THOSE LUCKY ENOUGH to live in the UK will get an all-new dose of Top Gear this weekend as the show returns for its 14th series.

To build anticipation, the BBC has released a new teaser video starring the Top Gear kids with a brief look at the stunts and challenges that lay ahead.

Despite talk of budget [...]

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ALTHOUGH RECENT RUMOURS of Shane Warne’s involvement in a new season of Top Gear Australia have been quashed, Channel Nine today confirmed that it has bought the Australian rights to the Top Gear TV shows.

The move from SBS to Channel Nine also brings control of the entire Top Gear brand in Australia to PBL Media, [...]

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AUSTRALIAN CRICKETER Shane Warne is reportedly gearing up to host six episodes of Top Gear Australia.

Reports this morning suggest that Channel Nine is in discussions with BBC Worldwide to snatch Top Gear Australia from current rights holder SBS, and Warne has been confirmed as Nine’s top choice to host the show.

Representatives for the Nine [...]

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AFTER LAST WEEK’S episode delivered a mild upswing in viewers for season two of the love-it-or-hate-it Top Gear Australia, hopes were high that this week’s episode (the second last for season two) would build upon episode six’s ratings rebound.

Alas, no, it was not to be. While episode six managed to get 550,000 pairs of eyeballs [...]

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TOP GEAR UK is back on the air - in England, at least - and it hasn’t taken long for the boys to stir up a dash of controversy and intrigue.

The first episode of series 13 of the world’s most popular car show (by any decent reckoning) saw Michael Schumacher “revealed” as the head [...]

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SIX DOWN, two to go. We’re now three-quarters of the way through season two of Top Gear Australia, and finally the show seems to have arrested its ratings slide.

Monday’s episode drew in 550,000 viewers and ranked 31 nationally - a moderate improvement over last week’s 545,000 viewers and number 32 ranking.

It’s not an enormous resurgence [...]

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THE HAMMERHEAD, Gambon Corner, the Follow-Through. To many armchair enthusiasts those names describe hallowed ground, Top Gear’s test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, England.

The TG test track has become the unofficial arbiter of supercar performance, so much so that while Nurburgring lap times continue to be viewed with skepticism (the Nissan GT-R’s in particular), [...]

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WE HAD SUCH high hopes for Top Gear Australia when season two began last month, now it appears it’s rapidly heading down the same path as season one.

National viewership for last night’s episode was a measly 545,000, with the program ranking at number 32 nationally.

TGA’s season two ratings have been in steady decline since the [...]

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LAST TIME we took a look at the ratings for the latest series of Top Gear Australia, the prognosis wasn’t good. Now it’s even worse.

The first and second episodes of season two pulled in 689,000 and 628,000 viewers respectively, however hopes were high that quality would improve and viewership would bounce back. It largely hasn’t, [...]

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So, Top Gear Aus is back with a little more polish and a new host. It seems the general consensus is that quality is slightly improved over last season, but what do the ratings say?

Well, the numbers are in and episode one of season two came in at number 25 nationally with 689,000 viewers. Episode [...]

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So, we’ve just witnessed the second episode of the second season of the second Top Gear franchise. Was it any good? As it happens, the answer is both a thumb-raising “yes”, and a head-shaking “no”.

While my colleague Steane was generally happy with the improvements made in the last episode of TGA, I was a little [...]

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Let’s face it, Top Gear Australia season one wasn’t too flash. Our readers were widely critical and the internet buzz wasn’t flattering… at all.

For season 2, it was obvious that SBS took the criticism of season one on-board and the result is a revamp and a much improved show.

The ’shark cage’ Moke was dropped on [...]

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