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    NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure

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    Image of LTDScott LTDScott
    12/12/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    I really hope it finds a home somewhere. I am definitely in favor of a good enthusiast car show and TV is sorely lacking this.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/12/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    The astounding thing is that after the awful for-TV movie, they went ahead and ordered a season. Idiots.


    It's almost as if auto execs were running the show.

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/12/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    Actually. I'm not sad. Without the pilot, it's impossible to gauge the worthiness of the show. And since no one's seen it, we might as well be missing nothing.
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    Image of Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est Mr.choppers - Delenda Carthago Est
    12/12/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    I have been fed a steady diet of disappointments as various European/British magazines and shows are brought into line with American tastes, so I can only say that the possible death of TGUSA is a very good thing.


    As one example, "Intersection" was a very readable car/fashion magazine, until the US edition was launched. This was a heavily "maxim-ed" version of the original, and over no more than six issues, the UK Intersection turned into the same unreadable drivel.


    The fear of TGUSA turning TG(proper) into "Motor Trend" makes its' failure the best news I've had since the European Cup finals.

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    Image of RegalRegalia RegalRegalia
    12/12/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    NBC is bullshit, TG UK is THE most popular nonfiction show worldwide ever, and they pass a US version b/c their ford comercial bombed? what a bunch of dumbasses.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    12/12/08

    Actually. I'm not sad. That's good.@regalregalia: I beg to differ. Top Gear can be very fictional, depending on the episode.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    Hopefully it finds a cable home that will give it the funding it needs to be as epic (and subjective) as the Beeb's version.


    Would it be premature to print up some "Save TGUSA!" shirts?

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    Image of bzr bzr
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    Clearly the network executives must have remembered the inductive fallacy from high school philosophy class:


    Knight Rider is a car show.

    Top Gear is a car show.

    Knight Rider was a complete failure (ambitious, but rubbish).

    Therefore, Top Gear will also be a complete failure.


    You go, guys! Keep on making Christian Slater feel bad about himself!

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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    Don't worry, guys, we'll always have MotorWeek, with John Davis.
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    Image of Turboner Turboner
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    If NBC read this blog, they might realise that true enthusiasts want real car shows, not failed attempts at retro/nostalgia bullshit. Knight Rider 2008 is to Knight Rider as the PT cruiser is to the Sedan Delivery, a complete (w)hack job.


    I, for one, would like to see Spice channel pick this up. That would be cool.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/11/08

    @Turboner: Then they'd have to hire three dragons, and from what I hear they demand HUGE salaries...
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    Image of Chuckie_A Chuckie_A
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    Speed channel? Could replace Pass Time. That show is the suck.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/11/08

    @Chuckie_A: Or Pinks. Or 101 Cars. Or Wind Tunnel. Or practically every friggin' show on that channel.
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    12/11/08

    @Maxichamp: Hey! Wind Tunnel has its moments of greatness. But yeah, ditch pretty much everything else. And get Robin Miller his own goddamn show already!
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    Image of Monaco Monaco
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    This could ironically save Top Gear USA. No program on a private TV network could ever criticize a major production vehicle. There's just too much ad money at stake. Put it on a cable channel that doesn't care, get rid of the expensive stuff like Corvette blenders, and make it an opinion show like ESPN's Pardon The Interruption.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/12/08

    @Monaco: The LS2 blender is probably the cheapest thing TGUK's ever done.
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/12/08

    @Monaco: A salient point - take note younglings! This paduwan has wisdom.
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    Image of Troggie42 is. Troggie42 is.
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    give it to discovery channel. that way, you can get 70 reruns a week, and they definitley have the budget for it. i say, if they can afford the mythbusters, they can afford TG.
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    Image of Mad_Science Mad_Science
    12/11/08

    @Troggie42: Here here.


    I think Discovery could do this right.


    They've got a history of doing semi-reality type shows really well, and understand that it's as much about letting the hosts be good hosts as whatever they're presenting.

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    Image of DoctorNine DoctorNine
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    OK Boys and Girls, truth time. NBC smells the cesspool that is network TV, and discovers the odor is emanating from it's own pants. Can the Mayans possibly be correct about 2012?
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    Image of Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    Geez, I'd immediately think of BRAVO as a cable outlet that would be a good match for TG-USA, but they're owned by GE/NBC as well...!


    SpikeTV, maybe...?

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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    12/12/08

    @Charles_Barrett - Now with Variable-Valve Timing: SpikeTV would slather it with half-naked women.


    Thereby ruining my ability to comfortably watch the show over dinner with my girlfriend.


    No thanks, SpikeTV.

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    Image of Papercutninja Papercutninja
    12/11/08

    In reply to NBC Cuts Top Gear USA Due To Knight Rider Failure
    OH PLEASE let it go to cable...can't risk it becoming another Ford commercial in the hands of NBC.


    I do wish they would get rid of the sissy mary latte hybrid crasher though. He's only there for the beefcake factor to try to draw in women (much like James May). Don't pander to us, give us another real car guy.

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    12/12/08

    @Papercutninja: Sex appeal? Proper gearhead? That sounds like a job for our very own saucy minx, Ms. Murilee Martin.
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