Just give up

This is another Top Gear post so those of you (most of you) that don't care can just skip this one.

FUCK YOU NBC!

You haven't had a decent original series since Friends went off the air. So you just keep trying to rape other people's ideas and churn out more shitastic programming. I was going to leave you sorry ass alone until you started this misguided attempt to create your own version of Top Gear which I will now refer to as Bottom Gear.

One of THE best things about Top Gear is that they pull no punches. When a car is bad they say so, sometimes Jeremy Clarkson mocks bad cars for an entire series (or for years....Vectra). Of course this is a PR nightmare for the car companies and they get really pissed when Top Gear slams them. Sorry guys but that's part of the game, stop building shitty cars. Now this works for Top Gear because the show is produced and aired on the BBC which does not fund its programming with Advertising revenue. The BBC is funded by the people of Britain, the so called TV License Holders. So Top Gear does not suffer when a manufacturer gets mad, they just laugh harder.

Now along comes NBC with its 14-18 minutes of advertisements for every hour of programming. According to Nielsen four of the top ten advertisers last year were car companies spending a combined $4.5 BILLION dollars on television advertising. So you can assume that during the 14-18 minutes of ads during an NBC primetime show there will be several advertisements from car companies. So what brilliant and visionary idea has NBC come up with to get around the problem of angering car manufacturers with bad reviews and thus losing advertisers? They are going to be, according to Dan Neil who was in line for a host spot on Bottom Gear, "writing around the problem, by not doing car reviews unless they really love the car.”

Are you serious? What a bold journalistic stand to take! This car sucks so lets just pretend it doesn't exist! I only LIKE the Porsche 911 Turbo so we cant review it.

So I beg you NBC, please stop! This will only end in mediocrity and tears. Sell the US rights for Top Gear to HBO or Showtime, maybe they can do something with it since they don't need ad dollars to survive.