I love the BBC-Top Gear!

[RICHARD]

Brits have the right idea when it comes to TV.


I am totally hooked on a show called Top Gear.

I love cars shows and the sucky ones on Speed and Spike TV suck diesel exhaust.

I hate those stupid car auction shows too.... Like, who wants a Rumble Bee that was rebuilt with new parts and bondo?

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I digress,

Top Gear is hosted by three guys (I still don't know their names) that do some pretty funny stuff on the show.

They do car reviews-by driving the cars into the ground-and they do not pull punches. They invite celebrities on they show and have them do a lap on a race track and they rank them according to their times!

They also do some wickedly funny challenges-one show was based on the idea that they could come to America, buy a car for 1,000 dollars (as opposed to renting one for the price of a two week rental) drive the car 800 miles and sell it when they got to their destination.

Another show had do with getting a trailer and going camping......they burned the danged thing down when they tried to cook a meal!

Great stuff when you are medicated and sick in bed.

If you love cars or anything motorized, you will love this show.

[Killearn Kitties]

So glad we are entertaining you Richard. I can just see you and Ed watching Top Gear. I think Randi's John used to really enjoy it too.

During the last winter Olympics they staged all the competitions, downhill, skijump, skating etc in cars. That was a particularly good programme.

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I still don't know their names

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard "Hamster" Hammond

http://www.topgear.com/blogs/planett...hing-my-crash/

[RICHARD]

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard "Hamster" Hammond

http://www.topgear.com/blogs/planett...hing-my-crash/

Who cares!

I am entertained.

The have mentioned the celebs on previous shows and I have to go back and find them......


KK,
Thanks for reminding me....the Cat Olympics are a few months away....time to get ready!

[Killearn Kitties]

The have mentioned the celebs on previous shows and I have to go back and find them......

I remember two of your other favourites doing particularly well on the celebrity challenge - Simon Cowal and Gordon Ramsay.

[Muddy4paws]

Not sure if you know but you can watch the new ones from over here at www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer

[Suki Wingy]

I've seen the america one, it's great! I love how they got threatened with guns just for a few sayings written on a car. One guy wrote "I'm Bi" on the hood and that just about killed the guy who had tyo drive it.

[RICHARD]

I remember two of your other favourites doing particularly well on the celebrity challenge - Simon Cowal and Gordon Ramsay.

Not a fan of Cowal- But, I'd like to see Helen Mirren and Rick Wakeman!

[Randi]

KK, that's right John loved that programme and he got me hooked too. They're great guys!

Argh, I missed the one programme you mentioned, but they are re-running them now.

There was also one where they wanted to see who could get to a particlar place in London - starting from the South of France. Can't remember which car they drove (perhaps a Ferrari or Porche), but the other guy flew back in a small airoplane. I won't tell what happened in case you haven't seen that one yet.

Richard Hammond was in a nasty accident last year - or was it the year before? He almost didn't make it, but he's back on track now.

How many of them have you seen, Richard? Take this quiz! http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/hardquiz.shtml

[RICHARD]

How many of them have you seen, Richard? Take this quiz! http://www.bbc.co.uk/topgear/hardquiz.shtml

I have seen the Rent a car in America, the Shuttle, Farm tractors, Limo, camping and one other that I cannot remember. The new season starts on monday so I have to check that out.

One nice thing about our cable system is the On Demand feature. You can watch shows on certain channels anytime....They have the BBC but they change the shows every so often and they aren't in order.....Like Coupling, I got into it but they would jump from season to season -out of order- so I gave that up.

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I know that the opening theme song of the show is by the Allman Brothers, But am not sure of the name....If it is "Eat A Peach" there is an interesting story behind the song!

[Cincy'sMom]

Definately, going to have to check this show out. Soundslike something I coudl get addicted to (like I don't already watch enough on Speed)

[RICHARD]

I just saw the Helen Mirren episode and the best road in the world and saw the Buggati Veyron clip!


407 kph/253 miles an hour.

That made my heart sing......that car was ferocious!

CM,

It's a great show, sly humor and the best cars in the world.

P.S.

But all the camera shots are backwards.....the steering wheels are on the passenger side.

[carole]

Richard we have that show down under too, my son is crazy on cars and loves watching it, i watched it with him once and was hooked, and i am not even into cars, it is a great programme, the british put out some really entertaining stuff, i love british Tv over anything else,even my own.ENJOY.

[RICHARD]

I just watched another episode. They used a Nissan truck to cross the English Channel.


I have never seen a TV show with so much charm and style.

Being a dumb male with an attraction for shiny, loud machines, stupid car stunts and the desire to fast, I cannot get enough.

I think that it's also a real treat that women can enjoy the show.

I was watching the piece on the car they were reviewing. I was so into the camera work and found myself transfixed-I started to pay attention to the way the clips are pieced together...The editing makes the car sexy, dreamy and really desirable....The shots of a car sliding thru a corner, rear tires smoking and the front tires pointing in a crazy angle made me hold my breath.

Clarkson, May and Hammond are funny, clever and brilliant...The car stunts are hilarious-made funnier by each one's persona.

Clarkson is the pompous know-it-all, May, a bumbling kind-hearted guy and Hammond is the little guy with the heart of a pit bull. They are the three friends sitting in a garage or backyard somewhere, drinking beer-talking cars and the next morning saying, "Well, it was a good idea at the time...."


There is one part of the show that I do not care for...

Imagine, getting paid to drive fast cars, making the tires smoke and sometimes destroying them...........

And never having to worry about cops.

I want that job.

[Killearn Kitties]

That is the first time I have seen the words "charm" and "style" in the vicinity of Jeremy Clarkson.