Top Gear not going anywhere!

[Drolgin Steingrinder]

I don't know if you've been following the rumor mill, but there's been quite a lot of debate about the future of Top Gear.

After the final episode of the shortened spring season (shortened due to Richard Hammonds nasty accident), a voiceover announced that Top Gear would be back in the summer.

Welp, Clarkson caused a bit of worry when he wrote this in his column:

After last week's Top Gear, the continuity announcer said the show would be back in the summer. Can I just say, here and now, it won't be.

A BBC spokesperson said that

Top Gear is coming back. There will be a special in the summer and a new series in the autumn.

But with several Clarkson documentaries in pre- and post-production, concern was that he was wanting to go elsewhere. His series on great engineering (particularly Isambard Kingdom Brunel) have been very successful, both with critics and audiences, and the one-off docs about the Victoria Cross and about Operation Chariot are really great to watch.

Finally we have news though!

Apparently the confusion was about the summer special which (according to completely unsubstantiated rumors) were the cause of a bit of a contractual spat between Clarkson and the BBC. The show will be on again in autumn, just without the summer special.

Everyone seems to think the programme is finished or that I've left.

"Well, sorry to disappoint you all but it isn't and I haven't. Top Gear... will be back in the autumn.

May I just say: Yay.

Clarkson is like a fatter Simon Cowell but with cars, a healthy dose of self -deprecative humor and without the smug-git syndrome.

[Al]

I love that show, and I am happy as a perv in a whore-house that it will be back. Clarkson knows his cars (he's a Doctor!), and without him the show would be seriously lacking.

[Sendarie]

Same here...best car show I've ever seen. I watch religiously when I get the chance.

[Kelshara]

Ditto. Much love for Top Gear.

[laneela]

Clarkson is like a fatter Simon Cowell but with cars, a healthy dose of self -deprecative humor and without the smug-git syndrome.

He *is* a tad bit of a smug git, no? ><

[Drolgin Steingrinder]

Clarkson is like a fatter Simon Cowell but with cars, a healthy dose of self -deprecative humor and without the smug-git syndrome.

He *is* a tad bit of a smug git, no? ><

YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE FATHER OF MY BABIES!

actually he is a lot of a smug git, it's just the selfirony and the fact that the smugness usually only comes out when he's talking about politicians, eco-freaks, americans, the french, koreans, people from Yorkshire, people who drive in London, people who...oh, I see what you mean ><

[laneela]

YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT THE FATHER OF MY BABIES!

actually he is a lot of a smug git, it's just the selfirony and the fact that the smugness usually only comes out when he's talking about politicians, eco-freaks, americans, the french, koreans, people from Yorkshire, people who drive in London, people who...oh, I see what you mean ><

To be fair, we're all a bit smug when we talk about the french. Or is that just me? ...and Clarkson.

[Aslanna]

Apparently the confusion was about the summer special which (according to completely unsubstantiated rumors) were the cause of a bit of a contractual spat between Clarkson and the BBC. The show will be on again in autumn, just without the summer special.

Looks like the summer special was still on. I just finished watching it! It wasn't as good as the episode where they went to America but it wasn't bad.

Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond are racing to the North Pole, Jeremy and James are in a specially adapted pick-up truck, while Richard is on a sled pulled by a team of huskies.

Hamster definitely got the short end of this race. He was looking pretty rough by the end of the episode.

[Aslanna]

Season 10 of Top Gear has started. Yay!