Top Gear Crashes In To The US

If you read the auto blogs, you’ll know that the BBC’s Top Gear show is a bit of an international hit. The show that’s been around for a while now features a number of guys who’ve been around for a bit longer who act like they’ve just passed their driving test. The Indie reports that Jeremy Clarkson and his co-hosts are reacting to this popularity by launching a US version of the show featuring Jeremy Clarkson and his co-hosts.

BBC chiefs are attempting to broker a multimillion-pound deal with major American networks to make “Top Gear USA”. The show could make a stateside star of Jeremy Clarkson, the motormouth who presents the BBC2 programme, along with his co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May

…In its current guise, Top Gear, a Bafta and Emmy award- winning series, is being shown in the US on the Discovery Channel. The programme is estimated to have more than 350 million viewers worldwide, including eight million in the UK.

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