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Returning: Top Gear

Move aside Aussie caretakers, Clarkson, Hammond and May are back.

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Following the final episode of Top Gear Australia on November 17th, we are set for the real deal to return to SBS.

Top Gear‘s eleventh series kicked off in the UK in June and it screens on SBS from Monday November 24.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May return with six new episodes, with guests including Allan Carr, Jay Kay and Rupert Penny Jones.

Meanwhile the twelfth series got underway in the UK this week. Clarkson already copped some bad press for a remark about truck drivers killing prostitutes.

Press Release:
SBS’s most popular program Top Gear returns this month with an all new six-episode series commencing Monday 24 November at 7:30pm.

Doing what they do best hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and The Stig return for Series 11.

Top Gear fans will get a summer full of motoring entertainment on SBS with the network catching up to the UK and presenting back-to-back new Top Gear, with the eight-part Series 12 following Series 11, from Monday 5 January 2009.

“We know Top Gear fans have a real thirst for the latest antics from the British Top Gear team and so SBS has an action packed summer planned for our audience,” Director of Content, Matt Campbell said.

“This will bring Australian viewers up-to-date with Top Gear UK after a successful introduction to the local lads from Top Gear Australia.”

In Series 11 you can expect to see double the celebrities, Jeremy test drive the latest cars and a race across Japan with the ultra efficient Japanese public transport system taking on the high tech Nissan GTR. The hosts are asked to purchase old Alpha Romeos for under £1000 and are then challenged by the producers to put them through a track day, calendar shoot and car show. Richard competes against two skiers in the Alps, Jeremy and James show off their large ageing luxury cars through the streets of London and a bunch of men wearing tight pants chase Jeremy through a forest.

Episode 1 – Monday 24 November, 7:30pm

Top Gear looks at fuel economy and, in an important and useful test, find out how far five supercars can go on one gallon of petrol. The hosts are then presented a challenge – to buy old bombs and turn them into modern police cars before putting them through a number of challenges including a spectacular car chase test with The Stig driving the getaway car. Jeremy compares the Toyota Prius and BMW M3, of course, and test drives the Ferrari Suderia. Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins from The Friday Night Project are the Stars in the Reasonably Priced Car.

All new Top Gear on SBS, from Monday 24 November at 7:30pm

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  8. i think the local version is slowly coming into its own. Charlie just needs a little bit of work – especially while chatting to the weekly celebrity. He’s just too much of a clarkson clone. The other guys are ahead by a country mile. I might even suggest for the next season dropping charlie, and give the cartoon guy the lead job. Oh, and while they’re at it – drop the “some say…..” scripts about the stigg – they’re mortifyingly bad. Final point : drop the “what were they thinking” segment too – it feels too much like a filler segment.

  12. Thats Good news.
    Although I like that Aussie version, the one segment that is really pathetic is the ‘What were they thinking’. Yeh, what were they thinking when they thought of ‘that’ segment.

  13. I saw the truck ep a few days ago and it’s typical TG, they have a channel and nothing but destruction follows, love it!

    I was a little disappointed they made no mention of our local version.

    Wonder if well get more ‘classic’ TG between S11 and S12?

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