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Originally Posted by SlowOne
Been like that for ages, I could write the scripts. Like all entertainment shows, they eventually flog their format to death, and lose viewers. Which, all in all, means that there are no motoring programmes left on TV - somewhat shortchanges the 27m people that drive !
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They're not interested anymore and it comes across in spades. Sadly they've all got complacent and lazy. The format needs another reboot. End of. And anyway, it hasn't really been a motoring programme for years, it's been an entertainment programme with some cars in it.
The current format was quite refreshing (once it found its feet after a couple of shaky years) particularly after the staleness of William Woollard linking segments on radial tyres and the "new" FWD Cavalier whilst reading a script that seemed to be clipped to his shoes*. However, as has been said its now been flogged to death, theres only so many ways you can send an old man down a mountainside in a bath on wheels (oh hang on, that was another BBC program that they took out behind the barn and shot).
* those old enough to remember it go on you know it's true, the bloke was always looking down at his feet before he did his lines. There's probably clips on YouTube to prove it.