Top Gear - Will it / Won't it
By admin
Published: March 11, 2007
Will Top Gear return to BBC 2 in the summer? There seems to be some confusion as to if Top Gear will actually be returning to our television screens this summer on BBC 2. At the end of the final episode of Top Gear shown last Sunday the voice over said it would be returning in the summer, yet Jeremy Clarkson wrote in his article about when Top Gear will be returning in The Sun newspaper "Can I just say, here and now, it won't be". 
What Jeremy Clarkson means by this is a vague (and it doesn't help that I haven't read the full article in The Sun newspaper), so it could mean that Top Gear won't return to BBC 2 in the summer, but will do in the Autumn!!! A BBC spokesman responded by saying: "Top Gear will be back. A summer special is planned." A new series would reach screens in the autumn, We're expecting all three boys to present the programmes". Some strange goings on in the Top Gear camp then, but I think its likely to return especially given how much Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson get paid for 6 episodes a year. Another reason it is likely to return is the viewing figures an estimated eight million people tuned in to see the last episode in the series on Sunday which was the largest BBC 2 audience for 10 years. 
Maybe this is just Jeremy Clarkson wanting Top Gear to return to being a car show rather than a elaborate stunt show, but we should find out soon
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