There's A New Car Show Coming To Mainstream TV And It Looks Promising
As we’ve said many times before, car-based TV programmes outside of the obvious ones like Top Gear are - by and large - terrible. The vast majority are of the cringe-worthy workshop reality show variety that caters for the casual viewer, not for anyone remotely interested in cars.
‘Proving Grounds’, however, looks much more like it. Featuring 1980s-inspired touches, the show will star Road & Track writer Sam Smith plus racing drivers Parker Kligerman and Leh Keen. As we can see from this trailer, there’ll be various challenges, plenty of tyre shredding and a roster of cool cars that includes the McLaren 720S and Dodge Challenger Hellcat Widebody.
Five weekly, half-hour episodes will be showing on NBCSN, the first of which will be aired on 21 October straight after the Kansas Speedway Monster Energy Nascar coverage concludes.
Hopefully, there’ll be some way of viewing it on this side of the pond - fancy bringing it over here, Netflix?
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Oooh sounds tasty, do you know if it’s gonna be on British screens as well?
Not as far as I know. Perhaps we should lobby for Netflix to pick up European distribution rights!
Yay!
Another great thing I won’t be able to watch!
Why not download it from somewhere like the piratebay?
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Pretty sure it’s not in Finland
Tuskin. Mutta Suomella on Meihemi (youtube-kanava)
I really hope they’ll keep that retrowave 80’s style editing. Best music for driving, especially at night.
.Yep. I definitely enjoy the music in this preview. I enjoy this kind of music for my driving.
Yay gonna watch it!
Not that I want to ruin everyone’s day, but to me this just looks like another unconvincing Top Gear wannabe.
I give it 6 months
Nope it doesn’t look promising at all…
This is exactly what you said about he Netflix ‘fastest car’ show. And that turned out sooooooo well.
I know what I’m gonna watch then!