Top Gear Coming To An End?

I read today that it’s possible that Top Gear is coming to an end. Were the worst to happen and it left our screen, I’d be genuinely gutted. It is more inventive, more entertaining and perhaps more insightful than 90% of other TV on at the moment. It’s also not a soap, ‘reality TV’, self serving or full of crap storytelling (the storytelling on Top Gear is actually very well put together, but more on that later).

Whether you’re 12 or 112, Top Gear has something for you. Each of the three lads has a very strong personality, despite (perhaps) at times coming close to caricature. They play off each other and it forms an excellent piece of TV entertainment every Sunday evening.

A the risk of sounding like a certain James May, I don’t watch much TV as I find it insufferable. Yet, on Sunday evenings, I’m riveted, waiting for 8pm (or thereabouts) to arrive. Even the challenges that aren’t really about cars are huge fun to watch and you can see that they genuinely love what they do.

I understand where the quotes from Andy Wilman are coming from – they’ve recently lost some viewers (but still have a huge number) and some episodes haven’t rung quite true for me. Others however have, and I’d hate to think that a retweak was out of the question.

I guess my question is whether they can look at the formula again and pare it back to what it should be – or whether there’s room in the ‘busy’ (see crap) schedule for this type of entertainment show. Frankly, it’s one of the few car shows on the beeb (and TV in general) so no; I’d be incredibly unimpressed if it went.

Ultimately, it would be like three good friends leaving never to return, if the worst happened. I’m sure I’m not the only one that feels this way. As long as it is on, I promise I’ll never miss and episode. In fact guys, I’ll probably be watching a few times again on Dave…