Bad news top could be axed!!!

[racingsnake]

as the title says word is top gear is going to be axed as it ain't pulling in enough viewers and the presenters are just messing around too much
well apart from the cars the reason i watch is the way the boys do their thing facebook has a" save top gear" link on it if you can get on there and lets save top gear

[Maluco]

get em while they last!

[VacMan]

Got any proof other than some random Facebook group? I very much doubt this is going to happen.

[george graves]

^

[xLegendOZWest]

+1

[SaskE30]

I believe Andy Wilmen (sp?) addressed this in his latest blog post on the top gear website. Basically people are saying that the current season isn't getting the ratings like previous seasons. He goes on to say that the lower ratings are a result of numerous things: 1. the official ratings don't take into account the BBC HD broadcasts of the show 2.More and more people are watching the show on the BBC iplayer and 3. the constant change in start times this past season.

He also makes mention of the show is now nearer to the end than the beginning. This seems reasonable seeing that they are on series 14 and I highly doubt they will be around for a series 28. That being said, I still think they have another few seasons (my guess: 5 more) in them.

BTW LOVED the Bolivia special.

[E30Idea]

as the title says word is top gear is going to be axed as it ain't pulling in enough viewers and the presenters are just messing around too much
well apart from the cars the reason i watch is the way the boys do their thing facebook has a" save top gear" link on it if you can get on there and lets save top gear

Got any proof other than some random Facebook group? I very much doubt this is going to happen.

Dude, he does not use the "period" button.....EVER. His work must be like gold.

[triggrhaapi]

I'm going to go ahead and say that I doubt it. If they even made an official announcement that they were thinking about canceling the show, the head of the BBC would be strung up and murdered by yarbos.

[mightywhitey]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gJI40zfHV7jbyddAoynbcchEt5aQ

Top Gear named favourite TV show

(UKPA) – 2 days ago

TV hit Top Gear has been named the nation's favourite television programme of the decade.

The show, which was completely reinvented in the early noughties, topped a poll commissioned for Channel 4 for a special programme next week.

Snow Patrol hit Chasing Cars was named the top tune of the decade for another show on the station which looks back over the past 10 years in music.

C4 producers used new surveys to find the nation's preferred TV and chart hits rather than relying on sales and viewing figures.

BBC2's Top Gear was first broadcast in 1977 but BBC bosses grew tired of the format and decided in 2001 that it needed to be refreshed for the following year.

Many of the show's presenters defected to Five for the new Fifth Gear show, but by 2003 the BBC show had settled down with a line-up of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May and went from strength to strength.

The show fought off tough competition from Doctor Who, The Office, The Simpsons and QI to top the chart for C4's The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties.

Hammond said: "I could never say what the reason is for Top Gear doing so well since we started it, but I think there's always a sense that we'd still be doing it even if the cameras weren't here and that makes it real."

Snow Patrol's track peaked at number six in the charts in 2006, but was popular enough to sell more than half a million copies. It beat other highly ranked songs such as Amy Winehouse's Rehab and The Killers' Mr Brightside - which only made it to number 10 in the UK chart - to triumph as best song.

Arctic Monkeys' chart-topper track I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor was also strongly backed in the Channel 4 vote, as was James Blunt's You're Beautiful. The full list will be revealed in the channel's programme The Greatest Songs of the Noughties.

[b*saint]

I dont give a shit. I cant watch it on normal tv here. Plus they are running out of ideas. Waiting for them to ax Mythbusters.

[TDE30]

"I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it."

[DatUtahGuy]

"What ain't no country I ever heard of."

I doubt it, but then again, what the fuck do I know.

[Jand3rson]

"I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it."

"You know, London? Fish, chips, cup-o-tea? Bad food, worse weather, Mary-fuckin-Poppins LONDON!"

[VacMan]

I dont give a shit. I cant watch it on normal tv here. Plus they are running out of ideas. Waiting for them to ax Mythbusters.

If you're talking about the bbc america one, that's a way watered down version of originals. A lot of times they take out the funniest 15 minutes so they can fit in all their commercials. And how do you run out of ideas with a steady stream off new cars all the time?

"I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it."

Snatch FTW.

"What ain't no country I ever heard of."

I doubt it, but then again, what the fuck do I know.

Pulp Fiction, a distant second.

[b*saint]

If you're talking about the bbc america one, that's a way watered down version of originals. A lot of times they take out the funniest 15 minutes so they can fit in all their commercials. And how do you run out of ideas with a steady stream off new cars all the time?

Snatch FTW.

Pulp Fiction, a distant second.

Lock Stock 2 Smoking Barrels I liked better than Snatch.

And Im talking about the British one. The american one does suck too. Because who really watches Top Gear for the car reviews? No one. I watched it, as did probably 90% of their audience, for the stupid shit they did like buy big ass farm tractors and try to grow rape seed.