Transmission: the Top Gear TV blog
Official Friends of Top Gear, Anthony Reid and Tom Chilton – both Touring Car drivers by day – make an appearance in this low-budget, car-tastic music video made by Owen Trevor – who also directs stuff on the telly show – for singer-songwriter Andy J Gallagher:
Pacing the room, twiddling your thumbs and crushing pint glasses to dust with your bare hands as you wait for the new series of Top Gear (which may or may definitely not start on June 21) on BBC Two? Then why not head down to Chelsea Flower Show?
The telly show this week has something of a green theme about it (which is a bit ironic ‘cos we could do with a bit of global warming here at the studio today, it’s freezing again).
Last night in London Jeremy, Richard and James officially revealed our Cars of the Year. You already know the shortlist – we let that out of the bag a few weeks ago – but the boys finally picked an overall winner in time for our awards bash, described by one onlooker as ‘surprisingly noisy’.
For a while, it looked like the appearance of London’s mayor Boris Johnson was going to be the highlight of the show. He was good natured with Jeremy’s probing, enjoyed his time, and gave the track as good as he could in atrocious conditions. But then Jeremy decided to do a roadtest.
It’s still freezing down at the studio, so the production team have cranked up the massive space heaters up between takes just to keep us moving.
The Mole is cold at the studio, but things are underway for Top Gear Rehearsals. Man flu seems to be doing the rounds but it’s not proving to dampen anyone’s spirits. Always a good sign of the show to come!
Don’t forget that if you missed Top Gear on the telly last night then you can watch it on the good old BBC iPlayer, if you’re in the UK. And even if you did see it, it’s worth watching again just for that beautiful Daytona vs James’ boat film.
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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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