Top Gear on 60 Minutes: preview

60 Minutes. The most successful programme in US television history. Acknowledged masters of investigative reporting since 1968. Home of such broadcasting legends as Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite and Christiane Amanpour. Synonymous with blowing Watergate and Vietnam wide open on the screens of a nation. Winners of 78 Emmy Awards (making our ‘one’ look rather meagre).

And why are we banging on about this? Well, this weekend, they’ve decided to cover Top Gear.

Earlier in the year, while we were recording series 15, a crew from the show spent two weeks in our midst. No area was left uncovered, taking in such glamorous locations as Jeremy’s house, our production office at Dunsfold made of chipboard and UHU, and the back room of the Defector’s Weld pub on Shepherd’s Bush Green.

The report features interviews with all the presenters, as well as boss Andy Wilman and assorted others at Top Gear HQ. And it certainly sounds like presenter Steve Kroft successfully got to the heart of Top Gear in his time here. “The chemistry that exists between Richard, James and I has rather taken over… We really, genuinely loathe each other,” Jeremy is reported as saying over on the CBS site.

If you’re in the US, the show is this Sunday October 24 at 7pm (ET/PT) on CBS. If you get to watch it, do let us all back here at Top Gear know what you think in the comments below.

For the rest of the world, come back to TopGear.com on Monday when we’ll put up the full penetrating investigation. In the meantime, here’s a trailer.

What do you think?

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I like the rover SD1 3500 series, i know its an old car and its off the road now, but its got tonnes of horsepower and i love its three hundred and fifty thousand cc engine. big v8 engine in there boys and i,d like to see more of them on the top gear show. so what if the suspension was from the 1950,s. sd1,s are cool. I reckon jezza should put a picture of the rover sd1 on the cool wall. or in that little fridge. cheerio.

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Jeremy clarkson says the greatest car ever made is the bugatti veyron. I say its the ROVER sd1 3500 SERIES. BIG V8 ENGINE RROOOAAARRR.With an incredible three hundred and fifty thousand cc engine developing a WHOPPING 250 break horsepower. HA HA HA. RUGGED MICHELIN TYRES AND A ROOMY CABIN, FULL RADIO AND CASSETTE PLAYER AND A WHOPPING GREAT BOOT, GREAT BIG CHUNKY STEERING WHEEL AND ON BOARD COMPUTER WITH ELECTRIC WINDOWS< ALLRIGHT. Stick all this in ya pipe jezza.

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haha! My 1.9 Diesel Astra generates 215 with chipped ECU and upgraded exhaust! Only 250BHP with a V8. hmm. Can you afford to run one in the UK – hardly!

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“the Stig is the fourth member of the Top Gear crew … and his image helps promote the show around the globe…” Proof positive that even the Americans realised Ben’s contributions were significant and good! Come on BBC, grow some balls and get Ben Collins back in his white suit. There really is only one Stig and that’s forever Ben Collins! After SEVEN loyal years, he deserves a share of the limelight the rest of the team bask in! Or is the BBC really THAT mean and greedy?

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Season 7 and 10 are Great

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That ferrari it’s not exactly prity. The back for example look like a gummy bear.

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Only one negative: 15 min. segment is just not enough time to cover the awesomeness that is TG!

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Is there new top gear episode

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I’m so disappointed that we over here in america have to make our own version of Top Gear…. I feel that it is just going to be a lot of rip offs from the real Top Gear with guys that just aren’t as funny…. I don’t see why we can’t just take the episodes that jeremy, james and richard and in and reair them here…. so disappointed…

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Gday Top Gear Lads,and Andy
What about a new show about motorbikes? There are legendary bikes, fat bikes,skinny bikes, vintage,modified, u name it theyre as diverse as cars and probably as many if you count all the scooters in asia and europe. Cuppla worded up lads, maybe a nice looking bird and hey…..and there are just as many forms of riding…. supercross, freestyle,motard, street, enduro,trail…..And nobs.. there are plenty of different looking nobs that ride and build bikes.drop me a line and we`ll get it underway ? davegrinham@gmail.com

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As a US citizen, mid-age grandma, I discovered Top Gear about 2 years ago and have spread the word amongst my family, (5 sons) and freinds. I was absolutely thrilled to see it featured on 60 Minutes because it’s surprising to find that a lot of Over-The-Pond dwellers hadn’t heard of TG. Now that 3 American dudes are copying the show on the History Channel, we get to compare. And guess what? They don’t come close. The BBC guys keep me laughing almost out of my chair, they have much more personality, and the BBC’s cars rule. Still, I’ll watch both and hope the American version gets up to speed on the cool meter.

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me and my dad absalutley love top gear, we watch it every time it is on tv. including go! and even if i do miss one of the shows i emedietly go online to watch it!

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and when i grow up i want to be a mechanic on cars, can anyone give me a heads up on how to practice and some good tips? please

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SharePoint – Search icons not showing
Asked By Steve on 19-Dec-07 05:50 AM
We upgraded to WSS v3 and when we do a search, no icons are showing up
next to the results. The results still work but the images to the
left do not show up. I noticed in the html of the search results page
that the img src tag for the icon is empty (“”). See the source below
as an example of the returned html.
Our test environment does not have any issues. Also, I have verified
that the necessary images are in _layouts/images. Finally, I was able
to open up one of the images such as _layouts/images/STS_List1 6.gif
directly in the address bar. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this?
This looks really bad to the end user.
Thanks,
Steve
Mike Walsh replied on 17-Dec-07 11:50 PM
Can you confirm that you are only not seeing icons when doing a search -
i.e. that icons for the same documents are showing up when you access a
View of a document library.
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Steve replied on 19-Dec-07 05:50 AM
Yes, I can see the same icons when going to document libraries. It is
just when I do a search that the icons do not show up. This includes
binary icons like the Word or Excel icon as well as SharePoint icons
for lists, etc.
Steve
charftong replied on 05-Jan-08 04:12 PM
This same exact thing is happening in our instance of MOSS. It also
seems to be intermittent. I can do a search, get the icons, then
refresh my screen and have them show all of a sudden. Its a very
strange issue.
J replied on 29-Jan-08 01:48 PM
We are having the same issue. Has anyone found a fix for it?
XJ Moone replied on 04-Feb-08 09:51 AM
Hello there
I’m having a similar problem. Cleaned up dotnet 2, 3 repaired installation
of portal server 2007 and still get events 1309 in the logs (warnings). It
says it cannot load the C++ module.
I have Icons but hitting refresh lets them disappear as if the server cannot
provide them. All links in Moss 2007 work fine just the screen seems like
garbage.
Anyone any clues?
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Sharo replied on 22-Feb-08 05:29 AM
Steve,
Do you, or anyone else, know if this problem is resolved in SP1.
I am experiencing this in MOSS 2007 std.
The site in the default zone is ok, but the same site in the extranet zone
(with LDAP authentication) has this problem.
Regards,
SharePoint Shaz
MULTISY replied on 23-Feb-08 04:31 PM
We are using WSS and just installed the latest version 12.0.0.6219
Still no icons the src=”", the answer to SP1 would be no.
Ben Gillespi replied on 09-Mar-08 11:15 AM
“Steve” wrote:
BenGillespi replied on 09-Mar-08 11:17 AM
I am also experiencing the same problem. Any idea what causes it yet?
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Today I removed the “pdf” entry in DOCICON.XML and the icons reappeared but
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Mike Walsh replied on 10-Mar-08 01:34 PM
did you do iisreset after you added it back ?
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canet replied on 14-Mar-08 08:57 AM
I had the same problem. It turned out that I made a mistake when I added the
PDF icon entry and ended up with duplicate entries for the same file type.
After removing the duplicate entry and doing an IISreset, icons are now
displayed correctly in the search results page.
Dovechi replied on 07-May-08 12:00 PM
We also have the same issue in terms of icons not showing in the search
results. This was working yesterday which included the .pdf ifilters.
Something happened to DNS last night and the infra bods had to put SharePoint
url’s nack in. Search didn’t come back at first, so I reset the search and
recrawled. Which brought back the results but no icons. I tried stopping
and restarting various services but no joy. I haven’t tried taking out the
.pdf entry out of DOCICON.XML yet but to be honest I don’t think that will
solve it…
Has anyone got any other ideas before I start tampering with the above file…
Dovechi replied on 08-May-08 08:59 AM
Thankfully we have two environments running. One was working and the other
not. So we managed to do a like for like on the docicon.xml file and visually
we couldn’t see any errors. So we renamed the one that was not working and
took a copy of the one that was working. Restarted IIS and bingo all is
well. Somehow this file got corrupted. Question is how did it get
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