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Something HUGE is brewing at Top Gear, and I’m NOT talking about the confusion over at NBC’s we-hope-will-be-even-half-as-good-as-the-UK-version-but-can’t-be US version of Top Gear.
And we’ve seen Top Gear’s smoking gun pitch. Yes. That is, if it’s real. I think it is. Maybe. Probably.
Think Top Gear on ice. Almost. Yes. It’s true.
FYI. I love Top Gear. I even met with Clarkson & crew back in ‘05 about hosting that year’s didn’t-happen partnership with Discovery USA. I love TG so much I’ve never gone public with how much I’ve heard, discounted, been told, learned, overheard, been leaked, surmised and/or corroborated about the current NBC project in (stillborn?) development. I once dreamed of hosting an American Top Gear - or its equivalent - but politics, personal reasons and (er…um…shall we say) my strong opinions about how a US Top Gear should work precluded my involvement with NBC long ago. Despite my as-yet unstated views on NBC’s attempt, I would never act in any way to undermine any TG-related project whose success would better the lives of my poor countrymen who’ve yet to savor TG’s genius. In any case, the Alex Roy/TG saga is a story for another time, but this…this is a story that must be told now, because even Team Polizei’s most unshakeable intelligence and psywar staffers were shaken when the following was leaked to us.
I and Team Polizei ally und archivist David Johnson have recently seen a very interesting document…something so sensitive that a tense day-long debate was required before we decided to run with even a fraction of what we could corroborate among our deepest moles…within both Top Gear UK and their leak-prone US proxies.
Let’s take a look at what this allegedly real confidential internal Top Gear document says…or may say. It seems real. If fact, I’m 99.9% certain it is, although I can’t say why, and I’ve been wrong before. Rarely, though. To be clear, it appears to be a pitch being circulated for what Clarkson & crew want to do come 2009 and beyond. We can’t print a copy of what we’ve seen, but…weelllll…let’s start with…
The Top 10 Craziest Top Gear Ideas of 2009 and Beyond
| 10 |
Top Gear on Ice! |
| 9 | Top Gear Safari! |
| 8 | Top Gear Bicycle Spectacle Road Show! |
| 7 | Top Gear Dating Show! |
| 6 | Top Gear Travel Agency! |
| 5 | Top Gear Driving School For Teens! |
| 4 | Top Gear Spec Series! |
| 3 | Top Gear In Iraq! |
| 2 | Top Gear In America…on HBO! |
| 1 | Top Gear Meets Cirque-Du-Soleil Meets Stomp! |
Guess which one it is. I bet you’re wrong.
It’s called Top Gear Live. And there’s dancing in it.
Allegedly. 
More to follow.
Much more.
top gear driving school for teens seems like a good idea. getting driving lessons from the Stig would ensure there were no traffic jams and less accidents (unless you have a Koenigsegg
).
With such a teaser I hope it will be
“Clackson secretly did 31:03″ or
“Clarkson and May will Gumball in 2008″
(but I can’t see how the Cirque du Soleil
fits in)
Interesting, have to wait and see what happens. The best thing I can see is Top Gear being on in the US regularly, not delayed a long time on BBC America. It should be on Discovery or NBC or something like that as regular Top Gear, then they couldn’t ruin Top Gear America.
Topgear have been doing a live show for years. Anyone in the UK who has been to the UK motorshow or MPH would have seen it……
PS In this months Topgear magazine they have an article about what they are doing this series and it includes racing a high speed train in Japan with the new Nissan GT-R.
Alex if you want me to scan it and send it to you then you have my email.
Yeah, Top Gear Live is a part of MPH…
http://www.topgear.com/content/news/stories/2939/
I could just imagine them doing a travel agency. They’d probably tell people to avoid certain countries that produce bad cars, or send them to countries with no speed limits.
I want a TopGear Dating show!!!
Well, they’ve already done various forms of snow and ice plus a trip accross Africa last year. At Top Gear Live @ MPH07 they made a drum kit out of car bits so who lnows what’s in store this time round. Bound to be amusing whatever it turns out to be
Was the “very interesting document…something so sensitive that a tense day-long debate was required before we decided to run with even a fraction of what we could corroborate among our deepest moles…” prehaps found on an English train also containing files on Iraq?
… Just wondering
(HA)On HBO…yeah…that just seemed funny. How about Clarkson, Hammond and May take on the Gumball? I have been hoping they would do that for years! I am also a bit upset to find out that they came all they way to Japan for series 11 to race the Shinkansen and the new GTR…and they didnt even stop by the house to say hello and have a spot of tea!