New series Top Gear tonight

[Grant Monkhouse]

I found the funniest part of the programme to be when Hammond says " as you can see the gull wing has been designed for drive shootings" door fully open with clarkson shooting an M16 I think and then Clarkson saying "I\'m on fire" as the bullet shells had fallen into his crotch. PRICELESS

[Dan Norton]

I found the funniest part of the programme to be when Hammond says " as you can see the gull wing has been designed for drive shootings" door fully open with clarkson shooting an M16 I think and then Clarkson saying "I\'m on fire" as the bullet shells had fallen into his crotch. PRICELESS

That was very funny.

Theres a thread going on on crx uk, with people adding in how disappointed they are with it, and theres nothing original going on :2Confused
I just fail to see how people can be disappointed with it......its just pure entertainment.

[Will66]

Top Gear\'s format is well trodden but still very entertaining.  It\'s not high culture but it\'s hilariously amusing.

[jetpilot]

That was very funny.

Theres a thread going on on crx uk, with people adding in how disappointed they are with it, and theres nothing original going on :2Confused
I just fail to see how people can be disappointed with it......its just pure entertainment.

Makes you think what do people expect from the show. There really cant be too many ways to be original with cars as the common theme. Cant say i have ever seen the Top Gear boys doing drive by shootings before.

Every show/special has original parts but they are all going to follow a common theme obviously, as the show is car based!

They always make me chuckle, some more than others! I think every special they have done has been fun to watch whether in a car in the Kalahari, Bolivia or on a scooter in Nam.

I think it goes to show just how fast that Ferrari is if May can cause Hammond to leave the track by trying to keep up or over take.

I am sure the Xmas special will entertain me as much as any of the others, if nothing else for the reason that it just seems they have such a laugh and i can imagine doing the same with some buddies.

[Nik da Greek]

It is just good entertainment, not really a motoring programme. If you accept that it\'s excellent, if you don\'t it probably annoys the hell out of you. I thought it was as amusing as always, though I found the "grand finale" where they were navigating Manhattan rather dull tbh, just went on too long to hold my interest.

That Porsche is a tragic pathetic looking thing, those red wing mirrors make it look like it\'s made of fduking Lego or something and the wing looks like a male menopause victim bought a normal 911 and drove it straight to Halfords in a desparate attempt to regain his lost youth. Porsche styling is usually pitiful since they\'ve looked essentially the same since like 1950 but this GT3 is actually laughable as well as predictable

[jetpilot]

Repeated tonight and Xmas special tomorrow where they follow the route of the three wise men, at least there is some Xmas tv to look forward too!

[captainbizzaro]

If they were trying to masquerade the show as a serious motoring (yawn) show cough 5th Gear then I\'d get why people moan so much but they aren\'t. Clarkson, Hammond and May make no bones of the fact that they are simply three blokes arsing around for a living and feel lucky that the general public would want to watch them get paid for doing just that. After all, what percentage of the population could afford the majority of the machines that appear on the show. No one wants to see a Vauxhall Astra 1.6 Club be spanked around a track and be told how many Asda bags will fit in the boot. Do they?

I don\'t and as daft and scripted as Top Gear is I would miss it if didn\'t come back.

[jetpilot]

:Giggle Baby Stig

[clive]

Toughly enjoyed it and excepting the Antarctic special this was to me the best yet.

[batman]

Glad it isn\'t just me who was baffled by that, Clive :confused: Mind you, I think our Sky+ box is possessed by the spirit of an ancient evil Sumerian demon or something, it wages a personal war on our TV viewing by randomly deleting series links, part-recording and claiming something clashed when it hadn\'t or just randomly failing to record at all. Good job I don\'t watch much telly or it\'d drive me bloody mad :mad:

heres a little tip for your sky box problems down loads happen from sky quite a bit and if your box is unpluged then itll miss a down load.
problems start happening and the box dies so to avoid a £60 engineer call out do this .
1 .unplug the power cable from the box
2 . press and hold the back up button then insert the power cable again
3. with the back up button still pressed after a little while all the lights on the box will light up and a message on the screen saying update in progress.
4 . leave the box alone to do its download usually about ten mins .
5. box will turn itself off and reboot .
6. it wont let you turn it on after its switched itself off untill its ready to start up so if you press power imediatly nothing will happen .
7. three or four mins after the box turns on you can start it up and all things should be gravey if that doesnt sort it then the box is fubard .
8. forcing a download will not empty your planner stored programs will not delete only in the house keeping section will it empty the planner .
9. if its a sky plus problem like it wont let you record and watch another channel chances are your lnb reciever is broke or somethings unplugged .
10 .to check this press services . then system setup now you should have at the top picture settings then underneath that sound settings and so on .at this point on the remote press 0 then 1 then select. this will bring up the installer menu a secret menu sky dont want you to use from here you can add channels for things like bbchd and other stuff but you can see your signal strengths and if you have two feeds coming in .
 
hope that helps

[batman]

ps if you have sky+ you cant add a hd channel you need a hd box for that but you can add different region news programs and such like

[clive]

Thanks for for this I\'ll give it a go, says he as many others are rebooting their Sky sets :rollin

[Nik da Greek]

Yeah, cheers Alex. I\'ll give it a go when I\'ve got a day off so in case my sky box never works again I can call in an engineer :rollin

[batman]

ya welcome this is especially important for those who dont have the phone line plugged in you will notice a difference any other probs just ask i might have a solution

[batman]

Yeah, cheers Alex. I\'ll give it a go when I\'ve got a day off so in case my sky box never works again I can call in an engineer :rollin

pmsl this is sky nik what ever makes you think they ll be out same day
 " no chance "
 
lol