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Top Gear
Thursday:
‘Top Gear’
Wins
Prestigious
Award,
‘Doctor
Who’s
Matt Smith Hits
the Track

'Top Gear' producer Andrew Wilman (left) with Jeremy Clarkson at the Rose d'Or Festival in Switzerland last week. (Rose d'Or)

Top Gear has received a special prize from the Rose d’Or festival in Switzerland. The 2012 Honorary Rose Award recognized the show’s extraordinary global reach.

All Stories

Doctor
Who’s Day
Roundup: Karen
Gillan Wants
‘Community’
Role

Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: Karen Gillan Wants ‘Community’ Role

WATCH:
Interview with
Chris Sell,
British Founder
of New York’s
Chip Shop.
Plus: Top 5 NYC
Eats

WATCH: Interview with Chris Sell, British Founder of New York’s Chip Shop. Plus: Top 5 NYC Eats

For our “Anglo Eats Out” series, we’ve been zipping around New York City, interviewing British chefs who have achieved culinary stardom in the the most competitive city on the planet. (Check out our first installment, ...

Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard Hammond
is Demolition
Man

Hard-hatted Hammond.

Forget about the nineties action movie starring Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes. This century’s demolition man is… The Hamster.

Doctor
Who’s Day
Roundup: My
Name Is Bond,
Doctor Bond

Doctor Who’s Day Roundup: My Name Is Bond, Doctor Bond

WATCH: Teaser
Released for
BBC
America’s
‘Copper’

WATCH: Teaser Released for BBC America’s ‘Copper’

Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard Hammond
– Out of
the Landfill
and Into the
Fire

Top Gear: Fire Walk With Me

“I’m off to a good old-fashioned Texas barbeque,” said Richard Hammond of his challenge in next week’s Crash Course (premiering Monday, May 7, 10p/9c).

BBCAmerica.com
Launches Mind
the Gap,
Survival Guide
for Brits in
America

BBCAmerica.com Launches Mind the Gap, Survival Guide for Brits in America

Are you a Brit ready to make that leap across the Atlantic? Or perhaps you’ve already made the jump, and want to capitalize on all that America has to offer while maintaining a connection to home? BBCAmerica.

Top Gear
Thursday:
Richard Hammond
Says NASCAR
Driving is
‘Like
Climbing into
the Belly of a
Dragon’

Richard Hammond with NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson. (Oisin Tymon/BBC Worldwide)

It seems as though Richard Hammond has become Top Gear’s go-to guy for anything about cars – or about life, for that matter – in these former British colonies.

Gallery:
Britain’s
Swankiest
Luxury Cars

Each week Top Gear tells us about fast cars, or cars that compete in all sorts of weird competitions, and in Crash Course, Richard Hammond learns about vehicles that perform very specialized tasks, but right now, we’re going to take a look at another very specific category of cars: the luxury car.  And we’re not going to look at just any old luxury cars – we’re going to look at British luxury cars, which have historically set the gold standard for automotive excellence. (We’re also trying to see if we could write ad copy for cars.) We’re going to look at the top of line, the crème de la crème of super luxury cars. They’re the cars of the ultra wealthy, the conveyances of the 1% of the 1%, cars that cost so much that we can’t keep track of all the zeros. And the closest that we’re ever going to get to any of them is looking at this photo gallery.First up: an entry from Aston Martin. The name Aston Martin is perhaps most familiar to us through James Bond, who drove a DB5 in Goldfinger. The Aston Martin One-77 (above) gets its name from the fact that there were only 77 made. Each one sells for about $1.85 million. But you’ll probably have to pay more for an ejector seat. (via The Super Cars)