Top Gear (current format) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 13/12/2018

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Top Gear (current format)


00:02:38 1 History
00:02:47 1.1 Early years: 2002–05
00:06:38 1.2 Changes and growing popularity: 2006–14
00:12:36 1.3 Hiatus and Clarkson's suspension: 2015
00:15:13 1.4 New hosts and new era: 2016–present
00:19:32 2 Format
00:20:16 2.1 Car reviews
00:22:55 2.2 Power laps
00:24:49 2.3 "Star in a ... Car"
00:29:09 2.4 Challenges
00:32:06 2.5 Races
00:34:18 2.6 The Cool Wall
00:35:45 2.7 Specials
00:36:41 2.8 Award ceremony
00:37:46 3 Episodes
00:37:55 4 Broadcast
00:38:42 5 Media releases and marketing
00:39:15 5.1 Music compilations
00:39:49 5.2 DVDs
00:40:05 5.3 iTop Gear/i on Facebook
00:40:24 5.4 Books
00:40:38 6 Awards and nominations
00:43:02 7 Controversies
00:46:34 8 International versions
00:46:56 8.1 Australia
00:48:35 8.2 Russia
00:49:28 8.3 United States
00:51:49 8.4 South Korea
00:52:27 8.5 China
00:53:10 8.6 France



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Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two. The programme is a relaunched version of the original 1977 show of the same name, which looks at various motor vehicles, primarily cars. While the original format focused mainly on review of cars, the 2002 version expanded on this with motoring-based challenges, special races, timed laps of notable cars, and celebrity timed laps on a course specially-designed for the relaunched programme, with its format developing over time to focus on a more quirky, humorous and sometimes controversial style of presentation. The programme has received acclaim for its visual style and presentation, as well as criticism for its content.Since 2002, the programme has been presented by several hosts. In its first series, the show's line-up was Clarkson, Richard Hammond and Jason Dawe, with Wilman as the show's executive producer, and introducing anonymous test driver "The Stig", an individual played by numerous racing drivers over the course of the show's history. Following the first series, Dawe was replaced by James May, with the line-up unchanged until the end of the twenty-second series, when the BBC chose to not renew Clarkson's contract on 25 March 2015, following an incident during filming. His dismissal from Top Gear prompted the departure of Hammond, May and Wilman from the programme, and led to them joining Clarkson in forming a new motoring series. For the twenty-third series, the programme was presented by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc, with them joined by four co-presenters who would make occasional appearances during its run: Rory Reid, Sabine Schmitz, Chris Harris and Eddie Jordan. After negative feedback on this series led to Evans resigning from the programme, Harris and Reid became the main hosts alongside LeBlanc, with Schmitz and Jordan making occasional appearances as co-presenters, from the twenty-fourth series onwards.
Since its relaunch, Top Gear is one of the BBC's most commercially successful programmes. It has become a significant show in British popular culture, with episodes also broadcast internationally in many countries in Europe, North America, South-East Asia and more, making it the most widely broadcast factual television programme in the world. Its success has led to various forms of merchandising, including live tours, special DVD editions, and books, as well as spawning a variety of international versions in various countries, including the United States, Australia, South Korea, China and France.