MrFancypants said:
If I could get hired as a Netflix "car enthusiast entertainment consultant" there's a number of YouTube personalities that I think could make excellent shows if given a modest budget. Tyler Hoover immediately comes to mind, as does "budget Adam Sandler" Jason Cammisa.
I have actually had that role, sorta. I was involved in the pilot of a new reality series that's still being edited, and my job was basically to hang around listening and say "no, that's not right, here's how it works". You'll recognize the hosts when the time comes, they've all been involved in major car shows.
gearheadE30 said:
TheSmokingTire guy whose name I don't remember right now seems to generally continue to be good, and he has been around a while.
Hoonigan's This vs. That show has been good since the beginning in my opinion. Their other stuff is hit or miss.
Matt Farrah is a hack and a grade A douche in real life. I love when he fails to inspect a car before riding or driving in it and then gets mad at the owner when they say "oh yea one of my brakes doesn't work" while driving through canyon roads LOL.
The Hoonigan stuff wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't so staged to make their stuff win every race on This vs. That
There was some biker show on Speed in the mid-2000s that was the weirdest mix of scripted, reality and real life that I have ever seen. It was a spoof of biker reality shows at the same time. Sometimes they would be totally in real life at some biker event but other times they were doing their go-to punchline of "Get back to work!"
There was a channel, the Wings channel (god, was it good) They had a show, in which two guys biilt a kit plane, in this case, an RV-6, over the course of the season. No bs, no drama, no rush to get to SEMA, just homebuilders.
Then Wings morphed into the Military channel, and it was never heard from again.
