Just starting the first episode now. Anyone else watching or do you all hate this too?
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 12:48 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 12:52 am
by MissYouAllDay
It's the new top gear. It's technically on Amazon, is that still considered TV?
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 12:56 am
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 8:24 am
by ABNorman
Quite looking forward to this. Hopefully it errs on the side of the Top Gear specials, with less of the dull car reviews.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 1:48 pm
by MissYouAllDay
The first episode was very car heavy, but from the sounds of it the second one will be a special.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 1:49 pm
by MissYouAllDay
I really enjoyed it. It felt a lot like Top Gear, but a little looser.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 18, 2016 9:00 pm
by Stickman
Waiting to dl Tonight!
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Sun November 20, 2016 9:47 pm
by Stickman
Pretty great first episode. Wish they would have showed more of the vehicles they rode in with. Evidently there was 150$Mil worth of car there.
Also, sad to see they won't have a celebrity is a reasonably-priced car.
Could have done lots more with the 3 Hyper cars. We have been waiting nearly 2 years. The stuff with fighting the audience could have been cut altogether.
Overall, it was like seeing old friends again.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Thu November 24, 2016 8:14 pm
by Stickman
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Tue November 29, 2016 5:29 pm
by Stickman
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Thu December 08, 2016 12:20 am
by Stickman
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Wed January 25, 2017 6:37 pm
by Stickman
The 2 part special was quite good. I"m enjoyin this series.
Many of you have been asking if Hammond’s broken knee will affect the filming for season two of the Grand Tour.
And the short answer is: yes.
As I write, James May is sitting in the hell hole that is Gatwick Airport waiting for a budget airline to take him to a shoot that Hammond should have been doing.
REWRITES
Meanwhile, I’ve been up since dawn, rewriting all of the scripts and ideas we had to accommodate the fact that Hammond can’t drive for the next few months.
Meanwhile, he is lying in a bed in the Swiss Alps, while pretty nurses attend to give his every need, and give him drugs.
STANDING ON ONE LEG
Apparently, he will be back in the office next week which is a good thing because we are out of toner for the photocopier, the girl who makes coffee is on holiday and the store room needs re-organising. These, I feel, are jobs he can do on one leg.
YOUR IDEAS FOR WHAT HE SHOULD DO
If you have any suggestions for other ways he can make himself useful, do let me know in the comments below.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Thu September 21, 2017 2:14 am
by Stickman
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Wed November 01, 2017 11:18 pm
by Stickman
fuck I hope they got rid of the American
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 17, 2017 4:42 pm
by Stickman
The American is out. Thank fuck.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 17, 2017 5:35 pm
by mf
Stickman wrote:The American is out. Thank fuck.
Good. He wasn't terrible but the joke kind of wore thin after the first couple of times. They've said that they had planned to do a fair bit of tweaking to the format after the first season which is great cause there was definitely some dead weight. i think i read that Celebrity Brain Crash is out as well.
Re: TV: The grand tour
Posted: Fri November 17, 2017 5:42 pm
by Stickman
mf wrote:
Stickman wrote:The American is out. Thank fuck.
Good. He wasn't terrible but the joke kind of wore thin after the first couple of times. They've said that they had planned to do a fair bit of tweaking to the format after the first season which is great cause there was definitely some dead weight. i think i read that Celebrity Brain Crash is out as well.
