Honestly, I thought Matt would have been the worst part of the show, but he's growing on me. They could even make an angle with him with Americans vs Brits for a running joke.
It doesn't even need to be a car show guy. Richard Hammond was a radio announcer before auditioning for Top Gear. The real skill needed is to be natural and likeable on camera, that's where Chris and Matt failed. You can have an intern on staff teach you the ins and outs of each car, you just have to be able to talk about it afterwards.
They've been laughing in their beers since week 1. Hell, the contract those guys got out of Amazon they've been laughing in their champagne for months before the Top Gear train wreck. It's too bad they have such a big contract with Amazon for three years. It would have been interesting to see if the BBC caved and went running back to C/H/M after this season was such a disaster. Now we'll never know.
Honestly, I thought Matt would have been the worst part of the show, but he's growing on me. They could even make an angle with him with Americans vs Brits for a running joke.
That's how bad Chris Evans is, he makes Matt look good.
And yeah, Matt as the American, Sabine is German, one good personable Brit and they could play up the nationalism angle, especially with how international the audience is (was). All the need is the personable Brit. I still don't like Matt and he's never going to be great, but I found him to be less annoying as the series went on. With a better co-host who knows how to get the best out of him Matt could work out.
I'm still curious to see what The Boys might do with the Stig
If the show maintains this pace I'd say it might actually be a bit better than The Grand Tour
it's similar to the intev vs amd debate. it's better to have two good shows, specially if they are competing for the same market.
i wonder: if (hypothetically) i was to force matt leblac to drink one gallon of strong coffee, would he wake up?