Transmission: the Top Gear TV blog
I’d like to put a few facts straight regarding a story in today’s Times about our recent road test of two electric cars, the Nissan Leaf and the Peugeot Ion, which was shown on Sunday’s programme. The Times’ headline reads: ‘Clarkson didn’t give our electric cars a sporting chance, says Nissan.’
We have received complaints following the electric car film on Sunday about the presenters parking in disabled bays during the filming, and much of the anger has been aimed at Jeremy and James. I’d like to put the record straight here.
You may know that Tesla has issued a writ against Top Gear for defamation and malicious falsehood over the road test that we broadcast of the Tesla Roadster in December 2008. The normal procedure for the BBC in a legal case is to acknowledge receipt of the other party’s claim, and then say no more [...]
Greetings. This is a quick message as we’re busy filming for the Christmas series, and I’ll be back with more about that later, but in the meantime I’d like to deal with a bit of housekeeping.
Doubtless you’ll have read that the BBC and the book publishing people, HarperCollins, are now in a big legal battle over HarperCollins’ wish to publish an autobiography of the person who wears the Stig suit to work. The BBC has responded with a polite statement, but I must say I feel the urge to add [...]
Anybody read the papers this week? You may have come across a few choice headlines: ‘TopGear gets serious’, ‘Angry BBC bosses order TopGear to tone down crazy stunts’, ‘TopGear headed for scrapheap – current line-up to be replaced’, ‘Monkey breaks Nurburgring lap record in Prius’, ‘Clarkson causes massive sinkhole in Reading’.
Hello TopGearers. Been a while since we last spoke but that’s about to change, as we’re busy working on the new series and doubtless you’ll want to know what we’re up to.
As I write we are in, yes you guessed it, the edit, just finishing the sound mix and the grade on the South America programme. Obviously you guys will be the judges, but we love it and we’re quite proud of it.
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Good news for all those across the pond! After series two of Top Gear USA was seen by almost 60 million viewers, the History Channel have announced that series three is on the way…
Here we are then – ambitious but not rubbish, for once. Top Gear has won an award!
Oliver’s restoration must be getting expensive – Hammond’s just taken ANOTHER Saturday job. First for those over the pond there was Crash Course on BBC America, in which he’s bravely, foolishly charged with heavy machinery and given an, errm, crash course on how to use it.
It’s been a busy week of moonlighting away from Top Gear this week for our Jeremy. As avid followers of his newly established Twitter feed will already be aware, Wednesday saw the filming of Clarkson’s debut on Countryfile. No word on what he actually did as yet, but we’ll update next time he pops in…
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