Romour: Top Gear coming to the big screen?

[Darxide]

Not sure if this rumour has made it across the atlantic yet, but I heard on the radio today that there are plans for a Top Gear movie for 2011.
The working title is "Around the world in 80 cars".

Rumour has it that the movie will follow Jezza, Captain Slow and the Hamster as they attempt to drive around the world using only whatever cheap run down cars they can buy along the way.

Sounds promising!

[Jamesrt2004]

sounds cool

[BenchZowner]

Sounds like fun, hopefully it's true

[Machinus]

they could just show the damn show on us cable

[Knight]

they could just show the damn show on us cable

Use a torrent. The videos online show more than the ones that air on TV. Frustrating but it works.

[[XC] gomeler]

The adventures they have with cars a few car lengths away from the scrap heap are the best. I'd watch a 2 hour movie in the theater if they can make it happen.

[[XC] Lead Head]

they could just show the damn show on us cable

Its usually on BBC America, but they are around 1-2 seasons behind.

[Machinus]

Use a torrent. The videos online show more than the ones that air on TV. Frustrating but it works.

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Thanks, I've already seen all the episodes. That's not the point

[gallag]

Top gear has got a bit crappy, It is so contrived, Everything is set up.

[RAW-Raptor22]

That woud be totally ----ing awesome.

I love Top Gear, but you guys are right. I kept noticing that anytime anything funny happened on the last episode it happened on purpose, instead of at least looking like an accident....

[Chris_redfield]

Use a torrent. The videos online show more than the ones that air on TV. Frustrating but it works.

Am I right in thinking that they cut out the 'star in the reasonably priced car,' segment for American TV?

they could just show the damn show on us cable

I don't think BBC America will give up Top Gear. They don't have an abundant of great exclusives (I really struggle to think of BBC shows that work outside the UK. The majority of good programming is comedy which doesn't always translate very well and why would americans want to watch third rate crap like spooks when it just doesn't compare to series like 24.) so whenever they get one they wont sell it to other stations. If they did this then no one would tune in and they wouldn't make any ad revenue. Thats one of the contributing factors why there was an American remake of the Office.

[inCore]

Oooo, sounds like fun. The last episode of Top Gear was the worst in the history of the universe though.

[Machinus]

BBC is the best network in the world. I wish we could watch it in USA. Our TV is pathetic compared to it

[RAW-Raptor22]

Oooo, sounds like fun. The last episode of Top Gear was the worst in the history of the universe though.

It was pretty bad, but the South America special was freaking epic.

[[XC] Lead Head]

BBC is the best network in the world. I wish we could watch it in USA. Our TV is pathetic compared to it

I guess you missed my post then, where I said its available on most if not all Cable and Satellite networks in the US as BBC America.

[Machinus]

I guess you missed my post then, where I said its available on most if not all Cable and Satellite networks in the US as BBC America.

BBC offers many channels in Britain. I did not miss your post.

[Chris_redfield]

Actually the BBC kind of sucks in the UK. They have over-stretched their license fee with too many channels in a desperate bid to stop the Americanisation of our culture. Unfortunately with lots of channels comes the need for a lot more content, which they just can't muster up. There are no great big action drama's like 24, no cool murder mystery programs like Dexter.

Cbeebies and CBBC are great ideas because the amount of cartoons that children watch are american, just because the sheer amount of choice of american programming from Nickelodeon, the disney channel (pushing Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers, I'm sorry but when was it cool to force sex on our children and force them to grow up years before they had to. If terrorists really wanted to stop America from contaminating the rest of the world with their culture they would have flown planes into Disney Land.) And Cartoon Network. Unfortunately the cartoons and programmes on CBBC and Cbeebies are really preach and don't muster up to the same quality of the stuff on cartoon network and Nickelodeon. Nick's not too bad, at least they have the odd program with british actors like King Arthur's Disasters, Mr Bean (animated and live action,) and Genie in the House.

The area where the BBC really excells at though is in making its programmes available online in an on demand capacity. The iPlayer is the best thing ever to happen to the internet imo and you can even watch it for free on your PS3 and Wii (360 can't do it, if you want to watch tv on that, like most things related to microsoft you have to take out a subscription, but with Sky, a company that so many brainless morons love, despite their crap customer service and high price just because they have got pretty much got a monopoly on the football. And for some reason, in this country you have to love the football, if you don't your a queer or worse a foreigner. God I hate Rupert Murdoch, I also fear him to because he is an Australian with the ability to affect UK election campaigns.)

I seriously believe that the iPlayer is the future model for the way in which we watch future tv. BT's Vision TV subscription TV service in the UK works pretty much that way at the moment. There are no channels apart from the freeview ones, you just pick what you want to watch and watch it. Virgin's cable service has quite a lot of on demand stuff, and Sky... well sky has a bit now and then but at the moment they could put out just three hundred channels showing the same endless footage of Margaret thatcher giving john simpson a BJ and no one would care because they have the football and you are paying £100 a month for all the channels and at that price it must be good.

Off the top of my head the only great programs the BBC has are Charlie Brookers Screenwipe... some episodes of Dr Who are amazing, and well top gear can be fun. Good comedies also come and go in short bursts, most recently in the thick of it has come along and brightened up my life.

[Machinus]

BBS has david attenborough, horizon, and lots of other fascinating, educational, brilliant programming about REAL LIFE. All Americans do is watch fake shows about fake life and it keeps them ignorant and out of touch with the problems that exist in their own country, much less the world.

The "news" shows in the US are complete bull - they are just fantasy. They are all hype and demagogues, and there is no intelligent, educational programming on the networks. Even the discovery channel has become about personalities, "reality"-style television instead of actual reality.

BBC is one huge reason why the British population can get away with making fun of Americans for being ignorant. They have at least one source for reliable, intelligent programming. America's relationship with television is ing it.

[[XC]thewildblue]

Last season of top gear was utter tripe, with the exception of the south american special. I think on one episode they didnt even get the stig to take a car round the track. They were try hards basically.

[GTSRboy]

sounds like it would be amazing

personally i could never put up with driving "accross the world"

[ahmad]

That woud be totally ----ing awesome.

I love Top Gear, but you guys are right. I kept noticing that anytime anything funny happened on the last episode it happened on purpose, instead of at least looking like an accident....

Yeah of course everything is setup, I have realized this from the beginning.

That doesn't stop it from being the best car tv show.. in the world

Every other car tv show i have seen is pure garbage in comparison.

[gallag]

I was annoyed about the insignia vxr review, They could not say anthing bad about it so get james may to review it and just talks about fing road signs, It has been known for sometime that ford pays for top gear.

[Chris_redfield]

BBS has david attenborough, horizon, and lots of other fascinating, educational, brilliant programming about REAL LIFE. All Americans do is watch fake shows about fake life and it keeps them ignorant and out of touch with the problems that exist in their own country, much less the world.

The thing is though the BBC are increasingly catering more and more to the reality tv crowd with shows like Strictly come dancing and dancing on ice. They do a huge amount of trash. And the news programming from the BBC isn't elevated much higher than the sensationalist american news channels. A lot of the BBC's journalists have actually gone to work for al jazeera just because they are bias and the government keeps trying to influence them.

I had forgotten about David Attenborough's programs (he was master controller of the BBC as well for a while years ago.) But unfortunately, whilst the BBC air documentaries like this, they also seem intent on doing nonsensical documentaries about the perfect shaped breasts, and the perfect shaped penis on BBC 3 which are just an excuse to legitimately have boob and shots on telly.

I was annoyed about the insignia vxr review, They could not say anthing bad about it so get james may to review it and just talks about fing road signs, It has been known for sometime that ford pays for top gear.

That can't be completely true. I mean Clarkson absolutely panned the Ford GT when he bought one and they couldn't sort out the security alarm and it kept going off.

[THOMO]

If terrorists really wanted to stop America from contaminating the rest of the world with their culture they would have flown planes into Disney Land.)

There are no terrorists......and the BBC is the British governments TV channel.

Anytime a GOVERNMENT runs a TV station they use it for propaganda....end of.

Did you like the BBC reporting building 7 had collapsed an hour before it had?

[[XC]thewildblue]

BBC was the Blair broadcasting corporation and is now the Brown Broadcasting Corporation....apparently... ;-)