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Poll Question: what is your favourite TV entertainment program
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2012 at 14:35
Originally posted by aginor aginor wrote:

Originally posted by CPicard CPicard wrote:

Kitchen Nightmare, because it's only the TV Reality Show which arouses me. 
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Dude, I'm only looking at the food.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2012 at 15:32
LOL ... [cough-cough]
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 02 2012 at 16:01
Top Gear, funniest thing on TV.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 11 2012 at 11:27
Top Gear, all the way - completely ego-driven (no pun intended) by three genuinely entertaining stereotypes; nothing to do with cars realy anymore, just a entertainment comedy show with cars in the background.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 28 2012 at 22:42
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Lol seriously...
 
 
Top Gear by distances larger than the universe.
 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2013 at 19:01
Originally posted by Epignosis Epignosis wrote:

I voted Kitchen Nightmares.  I love cooking and don't give a sh*t about cars (unless it's the one I'm driving).


I can't cook at all (but I love food), but if I have to choose betw. the two, it's Kitchen Nightmares. 

My biggest complaint is that BBC America shows like 12 straight hours of Kitchen Nightmares every weekday. The other 12 hours per day, they show Top Gear. That's only a *slight* exaggeration. There are so many great programs from England, doesn't the BBC have any imagination whatsoever? Seriously, I'd love to have that programmer's job. He must spend like a minute per month planning each month's programs. Utterly worthless...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2013 at 19:49
If I had BBC I would tell you, from what I've seen both blow away the American versions, I give the win to Top Gear because the US version is worse than the American version of KNs.   But it's close.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 08 2013 at 20:42
Top Gear for sure !!  At least Rick Wakeman appeared as a celebrity guest LOL (one of the slowest on the circuit, might I add) and there's occasionally 'I Know What I Like' playing to torture Richard Hammond !!!
Oh, and I always get a laugh from Ramsey's 'dummy-spits' - not the sort of dickhead I'd like to work with but........

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 03:39
It's Kitchen nightmares for me since I don't really care about cars. I'm a picky eater and don't eat that big of a variety of food but I still have to give the not to kitchen nightmares. The british version is actually a legit tv show and good to watch if you actually care about food.

I like watching the American version the same way some people watch professional wrestling. It has a very predictable outline for every episode. It is oddly amusing to see ramsay argue with every stubborn owner, berate food for being raw/bland/having too much parsley or spices and to watch every botched dinner service and kitchen inspection. It's completely scripted but that's basically all of the fun and needed to get ramsay to make rants like:"You're cooking RAW food big boy! I could have been killed eating that, the garlic sauce is just ghastly. You have the name tag, the big jacket but you're a FAKE chef happy to microwave store bought F****** RAW CRAB!"
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 04:34
Actually very different shows with nothing in common at all. One is essentially a make over show, and the other is about three middle aged rev heads playing with expensive fantasy cars.

I quite enjoy both from time to time. No real preference tbh.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 05:25
Top Gyros. Definitely. As much as I'd like to eat Ramsay's food, he is far too up his own arse to be interesting to watch on the telly.

The three British stooges on the other handBeer 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 06:46
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Actually very different shows with nothing in common at all. One is essentially a make over show, and the other is about three middle aged rev heads playing with expensive fantasy cars.

I quite enjoy both from time to time. No real preference tbh.
it is only becouse it is the two programs i most freequently watch, not to compare them, just whih entertains me most, and do they entertain others
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 07:08
Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Top Gear, all the way - completely ego-driven (no pun intended) by three genuinely entertaining stereotypes; nothing to do with cars realy anymore, just a entertainment comedy show with cars in the background.
I agree. I really don't want to watch Ramsay shouting at people.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 07:08
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Actually very different shows with nothing in common at all. One is essentially a make over show, and the other is about three middle aged rev heads playing with expensive fantasy cars.

Americans might compare the two shows because they're the only shows that ever seem to be on over at the BBC America channel. Very frustrating. I'd love to be able to watch all those brilliant English sitcoms and sketch shows, but Americans aren't exposed to them. BBC America should change their name to The Clarkson & Ramsay Channel...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 15:43
Originally posted by The Bearded Bard The Bearded Bard wrote:

Top Gear, although I don't care about cars. I just like the (typical british) humor of, and between, the presenters. 
 
Ditto......
 
and I can't stand Ramsey.
One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 16:59
I despise both Dead
A cooking program must be about cooking, not a chef shouting and cursing. Pathetic.
And a cars program must be about cars, not stupid made-up stories. Fifth Gear is a much better car program, and Vicki Butler-Henderson is much nicer than Clarkson, May and Hammond, and Tiff and Jason can drive much better than those Top Gear clowns.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 11 2013 at 21:10
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

^ It's not my clip - it's YouTubes.
 

 

My only criticism is they concentrate far too much on cars that few of us can even dream of owning - while Ferraris and Lambos are fun to look at and drool over, there will never be one parked on my drive. Ordinary cars have almost disapeared from the program, unless it is to ridicule them.

 


I've come to love Top Gear but my one complaint isn't the cars I'll never own but the cars that I've never heard of. The supercars they drive I've at least heard of. I've never in my life seen an Alfa, Lancia, Fiat Panda, etc.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2013 at 01:26
Alfa Romeo.is indeed one of most beautifull looking cars, pure estetiqu, my nighbour had a Lancia, more famous in the 80s   Fiat pandas are tiny
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2013 at 14:29
And none of them exist here in the states


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 21 2013 at 16:54

Over at The Daily Mash (like The Onion, only British), there's an article titled, "Are You a t**t?," and it has a picture of Clarkson, haha:

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