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Top Gear
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Netflix ‘could pit new Top Gear against Amazon’
SVOD service Netflix is reportedly planning to deflate the tyres of Amazon Studios new Jeremy…
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Amazon ‘eyes Oz SVOD launch’
Amazon could use the launch of its new Top Gear rival motoring show to launch…
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Under the bonnet of the new Top Gear
Top Gear is the biggest factual TV show in the world, and one of the…
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Showcase: LeBlanc ‘gives Top Gear global boost’
New Top Gear frontman Chris Evans has told TBI that bringing Friends star Matt LeBlanc…
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BBC assembles team for Top Gear reboot
The BBC has announced the full team for its much-anticipated new Top Gear series. Describing…
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ITV orders Top Gear rival Drive!
UK broadcaster ITV has commissioned Drive!, a new motoring entertainment series that will go up…
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BBC Store debuts with ‘comprehensive’ offering
BBC Worldwide has today launched its download-to-own BBC Store, promising access to the “most comprehensive…
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Evans plots Top Gear change for BBCWW
The new presenter of BBC Worldwide’s motoring franchise Top Gear, Chris Evans, plans to bring…
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BBC taking Top Gear’s Chris Evans to Cannes
BBC Worldwide is taking Chris Evans to MIPCOM next month to promote the new season…
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Apple, Amazon, and the exclusivity paradox
Rob Gallagher, director of research and analysis, media and entertainment at research house Ovum, muses…
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Netflix chief claims Top Gear trio ‘not worth it’
Netflix’s chief product officer Neil Hunt has claimed the reported £160 million (US$244.3 million) price…
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‘Apple set to challenge Netflix for originals’
Technology giant Apple is set to shake up the content world, with a report from…
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Bezos: ‘Clarkson series very, very, very expensive’
Jeff Bezos has said Amazon’s upcoming motoring series with the former Top Gear team will…
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New-look Top Gear names Wilman replacement
Former Big Breakfast and Don’t Forget Your Toothbrush producer Lisa Clark will reunite with presenter…
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Sony’s Toro making Italian Top Gear for Sky
Pay TV operator Sky’s Italian operation has ordered a local version of BBC motoring magazine…
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Ex-Top Gear presenter on Jungle Quest for Sky
Sky has ordered Richard Hammond’s Jungle Quest, a two-part series in which the eponymous former…
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Forde upped as Tranter exits BBC Worldwide Prods
Matt Forde (below) has been promoted at BBC Worldwide North America after the company confirmed…
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Chris Evans takes Clarkson’s Top Gear post
Chris Evans will succeed Jeremy Clarkson as presenter of the BBC’s money-spinning petrol-head fact-ent series…
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Clarkson ‘planning car show comeback’
Former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson (above middle) is plotting a replacement petrolhead series after…
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Official: BBC drops Top Gear’s Clarkson
The BBC will not renew the contract of controversial Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, throwing…
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A+E poaches BBC Worldwide’s Hill
A+E Networks has poached BBC Worldwide’s Amanda Hill to become its chief creative officer, international….
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Global Top Gear broadcasters offered Italian special
BBC Worldwide has confirmed that it has offered all of the international Top Gear broadcasters…
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Italy special replaces Top Gear in the US
BBC Worldwide will provide US Top Gear fans with a two-part special in lieu of…
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BBC Worldwide says Top Gear impact ‘minimal’
BBC Worldwide said today that it will offer international Top Gear broadcasters alternative, original content from…
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BBC pulls Top Gear after Clarkson suspension
UK public broadcaster the BBC has decided to pull the remaining episodes of flagship motoring…
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Tranter to exit BBC Worldwide Productions
Jane Tranter is to leave LA-based BBC Worldwide Productions and return to the UK indie…
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Worldwide strikes worldwide SVOD deals
BBC Worldwide has struck a raft of deals with digital platforms around the world, shopping…
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BBC Worldwide in largest Taiwan deal
BBC Worldwide claims it has closed its largest-ever programming deal in Taiwan through an agreement…
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Netflix and BBC discuss US content deal
Some library shows from BBC Worldwide could leave Netflix with several titles up for renewal. US…
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Nordic launches for BBC Brit and Earth channels
BBC Worldwide is planning to launch its BBC Brit and BBC Earth channels in the…