Top Gear

Detailed review of ep.4 (includes a response from Rory Reid with some insight into the stance offered by Extra Gear): http://www.autoblog.com/2016/06/20/top-g...ur-review/

BBC website piece on the validity of the non-linear viewing argument; how it differs for various types of programme often depending their majority demographic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36487069

On an allied note - TG to be moved to 6.30pm if sixth and final episode clashes with an England quarter-final in the Euros: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/...o-2016-qu/ (England must beat Iceland on Monday evening first.)

...And finally, next up for the celeb back-slapping segment: http://www.dailystar.co.uk/showbiz-tv/ho...-andersson

Couple of bits about the next episode:
http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radi...hris-Evans

http://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news...rish-coast

Following the filming on the last studio sessions on Thursday (http://www.wonderwall.com/news/patrick-d....article), the presenters will now be writing for TG mag more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/top-g...st-8284130

Le Blanc's him or me for next series? https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/13...r-leblanc/

Yeah, that still wasn't too bad. That Chris and Rory do the serious road tests tells you a lot, that Matt, a comic actor, can deliver funny lines, is hardly a shock, and if Evans passes the baton at the end of this series, it won't hurt the show (depending on who they pass the baton to).

^ I can't see that happening, however much it might benefit the programme. The guy has a three year contract and the beeb are cash strapped. Don't see Evans walking away gratis.

Decent show this week,those two Rolls Royce convertables were my favourite and of the two i would go for the classic one instead of BMW's vision of what one should be like,also good to see Norman Dewis is still around,he is a legend.

^^^I preferred the modern one, even though it looks more like a Bentley or something.

Not that I'm likely to own either anyway

TG's overnight ratings and audience share rose for the first time this series with ep.5: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/j...-by-300000

The beeb are putting in a new producer as boss over Evans for the next series (scheduled to begin filming in September according to several papers this week): http://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radi...hris-Evans

Here's this week's iPlayer link (episode 5):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b07...-episode-5

Crisis talks to be held with the beeb at the end of this month: https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/13...-the-kerb/ (although as the Daily Mail points out the boss in question doesn't start her job officially until September 5).

All the bigger name hosts missed the series' wrap party: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...uture.html

Met police will investigate Evans' past: https://heatst.com/uk/top-gear-host-chri...llegation/