Is Top Gear fake and scripted?

(this is an ancient post from the old site but it still gets hundreds of hits a day so here it is again)

Is Top Gear fake and scripted? Yes.

A strange topic to bring up here but it needs to be said. I’ve been watching it and enjoying it for 3 weeks in a row but when I hear people talk about it I want to slap them.

I’ve found myself watching telly on Sunday nights again and I like the programme. But this is what kills me, their ad libs and wacky stories are so rehearsed and contrived that it should be glaringly clear to most people but it’s not. I said it to a bloke I know and he just couldn’t accept it.

The hosts have freely admitted that they rehearse and write their lines and loads of the stunts are phoney. Look at this, the famous Reliant Space Shuttle stunt and it’s fake explosion.

Now again I’m not dumping on the show just the ninnies who take what’s presented on screen as fact and not as the silly but enjoyable pantomime it is. They admitted that this caravan scene was pure fake and it even got a mention on Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipes as a prime example of this kind of nonsense.

This was described to me by a friend and he was so sucked into the whole thing. It’s worrying, that perfectly normal intelligent people don’t know when they are being played. I don’t think I’m stating the obvious with this one.

Don’t believe the hype.

Posted in Blog, rants by Bob on Aug 24th | No Comments