Transmission - BBC Top Gear

James: in Amsterdam after all

Paul Regan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:15:27 GMT

A quick bit of news for Top Gear Live ticket-holders in Amsterdam – James will be joining Jeremy and Richard for one night only on Thursday. He’s stepped in to help out after local presenter Beau van Erven Dorens agreed to do a fundraising event for Haiti appeal. It makes it one of only a handful of [...]

Top Gear vs Loose Women

Paul Regan — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:21:53 GMT

After Top Gear’s unexpected gong over Christmas for best telly show of the decade, it seems we’re up for another public vote on ITV’s National Television Awards. Normally we’d just wait and see what happens on these things, but we found out Loose Women have been campaigning for support and felt that was a bit below [...]

The best telly show this decade?

Paul Regan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 14:44:53 GMT

If you happened to wander over to Channel 4 after the boys finished their adventures in Bolivia last night you might have noticed Top Gear picked up a little pat on the back – the best TV show of the, er, Noughties (noughts, surely?). Quite amazing, really. Three blokes cocking about in cars the best telly [...]

A big, fat Christmas treat

Andy Wilman — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 13:59:21 GMT

As I write we are in, yes you guessed it, the edit, just finishing the sound mix and the grade on the South America programme. Obviously you guys will be the judges, but we love it and we’re quite proud of it. Visually we were blessed with some breathtaking back drops, courtesy of the Bolivian High [...]

2009: best TG moment

Paul Regan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:02:24 GMT

We’re nearly at the end of series 14 – the last show’s on January 3 – and you’ve probably already read the boss’s verdict on the series. Now we want to talk about the best bits. So, think James in that Airship drifting across Norwich airport, Jeremy and his ’sensible’ road test on the Renaultsport Twingo [...]

Series 14: your backstage pass

Paul Regan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:13:04 GMT

Just in case you’ve stumbled across this website between festive dinner courses and repeats of Top Gear on Dave, we’ll pretend you know nothing of the TopGear.com cameras lurking backstage throughout series 14 capturing all the best behind the scenes moments. Which means you won’t have seen Chris Evans’ near-death experience that almost wiped out an [...]

Backstage on Series 14

Paul Regan — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:13:04 GMT

TG Live Amsterdam

Jamie Hibbard — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:53:02 GMT

Following on from a tour of the UK and Ireland, the boys are going on the road again early next year, and for the first time ever Top Gear Live is hitting Amsterdam, from January the 21st to the 24th. Clarkson and Hammond will be taking over all the explosions and cocking about that they [...]

Some things you didn’t see…

The Mole — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:44:14 GMT

So there we go, the potentially contentious fifth programme in the current series of Top Gear. If you haven’t already read the blog by TG bossman Andy Wilman in which he addresses some of the comments you’ve been making about this series, you really should. So, with Wilman tackling the critics head on – in a [...]

Series 14: where we’re at

Andy Wilman — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:40:34 GMT

There are still three shows to transmit, but they’re all shot and cut now – we’re just tidying up the South America special – so it feels like a good time to reflect on the run. Personally I’ll be glad to see the back of it. We’ve done some good stuff this series, but we were [...]

Bolivia special

The Mole — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:35:22 GMT

So, no Top Gear this week thanks to some men playing billiards or something, but in the absence of TG proper you might have spotted an amusing parody of Jeremy, Richard and James during BBC1’s The Impressions Show on Saturday night. The sketch was modelled on the Beeb’s long running sit-com Last of The Summer [...]

The rest of the series…

The Mole — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:30:44 GMT

That, then, was programme four. And that means we’re more than halfway through the current series. Boo and indeed hiss. As we know from the comments that appear below these blogs, all of you lovely people out there on the webernet are more than capable of telling us what you did and didn’t like about each [...]

Show four: the details

The Mole — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:02:52 GMT

So, show 4 in the current series has been recorded and there are two important things you need to know about it. Firstly, it is on at 8:30pm this Sunday. That’s 8:30pm. Not nine, not eight, but somewhere in between. Secondly, it contains one of the most thorough – and most dramatic – tests Top Gear [...]

Hammond wins award

Jamie Hibbard — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:42:10 GMT

This is just a quick hearty congratulations to Richard who won the best presenter award at the Children’s BAFTAs last night for his Blast Lab show. The awards celebrate the best in Children’s entertainment over the past year, and Hammond was up against Steve Backshall for Deadly 60, Andy Day for his Cbeebies presenting and Phil [...]

Show three: best stunt yet?

The Mole — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:23 GMT

So, that was show 3 of the current series, and if the Top Gear team weren’t far too busy preparing the rest of the series they’d probably take a moment to be quite pleased with it. James is certainly quite chuffed with how his caravan airship turned out, except perhaps the slightly bumpy landing. Top Gear [...]

Airship: best stunt yet?

The Mole — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:23 GMT

Weird Stig crush

Jamie Hibbard — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:10:00 GMT

Heat magazine’s Weird Crush of the Year results are in, but sadly it’s not four in a row at number one for the Top Gear boys. Jeremy won it last year, James in 2007 and Richard in 2006, but this year they only managed ninth, sixth and fourth respectively. However, they were all beaten by a TG [...]

Clarkson vs Ross

Jamie Hibbard — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:23:34 GMT

UPDATE: If you missed Clarkson on Jonathan Ross last Friday, then you can watched it all here on the BBC’s iPlayer. You can also listen to Jeremy from Friday’s Chris Moyles show here. Jeremy’s going to appear on Friday Night with Jonathan Ross tomorrow at 10:35pm on BBC One. Clarkson will no doubt be giving some inside [...]

Show three: studio day

The Mole — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:49:46 GMT

You’ve heard TG telly boss Andy Wilman say the best stars in our reasonably priced car are the proper petrolheads and this week’s guest is no exception. Radio 2’s Breakfast Show DJ-elect Chris Evans stormed our soaking track today, chasing Eric Bana’s fastest wet time on our leaderboard. Spins? Yep. Quick time? Wait and see. Back in [...]

May’s toy fair

Jamie Hibbard — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:10:10 GMT

If you’ve been keeping up with James May’s activities recently, you’ll know that our James has a certain fondness for retro amusements. It’s one that spurred him on to making a TV series – who can forget a house made entirely of Lego in Toy Stories? – and now James has found another way to share [...]

Top Gear’s art for the masses

The Mole — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:30:18 GMT

You may have read in dispatches that Jeremy, Richard and James have been up in the North East of England engaging in some sort of art project. Well this is indeed true. Last week the boys went up to Middlesbrough – which may or may not be near Newcastle, they weren’t sure – and set about [...]

New series: show two filming

Paul Regan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:09:20 GMT

Show two of the new series sees Clarkson, Hammond and May saving the planet. Again. In this week’s big film they build their own electric car, and then put their latest ‘green’ creation through the rigours of the new car testing process. Out on track, Jeremy pits the Corvette ZR1’s muscle against the finesse of Audi’s R8 [...]

Poll: better than new TG?

Jamie Hibbard — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:20:47 GMT

Top Gear is back on your telly from 9pm on Sunday nights, but is there anything to beat it? It’s one of life’s eternal questions, so let us know what you think…

New series: the detail

Andy Wilman — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:49:09 GMT

If you’ve read the Mole’s thingy, you’ll doubtless know how the record of show one went, and may I say I concur with the ‘Bana is a good bloke‘ verdict. Not only did he stay, but he stayed and drank beer; sadly, I too saw him eat from the Terrible Buffet of Out of Date [...]

Series 14: the detail

Andy Wilman — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:49:09 GMT