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The British version of Top Gear is moving to a new home in India, swapping Sony Pictures Television’s AXN for Viacom18, which is a joint venture between ViacomCBS and local broadcaster TV18. Season 27 of the motoring show will premiere on Viacom18’s English entertainment channel Colors Infinity, it was announced at…

After Deadline first revealed the news last week, the BBC has confirmed that it is moving motoring show Top Gear from BBC Two to BBC One later this year. Talks about the switch took place in January and BBC director of content Charlotte Moore decided to elevate Top Gear after being impressed with its performance among…

EXCLUSIVE: Top Gear is changing lanes. After being revitalized by a band of new presenters, the motoring show is poised to move from BBC Two to BBC One for the first time in its 18-year modern history. Deadline can reveal that high-level talks about the switch took place in January and BBC director of content…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has achieved something few could have predicted a couple of years ago: it has revved new life into the faltering global brand that was Top Gear — and in doing so, proved that there is enough room on the road for more than one big car show. The chemistry between new hosts Andrew Flintoff, Chris…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from breathing new life into the BBC’s Top Gear franchise, host Andrew Flintoff is changing gears with a highly personal BBC One documentary on his battle with bulimia. After a distinguished career as an England cricket player, Flintoff has carved out a new profession as a TV star, where he has become…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grand Tour showrunner Andy Wilman has revealed new details about the solo projects and specials he is working on with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May for Amazon, as well as the structure of their deal with the streamer. Wilman spoke to Deadline after we reported that he is shutting down W…

British motoring format Top Gear is driving off with three new local remakes in the Nordics. Discovery Networks Nordics is adapting the format – made famous by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – in Sweden, Denmark and Norway after striking a deal with BBC Studios. Banijay Group-backed Nordisk Film TV…

A multi-year deal reached by MotorTrend Group and BBC Studios will yield the new U.S. series Top Gear America (working title) and provide North American streaming rights to the full library of more than 200 classic Top Gear episodes. The pact was announced by Discovery and the BBC in the lead-up to Discovery’s upfront…

The BBC has signed up British entertainers Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff to replace Matt LeBlanc as the hosts of global motoring format Top Gear. This comes after the former Friends star revealed that he would be leaving Top Gear after the next series of the BBC Studios-produced show. The 26th season of the…

Matt LeBlanc is making for the exit after BBC Studios confirmed that the Top Gear host will leave after the next season of the motoring format. LeBlanc, who joined the series in 2016, will leave the BBC Two show after his fourth journey later this year. Presenting alongside Chris Harris and Rory Reid, the Friends star…

Update, With Hammond Message Richard Hammond posted a brief video message today on his Drivetribe channel from his hospital bed in Switzerland, cheerfully thanking the emergency workers who rescued him and apologizing to his wife and daughters for being a “colossal” idiot. He says he’ll need surgery to get a “Swiss…

A new iteration of Top Gear is heading to the U.S. BBC America has greenlighted a U.S. spinoff of the hit UK Top Gear franchise for premiere later this year. The network says the eight-episode hourlong series will be hosted by racing enthusiast and actor William Fichtner, world champion drag racer Antron Brown, and…