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Originally Posted by M3PO
It's not that simple though. You are dealing with human hosts and a vastly different budget. They're not assembling Volkswagen Beetles in Mexico.
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No once forced them to fill their cars with water from a fire truck and see how far around a lap they'd go. Or do the bumpy road course with eggs in baskets above their heads.
But no. They decided to pull near-entire episodes out of the UK series and recreate them.
It's for the lack of creative content that the show deserves the boot. Sure, the hosts are lacking on many levels but that's not the root problem. It's lack of creativity and original content.
I stopped watching after seeing them sitting around a campfire being drunk idiots for 12 minutes out of a 44 minute airtime. That coupled with 2 minute recaps after EVERY commercial, further decreasing actual airtime to something like 30-35 minutes. I'm amazed that someone at History approved the show's scripts, though the channel (along with Discovery) has been airing progressively worse content over the course of the past 2-3 years.
EDIT: as for other copies/version of the show or something similar, I agree that any new car show is never going to live up to TGUK, for many reasons. But one show I don't mind is Fifth Gear. I don't end up watching episodes but mainly just the big-name shootouts and reviews (mostly on youtube, actually). Just watch the 2 shows' reviews of the Cayman S. Fifth Gear does a relatively good job at going through the important aspects of the car and the feel of it around a track, and then compares it with the competition. JC talks about the nav for a bit, how the producer is buying one, and that it "[annoyingly] has some good points." Not much beyond that. Sometimes I want to learn more about the cars and the driving experience than what TG offers. But then again, TG offers way way more than car reviews, which is why it's my favorite show in the first place.