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Jeremy Clarkson made £830,000 from Top Gear

January 28th, 2010
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Jeremy Clarkson made £830,000 from Top Gear last year, on top of his BBC salary, thanks to a complex and lucrative deal he has agreed with the corporation.

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BBC considers Top Gear computer game

January 26th, 2010
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The BBC is rumoured to be considering a range of computer games based on some of its biggest shows - including Top Gear.

The corporation is reportedly inviting external publishers and games developers to present business models that would transform programmes such as Doctor Who and Top Gear into Nintendo DS, Wii and iPhone games.

Despite closing its multimedia division in 2005, the broadcaster's commercial arm, BBC Worldwide is reportedly keen to extract more value from its best-known shows, and has hired a former games company executive to oversee its digital entertainment branch.

It's far too early for there to be any indication of what form a Top Gear game might take, but the programme's global popularity would suggest any forthcoming title is guaranteed a receptive audience.

 

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Top Gear most popular on iPlayer

January 21st, 2010
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Top Gear is the most-watched programme on the BBC's iPlayer according to latest viewing figures, with episodes from the motoring series making up eight of the top ten most popular shows.

The most popular Top Gear episodes are consistently the race specials, and only the Gavin and Stacey finale and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow could make an impact on the show's dominance.

Latest data also reveals that iPlayer has five million unique users per week, who watch 729 million shows between them.

 

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Copy Top Gear’s polar trip

January 20th, 2010
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A chance to emulate Jeremy Clarkson and James May's exploits at the North Pole in Toyota pick-ups.

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Icelandic tuner offers DIY Top Gear challenge

January 18th, 2010
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It's easy to envy the Top Gear team. Unparalleled access to the world's finest cars, huge budgets to play with, colossal paychecks to take home; the list goes on and on. But what makes us really green are the challenges that transport the boys to some far-flung corner of the globe in the name of good TV.

Clarkson and May's successful attempt to drive to the magnetic North Pole was one of the more memorable adventures, primarily because it had all the right ingredients; vast, treacherous landscape, extreme conditions and, of course, a special kind of car.

For anyone who missed the (heavily repeated) broadcast, the massively beefed-up Toyota Hiluxs used by the team quickly became the stars of the show for their utter indestructibility.

Unsurprisingly, the company responsible for modifying the cars has decided to put its hour of publicity to good effect.
Arctic Trucks, a Reykjavik-based engineering company, is offering trips across Iceland to anyone interested in recreating Top Gear's film.

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