While I welcome any new content on Speed that doesn't begin with "NASCAR", I also see a lot there that bothers me. So much of TV is scripted to appeal to such a limited audience - it's as if the short attention span fast and furious folks are running the companies now - maybe they are?
At any rate, I'll definitely give them all a look over, but if they're on the same level as Top Gear America.......well, we'll see I guess.
So many of these shows start out with a pretty good premise - show real folks doing real jobs under tough circumstances, or show craftsmen plying their art, then for some reason the producers feel they have to inject a certain level of drama, and if that's not already provided by the circumstances they feel the need to ramp it up with manufactured drama - and the show goes downhill quickly from there. and OMG can they drag some of these things out - so much so that even tho they repeat themselves constantly you still lose all the flow of the events, and I quickly lose interest too. Not because it's not an interesting subject, but because the presentation is so lousy. Kinda like TG-A....
Still good news tho!
