Hello again. So here we are, standing on the sun kissed foothills of the fifth show in this series of six. Except, since we’re in the middle of a British summer time, the foothills are not sun kissed at all and are in fact being rendered moist and depressing by irritating bouts of drizzle.
Yet through this liquid misery, Wednesday’s Top Gear studio recording went remarkably well. Hammond arrived on a sports bike which he’s festooned with massive panniers and christened the ‘Uglybusa’. James has developed a weird obsession with old BMW motorbikes. Apropos of nothing, Jeremy started wildly enthusing about the door fits on a Honda Accord diesel.
This sort of conversational tangent is not especially unusual because, amongst all the other things we do on studio day – rehearsing, re-writing, recording – there is also an awful lot of ‘waiting for things to happen and killing time by sitting around talking bollocks’.
Speaking of which, here is a video presentation about this week’s show courtesy of a tramp in a check shirt and a gob on a stick.
Top Gear is on as usual at 8pm this Sunday on BBC2 and BBC HD. And we’ll have more rambling from behind-the-scenes as usual after the show right here for all you TopGear.comsters.
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What do you think?
Tufnel commented on this article
Monday July 25, 2011 at 6:40 am
I love it Top gear. However I want more shows……..
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Anonymous commented on this article
Monday July 25, 2011 at 10:46 am
I just finished watching it…. IT WAS AWESOME!
This is how I define it: Clarkson is such a child playing with a camera and his mates.
You guys captured the children imagination and goofiness of a teenager.
Thank you guys for this series!
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putput commented on this article
Monday July 25, 2011 at 6:44 pm
I dont know how you can make every episode better than the last one!!! GOOD WORK!!! Too bad the series is only 6 episodes long, but cant wait for next series and xmas special
D You dont get older, you just get better!!!
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icebreaker commented on this article
Tuesday July 26, 2011 at 11:47 am
Great show, we of final gear don’t mind
As long as it is somewhat car related.
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dral commented on this article
Tuesday July 26, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Not annoyed at all!
Great ep!
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Anonymous commented on this article
Wednesday July 27, 2011 at 5:10 pm
brilliant show,
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LandRoverPeter commented on this article
Thursday July 28, 2011 at 7:06 am
Dear Mr & Mrs Clarkson,
thank you for the blog reminding me of the Army surplus sales, i have enquired on a $1500 armoured Landy. Perfect for Australia even has uranium dust.Hope not tho.
Mrs Clark your husband keeps mentioning his neck, get him ultrasounded etc?It’d be a shame to see him a paralegic unable to drive because of an oversight, useless doctors etc. sorry .
Tell Mr May about the cheap ex army motorbikes.Mr Hammond should organise an amphibius assault or retreat on Normandy with the gang?with American/Oz friends?
What ever I am allways happy to see Top Gear regards LandRoverPETER.
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CAP commented on this article
Thursday July 28, 2011 at 7:25 pm
Series of SIX? Why so few episodes? It’s the best Top Gear in the world and BBC needs to up the spending budgets for it. I know there have been short series/seasons in the past so I hope that the next series will be in production soon and maybe even on air in a month or two.
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CAP commented on this article
Thursday July 28, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Also, could BBC, please try to start showing: Richard Hammond’s Engineering Connections and James May’s Man lab on BBC America or maybe even allow to stream them on some BBC website (perhaps even on Netflix or Hulu). That would be great. Thank you.
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Dragonhead commented on this article
Friday July 29, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Message to the BBC, give more air time to Top Gear because their series are way too short, but still a very good series so far
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wlmucnr commented on this article
Monday August 1, 2011 at 2:46 am
I am looking for people willing to work within the new website, please let me know the persons concerned.
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Countach commented on this article
Friday August 5, 2011 at 3:10 am
I love TG so much and I can’t get enough of it. I felt that the TG team should do a spin off of TG by making:
1. travel and food series
2. a series on the Entertainment industry
3. radio show to broadcast worldwide
4. a series on electronics goods
5. a series on households
6. a series on world today
7. a series on modern weapons
8. a series on Jeremy, James and Mark’s daily life.
9. a cartoon series on Jeremy, James and Mark.
All hosted by of course, the trio! If not, than we really need more TG!
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e-type91 commented on this article
Thursday August 11, 2011 at 3:10 pm
Love this show, wish you were on more! bbc dont give you enough airtime, best programme on the bbc!
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gazgil commented on this article
Saturday August 20, 2011 at 11:01 am
what about sally ‘traffic’ bozeman & murray walker to be the star in a reasonably priced car? could jeremy do the commentary for f1 for a change he’s become so excited
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