Two months to Top Gear in HD

BBC 2′s flagship entertainment based programming featuring a bit of motoring and three childish middle aged men, Top Gear, will return in just under two months and will be in HD! I’ve resisted calling it a motoring show as it has moved away from that over the last few years, becoming a more generic entertainment show that has motoring at the heart but focuses heavily on the entertaining fringe. Anyway, [...]

 

Top Gear back 21 June

Everyones favourite motoring based televisual entertainment programme featuring three middle aged men returns on 21 June 2009. The 13th series of the iconic BBC Two show will be pretty much business as usual – but when that usual business leads to some of the best television in the world – I say keep on keeping on! Top Gear producer, Andy Wilman said in a BBC Top Gear Blog Post: “I’m [...]

 

I was wrong about TG sale

So a long time ago I wrote a blog post saying that we will never see Top Gear box set DVDs – this was based on a chat with someone responsible for commissioning BBC DVDs. Basically the argument was that it can’t happen because of music rights – to sell it they would have to re-negotiate all the music rights and some couldn’t be cleared at all – so it [...]