I'm missing Top gear at the moment :(

anyone know when it'll be back ?

edit : nevermind :D

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2010/12/03/top-gear-over-christmas-more-details/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=twitter

You may have read some scant details about our festive special in the papers this week. We can confirm their veracity. This Boxing Day Jeremy, Richard and James will be attempting their toughest task yet: passing themselves off as ‘three wise men’ while recreating that famous journey following a star to Bethlehem.

SPOILER ALERT: Those who want to keep it a surprise, stop reading here.

 

 

If you’re undertaking a journey of 1,200 perilous miles across Kurdistan, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Israel, taking in inhospitable stretches of obscure mountain and desert, one’s choice of vehicle is paramount. A 4×4, perhaps. Something rugged. Dependable. Lots of easy-to-find parts lying about in out-of-the-way garages would be handy. Our long-feted Toyota Hilux, perhaps?

No. Our presenters chose a fleet of second-hand convertibles: a Mazda MX5, BMW Z3 and Fiat Barchetta.

The opening scene should give you a clue of the perils to follow: a Russian transport plane with cars on board pulls into a darkened, unidentified airport. It’s in Iraq. The pilot opens the cargo doors thousands of feet up, but an aborted landing means a sudden steep climb with the doors still open. Richard can take up the story for you:

“Any initial concerns about where we were landing and what we were going to do when we got there paled in comparison to sitting in the driving seat of an elderly two-seater roadster, staring out of the open back door of a Russian transport plane going backwards at a million miles an hour while the pilot seemed to be wrestling a bear in the cockpit. And yes, I did scream. A lot. I still am inside.”

There’s also a drag race across one of Saddam’s runways, Jeremy has to protect his car from gunfire in a hair-raising moment, and a disguised sneak across the Syrian desert doesn’t exactly go to plan. Jeremy also addresses the question that crops up after every nativity play: ‘What exactly is myrrh, and where do you buy it?’

Fancy a sneak peek? Head this way to watch this year’s BBC Christmas showreel, and amid snatches of Doctor Who, Only Fools and Horses prequel Rock and Chips and some pantos and carols, at 4:40 you’ll find a short glimpse what we’ve been working on…

The Three Wise Men Christmas Special will be on BBC2 on Boxing Day at 8pm. Not only that, Top Gear will be back with another new episode just five days before on Tuesday 21 December at 8pm on BBC2. And then the series proper begins early in the New Year. Full TV listings details are at the Radio Times as always.

We hope you enjoy it, and check back as always on TopGear.com for more details and exclusives around the new shows in the coming weeks…

 

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Sounds good :D

I'm missing Top gear at the moment :(

anyone know when it'll be back ?

edit : nevermind :D

 

Heard a new series will be back early on in the New Year. Possibly end of January or February. Probably mean no summer series though.

 

But Top Gear in the middle east driving to Bethlehem through Iraq?! Nice! Will have to go some to beat last year's Bolivia special. That was epic!

Plus a pre-christmas new episode :)

the Bolivia special was amazing I was glued to that telly :stunned:

Can't wait for some good telly :bomb:

Hopefully it will be a good 90 minutes :D

I hope so I love long episodes of Top gear

The American version of Top Gear sucks. :( *wishes she had BBC*

People usually post it online anyways

The American version of Top Gear sucks. :( *wishes she had BBC*

 

Get yourself a british proxy and you can use the iPlayer.

A who and a what.

 

Top Gear still to decide on using new Stig

 

Top Gear is still deciding whether a replacement Stig will be used in the new series, presenter Jeremy Clarkson has revealed. "We don't know what to do," he said, speaking to Chris Moyles on Radio 1.

 

"Eventually a suggestion will come in and we'll say, 'Well that's a good idea' so we'll do that," he continued. He said the Stig isn't in two Christmas specials and the team will decide on his future in January 2011 when a new series starts.

 

Whenever the Stig appeared in previous shows he was always wearing a racing helmet, prompting lots of speculation about who he or she was. "Wasn't it just so boring? Everybody asked, 'Who's the Stig?' but nobody really wanted to know," Clarkson said. "Kids thought it was a monster, and some people thought it was Michael Schumacher," he added.

 

But back in September, the BBC lost a court case over the publication of an autobiography by the man who was the last Stig.

 

Racing driver Ben Collins says he was the Stig for the past seven years.

 

Jeremy Clarkson also told Radio 1 listeners that in a forthcoming show he tries out racing for himself, but is "absolutely rubbish" at it. "You come up to a corner and you think, 'What if I press the brake pedal now and nothing happens?' Your imagination takes over and you find yourself braking early."

 

The two Christmas episodes of Top Gear go out on 8pm on BBC Two on 21 and 26 December.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11969134

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Saw the trailer for the Top Gear Christmas Specials! I cannot wait! If there's one TV programme I just cannot wait for it's Top Gear (and I hardly watch much tv!)! Fucking brilliant.

I'm getting excited for this aswell after all the crap telly we have :)

awhh, Top Gear hates Stig so much now :lol:

Tiff Needell is back!

Tiff Needell's great, what part did he have to play in the show?

He was the emergency Stig

Was it old? Sounds familiar.

Nah he was just drafted in to tutor Danny Boyle on his Star In A Reasonably Priced Car segment. They should maybe just do away with the Stig and stick with Tiff to do power laps and tutor celebs because like Reilly said he's a great guy!

That would be a good solution, I can't see Tiff getting wanting to get involved with the slapstick that Top Gear has become, but that would remove him from that for more genuine moments.

 

I loved that in-between period of Top Gear where the presenters were mainly genuine but also clearly acting, now every moment and incident is scripted, and of course they aren't professional actors so you can tell when they're pretending to crack up at some wildly impossible incident that it was all staged. Ruins the illusion.

ooh I need to watch this I missed it :escaping: