Fifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell has been seconded to Top Gear to play at Stig and teach Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle to be a star in a reasonably priced car. No, we haven’t got our stories in a twist. We know that former White Stig Ben Collins has been given some airtime as himself […]
Fifth Gear on TV – the Return
Fifth Gear – FIVE’s answer to Top Gear – is to rise from the ashes and return as a more test-focused programme. First episode will air in April. Fifth Gear was everyone’s second favourite car show on TV. And that second favourite label seemed to be its undoing when FIVE decided last year to ditch the show […]
John Barrowman on Fifth Gear – the update
Last week we brought you a report that Torchwood and Doctor Who star John Barrowman had been out playing Rally Drivers with Fifth Gear. He was being coached by Tiff Needell before tackling the tricky Sweet Lamb rally stage in Mid Wales. But it didn’t all go according to plan. It appears – according to […]
Captain Jack goes rallying with Fifth Gear
I suppose you could look at this as Fifth Gear’s take on Top Gear’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. But this time the car – a Prodrive 270bhp Subaru Impreza WRC – was not exactly a reasonably priced car. And this was no airfield track in leafy Surrey, but the Sweet Lamb rally stage […]