NBC to air Top Gear USA episodes online
Here at Autoblog, we make no effort to hide our enthusiasm for the hit BBC series Top Gear. But while our compatriots over in the British Isles get to watch the show on their public television stations, American viewers (comprised mostly of Autoblog readers, of course) have had to make do with the on-again, off-again airing of Top Gear episodes online. For our part, we've done our best to bring you the latest episodes in our weekly night watch video postings.
Fortunately, with the American version of the show speeding into production, NBC is indicating that the show will be available for your viewing pleasure on its website. According to NBC, the episodes – which will be aired weekly in primetime starting sometime this year – will also be available for viewing online each week, along with a special aftermarket segment that's sure to blend the excitement of the annual SEMA show with Top Gear's own unique flavor. Stay tuned for more Top Gear news as NBC brings the show. Thanks for the tip, Adam!
[Source: NBC.com]
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BlackCanary 1:12PM (7/07/2008)
NBC puts most of the shows online. This is not a big deal and hardly worth a posting. This is just an excuse to get the comments going. Here come the "FAIL" remarks - proceed glass half empty people, proceed.
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vkchu 1:35PM (7/07/2008)
how about top gear (bbc & nbc) on hulu?
now theres a win.
Silver 1:59PM (7/07/2008)
Screw watching TV in a browser window on your computer at your desk. LAME. I didn't pay good money for a nice home entertainment system and comfortable sofa for nothing.
Pull your heads out already, NBC, and get your stuff back in iTunes. Geez.
Rocketboy 1:12PM (7/07/2008)
SO IT WILL SUCK ONLINE TOO?
(Sarcasm)
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Ben 1:45PM (7/07/2008)
Yes. LOL But more accessible!
RG 1:19PM (7/07/2008)
Yeah, but... but... the BBC Top Gear website ends in a "co.uk," will NBC's online episodes have URLs that end in "co.uk?"
IT WONT???!!!!
Oh man that sucks, why do they have to do things different than the BBC?!?! I am not going to watch the show because of this, this show is going to bomb... blah blah blah blah...
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David(Postal) 1:17PM (7/07/2008)
Always a good move to put episodes online. I never watch TV anymore really
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Kevin Fleming 1:19PM (7/07/2008)
BEST NEWS in a lonnnng time. They need to make some new episodes of Top Gear however, well maybe they have but we don't have them in the states. I wonder if they will do an episode on that crazy new VW that gets 282 MPG http://www.thegreenmotorist.com/index.php/282-mpg-for-new-vw/
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BlackCanary 1:21PM (7/07/2008)
you are a huge douche nozle!
mike m. 1:26PM (7/07/2008)
No they won't. Unfortunatly, their focus will be on NA built cars!
Kevin Fleming 1:39PM (7/07/2008)
NA built cars??? Whaattt? Jeremy Clarkson will rip every single north american car apart.
Sean Flanagan 1:41PM (7/07/2008)
That's great, but will they count online views in their decisions regarding the show's future? History tells us no. See Jericho.
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Vintage 1:48PM (7/07/2008)
NBC's online shows are kinda crap. The same commercial over and over and over. Low res,crap audio. Ugh.
At least torrent sites still work.
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Shadooky 2:10PM (7/07/2008)
GREAT! I really think this show will be special and eventually surpass the original Top Gear in popularity, whit, and innovation.
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Mili 2:28PM (7/07/2008)
This is GREAT NEWS...although the car industry in USA does not necessarily interest me, as i think it is of little relevance to Europe.
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Artie Lange 3:03PM (7/07/2008)
I don't have the violent reaction to an American version of Top Gear that many others seem to have, but there are already two glaring problems with this project so far:
1. The hosts. Tanner Faust? Has anyone seen this guy work "Supercars Exposed" on Speed? Nice enough kid, but he lacks any humor or wit. Adam Corolla can be funny, but he's not a genuine car guy, and he is far more annoying on camera than behind a mic (it has to do with his looks). The other guy I've never heard of. Its an NBC property, but they couldn't get the car guy's car guy - Jay Leno - to be involved?
2. NBC - unlike the BBC - is a private company (subsidiary of GE, actually) that relies on advertisement, a large portion of which comes from the auto industry. This will interfere with honest reviews of cars and their parent companies.
If they did it right, it could be a huge hit. But they've already committed to doing it wrong, so it will fail.
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Rocketboy 3:16PM (7/07/2008)
"but he's not a genuine car guy"
Wha-What?
I dare say that Ace Rockola is much more of a car guy than your Mr. Jay Leno. Corolla is interested in cars to drive, Leno is into museum pieces.
AlanzTalon 3:38PM (7/07/2008)
just a point of clarification (I dont disagree with much of the comment) but Adam Carolla is as much a "genuine car guy" as anyone who could possibly host this show. He collects, races, and knows as much about cars as he knows anything else.
So on that point, I would argue Carolla is absolutely a genuine car guy.
We will see about Foust and Stromer.
RG 4:02PM (7/07/2008)
You are right, you don't have the violent reaction that some of the people have towards the US Top Gear...
But you DO have the blind hatred that causes you to pan and condemn a show without seeing a single second of it, for the same reasons might I add as those with "violent reactions." With you, as with so many others, you state with utmost certainty that the hosts will suck and the network will suck.
You may be calmer, but you add no clarity to your statemens. Your condemnation and hate is still based on an unseen show.
Pacman 4:02PM (7/07/2008)
Wow, no one has ever said that exact same thing 90 billion times on every Top Gear USA post. That was so very new and original of a take that I was floored. You should really work for Autobog, you have such deep insight into things that you have yet to see. You could be the oracle of things yet to come. Tell everyone about car sales before they are even put on a lot! You are so very smart.