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LBMEFM - 2/12/16 at 07:46 PM

Sitting here watching Car SOS and enjoying watching shows like Wheeler Dealers and seeing cars refurbished, it's great to see mechchanics like Fuz Townsend, who I had a chat with at the NEC recently and comes across as a genuine guy, and Ed China, again saw at the NEC, rebuild classic cars to there former glory and it is great. I know it's entertainment T.V . and not as it seems but why do they pair them up with imbeciles such as Mike Brewer and Tim Shaw.


907 - 2/12/16 at 08:25 PM

To make your Black Lab look passive and obedient you need someone walking along behind with a yappy Jack Russell.


motorcycle_mayhem - 2/12/16 at 08:41 PM

Showing my age here, but Shed and Buried is about the only TV show that I retain an interest in.
His motorcycle trips are good too, essentially because, yes, I've done most of them a long time ago. Tearful sometimes.


LBMEFM - 2/12/16 at 08:55 PM

Totally agree with you, great progam and two likeable guys

[Edited on 2/12/16 by LBMEFM]


britishtrident - 2/12/16 at 09:26 PM

"Highway Thru Hell" which about a firm doing heavy truck recover in the snowy north of Canada on Netflix is addictive.


theduck - 2/12/16 at 10:19 PM

Tim shaw is an idiot, how he is still working in the entertainment industry is beyond me.

Mike brewer on the other hand is a top bloke stuck playing the role of a wide boy car dealer.


David Jenkins - 2/12/16 at 10:32 PM

Shed and Buried is one of my favourites - Henry Cole is, in real life, an immensely clever bloke but who comes across as one of the lads - a bit of a hippie, a bit of a clown. When you look closer he's the producer of most of his shows, an ex-TV cameraman in war zones, etc.

I reckon the travel channel wouldn't survive without him! (But he probably owns half the channel...)


chillis - 2/12/16 at 11:05 PM

Mike brewer 'playing the role' of wide boy dodgy car dealer - he doesn't play at he is


theduck - 3/12/16 at 08:36 AM

He seemed OK to me when I met him, certainly no where near as annoying as he is on wheeler dealers.


LBMEFM - 3/12/16 at 08:47 AM

Funny you should say that "the duck" he appeared reasonable at the NEC too so why act a pratt for the tele. Good job the TV program makes him money though, many cars he buys for Wheeler Dealers make a few hundred quid profit yet take into no account the labour costs and facilities that Ed China provides.


JMW - 3/12/16 at 08:46 PM

quote:
Originally posted by theduck
He seemed OK to me when I met him, certainly no where near as annoying as he is on wheeler dealers.


Clarkson was like that as well in my (limited) experience. I was in the audience of a TG show many years ago, when the cameras stopped rolling he just chatted to us like a normal guy, but changed back into his bombastic persona when they started again.