I filled out both links as well. I guess it'll be back to trying to find the stuff on the Internet.

 

Filled it out. That was the only show i liked on tv.

 

I finally get to watch this show the other night, and now it's done? Damn, from what I saw it was a pretty cool show..o well

 

Form filled out.

 

I filled it out too.. so i suppose i'll have to get bbc america since that is where the form is from.. shouldn't we be asking discovery channel to keep it on the air??? (or whoever was airing it) or should we request that The Speed Channel pick it up?

 

they can't take thgat show away form me. damnit. well i guess i will just have to download all their episodes from bit torrent.

 

TBH the reason I love Top Gear is because they give you an honest opinion about the cars they review. They will say what they liked and what they hated. They don’t care what the manufacturer thinks of the review. All the US car shows are scared to offend anyone so you don’t get a real review. You end up with a 30 min – 1 hr car commercial.

I recall when Discovery channel showed the Porsche Cayenne review. In the British version JC would tell you how good it was at that particular part of the test, but then he would say, “But none of that matters…”
At the end of the review he told you why none of that mattered… He said the Cayenne was an ugly mudfish of a car, and went on to say it was so ugly he wasn’t even gonna drive it back, he said he would rather walk than drive it another minute. I almost fell of my chair when he said that.

By contrast in the US version he still ended each part with, “But none of that matters… “
The problem is they never showed the reason why none of that mattered.
We wouldn’t want to offend anyone would we

 

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Kevin: Sorry, on the second page I also posted a link to fill out a form on Discovery channel. Here it is again:

http://extweb.discovery.com/viewerrelations


Dani6785: I got the same response as you did.

 

Thanks... I just filled out the Discovery channel form.

 

Damn that sucks! That is my favorite show.

 

Put in my requests...

 

I wished BBC America would air Top Gear, but they don't.
You can suggest it here: http://www.bbcamerica.com/about/cont...suggestion.jsp

What's not fair is BBC Canada will airs Top Gear. They are showing this unedited and it runs the exactly the same as the UK version. This premiere Oct 15.
http://www.bbccanada.com/lifestyle/default.asp


I don't want to see it on the Discovery Channel again. It's way too painful to watch. Maybe air this on Spike TV after Car and Driver.

 

i got an email back from both networks, but it looked like they are just automated emails. Basically, both said they are unavailable right now, but the note has been forwarded to the appropriate department. Hopefully they'll notice that there are a lot of people watching this show and do something about it...

 

Just wanted to add my 2 cents into the mix... television programming, especially for niche markets like car-centric shows, rely on 2 forms of revenue to fund the programming - internal sponsorship (if you watch a lot of the shows on Speed, you'll see a lot of this) through marquee / brand placement and product placement. The other is spot ad sales.

Considering that the show originates from the UK, much of the product that's on the show is Europe / UK only, and even if there's somewhat of a crossover to products in the US market (like the Mitsu FQ) there's no sense in MMSA paying for it since MMEA or subsidiary already have a financial relationship with the show and the BBC. So to a US marketer / advertiser, there's no reason why they should sponsor the show. Subsequently, since there's no content that is of high relevance to the US market and the show's reach isn't as great as their other shows (like American Chopper), agencies of the car makers are going to spend their money on spots during show that have a higher relevance.

And getting back to someone's comment about the show being on a crappy network... well, Discovery is included in most basic cable / satellite subscription plans whereas getting Speed requires digital cable / surcharge. So in terms of reaching the greatest number of potential vieweres, the Discovery Channel is actually much more powerful. Besides, the biggest portion of Speed Channel's programming budget seems to go to NASCAR related stuff anyways. If you look at all the shows that feature import-sport compact aftermarket stuff, it's pretty lame stuff. And it's mostly produced by production teams from Canada, who seem rather out of touch with what's going on in the States, and by people who aren't really in touch nor of the market (demographically) about which they are creating shows.