After an article in the Daily Mail this morning (since removed) randomly suggesting a Top Gear movie involving the lads going around the world in 80 cars.
It looks like this was taken from a suggestion originally posted in an ‘ideas for Top Gear’ thread on Digital Spy a while ago – but the idea is interesting.
I’m not saying a Top Gear movie would be the best of ideas of all time but there is more that could be done with the format.
Especially as it might be useful/interesting for Top Gear to do a Doctor Who/Torchwood and cut things back for a year.
The DW team took a year off from a normal series of the show and instead had a number of bigger budget specials.
Top Gear could do a similar thing – take 2011 off (I’m sure a lot of planning/work/money is already invested in 15/16 for this year) and instead of two series which is about 14 episodes – have four specials.
One could go out around Easter, one in the summer, one around October and another at Christmas – I’m sure a Christmas Day Top Gear special would do well.
Then, with car news, information and ideas brimming from a year of having to come up with fewer ideas – the lads could start again properly with series 17 in 2012.
In fact I think they’d do well taking the same approach as other BBC shows and maybe having one 8 episode series a year (maybe running from May) and then a special around Christmas.
I love Top Gear and there has been some great stuff over the years but spreading the money and ideas over fewer episodes I think would help keep it going for longer.
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Quite agree, have been saying this over at FG for some time now, along with numerous other people.
I’m sure they haven’t done too much of 15/16 yet, as the TG Live Tour (which I think we all agree is part of the problem) is ongoing. I think they could easily cut back to one season this year, plus, say, a Christmas Special, and that might be enough to right things.
Either way you’re right, the most diehard fans would prefer quality over quantity.
Should we write to Andy wilman, even if he doesn’t read it?