No new Top Gear until Jan 2013

[walshydub]

As title says, no new series of Top Gear this year because of the Olympics & X Factor

Top Gear Won’t Return Until January 2013 :: FinalGear.com

[team_v]

You gotta be *****ting me.
That's a pretty poor excuse.

At least we have the US one to tide us over.

And hopefully with the bigger break they can get some great specials on.

[bigfoot]

Booooooooooo!!!

[brimway]

X Factor? strange priority

[team_v]

X Factor? strange priority

Probably appeals to a wider audience that don't download the show.

[gecko2k]

No new Top Gear until Jan 2013?

SWEET. LESS CRAP ON TV

*pleasehatenow*

[Spyda]

No new Top Gear until Jan 2013?

SWEET. LESS CRAP ON TV

*pleasehatenow*

GTFO!

Thats sucks, the Olympics i can understand but X factor?

I thought i was the only one that liked american top gear.

[walshydub]

No new Top Gear until Jan 2013?

SWEET. LESS CRAP ON TV

*pleasehatenow*

X Factor fan eh?

[jamesatfish]

To be honest I'm pretty happy about this news (and this is coming from someone who flew to the UK for 2 days for a Top Gear filming when our number came up in the ticket lottery).

They've been running for 17 seasons now, and things are getting a little long in the tooth. Many of the challenges are rehashes of things done previously and you can see some of the jokes becoming forced rather than natural. Go and compare the recent super car drive through Italy (the MP4-12C, Aventador and Noble) to the first 1000 GBP Porsche challenge and see how things have changed. I'd much rather see 7 brilliant episodes a year than 14 mediocre ones and I think this change, even if is being blamed on the Olympics or XFactor, is a positive one.

[walshydub]

I agree with you to a certain extent, the quality is not what it used to be, but it's still a damn good show and the last series was a marked improvement.

I'd still rather watch 14 average Top Gear episodes than any other car show's on TV, or crime shows, or talent contests, or fat people crying, or fat people tasting food etc...

[PDU]

This is what JC put out on Twitter:
@jcrclarksonesq: There's a rumour in internet land that there will be no more Top Gears this year. I'm afraid that apart from an Xmas special, it's true.

Would love to be back in the Autumn but Sunday nights then will be full of fat people singing.

The good news is that the longer we have to make the films, the better they will be.

We will be back in January

Top Gear is a medium sized van. Cowell is a juggernaut. When he has finished his singing competition, our new series will start.

[Ryan_R]

Oh well, at least there's new Fifth Gear episodes in July


I also checked out some of JC's other tweets and laughed at this one

[MattyT]

It sucks, but I understand the reasoning. Oh well. I've got plenty of re-runs on my hard drive to keep me happy until then

[geoff_gti]

Saw the same post from Clarkson pop up in fb today as well.

Apparently the last few 'missing' eps of TGA final series when it got axed half way through have been aired as well & are now on YouTube too.

[lol.u.mad.bro]

Looking forward to some jaw dropping episodes in 2013