Transmission: the Top Gear TV blog
So there you have it. Top Gear is finally back on the nation’s screens: three undeniably great cars, two new haircuts, one Oscar-winning film director and a minor conflagration. Hopeless gifts were exchanged, Stigs were mown down in hails of semi-automatic gunfire, fuses were blown – a nice gentle introduction to the festive season ahead…
Following on from last week’s glimpse at Top Gear over Christmas, the official trailer is now running on the BBC – and here it is for you all.
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).
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 [...]
Hello gang. Porter here again, since Wilman is once again deep in the edit. Also, he claims to have got some sort of ‘malaise’ that is making him feel ‘weird’.
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 there. TG telly bossman Andy Wilman was going to write a few words about the new series today but he’s deep in the edit suite preparing the first show and can’t be disturbed, unless you’re offering a way to cut 45 seconds out of all the over-running VTs. Or some crisps. He likes crisps. [...]
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.
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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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