Richard Hammond's Car Confidential: The Odd, the Mad, the Bad and the Curious
TV.com (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
TV.com's pick of the best TV shows on Aussie screens this week. Top Gear: Winter Olympics Special Never mind that this was filmed in 2006, it's first-run in Australia, and in its usual cheeky style, is outrageous fun. The boys travel to Norway where they race a speed skater around an ice rink, pit a bobsled against a rally driver, test whether Richard Hammond can outlast a car in temperatures...
Brits on Pole (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Imagine this: instead of watching the British Grand Prix from the safety of your sofa at home, or sat in the Silverstone grandstands with ear protectors and a bacon sarnie, you’re suddenly transported to the pitlane, strapped into a powerful F1 car, and told ‘off you go’. Reckon you could cope? Top Gear fans will remember the meal Richard Hammond made of his first few minutes in one of...
Metro.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... It found the images breached the broadcasting code. The BBC2 show - hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - included the images in a mock remake of a VW car commercial screened in August. The suicide was accompanied by blood spatters and the dead man was subsequently seen lying in a pool of blood. The graphic images were removed from a repeat the following day,...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The BBC2 show - hosted by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - included the images in a mock remake of a VW car commercial screened in August. The suicide was accompanied by blood spatters and the dead man was subsequently seen lying in a pool of blood.
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... on that show, he passes for unambitious, the lumbering turtle up against Jeremy Clarkson's fox and Richard Hammond's rabbit.
Insurance Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... added to their parents’ policies, driving up the numbers of young motorists without insurance. Richard Hammond, the Hamster from Top Gear, also backed the firm in October, endorsing its approach of user friendliness and low-cost.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
... , Batman , X-Men and Ben 10 . The least risky behaviour was found in programmes including Richard Hammond's Blast Lab , The Secret Show , Charlie and Lola and Blue Peter . "The problem is that these characters engage in risky behaviours and experience great violence but the negative consequences of dangerous behaviour are usually not portrayed," said Pfeffer. "There...
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
With all the fireworks going off all around town - all evening - sending my dog into paroxysms of hysterical barking, I was reminded of this great documentary from a a few years ago about the gunpowder plot. Reconstructing the House of Lords to scale, Richard Hammond and team then blew it up to see what would have happened. So, what would have happened? Well, take a look... Boom!
WorldCarFans.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
... and this annual automotive extravaganza - hosted by BBC TV's Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - has come to be regarded as our ‘home' motor show, taking place as it does just a stone's throw from our Park Royal headquarters. The MPH Motor Show attracts only the very cream of latest high-performance and luxury automotive brand names, and is thus the...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
BBCJeremy Clarkson has joked that a silent episode of Top Gear should go ahead to stop the show offending people.The 49-year-old suggested that an instalment in which he and fellow hosts James May and Richard Hammond keep quiet would be a perfect way to avoid complaints, the Daily Star reports.Clarkson quipped: "One day we'll do an episode of Top Gear in which none of us speak. It's the...
eGMCarTech (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... “a bit gay” and “a ginger beer” in 2006. The BBC also apologized after Clarkson asked co-host Richard Hammond if he was “mental” when he returned to Top Gear after a near-fatal car crash. - By: Kap Shah Source: Telegraph
Autobulbs Direct Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... show at the Reef Paint Shop stand at MPH The Prestige and Performance Motor Show. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May ant The Stig will be live on stage at the show for the return for the 2009 World Tour. Related posts: Caterham Superlight R500 confirmed for MPH show Supercars ‘will be out in force at Classic Motor Show’ Peugeot produces ‘affordable supercar’
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
TOP GEAR'S GOB STOPABOVE: SHUT IT: Jeremy 4th November 2009 By Dan SalesMOTORMOUTH Jeremy Clarkson has revealed plans for a silent Top Gear show to stop it offending people.Clarkson said an episode of the hit car programme in which nobody spoke would be the only way to halt complaints about the presenters’ near-the-knuckle jokes.Top Gear, co-hosted by James May, 46, and Richard Hammond,...
