It's a difficult one until we see the actual show. I too dislike watching Brewer and can watch an episode now in about 20 minutes by fast forwarding through any Brewer bits, especially the hunt for the car (which he has a team of people doing behind the scenes), doing the deal and selling the car - I usually do this with the subtitles on and fast forwarded so I know the numbers. It was really watching the oily bits and getting some satisfaction when my own fault diagnosis was correct.
At least in the last series they started telling us how many man hours were involved.
The painfully scripted stuff, all of it with Brewer, is what really irritates me. He turns up with a car Edd has never seen and is surprised about. He shows up in the workshop halfway through and is surprised st how far Edd has or hadn't got. He turns up at the end and is amazed how well the car has turned out. Yeah, right. Any car they get has all the parts and bits needed to fix it and a plan in place before they roll the cameras, let alone before it turns up at the workshop. They have to have it all in place first because of the cost of having a TV crew on standby would be ridiculous. The show would be so much honest and better if they just said, "In the episode, we decided to turn around this car. We bought it, we know what needs sorting, and we have all the bits to sort it out - let's see what happens."
TV shows that insult my intelligence are one of my Room 101 choices, which another reason I went off the old Top Gear. When a show resorts to stunts and incidents that are so ludicrous that they could never happen by accident, yet try to make you think they were because it's "funny", I switch off. This was especially true on the one where they raced cross country to see who would give a speech at a black tie dinner, Jeremy's car magically broke in half but still ran, and all the dinner guests sat emotionless when they all turned up covered in muck - sure.
Looking forward to giving it a try, but the fast forward, mute and subtitle buttons will be at hand.