TG was great - for a while. A genuinely unique and really quite amazing phenomenon, for which much of the credit, however grudgingly, must go to the oaf Clarkson. But it couldn't maintain that peak indefinitely, and the dead horse had been well and truly flogged long before JC took a pop at a producer because his tea wasn't to his taste. Neither the new version nor GT can ever recapture the TG that was. They'll keep flogging, so long as there's life in the old mare, however tenuous. But it'll never be what it was; nor has it been...for a long, long time.