For what it's worth, Extra Gear is 23 mins long. So the two should comfortably sit in a 2 hour slot with advertising. (Actually if the main show was 1hr 2min, that strikes me as sloppy editing.)
I reckon it's going to take a good series to settle down and find its feet, which makes all the reaction everywhere, at least here in the UK, a bit pointless. It seemed fine, although it was more the Chris and Matt show than I'd expected. The biggest issues were Evans shouting too much, and the audience being a bit too noisy. Those are easy things to fix for the second week's show. Stateside viewers may not be familiar with TFI Friday (and before that Don't Forget Your Toothbrush) which saw Evans having to work hard to be heard over a very excited audience. (From a production perspective, I did wonder about the addition of the Rally Cross sections to the Star in a Mini segment. The car drags dirt onto the main track which must mean that for supercar laptimes, there's a lot of hosing down of the track required to clean the track up. Maybe I'm over-thinking it all). What I can't quite work out is how LeBlanc is going to manage to present much beyond this first season once he's ensconced in his new CBS sitcom. I suspect that the BBC wants more than a single short run a year, so quite when LeBlanc will be available, assuming I'm Not Your Friend gets a full season order. Yes - Extra Gear is an additional programme like those mentioned. It's not "on-air" as such as on BBC Three which means streaming/download only now. They continue to be popular - Sky Atlantic has Thronecast, for example, following every episode of Game of Thrones. Most ITV big reality shows get sister shows on ITV2 - Xtra Factor for The X Factor, Britain's Got More Talent after, well, you get it. The two presenters of Extra Gear aren't especially well known. Rory Reid has done the odd bit of TV - notably a gadget show on Sky One - but the other guy seems to be a YouTube bloke and consequently unknown to me! Meanwhile, as I type, there are reports that the new show "only" got 4.4m viewers despite winning its slot with a 23% audience share, comfortably being BBC Two's biggest show of the week, and very much likely to grow with 7 day catchup since the show launched on a holiday weekend here. Adam On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > Initial observation: Matt Leblanc seemed excited to be on Top Gear. Chris > Evans seemed excited to be with Matt Leblanc, Gordon Ramsey, and Jesse > Eisenberg. I only know Evans from his previous appearance on Top Gear, so I > don't know if his celebrity adoration is just a holdover from his > traditional chat-show experience. > > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 8:45 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> With an hour and two minute running time, I'd hope BBCA didn't cut >> anything for a 90 minute timeslot. >> >> Extra Gear is certainly promoted as a companion show (as opposed to a >> Chris Hardwick hosted aftershow), and Chris Evans and Sabine Schmitz had >> their moments in the first episode. >> >> About the main show - I think there's enough of the same and a dash of >> different that should keep any fans who aren't wedded to the previous hosts. >> >> David >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Jay Lewis <[email protected]> >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Sent:* Monday, May 30, 2016 10:53 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [TV orNotTV] Top Gear (UK) running time on BBCA >> >> UK broadcast ran 1h 02m >> >> I've watched the first film & power lap and have been entertained. Evans >> is a bit shouty but that's not much of a problem, really. I look forward >> to many years of being entertained by this iteration of Top Gear. >> >> Isn't Extra Gear meant to be a "companion" show like Big Brother's >> Little Brother/Bit on the Side or GBBOs An Extra Slice? Those seem to be >> very popular in the UK. >> >> >> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... 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