Tonight was the first episode of Top Gear Australia – Series 2. The first series was really bad, Well I assume it was bad I only stomached a few minutes of a couple of episodes. There is no chemistry between the presenters, their jokes are all scripted and none of them are natural presenters.
Anyway I thought James Morrison could bring the show up a bit, I never thought he could save it or bring it into the league of it’s UK master. I was wrong, I lasted 10 minutes of tonights show. It was appauling television.
they wanted to prove the Stig was Australian so James peeled back the collar of the Stig’s racing suit to uncover a tiny stuck on aussie flag. What dramatic television. The logie is in the bag with on screen antics like that.
It was like a community televison car show but with a big budget.
Bring back re-runs of old Top Gear UK series or even just show colour bars for an hour with frecnh subtitles.
I so want to like it I really do, but it’s hard work. However, if you watch the UK series prior to about 2003 it was boring rubbish as well even with Clarkson, May and Hammond. You could see it starting to click in 2003 and from there it snowballed. Still the UK version had a few reshuffles of presenters and a couple of years with the current group before it “gelled” I just hop the Aussie one gels soon too. It is too scripted and they don’t even both reacting to their own scripted jokes most of the time and when they do it is so unnatural it’s painful.