EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
Top Gear (UK) - Season 27
The 27th season begins with a series of interviews where Danny Boyle and Hitch Patel, the director and comedian, arrive at the studio. Freddy Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McEwenis have introduced a special electric car, facing the challenge of building a low-battery sports car with very little budget. In the meantime, Chris takes Tesla 3 for the test.
19 May 1945, London, England, UK
14 February 1970, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
2 September 1953, Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK
7 March 1944, Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK
31 March 1975, Kouvola, Finland
29 May 1967, Longsight, Manchester, England, UK
11 June 1939, Milton, Dumbartonshire, Scotland, UK
3 February 1970, Epsom, Surrey, England, UK
28 July 1974, Bristol, England, UK
11 February 1959, England, UK
2 March 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
June 17, 2019
Watching Top Gear was always a bit like having to sit through someone else's holiday home movies.
June 17, 2019
It shouldn't work. But amazingly... it does. Chris Harris (the only full-on car expert), Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness gel as a trio in a way that might just restore the sense of lads-tooling-about that made the series a hit to begin with.
June 17, 2019
Top Gear's great success lay in its appeal to viewers who didn't care about cars. It was crowdpleasing fare; it went nowhere, fast. On this showing, it's not going anywhere soon.
June 17, 2019
This format died when Chris Evans took over. Now it's zombified. Surely the BBC execs hurling money at it, with the trio enjoying a lengthy junket to Ethiopia, must see that this is undead TV.
June 17, 2019
Flintoff and McGuinness are by no means Formula One-grade banterers - but they're revving up nicely. And Top Gear may not be for the scrap heap just yet.
June 17, 2019
Based on this first episode though, the BBC programme looks to be back on track with a winning formula, combining the bits viewers love with some genuine charm.
June 17, 2019
Top Gear felt freewheeling and unpredictable again. I found a grin spreading across my face and even laughed aloud. Flintoff and McGuinness promise to make this floundering franchise the best it's been since the Clarkson era.
June 17, 2019
It was better than expected because you could believe this trio were real mates, even though you knew it was a TV Tinder date. Thus far I rather "likey", but since I am definitely not the traditional, hardcore audience, that might not bode well.