Top Gear to return after Andrew Flintoff crash

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The BBC confirmed Top Gear will return to TV, four years after the show was rested when co-host Andrew Flintoff was seriously injured in a 2022 filming crash. Flintoff suffered facial and rib injuries when his open-topped three-wheeled Morgan Super 3 overturned on the programme's test track; he told a Disney+ documentary he was dragged face-down underneath the car for about 50 metres. BBC director of entertainment Ed Havard announced the comeback at the Edinburgh TV Festival and said "we can confirm that Top Gear is coming back." The hosting line-up has not been finalised; The Sun reported comedian Jimmy Carr has held talks to join and former rugby player Joe Marler has been named as another potential presenter. BBC Studios will make the new series and did not comment further; the corporation apologised and paid compensation to Flintoff after the crash. Racing driver Paul Rees, who was in the car with Flintoff, has sued BBC Studios for up to £150,000 for personal injury, a claim BBC Studios says it disputes and is defending.

Rob H&ynes

@robonabike.eurosky.social

My neighbor told me crashes keep injuring his inane Top Gear presenters so I asked how many presenters he has and he said he just goes to the shelter and gets a new presenter so I said it sounds like he's just feeding presenters to car crashes and then his daughter started crying.

2745d ago

ChinnyVision

@chinnyvision.bsky.social

On the upside of Jimmy Carr hosting Top Gear, the show has an impeccable record of injuring its presenters.

3145d ago

Matty7

Appropriately, these days Carr looks like a crash test dummy

LL CLIFF J3

And I've moved from not going to watch it to definatly am not going to watch it 🙃

Bruce Gorrie

@bsrg1.bsky.social

Top Gear is returning, great news for Jacamo-clad middle aged men who've had to move back in with their mums.

3044d ago

DWCISME

@dwcisme.bsky.social

Top Gear (with Clarkson/Hammond/May) was a cash cow for the BBC. Licensing and distribution brought in tens if not hundreds of millions. BBC wants to regain that revenue. But, that formula is gone and subsequent versions were an embarrassment. They’d be better off with a reboot of Fawlty Towers.

1945d ago

Netpol

@netpol.org

"oh well, it's just a joke, like on that Top Gear" www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2650069...

1145d ago

Stephen

@wenlock.bsky.social

Only if he is sacked from his current job, and ideally does something more rural. I don’t listen to #TheArchers to hear about cars. That’s what Top Gear was for (which I never watched, because I care about cars almost as little as I care about the Royal Family.)

1245d ago

Marty4

Lol same here. I can barely identify one car from the next. Plus I don’t drive so they are really foreign objects to me. I don’t really pay attention to the Royal Family either but I do love me some Harry-Meghan trash watching #TheArchers

Johanna2

Agreed I hope he turns out complex #TheArchers

Alex Bittner2

What is the royal family with Capital Letters? I guess this must be something they only have in Britain, surely related to cars... maybe a car polish brand? "There's a stain on the door, let's wipe it and polish with Royal Family!" I have to ask Conrad #thearchers

John Duncan Burns

@jdburns.bsky.social

Bringing back Top Gear, but apparently thinking of dropping Newsnight? Interesting priorities there.

945d ago

Simon Threadgold

@sthreadgold.bsky.social

Top Gear is coming back, but the smell never left.

945d ago

Carl Marx

@ishigh.bsky.social

They're bringing back top gear again? cool but IDK how many new trios I can handle

1045d ago

Vio the Vixen4

I hope it's with proper geeks and not "tv personalities"

Carl Marx3

without Paddy, Fred and Chris???

Dan (Chariot Greeter)1

yeah but this time it’s about bdsm

@stevet.bsky.social

More tired old programming from Aunty Beeb. No fresh ideas just rehash after rehash There’ll be another Dickens adaptation for Xmas, no doubt 😂 Top Gear to return after Flintoff crash, BBC confirms www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

945d ago

Mike Landers

@ukplissken.bsky.social

The BBC have said they are looking into rebooting Top Gear with Jimmy Carr as host. I’m happy with that. In fact, I’d be even happier if they didn’t bother with the news, reviews and interviews and just skipped straight to the fiery accident.

845d ago

Kara Jane Adams

@ghostinexile.bsky.social

Personally I think Top Gear ran its course many years ago, however it’s one of the few BBC shows that brings in a lot of money through BBC Worldwide, it far exceeds the money it costs to make. They should definitely take the opportunity to retool it though.

644d ago

AOQ

@faqrules.bsky.social

James Corden, Russel Brand and a third maniac present, Top Gear.

645d ago

plughtoplugh.bsky.social

@plughtoplugh.bsky.social

Top Gear is their most profitable show. They sell it around the world. It pays for specialist interest crap like One Man and His Dog, Countryfile, and Songs of Praise.

445d ago

Dan

@danofthewibble.bsky.social

Well, now that new Top Gear is seemingly confirmed, hopefully they will be keeping Chris Harris. Best thing about the Evans/LeBlanc/Bolton Comedian eras.

445d ago

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