comments written on their cars by each other received dim views from certain quarters and they barely escaped unscathed.

The comments about licence fees were made by a work collegue (who has been told of the stick I'VE got on posting HIS comments!). I guess you all (as I do) think its well worth it, whatever they do.

Lets hope it doesn't suffer in the current cull due to a shortage of licence fees.

Ian.

[Reverandfunk]

I don't normally mind TG when they are road testing, celebs round the track etc and last night the prog was okay but its not like they were on their own is it?

Personally I think episodes such as last nights are a waste of money as it is simply funding 3 middle aged blokes to do ridiculous things that in my opinion aren't funny, it just seems to be getting more and more out of control with their egos.

[daffy654]

I wasn't having a go at you agamad and I don't think anyone else was,in fact most of us appear to be agreeing with you in that we love Top Gear.

[LoftyLottie]

I just find the three of them so funny Rev - Clarkson, May and Hammond. They are all so different and yet putting them together has such chemistry. I love Sunday evening because TG makes me laugh so much. Still one man's meat is another man's medicine.
(Never could stand that Quentin Wilson guy!)

[iankirby]

Sunday's was very good, but not as funny as the Polar trip in the Toyota.
Great entertainment.
Ian