
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.

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.

If you’ve read today’s newspapers you’re probably aware that James May has had a spot of bother with an airship.

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 [...]

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’.

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.

Dinosaurs, a dwarf, James May with a pretty girl and The First Lady of France singing about Marinas.

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

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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