Well the only person here who seems unhappy is George? A Greenlight employee maybe?
OK if Northone got £800,000 to help them produce it then maybe it is a little harsh to compare it to Greenlights previous productions. BUT Northone have an excellent CV of other productions, ie F1 and the likes, Greenlight have not shown this.

Greenlight have produced for years the same shots at the same places and took months to get it to us, it costs no more to take a camera to point A on a circuit than point J, so a bit more variation in the past may have helped their cause.

Onto this years productions, it has been brilliant.
Lets not forget George, sure there have been the odd mistake, only seasoned TT fans would notice this, but is this new format with quick TV coverage not aimed at attracting NEW TT fans as well?

The people who have never seen it before, never realised just what a spectacle it is, just how much effort goes into a lap, from a bike, a rider and a team, just also how beautiful the Isle of Man is?? This sort of production could very well attract alot of new fans to the TT, it may also attract alot of new visitors to the Isle of man outside of the TT time.

Also for people like myself who cannot be at the TT, I get to see it almost live!! How different is that from previous years when the best I could hope for was an hour on Eurosport a week after the event? Or further back than that when only a crappy dvd/video 3 months after the event was it?

Sure the on board isn't the best, but its still good, the slow mo is absolutely superb and the rear wheel cam of John McG is awesome, even as an ex TT/MGP Racer, I never realised just how hard suspension works whilst going round the TT course. It even shows the melted rubber on the tyre being smoothed off whilst cornering?? How cool is that?

The paddock walks (Im not sure they'd do that this week into paddock 3 which is probably its usual swamp by now) were great, Jamie Whitham and Steve Parrish are far more knowledgable than the pricks who did the TT07 programme!!! They are afterall both former TT racers and regular BSB,WSB commentators.

The trips to the homes of John McG and Guy Martin were very good, different, Guy really is as mad as a box of frogs and the sport is better off for that, John McG is as down to earth as Joey was and the sport is better off for that too, but until now, the masses had not seen this.

Even last night (Sat) when the races were cancelled, I was expecting the 2100 programme on ITV4 to be cancelled, but no, it was on, with even more talk and coverage we had not been able to see during the week. Northone are obviously thinking about this production, not just sitting back with their £800,000 and saying "ah well what could we do, there was no racing, lets go down the pub".

To NORTHONE, ITV4 and the DTL a very BIG WELL DONE!!!!!!!!!!!
This really is the best advert for The Isle of Man and The TT we have seen for years.
Russ