Transmission: the Top Gear TV blog
The Mole can hardly believe it, but the Top Gear world tour has come to an end. What started in London finished after a textbook performance in Hong Kong on Sunday, with 67 shows successfully completed in front of nearly 250,000 people.
The Mole spent yesterday time travelling with the presenters; breakfast in New Zealand, lunch in Australia waiting for a connecting flight, then dinner in Hong Kong. It’s moments like that which make TGL feel like a rock and roll tour, couple that with a deluge of sunseeker powerboats and black helicopters whisking the three presenters [...]
The producers of Top Gear love to give the presenters a challenge, and the show in New Zealand was no different. A luminous green Ultima GTR rumbled into the show at the end of the Cool Wall, and Greg Murphy was challenged by Jezza to beat the urban speed limit of 50kph indoors.
Its opening night in Aukland, New Zealand and the usual panic ensues amongst the crew as they do their best to lay sufficient rose petals before the gathering pace of the three presenters. Our local presenter, Greg Murphy, has spent a huge amount of time out with the boys:
This week The Mole is learning about industrial strength glue… It seems in preparation for Top Gear Live arriving in Auckland, the locals have torn up all the carpet that has sat comfortably for 20 years on the floor of the ABS Showground, to helpfully make way for our sliding supercars.
The Top Gear presenters seem to be enjoying Australia, as The Mole watched them board a giant speed boat, which whisked them off to the show in the blazing 45 degree heat of Sydney Harbour. Being upside down hasn’t blunted their wits any, as they continue to keep the huge crowds in hysterics, with a [...]
The only problem with Australia as far as The Mole can tell, is that it is bloody far away from South Africa. 11 hours spent hiding in the cargo hold of the Top Gear Live 747 was almost too much to bear, but the first sight of the Sydney Opera House (albeit peeking through the [...]
Onwards with the weekend, and by and large the show is running without any major hitches. Car Football (England Vs South Africa) is proving especially popular with the local audience whose constant chanting (and boo’ing) is driving the two teams to ever further daring deeds.
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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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