I watched 5th gear tonight for the first time in ages and whilst it seems a tad more amateurish than, say, TG it held my interest for 45 mins. However, I did not give not even think about the day's tragic events whilst watching it - why should I? Tragedies happen every day, of one kind and another and I would have thought that it would only have affected anyone connected to the poor victims in question and they would surely not be watching anything like this would they?............... would you?
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Probably simple production dynamics meant that the programme couldn't be re-structured that quickly - FG was likely 'in the 'bag' by last Wednesday-Thursday, i.e. all editing done on filmed stories & and links completed - and most presenters off on their May Day weekend. So, little flexibility to re-shoot or re-edit items to fill that (fairly long) item.
That apart, the programme 'idea' of forensic analysis of tedious stunts is dubious in my view. I'm no longer 14 and three-quarters & excited by the idea of car crashes - stunts or otherwise, still FG must do their focus group stufff & surmise an audience for that type of nonsense.
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- stunts or otherwise still FG must do their focus group stufff & surmise an audience for that type of nonsense.
They're all nonsense, of course but it seems unlikely that we are ever going to have a serious motoring programme, which is a paradox really when one considers how important motoring and cars are and how it/they affect our daily lives.
It seems that both TG and FG now feature, essentially, rubbish stunts accompanied by loud music and fancy, annoying photographic effects and we can never have a reasonably, serious assessment of the cars the average person drives (certainly not on TG, anyway) - a great shame.
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Totally agree with Oldgit. For what cars cost and the part they play in our lives we need a televised version of What Car's group tests of small hatchbacks, family saloons or whatever and not Clarkson roaring around burning the tyres off cars we can't afford and never even see on the road! Total hear hear re music too - why do we need this junk drowning out the speech. Mind you sometimes the junk music is better than the really junk commentary!
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You wont get it.
Motoring progs like that dont get people tuned in. The audience is too low
which is why you dont get them.
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In the age of the internet, clips and programmes containing crashes etc can be had 24 hours a day. If you don't want to view, turn over the TV or don't click on that video clip link.
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They tried a bit of an in depth review of the C class on 5th Gear, but no matter what he said I couldn't get over how awful it looked in white! Whilst it seems to have many features, how many are standard?
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There must be about a million new cars bought privately each year. Don't these people want some guidance on where to spend £10K plus? Perhaps not?
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You wont get it. Motoring progs like that dont get people tuned in. The audience is too low / which is why you dont get them. ------------------------------ TourVanMan TM < Ex RF >
Classical music is a minority interest but we still have a BBC radio station devoted, in the main, to it i.e. Radio 3 although this has, in recent months, been dumbed down but not quite to the levels of Classic FM, YET!. This maybe a poor analogy, I know.
The point is I almost feel like turning off the likes of TG and FG because they are so futile but still watch in the hope of an improvement -so far this has not happened especially to the former where I find my attention span being sorely tried to its limits.
I know that things aren't right when I keep on looking at my watch or clock or use FF>> if it's been recorded.
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"...this kind of 'knee jerk' reaction from people like yourself would certainly be included in any summary of what is wrong with the country today."
Well I'll hush my mouth next time as I wouldn't want to spoil this country any more for you than it already is. I would suggest that the others here, albeit a minority, who agree with me, should do likewise - we don't want any personal opinions spoiling the Back Room, do we!
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Thats ok chris, now you are a minority you can claim to be persecuted and get protection.
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>.They're all nonsense, of course but it seems unlikely that we are ever going to have a serious motoring programme, which is a paradox really >>when one considers how important motoring and cars are and how it/they affect our daily lives.
Yes, agree oldgit - to take that analogy to 'houses' for instance - could you imagine a housey-housey type
program being devoted to seeing how quickly people could bash-up the roof for fun, or a guide to £10 million houses
for sale in Monte Carlo - er,hmmm, hang on a minute, might be onto something here....
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Hush up if you like-suits me.
I wasn't trying to tell you you can't have your own opinion, I was merely voicing my opinion, of your opinion.
Ok, it was a bit of a sweeping statement but I'm sure others can see where I'm coming from; the whole molly coddling, nanny, politically correct type thing. I mean, take the blinkers off. The world is a dark and dangerous place, every day thousands of accidents, rapes, murders, child abuse, fraud, shootings, stabbings. What would we watch if we made the kind of connection you have made at the start of this thread? Crazy
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Thank goodness for Fifth Gear. Without them I wouldn't have been aware that if I drain all the oil out of my engine, then rag it around a race track, the engine will suffer terminal damage!!!
What a completely pointless piece of garbage!
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Thank goodness for Fifth Gear. Without them I wouldn't have been aware that if I drain all the oil out of my engine then rag it around a race track the engine will suffer terminal damage!!!
What would have been more interesting was to either fill it back up with oil and see if it actually ran again, or perhaps put one of the many "snake oil" additives in beforehand and then drain to see if any of these products actually worked.
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