One of the most brutal parts of the weekly process that makes a new Top Gear pop onto your Sunday night TV screen is the honing and re-writing of the script on a Tuesday. Ideas get typed up and then, just as quickly, they get deleted, whether it’s to save time or simply because they [...]
Good news if you’re planning a Friday night in: we’re told by secret telly elves (and the listings guide) that James May is appearing on Jonathan Ross this Friday at 10.35pm on BBC One.
A quick update from the Top Gear studio today, where rehearsals are now well underway and fastest-man-on-Earth Usain Bolt is out on the track in our reasonably priced car.
Not sure there’s anyone left on the internet that hasn’t seen the inspiration for James’s Ken Block film on this week’s show, but in case that person is you:
Since a certain oh-no-the-caravan’s-on-fire moment a few series ago, some black-hearted and cynical commentators have suggested that everything on Top Gear is in some way contrived and fake.
So, the weekend is nearly upon us and that means it’s almost time for another new Top Gear to stave off that Sunday evening feeling of Oh God, tomorrow I’ve got to return to work / school / international spying and playboyism.
You’ve probably already read the proper preview for this week’s show but here, in [...]
Tuesday’s Top Gear writing day was going rather swimmingly. Everyone was in a splendid mood and the script was coming together nicely. Buoyed by the high levels of bon and, quite possibly, homie, Jeremy was just making a small tweak to the main studio script on the screen when his face froze in a rictus [...]
There was a moment during filming in the studio yesterday where Jeremy asked everyone in the audience whether they’d seen Ken Block’s Gymkhana on YouTube. There were a few blank faces.
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