bbc Breaking: Chris Evans to host 'Top Gear'

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[Nick H. Supervisor]

Meh. I'll watch the first episode to see what it's like, but I get the feeling it won't go well.

[Piratemud]

Hope he ditches the Radio 2 drivel. When he gets going on about cars he's great, but the rest of the time he is one boring S.O.B. Hopefully this platform will distract him from being boring.

[Crisp]

[Dadwen]

Ok I know who Chris Evans (He let May drove his  Ferrari California) is but due to lack of sleep (running on 2 hours of sleep from last night due to some power outages), first thing that popped into my head is Captain America is hosting top gear?

 

**thinking I'd still rather watch James May cook and play the flute on youtube

[President Devil]

WTF!!! 

 

Ok I know who Chris Evans (He let May drove his  Ferrari California) is but due to lack of sleep (running on 2 hours of sleep from last night due to some power outages), first thing that popped into my head is Captain America is hosting top gear?

 

**thinking I'd still rather watch James May cook and play the flute on YouTube

 

Yeah, so did I.

[RadishTM Veteran]

I respect his knowledge/love of cars but the BBC have screwed up and will never be able to capture the famed chemistry that majority of the viewers want between Clarkson/Hammond/May

[mulligan2k]

I respect his knowledge/love of cars but the BBC have screwed up and will never be able to capture the famed chemistry that majority of the viewers want between Clarkson/Hammond/May

 

maybe they wont have to? the three of them can go off and make their own show, top gear can continue, perhaps in a new direction.

as much as ive always enjoyed top gear, it certainly felt that various segments from the last few series weren't very good, infact some of them were very poor

[Daedroth]

I like Chris Evans and I like his BBC Radio 2 show and I think he'd make a good host for a car show, but not Top Gear. It's been too successful and had too big of a public issue to carry on without Clarkson, Hammond and May.

[HawkMan]

Drive into a new era must be code for "drive into the ground"

[Elliot B.]

He's a car head, I'll give him that He's always loved them.

[Setnom]

For a second there, I thought Captain America was hosting Top Gear. Stupid me.

[+Warwagon MVC]

[Intersect]

Now that the show seems to be back I wonder if they will get that guy called "bin laden" to come over with those 3 cars that TopGear were not allowed to run around the track to see which was the fastest.

[Arachno 1D]

I can see this taking the format of the U.S. late night show with Chris behind a large desk interviewing celebs

 

Meanwhile on the James May channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChmUOMglqX0PTMTrohBZ5Qw

[tsupersonic]

Who? Does it matter? This new show will be a failure. 

[what]

Who?

[Nogib]

Don't know (or frankly care) who he is.  Top Gear is dead to me.  I only look forward to whatever venture Clarkson/Hammond/May end up doing in the future.

[exotoxic]

I will check it out but i can't see it going well.

[+virtorio MVC]

Interesting choice. I mean, I probably would have gone with someone good, but hey, why not?

[webeagle12]

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[Obi-Wan Kenobi]

Slow joker claps.....then walks away with satisfaction. It's not like it's the best t.v.show in the world. It'll be gone soon. And it couldn't come quicker. Opinions are like......@$$ holes. Everybody has one and they all stink. Yes, even mine. I know. I hate the American version. Seen the British version too. Who CARES? It's just a car! There's more important things in life, j/s.

[neo1911]

Captain America hosting British Top Gear?

[Cute James]

Don't know (or frankly care) who he is.

Presumably you knew who Clarkson was before watching Top Gear?

[Defcon]

It's not Top Gear, it will never be TG without the Three. I'd rather watch repeats of TG, nothing against this Chris Evans bloke, but I wish we'd get some real news about the real TG. What happened to the Netflix deal?