Richard Hammond XXL

The thing that 'Top Gear' did so amazingly is making an ENTIRELY scripted show, look like it wasn't scripted at all... and yes, Top Gear did it very well before the Clarkson era ended and the show became HOT GARBAGE...

Well with this show unfortunately it's very very easy to notice that everything is scripted and ontop of that there's a few too many 'segments'. The problem with segments is that it completely breaks your immersion and concentration on what's happening, when the show flips over to the next segment... so instead of having Richard Hammond just walking through the entire VW Mega Factory, they instead chose to cut the entire show into easily 10 or more segments... this show would honestly have been much much better if they didn't do that, and instead just let Hammond loose in the factory with a camera crew and it would all be much more organic...

Instead the show ends up being extremely noticeably scripted and it only gets a 6/10 as far as documentary programming goes... that's what this show is afterall: a mini documentary.

Every episode is fantastic, but you can skip episode 9. Episode 9 it literally a recap of the previous 8 episodes.

Firstly I agree with others that Richard does not have the knowledge to present a program like this. Secondly do we really need the constant back ground music which sometimes drowns out the speech and the natural back ground sounds.

I'm an engineer, and while I know how to make a phone (well, a small part of it anyway), I don't know how to make a stadium, a dam or a building. I thought this was very interesting and well presented.

Love at first sight, and I didn't even have to look up. Hamster, I am short too.

I loved and absolutely enjoyed every episode of this show. The presentation of the material is straight forward. It's simple and understandable but yet very cleaver and informative at the same time leaving the viewer smart and satisfied.

Richard, what is there to say about the Hamster himself that hasn't been said. He's great. I love it how he gets into what he's presenting, how he lights up like a child at the science fare or a child at the ice cream stand as he's learning about the stuff he's presenting.

Live long and prosper Sir Richard, and please keep these shows coming.

Your Yankee viewer.

PS: It would be absolutely fun and great to have occasional cameos from the Capt Slow and the Master of Disaster every now and again.

Cheers!