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- 2002
- TV-PG
- BBC-2
- 2002
- TV-PG
- BBC-2
Summary More than just a show to review new cars, Top Gear is essential viewing. Not just for petrol heads, it also has a huge following amongst people with little or no interest in cars - both male and female. This is due to the show's irreverent approach to motoring, the humour and the priceless chemistry between the show's presenters. A globa...
- 2002
- TV-PG
- BBC-2
- 2002
- TV-PG
- BBC-2
Top Gear
34 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 20, 2002
tbd
7.9
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Summary More than just a show to review new cars, Top Gear is essential viewing. Not just for petrol heads, it also has a huge following amongst people with little or no interest in cars - both male and female. This is due to the show's irreverent approach to motoring, the humour and the priceless chemistry between the show's presenters. A globa...
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All Seasons
34 Seasons
Top Cast
The show can feel disorienting--a mix of reality competition and infomercial targeted at millionaires--but hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond have an infectious geek-patrician enthusiasm.
Staffers, instead of a studio audience, provided the cheers, aided by punters applauding from their apartments. Also off the menu were celebrity guests and the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car time challenge. And yet, notwithstanding the lack of optional extras, this new Top Gear had an agreeably nonchalant quality. It was pipe-and-slippers entertainment that never got out of first gear and was all the richer for it.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 417 User Ratings
7.9
79% Positive
329 Ratings
329 Ratings
3% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
18% Negative
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 417 User Ratings
7.9
79% Positive
329 Ratings
329 Ratings
3% Mixed
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
18% Negative
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
The funniest show on tv. Also amazing cars. But it's great fun. A legend of a show, with nothing coming close to its character and Appeal
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There’s not much wrong with Top Gear, and still a lot that’s right – such as the sharp editing and routinely gorgeous cinematography – but it could do with a service and perhaps a model refresh.
Yes, much of it is clearly scripted, but Flintoff, Harris and McGuinness seem genuinely to get on and find each other funny. When they repeatedly slapped each other's faces in a childish game of snap it felt spontaneous, a tiny bit fetishistic, and I did actually laugh.
Although these three have a gentle chemistry (much improved when McGuinness isn’t shouting), the mediocre banter does occasionally feel like they are trying too hard. ... In between races, the baggier bits of the episode dragged. But overall, this was an encouraging direction for Top Gear to take.
The programme’s structural issues remain, namely that the format feels exhausted. It cannot decide whether it wants to be about the cars, about the lads on tour or about grand cinematic stunts. ... Putting these three pegs into those holes is awkward, although they are undoubtedly a better fit than their predecessors.
There’s little sense that [Freddie (né Andrew) Flintoff's] heart is in cars. At the other end of the track is Chris Harris who can achieve high speeds but is no performer. Completing the current trinity is Paddy McGuinness, essentially a foghorn with a driving licence. ... It’s as if Top Gear can’t help meta-critiquing itself. It’s genuinely awful, isn’t it? Alas there’s no way of enhancing what used to be a magazine show about cars.
I don't really like cars, but I forgot about that every time I watched this show as I was **** into the passion, interest, and hilarity of the show hosts, and the auto world.
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Жаль , но некогда великая передача , которую я смотрел с диким восторгом и на одном дыхании , скатилась вот в это...
Ставлю 6 только за былое прошлое.
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New Topgear 5/10. Old top gear 9/10. Sorry. The series should have ended when the 'big 3' left. The BBC should have scrapped top gear and made another show about cars, where they had an original idea then maybe they could make something fresh. Sadly, the new show just doesn’t stand up to it's predecessor.
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Production Company:
- Framestore
Initial Release Date: Oct 20, 2002
Number of seasons: 34 Seasons
Rating: TV-PG
Awards
National Television Awards, UK
• 4 Wins & 11 Nominations
BAFTA Awards
• 7 Nominations
Television and Radio Industries Club Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
