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EXCLUSIVE: Top Gear and The Grand Tour star Richard Hammond has landed his first ever show on Channel 4, Deadline can reveal. Hammond is helming Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions from All3Media-backed UK indie Optomen, in which engineering enthusiasts from around the UK must battle to create the most ingenious…

Top Gear Relocates BBC Studios is transferring production of Top Gear to its Bristol base from 2022. The show’s iconic track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey will continue to be used for filming recordings whilst the series itself films across the UK and around the world. Production for the show's 31st series has been…

Top Gear presenters Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris, and Paddy McGuinness are planning a big American road trip after being forced to film Season 30 of the motoring show entirely in the UK amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Ambitious overseas trips have become Top Gear’s signature over the years, but the pandemic has…

Sabine Schmitz, the German racing driver who served as a presenter on BBC hit Top Gear, has died at the age of 51. Schmitz revealed last year that she had been suffering from cancer since 2017. Known as the Queen of the Nurburgring, her death has prompted tributes from the BBC, the team behind Amazon’s The Grand Tour…

EXCLUSIVE: Top Gear has had to move out of its home at the Dunsfold race track for the first time since 2002 in order to film Season 30 studio elements. Britain is in the middle of a long lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning studio audiences are out of the question. The tight restrictions also ruled out To…

EXCLUSIVE: With audiences starting to trickle back into UK entertainment shows, Top Gear has come up with its own unique solution to social distancing measures: inviting fans to turn up and watch the recording from the safety of their own cars. BBC Studios will begin shooting the link sections of Top Gear from…

Top Gear was one of 80 shows BBC Studios was forced to shut down in March after the coronavirus ripped through the business at break-neck speed. More than eight weeks on, the BBC is now gearing up to put the keys back in the ignition and get the wheels turning again on its global brand. Top Gear producer BBC Studios…

The BBC’s director of content Charlotte Moore has revealed that the British broadcaster is planning to resume filming on Top Gear and EastEnders next month following the coronavirus production shutdown. In a blog on the BBC website, Moore said production will restart on the BBC Studios car show and soap opera by the…

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…