OT: Discovery Channel Top Gear!!, Please express your opinion... Options

[Britain Smith]

I urge all you guys to go here:

Discovery Channel Veiwer Relations

and voice your displeasure with The Discovery Channel's decision not to renew "Top Gear"

Please take the 2 minutes & let them know how you feel.

[jhadler]

I can't belive that they pulled the show!! Even my wife liked to watch it!!!

Yes, I wrote in a comment. I had to edit it down however, there was a 1500 character limit...

Here's my $0.02...

"I was bummed this week to find that Top Gear wasn't on at the regularly scheduled time. And I was SHOCKED to find that it's been dropped from the discovery channel line up. And now I find that it's being "revamped" for the US market? Why can't you simply leave a good show alone! The show was witty, intelligent, and entertaining. It was the only car show that my wife actually looked forward to seeing with me. I have seen the results of "American revamping" of successful English shows. The American version of "Junkyard Wars" was a pale shadow of the original. And they all do one thing. Dumb-down the show to the point of being boring, and vapid. The proliferation of mind-numbing, so-called reality shows are an offense to anyone who actually would like to watch something intelligently written and produced. Your decision to take an excellent show off the air and "revamp" it is absurd. There's an old saying, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it.". What in the world was wrong with Top Gear? NOTHING! It was a brilliant show, that appealed to more than just car nuts like myself. God forbid that we, in the United States be exposed to anything that might expand our cultural awareness by watching programs produced somewhere other than Hollywood. I thought that was what educational television was for! Expand our knowledge of things that we wouldn't otherwise be exposed to. Why not do it in an intelligent, and witty manner? PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! Leave "Top Gear" alone and on the air."

-Josh2