Autoblog, Jalopnik, and many other automotive websites have been noting that the American version of Top Gear is missing from NBC’s fall lineup and therefore are declaring the show dead and canceled. Besides the fact that we posted the same thing over a monthago, it’s probably incorrect.
The much more plausible explanation is that the NBC executives are merely waiting to see how the pilot turns out which to the best of my knowledge hasn’t even been filmed yet. Gear may end up being a mid-season replacement for any show that gets canceled this fall or it may end up being a show for next summer.
Either way, if I were you the reader, I wouldn’t place your bets on this show being dead until we actually hear exactly that. Not having it show up on the fall schedule isn’t proof. Plus if it had been canceled, don’t you think we would have heard something from Adam and his big mouth already? He wasn’t even supposed to mention that he was to be hosting the show and he did anyway, so I’m sure he would have mentioned if the show was canceled and he knew about it.
Okay, lots of bad news about the new season of Top Gear.
The worst news (probably, could be back earlier I guess) is that Top Gear will not be back on June 15th:
It turns out that the start date for the new TV series has changed from June 15th.
Or, if we’re being honest, maybe never was then at all.
Basically we heard a rumour and jumped the gun a bit in all the excitement.
Sorry.
The worst news is that the schedulers haven’t confirmed the new date either, so we can’t even tell you when it will be.
Basically, your guess is as good as ours’, but we’ll let you know as soon as we do.
Other bad but unconfirmed news is that there will be only 6 episodes this season (spoiler link!). This could or could not be true, we don’t know.
Lastly in the speculation department, it doesn’t look like they’ll have the switch to high definition (HD) ready for this upcoming season. At least this is the conclusion some are coming to after reading a post on a BBC blog.
Still though, can we really complain? Even limited, non-HD amounts of Top Gear is way better than anything else on TV.
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