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November 16th, 2012

Top Gear and Bond 50

Top Gear Bond 50

Ellis O’Brien © BBC Worldwide 2012

Regular viewers of Top Gear would have seen the 50 Years of Bond Cars special this week, but if you’re a more casual follower of Top Gear than of the James Bond franchise, then you may have missed it. Not to worry, BBC Canada will re-run the special Saturday, November 17, at 9pm ET, and BBC America will re-run it this Monday, November 19, at 7pm ET/PT. With a generous allotment of footage from past films and Skyfall, Richard Hammond presents his favorite Bond cars and interviews Daniel Craig and Roger Moore about their favorites. Both are surprising choices. Goldfinger director Guy Hamilton and a former Stig who trains Bond stunt drivers add their insights as well. But it wouldn’t be Top Gear without those don’t-try-this-at-home stunts. One is a marginally successful attempt to bring an invisible car into the real world, and the other puts the Lotus Excel to the submarine test.  We’re pursuing a bit more of the star interview footage for the DVD, planned for March 2013.

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June 10th, 2011

More Clarkson DVDs are coming!

Top Gear 16

Purchasers of Clarkson: Heaven and Hell will know what we’re talking about. Some years ago Top Gear guru Jeremy Clarkson decided to go it alone in exclusive-to-DVD specials timed to the holiday season, and British shopping behavior has never been the same. We have a number of DVDs to catch up on, so we plan to roll out these specials in North America two at a time at the nice price of $9.96.

Supercar Showdown chronicles Clarkson’s far flung quest – from Spain via Strasbourg to Swindon — for the ultimate supercar, and presents his unique point of view from behind the wheel of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, even the 252 mph Bugatti Veyron.

Duel, on the other hand, tackles the kind of questions which arise only in the mind of Clarkson:

“Which car makes the most smoke while going sideways – a Lamborghini Murcielago SuperVeloce or a Vauxhall VXRB Bathurst S?”

“Can the Stig drift a car while wearing wellies? Can I corner in flippers?”

“What will hit the ground first from 150 feet up…a penny or a Ford Scorpio?”

“Can a man with a rubbish car get it home using no fuel at all…just a catapult?”

The cars, the challenges, the wacky stunts and delivering on the catchphrase “everything else explodes” have made giving the gift of Clarkson a holiday tradition.

Before the summer is through, Top Gear 16, the season that premiered on BBC America last February, will arrive on standard and Blu-ray DVD. (The photo is from the precision driving routine in BMW 325i convertibles.) The discs will include Road Trip specials from the Middle East and the USA (well, actually, the Blue Ridge Parkway and a run up the East Coast to New York).

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May 6th, 2011

Made-in-the USA Top Gear

Top Gear

When the US version of Top Gear was being launched last November on The History Channel, we admit that we were skeptical. The success rate among reformatted TV series is lower than anyone cares to admit, and the question that came up most often was, “Which one of the hosts is supposed to be the next Clarkson?” Is it comedian Adam Ferrara (Rescue Me, Ugly Betty)? Or the champion race driver Tanner Foust? Or racing analyst Rutledge Wood? Happily, the three have built a dynamic of their own over the premiere season, and are returning in new season on The History Channel later this year.

Many of the stunts in Top Gear: Season 1 DVD have a peculiarly American flavor, such as a moonshine run along an actual Prohibition route in the Deep South, and the challenge between the Dodge Viper and the Cobra helicopter is some of the most exciting television we’ve seen this season. The 7.5-hour DVD (coming out July 19th) also includes the popular “Big Stars in a Small Car” segments with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Lost actor Dominic Monahan (Hetty Wainthropp Investigates), Modern Family’s Ty Burrell, musician Kid Rock, Avatar star Michelle Rodriguez and skateboard legend and game designer Tony Hawk.

DOCTOR WHO FAN ALERT: Hugh Bonneville (Downton Abbey, The Diary of a Nobody) is guest-starring as a 17th century pirate in this week’s Doctor Who episode “The Curse of the Black Spot” at 9pm ET on Saturday, May 7th.

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December 22nd, 2010

Here’s to 2011!

I don’t know how you are feeling by this time of the year but we’re beat! 2010 was a busy year, filled with successful new launches like Sherlock, Luther, and Life, but we certainly felt like we were all working twice as hard just to stay in place. As it quiets down I thought I’d take a look at the slate we’ve put together next year and share just a few of the things we’re looking forward to sharing with you in the upcoming year:

(1)    Human Planet.  For the first time our Natural History Unit has turned its world class cameramen and story tellers on the most successful animal on the planet—Humans.  What I’ve seen so far looks great!

(2)    More Sherlock!  ‘Nuff said.

(3)    Hamlet at Elsinore.  This much requested version stars Christopher Plummer in the title role.  Sir Michael Caine mentioned at a recent screening we attended that this was the best Hamlet he ever saw (he was also in it) and he wished it would come to DVD.  Your wish, Sir Michael, is our command.  There is also a new Macbeth starring Patrick Stewart, which is airing now in the UK.

(4)    More Primeval!  More MI-5!  More Being Human!  I’m getting a bit overexcited here, aren’t I?

(5)   And finally, our first BD releases of Top Gear (Series 14 and 15).

I don’t want to spoil all our surprises—we’ll have over a 100 new titles next year—but since we’re taking the next week off, we wanted to give you this exciting dose of DVD news to start off what we hope will be a great New Year!

Happy Holidays!

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December 3rd, 2010

Woo-Who! Same day Doctor Who!

Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol

If you’ve tuned into BBC AMERICA lately, you’ll already know that this Christmas — for the first time in history – a Doctor Who episode will air in Britain and America on the same day, only hours apart! Over the past five years, the Doctor Who Christmas Specials have become a Christmas tradition for British viewers, so it’s quite a coup for BBC AMERICA to bring the tradition to the States this year with Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol. A number of factors have raised the pitch of excitement this time around. This is the first special to be penned by Steven Moffat (with a tip of his hat to Dickens). It’s the first special for 11th Doctor Matt Smith, who told Radio Times: “It’s something I’ve always wanted to do since I started the show. I love Christmas, plus I’ve always wanted to film something in July that has got snow in [it], loads of snow… it’s very Christmassy.”  And to play the Christmas-challenged Kazran Sardick is the legendary Sir Michael Gambon – legendary in the Harry Potter films as Professor Dumbledore, legendary in television for The Singing Detective, and legendary on Top Gear for executing a flying turn on a corner of the test track that now bears his name.

Watch the Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol trailer below and mark your calendars for tune-in time: Saturday, December 25, at 9pm Eastern/8 Central. To help set the mood, at 1pm on Christmas BBC AMERICA will also air the Doctor Who Prom, which we plan to include on the DVD and Blu-ray. Look for them next year, hopefully before the winter snows thaw.

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