Such a shame, just as they’d got through the difficult years and started to have a decent settled cast.
Doesn’t really come as a suprise considering Andrew’s accident, and has been suspected to happen since that came out, but still a great shame.
Top Gear was “axed” when the Birmingham Bucket Company got rid of Jezza, May and The Hamster….. been absolute shit ever since.
Meandered after Clarkson May Hammond left and was never going to be as good. Hope Flintoff recovers properly and BBC make some original content.
Maybe if they went back to reviewing cars instead of encouraging dangerous driving and causing their own serious accidents. However scrapping it is better than continuing with it as it is
From must see TV to might watch TV to not interested TV in about 3 series. Obviously it was going to end at some point and has risen from the dead before of course but it feels like a non fiction show which is quite expensive based around vehicular speed and noise is not coming back ever.
They were never going to recapture the magic of Clarkson, may and Hammond. Even they couldn’t with the Grand tour.
Hope Freddie is recovering well
Really enjoyed the Freddie, Paddy and Chris era even though the Clarkson, Hammond and May era was the best era of the show.
Whether you liked them or not, the trio of Hammond, Clarkson and May was bottled lightning and anyone replacing them would have big boots to fill.
I’ve actually thought that the cast of Red Dwarf would be a good fit, as they all bring something to the table.
Danny John-Jules: motorcycling enthusiast who regularly competes in charity rides.
Chris Barrie: legendary petrolhead and engineering nerd.
Robert Llewellyn: electric car evangelist who hosted his own car-based chat show for years.
If you saw the pictures of Flintoff helping out training with England recently, he is still after all this time in a pretty bad way. So you can imagine it must have been a really nasty accident…
I have to say for however shambolic and lacklustre the post Clarkson, Hammond and May era was, they did seem to finally hit on decent cast with good chemistry in the last few years.
Of course the show didn’t hit those mid 2000s heights but tbh neither has The Grand Tour managed that. Top Gear in its most recent lineup was still one of the better weekend primetime shows the BBC was putting out. Better than the endless weekend gameshows, singing competitions and reality shows anyway.
Not hugely surprising, wishing Freddie and the production team all the closure they can get from this decision.
A horrendous accident, and fundamentally a massive insurance liability going forward. I do hope the print & digital magazine will continue on in the absence of the TV show.
There’s a great wave of YouTubers filling the old void. From AutoAlex (which arguably captures ‘most’ of the old TG vibes), to CarThrottle (similar vibes to AA), to ThrottleHouse (great chemistry and a recent brilliant road trip special), Tavarish, Carwow (solid, if not exuberant reviews), Hagerty (best production values), and more, it’s probably one of the best times for TG alternatives.
Top Gear needed a hard reset anyway. The more gimmicked show only worked because the chemistry between Clarkson/May/Hammond was so good that the format adapted to them and their mould, no one was adequately going to recreate it.
If they’re going to keep it around it could really do with a “back to basics” approach, because there’s nothing wrong with the aspect of reviewing cars.
Thank goodness. Talk about flogging a dead horse. It was never going to be possible to replicate Clarkson, May and Hammond – never! I can’t stand Clarkson but anyone can see that their show was tv gold!
Bet it’s more to do with them losing the viewers when they sacked Clarkson, than Freddie having a crash. Those three were shit.
Top Gear is/was a good money earner for the BBC so they will have to increase the licence fee to make up the shortfall. The BBC should have stuck with employing the right people to be presenters, ie’ Motoring journalists and professional car people like Chris Harris instead of celebrities
It was never the same after they sacked the big fat idiot who couldn’t drive.
Was starting to come around to the three of them, pity. Good health to Flintoff.
I hope this means we get something good back like Robot Wars lol.
I was so mad when they axed the series again
Thank god for that. Clark son was good at first with the new format but then he started repeating stuff he’d done in his own show. Got boring really quick..
The end of an era.
Well, what was left of it, without Clarkson Hammond and May the show was on borrowed time.
Waitin for the next season of Clarkson’s Farm now.
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Such a shame, just as they’d got through the difficult years and started to have a decent settled cast.
Doesn’t really come as a suprise considering Andrew’s accident, and has been suspected to happen since that came out, but still a great shame.
Top Gear was “axed” when the Birmingham Bucket Company got rid of Jezza, May and The Hamster….. been absolute shit ever since.
Meandered after Clarkson May Hammond left and was never going to be as good. Hope Flintoff recovers properly and BBC make some original content.
Maybe if they went back to reviewing cars instead of encouraging dangerous driving and causing their own serious accidents. However scrapping it is better than continuing with it as it is
From must see TV to might watch TV to not interested TV in about 3 series. Obviously it was going to end at some point and has risen from the dead before of course but it feels like a non fiction show which is quite expensive based around vehicular speed and noise is not coming back ever.
They were never going to recapture the magic of Clarkson, may and Hammond. Even they couldn’t with the Grand tour.
Hope Freddie is recovering well
Really enjoyed the Freddie, Paddy and Chris era even though the Clarkson, Hammond and May era was the best era of the show.
Whether you liked them or not, the trio of Hammond, Clarkson and May was bottled lightning and anyone replacing them would have big boots to fill.
I’ve actually thought that the cast of Red Dwarf would be a good fit, as they all bring something to the table.
Danny John-Jules: motorcycling enthusiast who regularly competes in charity rides.
Chris Barrie: legendary petrolhead and engineering nerd.
Robert Llewellyn: electric car evangelist who hosted his own car-based chat show for years.
If you saw the pictures of Flintoff helping out training with England recently, he is still after all this time in a pretty bad way. So you can imagine it must have been a really nasty accident…
I have to say for however shambolic and lacklustre the post Clarkson, Hammond and May era was, they did seem to finally hit on decent cast with good chemistry in the last few years.
Of course the show didn’t hit those mid 2000s heights but tbh neither has The Grand Tour managed that. Top Gear in its most recent lineup was still one of the better weekend primetime shows the BBC was putting out. Better than the endless weekend gameshows, singing competitions and reality shows anyway.
Not hugely surprising, wishing Freddie and the production team all the closure they can get from this decision.
A horrendous accident, and fundamentally a massive insurance liability going forward. I do hope the print & digital magazine will continue on in the absence of the TV show.
There’s a great wave of YouTubers filling the old void. From AutoAlex (which arguably captures ‘most’ of the old TG vibes), to CarThrottle (similar vibes to AA), to ThrottleHouse (great chemistry and a recent brilliant road trip special), Tavarish, Carwow (solid, if not exuberant reviews), Hagerty (best production values), and more, it’s probably one of the best times for TG alternatives.
Top Gear needed a hard reset anyway. The more gimmicked show only worked because the chemistry between Clarkson/May/Hammond was so good that the format adapted to them and their mould, no one was adequately going to recreate it.
If they’re going to keep it around it could really do with a “back to basics” approach, because there’s nothing wrong with the aspect of reviewing cars.
Thank goodness. Talk about flogging a dead horse. It was never going to be possible to replicate Clarkson, May and Hammond – never! I can’t stand Clarkson but anyone can see that their show was tv gold!
Bet it’s more to do with them losing the viewers when they sacked Clarkson, than Freddie having a crash. Those three were shit.
Top Gear is/was a good money earner for the BBC so they will have to increase the licence fee to make up the shortfall. The BBC should have stuck with employing the right people to be presenters, ie’ Motoring journalists and professional car people like Chris Harris instead of celebrities
It was never the same after they sacked the big fat idiot who couldn’t drive.
Was starting to come around to the three of them, pity. Good health to Flintoff.
I hope this means we get something good back like Robot Wars lol.
I was so mad when they axed the series again
Thank god for that. Clark son was good at first with the new format but then he started repeating stuff he’d done in his own show. Got boring really quick..
The end of an era.
Well, what was left of it, without Clarkson Hammond and May the show was on borrowed time.
Waitin for the next season of Clarkson’s Farm now.