Overall a very, very bad move by television executives who always think their decisions are more important than the magic of talent - both in front of and behind the lens - who make a show great, despite them. Perhaps his monster-truck sized ego really allowed him to think he could sustain the success of the brand, but it was obvious to the audience that was not the case, and by the look of it even to Evans himself during taping of Episode 1 of the new season. The hosting role was always going to be a poison chalice. Perhaps it's not surprising the best of the new bunch just happens to be an actor, Matt le Blanc, while Chris Evans' reputation has been seriously tarnished. The hosts are but actors attempting to play the parts of Jeremy, James and Richard and come off looking as good as a beaten up old 1970s Datsun. So what happens when the presenters who literally *are* the show are forced to leave? The brand is fatally wounded.ДЄll the stunts and techniques that were developed specifically for the vastly different, flawed but downright loveable personalities look awkward and just wrong in S.23. Indeed Top Gear morphed into what all great shows are about - the relationships between people, rather than objects, even pretty red ones with prancing horses on the side. Yes, it had departed from its roots as purely a motoring show and moved into the realm of comedy, but that gave it mass appeal and the royalties that flowed to the BBC with a global brand of that stature.Д¬ars became the excuse for the show, rather than the show itself. Together they turned Top Gear into a new genre of television. Just when you thought it couldn't get any more incredible, it managed to top itself in skilled execution of seemingly impossible ideas, stunning visual quality and politically incorrect humour.Д«ehind the scenes it was obviously an enormous operation with a budget to match, but all the money in the world couldnВ’t buy the chemistry between its former hosts which grew stronger with every series.

Top Gear right up until the end of S.22 literally set a new global standard in television production brilliance. It's impossible to view it however, without looking through the lens of what has gone before. Without the legacy of Clarkson, Hammond and May this might just be a fairly watchable albeit try-hard television series.

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