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Top Gear - Box Set

Advantages: Three DVDs full of motoring mayhem!
Disadvantages: Some sequences are shortened

This top gear boxset contains three seperate DVDs, Back in the fast lane (best of series 1 and 2), revved up (best of series 3 and 4), and The winter olympic special. I am a big fan of top gear and watch it every week, enjoying the humour and excitement that Clarkson, Hammond and May, bring to the world of cars. I have to say I prefer watching the more miscellaneos sequences (the races, challenges etc), to just watching one of the presenters thrash ...
...the first two series's of Top Gear. It is the most serious of the three DVDs, and puts such cars as the Pagani Zonda, Mcclaren F1, and the Rolls-Royce phantom to test. These mini reviews tend to be short and quite boring, as each is pretty much the same, with each car being driven round the test track as fast as it will go, whilst being dragged around corners in vast amounts of tyre smoke. Some of the highlights of the first disc include Jeremy ...

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Review of Top Gear Box Set (Box Set) (DVD)

My Gear!

Advantages: Laughs, cars!
Disadvantages: James May - although with out him where would we be?

...anything that makes me laugh. Top gear ticks all my boxes. A comedy car show, with wacky challenges is just up my street. So as you can imagine i really like top gear! One of the best car shows around. I watch every Top Gear show that is on and even the repeats on DAVE! So hear is my first review - Top Gear! THE SHOW Top Gear the show is a show about reviewing cars, interviewing celebrities and about three men having a laugh! It is a very man orientated ...
...has only recently returned to Top Gear after an accident last year. The show is all about cars, the fastest car, how the car handles and usually which the better car is. One show compared the best family car. The shows also include challenges occasionally; such as the drive across America. Or their drive across the channel on amphibious vehicles. He show is full of fun jokes and the three presenters are always cracking wise cracks and taking the ...

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Review of Top Gear - The Challenges Vol.1 (DVD)

Top Gear Winter Olympics

Advantages: Once again hilarious entertainment from Top Gear
Disadvantages: Lack of extra unseen footage

...is one of the funniest Top Gears I have seen. It's adrenaline filled stunts, and hilarious pranks are a must see for all car fans. Being bored with the traditional Winter Olympics, Top Gear decided to put their own unique twists to the events, so, we end up watching James May racing Jeremy Clarkson in a petrol powered biathlon, where the loser must eat golden snow. We also see car-hockey in Suzuki Swifts, Jezza racing an ice skater in a Jaguar XK, ...
...powered mini. So, the usual Top Gear tomfoolery! After watching the Top Gear Winter Olympics on DVD, I must say I was disappointed with the lack of extras on the DVD. It does show some out takes, but they are mostly of Jeremy trying to do a promo for BBC World whilst obviously distracted by an attractive woman behind him! I would have liked out takes of the actual Winter Olympics, and some unseen footage too. Overall, its a hilarious program, but ...

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Review of Top Gear - Winter Olympics (DVD)

* Get Fit With Claire *

Advantages: Fun
Disadvantages: Not many!

I used to be a HUGE Steps fan in my younger days! I was mad about them! I had all their CDs , Videos , Books , T Shirts , Scarfs , Posters , Mugs .... if it had a Steps logo on it , I had it. So as you can image I was pretty gutted when they split up. Fast forward seven years and Claire Richards , ex member of Steps , is back on the scene with a fitness DVD which helped her drop five dress sizes! I remember, it was Christmas last year, when the DVD ...
...it was too expensive. I can't remember exactly how much it was at the time , although I think it might have been aroung £17 which I thought was far too much to pay for a fitness DVD. So I decided I would wait. I waited so long that I forgot about the DVD , until recently. I was browsing through the DVD pages on Amazon when I came across the DVD selling for £12.98 ; still quite expensive considering that the DVD is now a year old. However I still ...

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Review of 5 Step Fat Attack With Claire Richards From Steps (DVD)

Does Jeremy Kyle really access all areas of quality?

Advantages: Gives an insider view of the popular TV show.
Disadvantages: Bit expensive for what it is. Not a lot more than you would get in a standard episode.

The Jeremy Kyle has established itself as one of the staples of daytime TV today. Since 2005 it has covered interesting and often controversial issues such as paternity disputes (most common), infidelity, feuding neighbours and drug and alcohol addicts. However there are some uplifting issues that they deal with, such as family reunions and rejuvenating torn-down estates where crime and depravity are rife. The most well-konwn feature of the show ...
...at the studio and film Jeremy himself being pampered ready for the recording. The bulk of the 83 minutes of the DVD however I regret to say is not much more than an ordinary episode (though it was made especially for the DVD and has such never been broadcast on TV). There are 2 DNA tests and one lie detector test (I shan't give away the results). When watching this I did feel that the DVD wasn't perhaps worth the £12.71 I paid for it (which to be ...

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Review of Jeremy Kyle - Access All Areas (DVD)