Did anyone watch Top Gear tonight?

firky · Post by **firky** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:05 pm

I take it back about James May and this is why I am happy to pay for a TV licence (just not right now), and why the rest of the world has shit television. Sublime.

Cinematography rivals any Hollywood film, and I'd go insofar as to say it is better.

spire · Post by **spire** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:07 pm

i always have to download em cause i hate fucking waiting 4+ months for them to broacast here on BBCA, and then even after that theyre edited for time. lame.

firky · Post by **firky** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:09 pm

Spire wrote:i always have to download em cause i hate fucking waiting 4+ months for them to broacast here on BBCA, and then even after that theyre edited for time. lame.

I downloaded tonights, it's on torrents already - look for:

Top.Gear.S13E03.WS.PDTV.XviD-RiVER

James May (tnuc) went over to California to meet some American rally driver and dirt biker, and piss about.. that's the top and bottom of it but it was amazing

firky · Post by **firky** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:27 pm

I love the RAC rally so this was like my top gear best ever

spire · Post by **spire** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:27 pm

i cant even imagine what the budget for top gear is, its just always so rediculous.

and then on top of that, whatever special insurance they have on all the cars they drive and on themselves. theres a LOT of money involed in this show.

firky · Post by **firky** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:30 pm

Spire wrote:i cant even imagine what the budget for top gear is, its just always so rediculous.

and then on top of that, whatever special insurance they have on all the cars they drive and on themselves. theres a LOT of money involed in this show.

IIRC it's around £800k to a million per episode.

So:

UK£ 1 million = 1.6332 million U.S. dollars

Shit load of money, but they'll make it back as it's one of the most popular BBC exports.

firky · Post by **firky** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:32 pm

I wasn't far off:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/22/top- ... uttle-car/

As for Top Gear's budget.... a friend in the TV industry and I had a chat about it the other day and we recon somewhere around £0.6m to £0.8m per episode ..

spire · Post by **spire** » Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:33 pm

thats so much fucking money. glad they spend it so i can watch it!

dubluke · Post by **dubluke** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:26 am

some of the stuff they pull for top gear is fucking epic, much as i hate the show sometimes, things like this are fucking sick

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 12:44 am

just watched this on the iplayer. gotta say that rally was fucking wicked. ive always been a fan of top gear anyways.

missedthebus · Post by **missedthebus** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:20 am

was a good show, cinematography in that piece was awesome. Think they used super slow HD to film that as well. On a random tip - neone see South Pacific and the super slow HD in that - amazing!

magma · Post by **magma** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:25 am

Ken Block's the fucking man.... the video he released for DC earlier this year was mental. I think it was probably filmed in that same airfield.

missedthebus · Post by **missedthebus** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 7:35 am

Magma wrote:Ken Block's the fucking man.... the video he released for DC earlier this year was mental. I think it was probably filmed in that same airfield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQ7R_buZPSo

Not i nthe same air field, but sick as fuck!

Whistla · Post by **Whistla** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:45 am

Spire wrote:i always have to download em cause i hate fucking waiting 4+ months for them to broacast here on BBCA, and then even after that theyre edited for time. lame.

do you have to pay to watch it?
I mean we do, so how come the rest of the world dont pay?
always wondered about this, i mean I know in Holland they can get the bbc just the same as a UK head can, like turn telly on boom theres bbc. they dont pay for it, so why do we?
grinds my gears i tell thee!

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:47 am

the way they hotted the bankers was nang, 2 right aswell

Whistla · Post by **Whistla** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:49 am

oh, and also, everyone who slagged off James May in the other thread now posting how great this episode was gets a slap

Pada · Post by **Pada** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:49 am

Top gear is amazing! love the show.

firky · Post by **firky** » Mon Jul 06, 2009 9:52 am

DJ Whistla wrote: do you have to pay to watch it?
I mean we do, so how come the rest of the world dont pay?

You pay your TV licence so you can get all manner of things other than TV advert free. Spire doesn't pay because his / her broadcaster buys it off the BBC (thus creating more revenue for the BBC and keeping the licence fee down) with money created from selling air time to companies to advertise their goods.

James May is a tnuc though, despite it

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