New series of Top Gear to get global launch

[Mitsuru]

New series of Top Gear to get global launch in over 50 countries

The BBC programme - once one of the most pirated programmes in the world - will be seen in locations across Australia, Africa and the Middle East at the same time as the programme is shown on BBC2 later this month.

A further ten countries including Malaysia, Taiwan and Mongolia will screen the show - starring Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond - within 24 hours of its UK debut on January 25.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/5 ... bal-launch

[JPB]

I told Prince William and Prince Harry to 'f*** off'....

Good old Express, not just there for the dull stuff like who died, when and how. Who did die?

[Mitsuru]

This looks like it might be a bit more interesting for those of us who like the classics,
starts in February.

[youtube]xKQ8A7jmXdc[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQ8A7jmXdc

[Richard Moss]

Hmmm - Jodie Kidd or Jeremy Clarkson?


Easy choice, Jodie knows something about cars!

[tractorman]

If we're going to post links to news sites:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-30852411

It almost sounds like the producer things TG would move to a different channel if the Beeb axe it. I wonder if Dave would dare to take it on - they bleep all sorts of naughty words out of things like QI, so they may not be brave enough to make TG!

[rich.]

nothing to do with top gear.. but cars have been involved..
http://www.autoblog.com/2014/08/27/buga ... lea-video/

[JPB]

There's a hovercraft in the opening episode. With Clarkson driving.

I "drove" mine from the yard where I found it, along the lane to a suitably high bit of ground and onto its trailer and in doing so, it only fell off the trailer very slightly but I had been practising for that moment every day for a week so small wonder I came so close to getting it right. Lashing it onto the trailer was fun, we discovered that [the hovercraft] had no wheels..

But the thing is that Clarkson has frequently demonstrated an amazing ability to drive pretty much anything (remember that Tatra, whose weird gearchange JC mastered within a few yards of getting in the car), so what will happen when the wheels are removed from the equation? Will he stuff it up? I genuinely almost care about what happens and anyway, what's the alternative? Call the bloody Midwife? No ta.

[Mitsuru]

John aren't you forgetting that he has said in previous episodes of TG that he has a hoover craft of his own!

[suffolkpete]

All this talk about hovercraft reminds me of the time I was following a hovercraft being towed at speed on a trailer down the A12. As the speed picked up I could see the engine being turned over compression by the propeller and wondered what would happen if it suddenly started

[Mitsuru]

hopefully nothing if they have shut off the fuel!