BBC2 boss Kim Shillinglaw has declared that the footage from Top Gear’s series 22, cancelled after the Jeremy Clarkson ‘Fracas’, will air this summer. The corporate self-flagellation at the BBC over Jeremy Clarkson’s fracas with a producer now seems to be dwindling, and more practical considerations are taking over. Not before time, we must say. […]
Top Gear filming in China for new series
Escaping from the furore over his One Show comments, Jeremy Clarkson is in China with James May filming for Top Gear. After all the grief over his One Show comments (which, although a bit OTT, were actually not his views but an attempt to humorously demonstrate the BBC’s obsession with ‘balance’), Jeremy Clarkson has decamped to China […]
Top Gear Nissan LEAF & Peugeot iOn Electric car episode spoofed
Two young English guys have put together a 10 minute spoof of Top Gear’s May and Clarkson testing the Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn electric cars. Yes, boys and girls, there is a new series of Top Gear looming, with the boys back on the box this month. And already a so far unseen episode is […]
Top Gear’s Clarkson & May run out of charge in a LEAF & iOn
Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson and James May have been testing the Nissan LEAF and Peugeot iOn in Lincoln, and appear to have run out of power. Top Gear and electric cars don’t really mix. Unless of course they build the electric car themselves, and then you have a world-beating product in the Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust. But Top […]
Top Gear: Skoda Yeti, Ariel Atom V8, Porsche 911 & John Bishop tonight
Top Gear Series 16 starts for real tonight with Skoda Yeti, Ariel Atom V8, Porsche 911 and John Bishop as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. We thought that Top Gear had kicked in to the start of a new series – Series 16 AB (that’s ‘After Boring’ Top Gear) – when we had […]
Top Gear Christmas Special – Equality & Diversity remit fulfilled
Top Gear has fulfilled its remit on equality and diversity by offending both Muslims and Christians in its Christmas special. We know that the entire Top Gear team – from Messrs Clarkson, Hammond, May and Wilman on down – are steeped in modern sensibilities. We know, for example, that every item Top Gear runs is […]
Top Gear East Coast USA Road Trip tonight
Tonight sees Top Gear back on BBC2 with a road trip up East Coast USA to New York in a Mercedes SLS AMG, a Ferrari 458 Italia and a Porsche 911 GT3 RS It’s a bit of a Top Gear day today with not just this morning’s news that Top Gear drafted in Tiff Needell […]
Top Gear Christmas Special: Video trailer
We have a video trailer of this years’s Top Gear Christmas special – a road trip from Iraq to Bethlehem. The first clue we had about what the Top Gear Christmas Special would be this year was back in October when we caught the boys out playing in the Middle East with a trio of […]
Top Gear: Three Wise Men Christmas Special
The BBC has confirmed that Top Gear’s Middle East Excursion last month was for the Top Gear Christmas Special tracing the route of the Three Wise men – in open-topped cars. Last month we caught up with Top Gear’s Messrs Clarkson, Hammond and May as they played games in the Middle East for what we had assumed […]
Top Gear in the Middle East: Israel & Jordan &…
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are out filming for Top Gear in the Middle East in a trio of beaten-up Roadsters – MX-5, Z3 and Fiat Barchetta As we said back at the end of September when we reported that Top Gear were busy filming for the next series in New York, this […]