Transmission - BBC Top Gear

TGL kicks off

Jamie Hibbard — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:31:23 GMT

Jeremy, Richard and James pulled off the first of this weekend’s Top Gear Live shows at London’s Earls Court in fine style last night, with the Stig pulling off a world first indoor loop-the-loop… Following a few last minute re-writes and a couple of problems with the Stig’s car, the boys made a dramatic improvement from [...]

Series 14: it’s, er, late

Andy Wilman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:10:13 GMT

Greeting readers. It’s about midnight, and I’ve just got in from the edit. Tonight I’ve been working on the track film for show 1, which this time is helmed by James in a couple of massively overpowered limos – thought it’d be a change from the low slung two-door stuff. The editor and I have been [...]

Series 14: it’s, er, late

Andy Wilman — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:00:13 GMT

Hammond on O’Grady. Again

Jamie Hibbard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:40:31 GMT

If you happen to be anywhere near a telly later on, Richard Hammond will be appearing on C4’s Paul O’Grady show at 5pm this afternoon. He’ll doubtless be discussing his new book Or Is That Just Me?, which comes out on Thursday, and how he pulled the tendons off his ankle while out running the other [...]

May Tweets

Jamie Hibbard — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:14:28 GMT

James May’s not on Twitter, but if he was, it would doubtless be something like this interview he just did via his publisher Hodder Books. @TopGearBabe asked James if there are any achievable dreams left, to which he replied: “Oh god, yes. I’d like to go to the Moon and I’d like to be able to [...]

TG Live: going fast

Sam Philip — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:09:26 GMT

At the launch of this year’s Top Gear Live, producer Rowland French introduced a big competition in which you could win free tickets to the live show by sending in your best challenges for the Top Gear presenters. With Top Gear Live kicking off in London next week, the winners of the competition have been announced, [...]

James’s Toy Stories: on telly tonight

Sam Philip — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:13:29 GMT

UPDATE: If you missed James’s show on BBC Two last night, then catch it here on the BBC iPlayer. If your Top Gear withdrawal symptoms have hit the shaky-hands phase, don’t worry: it’s Really Not Very Long until Series 14 hits your screens. Even though, thanks to the vagaries of BBC scheduling, we’re not allowed to [...]

Stig: spotted in Amsterdam

Sam Philip — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:27:05 GMT

Following last week’s SENSATIONAL ARREST in Dublin, is the Stig now on the run from the police? Our tame racing driver was spotted yesterday piloting a boat down a canal in Amsterdam, a city which, coincidentally, is included on this year’s Top Gear Live world tour for the first time. “I had no idea that it was [...]

James: a one-buttock kind of bloke

Sam Philip — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:15:55 GMT

In the new issue of Radio Times, you can read a big juicy interview with James May. Right after the feature about monkeys learning to crack nuts, and the advert for Bovril. Happily coinciding with the first episode in the new series of James May’s Toy Stories, which airs next Tuesday at 8pm on BBC2, the [...]

Stig: sensationally arrested

Sam Philip — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:54:50 GMT

Big news straight out of Dublin: the Stig has been SENSATIONALLY ARRESTED by a FRIENDLY POLICEMAN following an ALLEGED INCIDENT of some kind. Eyewitnesses reported seeing the white-suited racing driver being hauled from his car by a member of the local Garda late yesterday afternoon, not 10 minutes after he mysteriously disembarking a bus headed to [...]

Clarkson: wrong in the head?

Sam Philip — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:14:57 GMT

In an interview with the BBC today, Clarkson has confirmed he suffers from biological abnormality in the cranial region. “My mouth isn’t connected to my brain,” Jeremy tells BBC News. “It’s just ears, mouth and speak, that’s the trouble.” “Sometimes a little voice in my head goes ‘maybe I shouldn’t have said that’, but then it’s too [...]

The greatest TG clip of all time… ever!

Jamie Hibbard — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:14:32 GMT

UPDATE: this poll is now closed. Please go here to scroll through the results gallery. So we asked you on Facebook for your favourite ever Top Gear moments and you replied in droves. Some of the suggestions you made were bang on, and some – the Dacia Sandero news item, really? – were a little more obscure [...]

Top Gear on Top Gear

Sam Philip — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:51:35 GMT

Ever wondered what would happen if Clarkson, Hammond and May interviewed themselves? Or each other, rather. Real, proper insight into the off-screen lives of telly’s hardest-working car presenter types? Unanimous agreement on the greatest car of all time? Er, nope. Just more ribbing and banter. The boys take up two pages of today’s Sun newspaper giving [...]

Jeremy’s Twingo ‘accident’

Paul Regan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:43:01 GMT

You might have spied the odd newspaper report about Jeremy driving a Renault Twingo off the docks at Belfast this week. Well, it’s true – it’s part of a film for the new series due on screens next month and here are the pictures to prove it. But that’s all we can tell you. Despite wrestling free [...]

See Richard live

Paul Regan — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:28:58 GMT

Usually an opportunity reserved only for Top Gear’s studio audience, this, but if you’re anywhere near Cheltenham tomorrow night and fancy listening to Richard chat for an hour or so, you’re in luck. Hammond will be appearing at the town’s Literature Festival from 8.45pm to take a look at Or Is That Just Me? – his [...]

Richard: the rednecks were real

Sam Philip — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:11:37 GMT

If you’ve ever wondered whether the TG boys’ lucky escape from the Alabaman rednecks was real or maybe-a-bit-made-up, here’s your answer. In an extract from his new book ‘Or Is That Just Me?’ published in The Times yesterday, Richard gives a blow-by-scary-inbred-blow account of the team’s run-in with the locals on their Big American Road Trip. [...]

Star in a reasonably dangerous fire

Paul Regan — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:03:27 GMT

Witness, for the first time anywhere on the internet (well, anywhere, actually) the latest of Jeremy’s explosive telly stunts. These exclusive pictures give us a glimpse of what happened when Clarkson tried to settle one of the great mysteries of our time – who is the fastest off-roading celebrity? It’s a feature for his new DVD Clarkson: [...]

James: he’s fine, really

The Mole — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:02:40 GMT

If you’ve read today’s newspapers you’re probably aware that James May has had a spot of bother with an airship. The good news is that our brave hero has emerged from the slightly scratched wreckage UNHARMED. After PLUMMETING to the ground at a MASSIVE two miles an hour, May’s craft SLAMMED into a small bush and then [...]

Lego house lives

Jamie Hibbard — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:49:49 GMT

Today is a good day. Well, if you were worried about James May’s Lego house, it is. And judging by the number of fans on our Save James’ Lego House Facebook group, a lot of you were. Legoland has announced today that the house will live on, only not as a house or even sections of [...]

Top Gear to go HD

Paul Regan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:15:33 GMT

We’ve just heard it confirmed by BBC brass that the next series of Top Gear will be in HD. That means all the races, supercars sliding from left to right of your telly screens and the boys’ comedic adventure, all in crystal clarity. As Jeremy said a few weeks’ back, filming is well underway on Series 14 [...]

Lego house: the final saga

Paul Regan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:04:44 GMT

The house might be coming down, but there’s one last little request James has for us before the Lego toy story is over – the cat has gone missing. After filming the last scenes at the weekend, security allowed a few members of the public to have a nose around the house and Fusker – so [...]

Lego house: it’s down

Paul Regan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Despite James’ best efforts, your comments on this site and the 2,500 fans signed up to our Facebook group, the Lego house has been destroyed. James confirmed on Monday night that brick-by-3.2-million-brick, it’d be taken down on Tuesday. Understandably, he’d grown quite attached to the toy house – he spent a month building it with around 1,000 [...]

Lego house: it’s coming down

Paul Regan — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:06:00 GMT

Today’s the day, then. Despite James’ best efforts, your comments on this site and the 2,500 fans signed up to our Facebook group, the Lego house is coming down. We spoke to James last night and he confirmed that brick-by-3.2-million-brick, it’ll be dismantled this morning. Understandably, he’d grown quite attached to the toy house – he spent [...]

Jeremy does it again

Paul Regan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:54:46 GMT

Marina fans, put down your beards and ready those complaint letters because Jeremy’s killed another one. This time, though, it’s for his new DVD Clarkson: Duel. And with a little spoiler warning, TopGear.com can exclusively reveal how. It starts with a test of the Aston Vantage V12 in Spain. Jeremy decides the only way to test its [...]

Save James’ Lego house

Paul Regan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:23:27 GMT

Taken our guided tour of James’ house of Lego yet? It’s a two-story toy home-from-home he built for his new TV series James May’s Toy Stories. That’s the good news. The bad part is that the house is currently condemned to demolition on Tuesday. Brick-by-brick, it’ll be dismantled and lost forever. It wasn’t always going to be [...]