Author Profile: The Mole

I am inside the Top Gear production office. I am watching The Stig at the track. I am looking through the dressing room doors. I am making Jeremy Clarkson's tea. I am cleaning Richard Hammond's muddy boots. I am combing James May's hair. I am The Mole.

Top Gear is back

Posted by The Mole at 11:05 am on Thursday November 12, 2009

So the first studio recording of the brand new series of Top Gear is, as television people say, ‘in the can’. Because announcing that something is ‘on the hard drive’ or ‘all on the digital tape’ doesn’t sound as romantic.

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James: he’s fine, really

Posted by The Mole at 12:02 pm on Thursday October 1, 2009
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If you’ve read today’s newspapers you’re probably aware that James May has had a spot of bother with an airship.

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Series 13: best bits?

Posted by The Mole at 12:48 pm on Wednesday August 5, 2009
James

A steam train, a glamour model, a dwarf, big dogs, ravey May, an off road Lotus, blowing up a baddie’s Evo, Jeremy and Richard get told off for racing, almost getting arrested in crap cars, a Bugatti versus a McLaren, expert swearing from France’s second best racing driver, a Volvo through a summer house, a [...]

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The end of Top Gear?

Posted by The Mole at 3:18 pm on Monday August 3, 2009
The end of Top Gear? No.

Remember that episode of I’m Alan Partridge in which Norfolk’s favourite light broadcaster makes a ‘humourous intro to a song’ which accidentally suggests that the Queen is dead, something he later realises has ‘been taken a bit too literally by one or two listeners… and a newspaper’.

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That’s it for series 13…

Posted by The Mole at 8:35 pm on Sunday August 2, 2009

So that’s it for series 13. Seven weeks of telly that our self-confessed ‘glass-half-empty’ exec producer Andy Wilman described in his blog before show one as ‘the same old shit’. In a good way.

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A classic episode?

Posted by The Mole at 8:59 pm on Sunday July 26, 2009
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Dinosaurs, a dwarf, James May with a pretty girl and The First Lady of France singing about Marinas.

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This is rock ’n’ roll…

Posted by The Mole at 1:22 pm on Thursday July 23, 2009

Show 6, the penultimate programme in this series of Top Gear, has been written, rehearsed and recorded. And it all went very well, ta.

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Where’s the Cool Wall?

Posted by The Mole at 8:06 pm on Sunday July 19, 2009

Crikey, that’s show 5 done then. Did you like it? Sorry about the first part of the £1500 rear-wheel drive cars challenge.

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