Thread: Another one bites the dust

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The enthusiast world just lost another great show. After Top Gear and The Grand Tour, MotorTrend’s Roadkill has reached the end of the road.

Mike Finnegan, one of the two Roadkill hosts, resurrected a two-year-old Reddit thread to announce the show’s end.

“I just learned that it’s over. After the end of season 13, which we just finished filming a few weeks ago, there will be no new episodes of RK filmed. The MotorTrend production company is shutting down. No specific reason was given to me for its demise. We had an excellent run and I’m proud of what the team accomplished, but this does seem to be the end of RK. I’m unsure who owns the RK IP or who to ask why it ended.”

The above was copied from MSN, and I'll miss this one to be sure. The guys are my age (a bit younger) and their antics have by and large have just "fit" my style and attitude. This one makes me sad.

I'm sorry to see RK go, too. Some of their antics got a bit old for me, like burnouts to an extreme just for the smoke, but all in all the Freiburger/Finnegan team were entertaining, as were Freiburger & Dulcich. Finnegan & the two bozos on Faster with Finnegan, not so much.

Might be wrong but I understand that some/several of these type of shows (or at least the "talent") have/are moving to other platforms like You tube and other platform where they can be monetized.


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Originally Posted by rspears

I'm sorry to see RK go, too. Some of their antics got a bit old for me, like burnouts to an extreme just for the smoke, but all in all the Freiburger/Finnegan team were entertaining, as were Freiburger & Dulcich. Finnegan & the two bozos on Faster with Finnegan, not so much.

I agree with you on all the above. The Faster with Finnegan was always a stretch for me. I think there was one episode that I enjoyed, the one with the Fairmont gone Nascar. The others I may have watched but they couldn't hold my interest.

Originally Posted by Mike P

Might be wrong but I understand that some/several of these type of shows (or at least the "talent") have/are moving to other platforms like You tube and other platform where they can be monetized.
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That's actually where Road Kill started! on youtube and they were "picked up" by Motor Trend which needed content since they took over the gearhead channels on cable. It seems the "Hot Rod" brand was the first to go a year or so ago. Tony D'Angelo (from the Hot Rod shows on MT) moved to youtube after their demise. I guess that was a year ago... I know all the Road Kill shows are on YT.