BBC Revives Top Gear After 4-Year Hiatus Following 2022 Flintoff Crash
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Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 27
BBC Revives Top Gear After 4-Year Hiatus Following 2022 Flintoff Crash
3 articles · Updated · bbc.co.uk · Aug 27
Summary
Four years after Top Gear was taken off air, the BBC confirmed at the Edinburgh TV Festival that the motoring show will return to television.
The programme was rested in 2022 after Andrew Flintoff suffered serious facial and rib injuries when a three-wheeled car overturned during filming at the show's test track.
Ed Havard, the BBC's entertainment director, said more details would come shortly but declined to name presenters, despite reports that Jimmy Carr and Joe Marler are in the frame.
Top Gear began in 1977 and became a major BBC hit in the 2000s; Flintoff, Paddy McGuinness and Chris Harris had fronted the latest version since 2018.