Looks like Amazon Prime have snapped them up:
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Looks like Amazon Prime have snapped them up:
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Not where I'd like em, But they're back and that's all that matters really.
Least now I have an excuse to buy Prime!
I would wait for the £49.99 per annum offer to reappear again nearer to launch no doubt! This will probably undermine the BBC license over the longer term too. I don't think the Chris Evans/Jenson Button fronted Top gear will get the viewers the BBC are hoping for.
Congrats to the trio. Well done chaps
They'll probably end up selling it back to the beeb anyway like they did with Ripper Street.
Another reason to start avoiding Amazon.
Yet more petrolhead nonsense in a world over million people per year are killed by car accidents, and that's only part of the problem. (Source: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_p...tatus/2013/en/ cited as [46] in the Wikipedia article on road safety: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_t...KSI_statistics.)
Other factor petrolheads don't care are about include.
The air pollution deaths caused by cars - statistics for which are far harder to come by.
The deaths from wars etc. fought to control car fuel.
The impact car-culture has in a sedentary ('sedan'-ary) lifestyle and the rise in obesity.
The eventual impact the over consumption of fuel will have on global warming and food security.
The way many cities in the UK, IE, US etc. have given over so much to roads, roundabouts in the centre and similar poor planning choices, that many people hardly go out (ever watch an elderly or mobility limited person trying to cross near a two lane roundabout in a city centre location? At least equally car centric places like Spain or Portugal put zebra crossing by their roundabouts).
Okay, so topgear is mainly an entertainment show where you get to watch an opinionated idiot making out he's somehow special by putting everybody down, but some jokes are not funny.
Anyway, with Amazon I was already not happy with their tax avoidance, the AmazoJob (the new MacJob), the dishonest way they try to trick people into prime, the way they made their 'free' postage extremely hard to select at checkout, and their general market dominance.
Even one of the reason people keep choosing Amazon (easy to return stuff) seems to be because unlike smaller retailers they just pass the cost of returns to their suppliers. Another market distortion like supermarket 'hello money'.
A Chris Evans-fronted TG certainly won't get this TG-viewer on the BBC, but then, neither will the Clarkson 3 get me on Amazon. It would appear that my gaff is now a TG-free-zone. If the new Clarkson-3 show ever winds up on standard TV, including any Sky/Virgin type service I may have at the time, I'll give it a go and see what I think. However, I suspect that the Clarkson-3 show, whatever it's to be called, will HAVE to change the format sufficiently to avoid issues with BBC lawyers, so I predict that Top Gear, it won't be. Whatever it is may be better, or worse, or just different.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hand
As for TG with Evans, well, .... yuck. It's just .... wrong. IMHO, of course. But that, I already know enough about it, and am not even faintly interested in trying it.
Pretty good news for me - currently don't have Sky/NowTV/Netflix/Prime but would be willing to subscribe for the TG boys. Prime is probably the best value of the various online services they could have jumped into bed with, and I'd be happy to pay £79/year to see their new show along with the rest of Instant Video, Prime Music and the Kindle lending thing. I already have a Prime delivery through a friend but it would be nice to stop leeching :)
Do hope some of these shows are broadcast on other networks eventually. Don't like subscribing to lots of different services, and we already have Sky.
Sorry forgive my sarcasm but this could be applied to anything:Quote:
Other factor petrolheads don't care are about include.
The air pollution deaths caused by cars - statistics for which are far harder to come by.
The deaths from wars etc. fought to control car fuel.
The impact car-culture has in a sedentary ('sedan'-ary) lifestyle and the rise in obesity.
The eventual impact the over consumption of fuel will have on global warming and food security.
The way many cities in the UK, IE, US etc. have given over so much to roads, roundabouts in the centre and similar poor planning choices, that many people hardly go out (ever watch an elderly or mobility limited person trying to cross near a two lane roundabout in a city centre location? At least equally car centric places like Spain or Portugal put zebra crossing by their roundabouts).
Factors confectionary eaters don't care about include:
The air pollution deaths caused by the creation & destruction of plastic wrappers and the manufacturing of confectionary, not to mention the pollution caused in landfill when such an item goes out of date - statistics for which are impossible to come by.
The deaths from wars etc. fought to control the oil necessary in creating plastic wrappers and fuel the machines that create the confectionary.
The impact the snacking culture has in a sedentary (confection-'ary') lifestyle and the rise in obesity.
The eventual impact the over consumption of oil will have on global warming and food security.
The way many cities in the UK, IE, US etc. have given over so much to roads, roundabouts in the centre and similar poor planning choices, that many people hardly go out (ever watch an elderly or mobility limited person trying to cross near a two lane roundabout in a city centre location? At least equally car centric places like Spain or Portugal put zebra crossing by their roundabouts).
Back to Amazons TG, sadly we have to wait over a year for it, Autumn 2016. By that time the hype will have died and the sedentary population will have found other things to watch... A year is a long time in the life of streaming so who really knows.
Jeremy is 55 and captain slow 52. So why not have a big payday then retire.
Job done.
Quite!Quote:
Originally Posted by abaxas
Still not enough to make me get a Prime account.
not bad we have prime so ill be watching this
Anyone heard anything from this recently?
As it's not coming until 2016, I'd say they're still filming or in the editing stages.Quote:
Originally Posted by Amy.B
Wasn't it going to be called "gear knobs"???
That was the rumour, but untrue according to Clarkson.Quote:
Originally Posted by Andy3536
When can we expect the new series to stream on Amazon Video this year?
I wont be buying prime because of Top Gear. I got bored of Top Gear a while ago, same layout of the show. Which yes, people love, but it got boring for me.
I wont be buying prime either. I don't watch a great deal of TV.
I like the things from The Smoking Tire and Chris Harris on Cars, oh and Petrolicious as well as Mighty Car Mods. I think if there was a show between those 4 channels on youtube I'd pay to watch that.
I've been contemplating a Prime membership for the free shipping and other perks so this is just icing on the cake.
Needs more 'Roadkill'.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrComputerSaint
My understanding is later Summer, early Autumn. I don't believe a firm date has been set yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macintosh600
Can't say I care much about where JC has ended up.
We all know Top Gear hasn't been a serious motoring show in decades, but "herp derp I'm too thick to plug in this cable" doesn't make me think "lolz that Jezza, what a card", it makes me think "no thanks". Similarly for the "let's run this Tesla around in circles to drain the battery so we can fake the low range" incident. I'm not interested in a car show with JC at the helm, and am more interested in the new BBC Top Gear roster.
The whole point of a show like Top Gear is that it needs to inform but also to entertain. With JC, Hammond, and the other one now gone, I think the BBC will struggle with the new Top Gear. I see many people ditching the licence fee and going over and signing up for Amazon Prime.