SPEEDâ„¢ OPENS SUMMER OFFERINGS IN JULY WITH ADAM CAROLLA AND THE CAR SHOW Comedian Adam Carolla headlines the cast of The Car Show, a new one-hour weekly show on SPEED set to premiere July 13 at 10 p.m. ET, where everything automotive is fair game. The much anticipated program opens a summer season for SPEED that includes the launch of three new series and the return of three others. "We are continuing the very aggressive development agenda we established for 2011 and beyond," said SPEED President Hunter Nickell. "With a staggered summer launch, a show or two planned for the fall and a good idea for what we want in the first quarter of 2012, we are doing more to strengthen our prime time lineup than ever before." Joining Carolla on The Car Show are Pulitzer Prize-winning automotive journalist Dan Neil of The Wall Street Journal, TheSmokingTire.com's Matt Farah and former NBA great John Salley. Automotive journalists Ezra Dyer and Aaron Robinson also will be contributors. Said Carolla: "I get to live out my boyhood fantasies about racing cars, hanging out in cars, talking about cars, building cars, wrenching on cars ... and someone pays me to do it."
I've watched this a few times and it's OK. The last one I saw where they went to the vintage races in one of Adam Carolla Datsun's was probably the best. Hard on the heels of on the best shows they did there are changes afoot. The show is going from 60 to 30 minutes. John Salley is being dropped. The drop to 30 min IMHO is stupid. With the number of commercials Speed pumps into that show it will no be maybe 18 min of actual show. A heaping bowl of Not Good if you ask me. Dropping John Salley is a good move. Why was he even there? He's not a car guy and he can't fit in most of the cars they drive. Adding him from the start was not a good move. Since they are tweaking this mid-season it must mean that things are not going so great. At least it's better than Pass Time and Pinks.
I agree the last show was the best so far. Now looking at the promo for the next show it looks like they are playing Top Gear wanna be again. :nonod: I think the Car Show is circling the drain. Many more commercials & the show turns into an infomercial.
Salley was on the failed "Man Show" with Corolla... Guess they thought it would work with cars... OK and considering the selection of shows on TV these days, its watchable......and at least as good and probably better than Top Gear America. ..but that ain't saying much is it?
IMHO it's worlds better than Top Gear USA. I'd rather watch an infomercial that that train wreck of a show....
I think TG USA is more entertaining to watch then The Car Show. The Car Show just seems to try and cram to much in an hour. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Good show I like this show. It is entertaining and the four MC's fit together very well. It is a good one hour show but I can't see it going to 30 minutes and surviving. They show so many commercials that it is only about 30 minutes now. If they go to 1/2 hour there will be no time left for the actual show. It's better then all of the stupid Nascar crap that speed Chanel shows. I also like the American "TOP GEAR" this year so I must really be warped.
^^^ Yep If you're warped, so am I. I have been enjoying both. Sorry to hear the Car show drop to 30mins. Thats a dang shame. It was funny watching Adam Carolla get all nervous before the race. :lol: An idea for the show is to get a famous car enthusiast on the show in "Salley's Seat" each week. So you keep Carolla, Farah, Neil and then each week is a different car enthusiast guest in the 4th seat.
YES, not sure how Salley landed that gig anyway.. Pretty much just sits there and grins and nods from time to time...
Watched the latest one in it's new 1/2 hour format. Did not miss Salley at all. However, I can't tell you what they covered even after wathing the show just last night, yeah, it was that memorable. One thing that did strike me odd was that if Matt Farah is going to be on TV where people can actually see him he needs to shave his head. A few days of stubble had all his grey in full color. It was quite distracting for some odd reason. I want to like this show, I really do. These guys all have automotive chops but it's just not gelling for me. The 1/2 hour format is rushed too. With all those commercials Speed feels they have to run along with the lead in and lead out bumpers showing me whats next in the show the actual content may have been a whopping 15 min. Color me even less impressed.
I guess speed needed the 1/2 hour back. My guess is that the Speed Channel needed that 1/2 hour back to show more stupid NASCAR crap. It was a very good one hour show that with all of the commercials and the lead-ins telling what is going to be seen next was only 1/2 hour anyway. Now don't get me wrong, I was at one time a NASCAR fan. That is until the idiots in charge started making all of the cars the same with different decals stating what the car was supposed to be. Watching two cars driving around A racetrack with one humping the other and nobody actually racing is not for me. My favorite American racing is the "ST" class in the Continental challenge series. It is always exciting to see real body cars really racing. I also like the "GT" class but the "ST" class racing is just more exciting for me. The World Rally Championship racing is the absolute best racing in the world. If speed wants to really be a speed Chanel that they claim they need to start showing that series. It is the absolute best bar none. :beer
Yep HD Theater has some good car stuff I sure hope when they change the name to VELOCITY that they still show the WRC rally series just like HD Theater did. It is the only chanel that shows most of the car stuff I like. I guess we will see if they show WRC France next week.:fingerscrossed:
Word on AutoBlog is the Car Show was not picked up for a second season and is to be canceled. I guess Speed needs the slot for more BS programming. If it was not for the F1 coverage Speed would be totally useless as a channel in my opinion.