James May's Man Lab
 

Tonight at 9pm BBC2, could be good tv:

Your average male used to be able to make
himself useful, says James May, "but within a
generation he's been reduced to a feckless,
bed-wetting, parmesan-shaving imbecile".

James should not judge everybody by his own standards!

Should be worth a watch. At least I can get the wife back fro having the X-Factor on for the last 45 mins.

Steve

its only started and i feel Mr May has sold himself out on this one.:(

quite liking it

Entertaining.

Its not that hard to bull boots, just time consuming. I hated it, never had the patience.

The train set thing is well ,just a bit absurd

some corny bits but still more enjoyable than most ****e on telly these days.

Only caught the last 15 mins but now got a yearning for a fish finger sannie .... :thumb: Though mine ensures I get plenty of salt on the fish fingers rather than his home-made *stuff* ... :notworthy

Dave

Bit of a sellout to split the bomb disposal item up over 3 sections. Pandering to the media types who want to tempt us to sit through a boring bit so we can see what comes later. There shouldn't be any boring bits.

Agree that the railway system just seemed out of place and wrong. Didn't even show how to put it together and wire it up.

It could have been a great program but ended up a mish mash of self indulgent randomness

I quite enjoyed it, although i also felt that it was a little bit too random and that the program was trying too hard.

Perhaps it'll get better during the series.

Steve

Turned it off after 15 minutes. Watching someone polish boots, not exactly gripping stuff..

That's the sole :thumb:

I actually thought it was a good point, I hadnt ever used a wet cloth to buff,

Was a tad weird but has to be better then some of the rubbish they do put on,
It was only the first show so could improve.

I found it flat and lacking too. Shame, as Mays usual offerings have been very good so far.

Exactly - now that James May has been designated "good telly" (because he really is!) the "meeja tipes" jump onto the bandwagon with the "spread as little content as possible over as long as possible" and "play at least five different musical tracks per minute as loudly as possible" production opportunities :rolleyes:

Good honest (and educational) TV no longer exists, and even the BBC keep inserting "kaaaarmin' aarrp" every five minutes to allow for commercial breaks when a programme is sold to Discovery or whoever :(

mb

Misleading thread title

I thought May had a bizarre transgendered medical condition :freak3::D

Apart from C4 marketing 'new series' and having half of them repeats with 3 minutes of additional footage before the end credits, this annoys me most about TV today.

What an utterly **** programme this is!! It would seem Mr May has taken a leaf out of Hammonds book and just signed up for anything that pushes his Top Gear persona.

Watched the first, no intention of watching any further. Dire.

Yup, forgot about it after first. Might give it a look if I get really bored.

Have to agree. It's crap. And it could have been so good. :razz:

The first one I gave as a go as I thought he'd be settling in, the second one was worse. I'm not sure whether I'm going to bother with the one on the iPlayer from this evening.

Shame.

Steve

In the words of the immortal man himself....

sod off... :D

Real manism, as we all know, is being able to construct a superb memix cobbled together from a fading rock star's bellowing and a classic break beat.

Hence, I give you:

http://soundcloud.com/ub2010/ace-of-spades

Corr... ;o)