User blog comment:Nweston8/Robot Wars Missions - Entry 2: Finding machines that are genuinely underrated/@comment-9751413-20180219095242

Here's something completely different for this list.

Jeremy Clarkson. I've been rewriting Series 1, so watching it again, and he's nowhere near as bad as everyone seems to make out as a Robot Wars presenter. What the Beeb wanted when they launched the show was a presenter who would do a professional and good job - and he did. His voice has enough Gravitas to hype up the action without going overboard. The tone was fine, and I feel like later Series' Craig Charles wouldn't have fitted with the Series 1 machines.

The interviews are mainly let down by the roboteers rather than Jeremy, but that can be attributed to it being the first series of a game show and people probably not expecting to be interviewed that much. As the series' continued, roboteers realised it was a TV show more and were definitely more animated and prepared to have a microphone put in front of their mouths.

I haven't reached the Prince of Darkness heat yet, but the rest of the interviews have all been fine, except for maybe Krayzee Tokyo, but that seemed like a fair description TBH.

So yeah, I like Craig and Dara & Angela, but Jeremy did a very good job in Series 1 and was the right presenter to make sure the show carried on, rather than dying as a 1 series show.