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    Top gear moves to Amazon

    Looks like Amazon Prime have snapped them up:


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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    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!

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    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.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Congrats to the trio. Well done chaps

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    They'll probably end up selling it back to the beeb anyway like they did with Ripper Street.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    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'.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Quote Originally Posted by The Hand View Post
    .... 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.
    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.

    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.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    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

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    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.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    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).
    Sorry forgive my sarcasm but this could be applied to anything:

    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.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Jeremy is 55 and captain slow 52. So why not have a big payday then retire.

    Job done.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Quote Originally Posted by abaxas View Post
    Jeremy is 55 and captain slow 52. So why not have a big payday then retire.

    Job done.
    Quite!

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Still not enough to make me get a Prime account.

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    not bad we have prime so ill be watching this

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Anyone heard anything from this recently?

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    Re: Top gear moves to Amazon

    Quote Originally Posted by Amy.B View Post
    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.

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