Poll: Is Top Gear Australia in with the sharks already?
It was always going to be a tough field to plough: re-mixing the BBC’s hugely successful Top Gear into something uniquely Australian. Based on the evidence of the first show, we’re not convinced they’ve succeeded.
It all started well enough, the intro and the set were both very faithful recreations of the UK version. Then they started talking. Part of the appeal of the British original is the repartee between the show’s three hosts — something that’s a result of a natural rapport built up over many seasons, as well as some very tight scripting. The banter in the Aussie version was stilted and overly eager to paint the three hosts into their respective positions — Charlie Cox as an antipodean Clarkson, Steve Pizzati as a stubbly Richard Hammond, and Warren Brown as a cartoon caricature of “Captain Slow” aka James May.
Source: cnet Australia
