The BBC has ended months of speculation over the future of the world’s most famous car TV show, announcing today that the program is being dropped “for the foreseeable future.”
The broadcaster pulled the show from the air after presenter Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff was seriously hurt when the Morgan Super 3 he was driving flipped over during filming. Flintoff reappeared in public for the first time in months in September and pictures from that time revealed extensive scarring on his face. The following month news emerged that the BBC had reached a £9 million ($11.5 m) settlement with the former cricketer.
But just because Top Gear is disappearing from our screens, it doesn’t mean we’ve seen the last of its three presenters. The BBC says it “remains committed to Freddie, Chris, and Paddy who have been at the heart of the show’s renaissance since 2019, and we’re excited about new projects being developed with each of them. We will have more to say in the near future on this.”
The BBC also confirmed that although the Top Gear TV show was being canned, the Top Gear magazine and website will continue as normal, albeit minus the generous free advertising that the program provided.
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