Top Gear

Freddie Flintoff recovering after Top Gear crash, says Piers Morgan

Friend and fellow broadcaster says former England cricketer will be OK after ‘pretty serious crash’

Rachel Hall and Harry Taylor

14, Dec, 2022 @6:24 PM

Freddie Flintoff airlifted to hospital after crash during Top Gear filming

Former England cricket captain’s injuries are reportedly ‘not life-threatening’

Harry Taylor

13, Dec, 2022 @10:39 PM

Sue Baker obituary

Early Top Gear presenter and one of the few women motoring journalists of her time

Chris Goffey

22, Nov, 2022 @6:23 PM

The Observer’s Sue Baker was a pioneer for female motoring journalists | Vanessa Thorpe

The Observer’s motoring correspondent for 13 years also presented Top Gear long before the Jeremy Clarkson era

Vanessa Thorpe

19, Nov, 2022 @6:16 PM

Former Top Gear presenter and motoring journalist Sue Baker dies aged 75

One of the original line-up of the BBC’s car show, Baker had been suffering from motor neurone disease

Harry Taylor

14, Nov, 2022 @9:43 PM

When will Top Gear get back to its best? No time soon

Its focus on car culture makes it better than Clarkson et al’s last series. But the driving show needs to address its Paddy McGuinness problem before it can become genuinely great TV

Joel Golby

04, Jun, 2022 @8:00 AM

The Fast and the Farmer-ish review – BBC Three does competitive tractor racing

Booby-trapped fields! Water cannons! Non-ironic mullets! This daft gameshow might have created a new national sport

Stuart Jeffries

09, Feb, 2022 @9:30 PM

Top Gear review – boy racers go full-throttle in the wrong kind of drag race

Now in its 31st series, the motoring show continues to let men burn rubber and hail the patriarchy – though a tribute to Eddie Kidd shows there’s a heart somewhere under the bonnet

Stuart Jeffries

14, Nov, 2021 @9:00 PM

James May: Oh Cook review – will this be a culinary car crash?

Can’t cook, will cook! This new series sees the Grand Tour presenter aim to brush up on his kitchen skills – all the while assuring us of his ineptitude

Lucy Mangan

13, Nov, 2020 @1:08 PM

Top Gear returns with drive-in live audience after Covid shutdown

Long-running series filmed at Surrey aerodrome in front of 500 fans in parked cars

Tara Conlan

09, Sep, 2020 @10:44 AM

Netflix to resume filming of The Witcher after Covid-19 hiatus

Streaming platform plans to spend £400m to make more than 50 shows and films in UK

Mark Sweney

22, Jun, 2020 @12:37 PM

BBC to resume filming EastEnders and Top Gear by end of June

Production of flagship shows had been put onhold because of the coronavirus crisis