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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: waspy on 26 October 2008, 17:40:53
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Next sunday is start of the new series & i can't wait (sad i know, but i don't give an Monkies arse, i love it)
I love their antics & sometimes i have to watch the repeat, because i can't see the tv for tears ;D
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I am ok with the other 2 but Clarkson makes me heave.
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Clarkson's a bit of a self inflated twerp IMO, but check out the competition. There's no other car based show close to it for entertainment (even ex Mrs used to enjoy it).
It's one programme I watch every week and I am looking forward to it already :y :y :y
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You all forget that Clarkson is acting. He has the Top Gear act for this show, if you want to see what he is really like watch the Father in Law, Brunel or the St Nazaire raid programmes.
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You all forget that Clarkson is acting. He has the Top Gear act for this show, if you want to see what he is really like watch the Father in Law, Brunel or the St Nazaire raid programmes.
Whatever he's doing he knows how to make a complete show, unlike those disjointed muppets on 5th Gear. :(
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I actually like JC, at least he's not afraid to stand up & say what he thinks, be it right or be it wrong.
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I actually like JC, at least he's not afraid to stand up & say what he thinks, be it right or be it wrong.
Take TG Clarkson, calm him down and make him more thoughtful = real Clarkson.
His documentries are usually excellent, I have seen the St Nazarre raid programme twice and the monument has been moved from Church Street Car Park.
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
One was the Grace Spitfire - and there are 3 two seats flying in the UK today
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clarkson is a great bloke ;). i did the top gear members beer tent at the 94 silverstone f1 gp, had a great laugh with him, tiff & quentin wilson. :y :y
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Never miss it.........one of the best things on the box. :y :y
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
One was the Grace Spitfire - and there are 3 two seats flying in the UK today
Cheers Martin, I was under the impression that the 2 seater was rare as it was used as a training aircraft.
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
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good point pete.
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
It does, but the show is sold to over 150 other TV networks, the magazines, DVD's, merchandise etc make the BBC more money than any other show, that's why JC gets paid a lot of money, he is probably on a % of profits.
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Have a search - quite interesting, I remembered the Grace Spitfire from a learn to fly a Spitfire competition on C4 a few years ago.
Nick Grace restored it, then died and as his memorial his widow Carolyn learnt to fly ML407
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
It does, but the show is sold to over 150 other TV networks, the magazines, DVD's, merchandise etc make the BBC more money than any other show, that's why JC gets paid a lot of money, he is probably on a % of profits.
The money the BBC makes means that we have better programming than we would have on the budget BBC has.
Love or hate BBC is still one of the most respected broadcasters in the world
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Have a search - quite interesting, I remembered the Grace Spitfire from a learn to fly a Spitfire competition on C4 a few years ago.
Nick Grace restored it, then died and as his memorial his widow Carolyn learnt to fly ML407
I will have a look tomorrow, thanks, can't look now, grandson just arrived.
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
It does, but the show is sold to over 150 other TV networks, the magazines, DVD's, merchandise etc make the BBC more money than any other show, that's why JC gets paid a lot of money, he is probably on a % of profits.
The money the BBC makes means that we have better programming than we would have on the budget BBC has.
Love or hate BBC is still one of the most respected broadcasters in the world
They do some things incredibly well, Attenborough for one. Sadly they do not always produce such brilliant programmes, but overall I think the BBC is good value for money, £12 a month licence fee, £30 for Sky to watch mainly repeats, and 18 minutes of adverts in every 60mins.
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Of course you can see them live at Earls Court and the NEC (although there don't seem to many tickets left!):
http://www.mphshow.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=71/t=m/goSection=14
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Have a search - quite interesting, I remembered the Grace Spitfire from a learn to fly a Spitfire competition on C4 a few years ago.
Nick Grace restored it, then died and as his memorial his widow Carolyn learnt to fly ML407
Do you know if the grace family lived in Essex around 15 years ago Martin?
I took my son and a couple of young lads fishing ,and one of the young lads said his mum had a spitfire,when I commented that there werent many of them left on the roads,he said "not a car,a plane".
His friend told me later that the boys dad was killed flying the plane ,then his mum had it repaired and flew it herself. :-/
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Have a search - quite interesting, I remembered the Grace Spitfire from a learn to fly a Spitfire competition on C4 a few years ago.
Nick Grace restored it, then died and as his memorial his widow Carolyn learnt to fly ML407
Do you know if the grace family lived in Essex around 15 years ago Martin?
I took my son and a couple of young lads fishing ,and one of the young lads said his mum had a spitfire,when I commented that there werent many of them left on the roads,he said "not a car,a plane".
His friend told me later that the boys dad was killed flying the plane ,then his mum had it repaired and flew it herself. :-/
search for grace ml407 and spitfire - I would think so by the sound of it
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My nephews bought me a years subscription to the Top Gear mag this year and its a load of crap, take the adverts out and there's nothing left :(
Have a look at this :D
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DMuO-8S_0Wg
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cant wait for it and i'm still not impressed i missed the last episode of the last series, including when it was repeated!!
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
One was the Grace Spitfire - and there are 3 two seats flying in the UK today
I believe there would be another if Charles Church, the house builder, had not crashed his two seater ( is this so Martin?) example and sadly paid with his life. :'( :'(
(http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk247/lizziefreeman/SpitEE606.jpg)
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
and this is the sort of thing it pays for.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-389872/Ross-highest-paid-presenter-BBC-woo-18m-deal.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/19/broadcasting.bbc
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
and this is the sort of thing it pays for.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-389872/Ross-highest-paid-presenter-BBC-woo-18m-deal.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/19/broadcasting.bbc
How do we ge to this situation, how can anyone be worth that sort of money, it's like football. >:( Yes, pay them a lot of money if they are worth it, but not silly money, and all that money to show Match of the Day :o think it is about time the licence fee was removed.......... I pay it to watch quality TV, sadly lacking, not to pay large salaries :-X
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Despite the fact we complain bitterly about the TV licence fee, I object even more to paying £22 a month to sky to watch repeats and the 3 hour roll over of the same thing on the Dave channel.
Sadly it's the best bunch of TV programs ammongst a very sad TV coverage offered by all providers,TV was a lot more varied when we only had 3 terrestial channels, even adding channel 4 and 5 never really got me watching them.
£264 a year to watch repeats and the added con of the TV LIcence fee on top of that, I dont really know why I still bother.
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We are about to drop our sky package, if not get rid all together, we seem to manage well enough at the Caravan with just Free View. ::)
I think the more choice the worse it gets, we can sit with however many hundred choices and still find nothing to watch, too much choice. ::) ::) ::)
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At least with sky we have a choice wether to pay and view or not.
Imo,the tv licence should be scrapped,and the bloated orginisation should have to survive in the marketplace with every one else.
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At least with sky we have a choice wether to pay and view or not.
Imo,the tv licence should be scrapped,and the bloated orginisation should have to survive in the marketplace with every one else.
Fully agree, but I don't want to commit to much to sky either, perhaps some form of pay to view :) that would really show what people want to watch, and it won't be most of the crap on TV now :y
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The thing that annoys me about Sky is the adverts, 18 minutes out of every 60 is adverts, and we are paying to watch them. The F1 is back on the BBC next season and I am really looking forward to that, no bloody poodles and clothes pegs followed by rowing boats interrupting the race, they wouldn't dare do it during the Queens speech or a cup final. There is a good choice of stuff on Sky, and I for one like the episode being shown again on +1, as I usually stumble on stuff halfway through, I have had my moneys worth out of Sky while I have been out of work recently, and the broadband is only £5 a month, so on balance I will keep Sky for now.
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I think, unfortunately, its another example of how cr*P this country has become. Remenber the monoplies and mergers Commision, suposed to keep things free and unbiased. Well guess who controls most of the TV these days ?., Thats right, News International, Sky in other words. They run the terrestial transmitters (Freeview), and from what I have heard charge a pretty penny to the likes of ITV, BBC for channels. Do the math, if they don't make a lot selling ads, then there isn't that much left to buy good programes. So the quality of TV goes down, but there's nothing you can do, except go to Sky, who can put out any old rubbish, cause you have no choice, its either Cr*p or slightly better and more expensive Cr*p. Blame the usual suspects, its their fault. I suspect we tried to follow the US model of things, enough demand will give some competition. However over here there isn't enough demand to finance seperate sytems so................. And with a recesion, companies will spend less on TV ads, so..................
It happens. And there's sod all we can do about it.
Ken
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
and this is the sort of thing it pays for.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-389872/Ross-highest-paid-presenter-BBC-woo-18m-deal.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/19/broadcasting.bbc
How do we ge to this situation, how can anyone be worth that sort of money, it's like football. >:( Yes, pay them a lot of money if they are worth it, but not silly money, and all that money to show Match of the Day :o think it is about time the licence fee was removed.......... I pay it to watch quality TV, sadly lacking, not to pay large salaries :-X
It is not for Woss but for his production company, and I think it worked out over all the shows he does not actually that much per show.
Don't ask for figures but it is always pulled out as an anti BBC thingy
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
and this is the sort of thing it pays for.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-389872/Ross-highest-paid-presenter-BBC-woo-18m-deal.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/apr/19/broadcasting.bbc
How do we ge to this situation, how can anyone be worth that sort of money, it's like football. >:( Yes, pay them a lot of money if they are worth it, but not silly money, and all that money to show Match of the Day :o think it is about time the licence fee was removed.......... I pay it to watch quality TV, sadly lacking, not to pay large salaries :-X
It is not for Woss but for his production company, and I think it worked out over all the shows he does not actually that much per show.
Don't ask for figures but it is always pulled out as an anti BBC thingy
Slightly off thread, but your link to Ross's salary story is ironic, Martin, when you read this:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5018123.ece
I think he and, and especially that unfunny git Russell Brand, should be prosecuted. :y
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Really looking forward to the return of TG. :y I know JC isn't everyone's cup of tea but he makes the show what it is and is complimented by Hampster and Captain Slow. I think the "arrogance" that JC portrays in the show is by design and not a true reflection on his real personality.
Bring it on!! :y :y :y
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I love the show, especially the road trips / races. Strangely no e-mails from TG / BBC2 yet, I subscribe to it ( it is free after all ) normally some advance notice and trailers on TV but I haven't seen one yet.
JC certainly speaks his mind not like all the other diluted BBC shows, the last episode against the German competition was as funny as a Morecambe and Wise Christmas special, and where did they get 3 two seater Spitfires? They daren't censor the show too much as it makes the BBC an awful lot of money.
Sorry for being thick, but i thought it was taxpayers the licence fee that paid for the BBC :-/
It does, but the show is sold to over 150 other TV networks, the magazines, DVD's, merchandise etc make the BBC more money than any other show, that's why JC gets paid a lot of money, he is probably on a % of profits.
Arh, i see. I never thought of it that way :y
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At least with sky we have a choice wether to pay and view or not.
Imo,the tv licence should be scrapped,and the bloated orginisation should have to survive in the marketplace with every one else.
Never happen, the funds go to the government & then a percentage goes to the BBC. Just another stealth tax >:(
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Russel Brand is an irritating idiot Wossy is OK but not worth millions, I do like his enthusiasm over films.
Clarkson is very good at playing different roles
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At least with sky we have a choice wether to pay and view or not.
Imo,the tv licence should be scrapped,and the bloated orginisation should have to survive in the marketplace with every one else.
Never happen, the funds go to the government & then a percentage goes to the BBC. Just another stealth tax >:(
That and the fact that the Beeb is a hive of socialism. >:(
I agree about Ross/Brand being prosecuted.the Beeb should at least tear up their contracts.doing that to an old man is disgusting and proves yet again that you can buy almost anything but class,as did ross,s interview with Cameron.
On a brighter note,new series of wheeler Dealers on sky, Tues. night. :y