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Postby Hegstoria » Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:13 pm

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Well first off, who the hell are those three guys? Second, is the History Channel really just done with actually showing programs that have to do with History? Third, why god, why? Top Gear only works for one reason, Jeremy, Richard, and James are a bunch of idiots, but they're funny idiots who have great banter with each other. In my own opinion they are the real reason people love Top Gear, and I don't think that some random guys are going to be able to do it like them. I know for myself, I'm not a big car guy, but I just can't help but sit down and watch them (it also helps that their time slot is before BBC News, but I still enjoy them regardless) because I find them so funny.

Plus, with the regular Top Gear being on BBC America, is this really going to be able to draw an audience? To be perfectly honest, I hope and don't think it will, but I suppose I should hear your opinions as well. So NS, what do you think of this new Top Gear and the fact that it's going to be on the History Channel? Do you think it'll make it? What are your thoughts on these new hosts, are they any good?

Also, two of the hosts do seem to know what they're talking about (as one is a race car driver, and the other hosts a show on SPEED), whilst the third is simply a comedian. Just letting you all know.
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Postby North Wiedna » Thu Nov 11, 2010 5:59 pm

I like Top Gear, it's a car show I can actually stomach. As to why History Channel has it, and why it lacks history... don't know. They should rename themselves "Reality TV Masquerading With Little Historical Relevance Channel". Is that too long? W/e.

I doubt the U.S. version will be good. Shoulda just had a channel over here pick the U.K. version up. Isn't Discovery in some agreement with BBC?
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Postby Hegstoria » Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:01 pm

North Wiedna wrote:I like Top Gear, it's a car show I can actually stomach. As to why History Channel has it, and why it lacks history... don't know. They should rename themselves "Reality TV Masquerading With Little Historical Relevance Channel". Is that too long? W/e.

I doubt the U.S. version will be good. Shoulda just had a channel over here pick the U.K. version up. Isn't Discovery in some agreement with BBC?

Discovery dropped it, they were going to have it.

The UK version is on BBC America, we're not very far behind the UK, if at all, with the show.
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Postby North Wiedna » Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:03 pm

Hegstoria wrote:
North Wiedna wrote:I like Top Gear, it's a car show I can actually stomach. As to why History Channel has it, and why it lacks history... don't know. They should rename themselves "Reality TV Masquerading With Little Historical Relevance Channel". Is that too long? W/e.

I doubt the U.S. version will be good. Shoulda just had a channel over here pick the U.K. version up. Isn't Discovery in some agreement with BBC?

Discovery dropped it, they were going to have it.

The UK version is on BBC America, we're not very far behind the UK, if at all, with the show.

I don't get BBC America, well, I do, but I never have the living room TV, and my dad always deletes the stuff I DVR...

Really? Discovery dropped it? Maybe they deserve to be shot up.
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Postby Kaputer » Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:04 pm

Yea the history channel really doesn't cover history and what they call history UFOs and Nostradamus shit doesn't have much basis.
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Postby The Matthew Islands » Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:04 pm

The UK version is the best and always will be if it sticks to its current format.
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Postby Hegstoria » Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:07 pm

North Wiedna wrote:
Hegstoria wrote:Discovery dropped it, they were going to have it.

The UK version is on BBC America, we're not very far behind the UK, if at all, with the show.

I don't get BBC America, well, I do, but I never have the living room TV, and my dad always deletes the stuff I DVR...

Really? Discovery dropped it? Maybe they deserve to be shot up.

Yeah, I guess they realized what NBC did and what HC fails to, that Top Gear can't be reproduced.
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Postby Glorious Homeland » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:07 am

It'll be like the American version of Life on Mars.... crap.
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Postby Cyrupe » Fri Nov 12, 2010 6:20 am

Hell, I'm American and I want nothing to do with that version of Top Gear. Just the preview alone discourages me from watching it. Come to think of it though, all other versions of Top Gear beyond the UK version aren't very funny and if anything a bit pathetic. And then to top it all off it's hosted by the History Channel.

Wat. Am. I. Reading.

History Channel should really stop doing stupid shows that have nothing to do with history and instead go back to, oh I don't know, history. It's probably not going to have anything that most people like about Top Gear and just be muscle cars we've all seen several thousand times before. History Channel/Top Gear US, I am dissapoint.
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Postby Cosmopoles » Fri Nov 12, 2010 12:31 pm

I'd quite like to see them do a reversal and drive through somewhere like Brentwood in cars spray painted with slogans like 'fake tan looks gay' or 'hardcore dance is shit'.
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Postby Hegstoria » Tue Nov 16, 2010 2:25 pm

Cosmopoles wrote:I'd quite like to see them do a reversal and drive through somewhere like Brentwood in cars spray painted with slogans like 'fake tan looks gay' or 'hardcore dance is shit'.

That is literally my favorite stunt they ever pulled, and it would be hilarious to see the US version try to do something similar.

Oh and sorry for the bump, I just realized that there were posts in here I hadn't seen.
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Postby North Wiedna » Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:39 pm

Seeing the commercials for this makes me want to rip my head off.
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Postby Techno-Kat » Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:46 pm

I don't remember the History Channel ever showing anything remotely historical, except for a few odd days out of the year, and even then those weren't all too accurate. The only good shows on the History Channel nowadays are Lock N' Load, The Universe, and (I hate to say it) Pawn Stars.
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Postby North Wiedna » Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:54 pm

Techno-Kat wrote:I don't remember the History Channel ever showing anything remotely historical, except for a few odd days out of the year, and even then those weren't all too accurate. The only good shows on the History Channel nowadays are Lock N' Load, The Universe, and (I hate to say it) Pawn Stars.

About two years ago, shocker, there was historical content!
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Postby The REAL Glasers » Fri Nov 19, 2010 12:18 am

Gotta love how they pretend that a multitude of mysteries that have already been solved still aren't.
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Postby New Ziedrich » Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:02 pm

I liked that episode of Modern Marvels about bricks.

I'm completely serious.
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Postby Hegstoria » Sat Nov 20, 2010 6:19 pm

New Ziedrich wrote:I liked that episode of Modern Marvels about bricks.

I'm completely serious.

Umm... This isn't about the history channel, this is about Top Gear.
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Postby North Wiedna » Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:04 pm

Hegstoria wrote:
New Ziedrich wrote:I liked that episode of Modern Marvels about bricks.

I'm completely serious.

Umm... This isn't about the history channel, this is about Top Gear.

It's about Top Gear? A top rate show. It's marvelously funny.

Top Gear America? I lost all hope.
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Postby New Ziedrich » Sun Nov 21, 2010 5:32 am

Hegstoria wrote:
New Ziedrich wrote:I liked that episode of Modern Marvels about bricks.

I'm completely serious.

Umm... This isn't about the history channel, this is about Top Gear.

Which is coming to the History Channel. Others had already mentioned the dubious nature of the channel's other programs, indicating that Top Gear is further evidence of the channel's degradation, so I just tossed that out there.

For better or for worse, one can still learn about the history of bricks on the History Channel.
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Postby North Suran » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:06 am

North Wiedna wrote:As to why History Channel has it, and why it lacks history... don't know.

History is to the History Channel what music is to MTV.
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Postby North Wiedna » Sun Nov 21, 2010 6:10 am

North Suran wrote:
North Wiedna wrote:As to why History Channel has it, and why it lacks history... don't know.

History is to the History Channel what music is to MTV.

Nice analogy. :lol:
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Postby SD_Film Artists » Tue Nov 23, 2010 1:58 pm

I'm not sure whether to be disappointed or relieved that they aren't just American versions of Hammond Clarkson and May.
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Postby Kaputer » Wed Nov 24, 2010 9:17 am

New Ziedrich wrote:I liked that episode of Modern Marvels about bricks.

I'm completely serious.

I like to learn about the alcohol and shit. Yea about two years ago they had history although they really were the Hitler Channel then. They just need to stop with the apocalypse shit. What do youthink will happen when it's 2013 to the History Channel.
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Postby New Ziedrich » Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:31 pm

Kaputer wrote:
New Ziedrich wrote:I liked that episode of Modern Marvels about bricks.

I'm completely serious.

I like to learn about the alcohol and shit. Yea about two years ago they had history although they really were the Hitler Channel then. They just need to stop with the apocalypse shit. What do youthink will happen when it's 2013 to the History Channel.

Back to the Hitler Channel!
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Postby Terishany » Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:35 pm

I miss the old history channel, the one that had shootout and dogfights. Not this trying-to-be-Discovery-Channel crap.
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