Happy night
It was a happy evening in the Geek household last night as the familiar voice of Clarkson and co finally got broadcast over the american airwaves.
Top Gear is now in the line up for BBC America, unedited and in proper season order.
Top Gear has been on before, Discovery Channel showed a couple of episodes. However, Jeremy isn't particularly American friendly, seeing how he despises every motor vehicle made over here, and uses words like "boot" and "petrol". Damn him.
As a result Discovery never really got behind it, and subtitled it to death when it was on - all references to pounds were subtitled with the dollar amount for example.
So BBC America finally stepped up and brought it over as part of their recent revamp. Gone are endless Benny Hill repeats and in come Top Gear and several other shows I've never heard of before. Hotel Babylon? Jekyll? MI-5? No clue if they are any good or not. I can't say I was impressed by the recent airing of Robin Hood, but damn, it's not Benny Hill!
Bravo BBC America.
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2 comments:
Hotel Babylon was reasonably amusing as trash TV based on the novel of the same name. I caught it in NL.
Wish I had BeebMerkia for top gear - I miss that.
It's worth the upgrade if you already have cable, especially with the rumours they will be airing in HD soon. Apparantly the quality that is filmed in the UK is near HD quality already, it just doesn't get broadcast that way - wouldn't be hard to simply release it as BBC America HD
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