With everything going on, if you want to take a break and have a good laugh I recommend Good Neighbors (also called Good Life). British show from the 70s about a guy with a 9 to 5 job that lives in the suburbs who decides to start a farm on his property with his wife and live off the land. I absolutely love it, but to be fair I have always been into British TV/have had a fascination with all things British since I was a kid for some reason. Sucks that they have gone so crazy with the diversity/inclusion obsession, but there is still a lot of older content I have yet to see and a good thing with the free streaming services is that they have quite a bit of older BBC shows or shows from Australia.
I did the ancestry DNA thing a while back and met some super distant British cousins online, but unfortunately they all live in the big cities so I'll have to wait for a cousin to pop up who has a fancy country estate where I can take a vacation.
Like I said I’ve always love British stuff so there is that bias. I enjoyed Doctor who before they started attacking fans. Red Dwarf is really good. I’ve heard about Dad’s Army and am meaning to watch it. I’ve heard great things about Top Gear. They haven’t been bitten by the current year bug? Also, isn’t there a show called Clarksons Farm tied to Top Gear?
So bear with me on this because it gets a little bit complicated, there's the original UK version of Top Gear, there are International spin offs so if you download a different version you'll get different people who tried to copycat the format and have failed miserably. The Top Gear show with Clarkson, May and Hammond ended because Clarkson punched one of his producers in the face because he got served a cold meal after a long day and there was clearly some kind of drama behind the scenes.
The BBC then ended the contract with them which was due to expire anyway and that's when they started up The Grand Tour which is the new version of the same show but now they're with Amazon and it's a totally private enterprise. The Grand Tour is on it's last episode September 12th and they've decided to stop doing the show now because they're all getting very old which is fair enough.
Clarkson's Farm is Jeremy Clarkson by himself and that's his real farm he owns in the Cotswolds which he decided to take on as part of his retirement and also film everything going on, hope that clears everything up. Jeremy Clarkson is 62 now so it's no surprise he's calming things down a bit.
If you don't mind kid's shows which can be somewhat entertaining, there's also Wallace and gromit and Pingu which make use of claymation to animate, oh and the wombles I suppose lol.
I also enjoyed the show where Richard Hammond created tech on an island.
Brainiac?
The Great Escapists
Better than what happened on John Hammond's islands
They had an American Top Gear on the History Channel, yeah makes sense, and it was pretty good. Adam Ferrara was a host.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that thought the original American Top Gear wasn’t that bad. Was it as good as the original. Not even close. But Adam, Tanner, and Rutledge were pretty good together and their challenges were just one for one copies of the British show.
I mean, I'm being extremely British, to me there's only one Top Gear lol, the big thing with the whole show was the obvious chemistry between the three which other shows couldn't replicate at all.
The BBC tried going for Top Gear again after they left and it was terrible they had this radio host called Chris Evans and he's a typical BBC presenter soy infused twat because I thought I didn't particularly like his existence before but seeing him pop up on that show I grew up with really irked me. None of them could manage it and get the same ratings and they cycled through presenters repeatedly, until the show finally keeled over I think I don't know if it's even still airing anymore.
What's funny is, they tried so damn hard to astroturf the thing and in the end the public simply refused to acknowledge it because it was always Hammond, Clarkson and May. No one in the UK wants to watch a bunch of out of touch twats from London and they didn't want to watch Americans either on a British car show.
Thanks for the breakdown. Looks like I have a lot to get through. In grade school they showed us Wallace and Gromit