Is Top gear becomming a sitcom?

[Loosehead]

http://news.sky.com/s...itcom_Than_A_Car_Show
Personally I think it is and that's a good thing! Cue all the TG haters who think they should do reviews of lentil powered unicycles or somthing.

[rojash]

Top Gear is wildly popular here in Greece, and even funnier, because it's dubbed into Greek. JC has a really gruff voice to indicate that he's the macho one.

It is a sitcom, and that's not a bad thing, but it has become a bit predictable late. Of course, by Greek driving standards all of them are considered ***. The test for Greek Driver of the Year Award consists solely of a slalom and doughnuts event.

[rojash]

Good Grief!
Who would have thought that the word for female kittens needed to be censored!

[jake-the-peg]

It's a very sucessful formula that blends comedy in with car porn.

It attracts lots of viewers who want to lust over cars that they'll never see in the flesh let alone drive.

The target viewers are clearly the 12-29 year old males so the rather laddish and slightly puerile comedy hits the mark.

That large viewing figure attracts the exotic car manufacturers for whom it's a great vehicle to promote their brands - after all who's going to buy a supercar unless millions of other people want and cant have one?

The end result is a show that makes millions and millions of pounds for the BBC ( I think I calculated that Top Gear knocks £8 off of everybody's license!)

Just as long as they don't get someone (else) killed

[rowanwitch]

And there is a huge waiting list to be in the audience...my sister and I have been on it for a couple of years now....She's a bit of a hamster fan....

[cazzz1975]

I think it has more female viewers than men these days

[rowanwitch]

Quite likely even my 78 year old mum is an addict.... and I know a couple of female friends who quite fancy JC

[ummmm]

I like it and I've got no interest in cars. My American cousin loves it...but he's one of the few Americans that have ventured outside America.

[flip_flop]

Its an entertainment show based around cars.

If people tune-in expecting a dry review of any old Jap-O-Box or boring German machine then they are tuning in to the wrong show.

The piece JC did about the Reliant Robin in the last series of TG was one of the funniest pieces of TV I've seen for years.

[rowanwitch]

And the special for either comic relief or C-I-N where they did Sir steve Redgraves garden was fall off the couch laughing stuff

[ummmm]

Flip Flop....where it kept falling over? That was hilarious...