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In the United States, the explosive popularity of Top Gear started with the Internet. By now, sitting down at a computer to watch Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May feels normal. When their version of Top Gear first gained notoriety beyond the United Kingdom, it did so in clips and torrents posted online. If you wanted to track down episodes of Top Gear before they regularly started appearing on cable stateside, chances are you found your way onto its fan site FinalGear, which once linked to torrents of every episode. Similar shows, such as Top Gear’s international versionsand Fifth Gear also made it on the site.The Grand Tour Will Actually Debut A Day Early In The United States
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The site stopped posting torrent links in 2014, but its forums and IRC channel live on.
Top Gear didn’t get to be the international juggernaut it is by exactly legal means—otherwise, it might have been stuck in the United Kingdom forever or, at best, relegated to some fourth-tier U.S. cable channel. Rather, its popularity came from car fans’ tendency to rip and share.
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I wanted to know more about car shows’ long and storied relationship with the Internet, so I spoke with FinalGear’s U.S.-based owner, who goes by Viper007Bond (or “Viper” for short) on the forums, and asked us to refer to him as such to preserve his anonymity.
Back around 2003, it was incredibly difficult to find anything from Top Gear online. Movies, not television, dominated the nascent torrent scene, and the internet wasn’t quite up to the task of streaming anything yet. Short, pre-YouTube, low-quality clips from the show started to appear on car forums, however, and that left guys like Viper and a forum friend who went by VUK wanting more.
Top Gear was this funny British show that was willing to be brutally honest about cars—something we rarely see on highly-commercialized American television, where the wrong word could kill a sponsorship. Plus, it dealt in high-octane fantasy, the kind of stuff car people dream they could do with their friends and an unlimited budget. Of course it resonated with automotive forums, where car folks go to kvetch, commiserate and laugh.
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“Somehow the discussion of Top Gear came up.and [VUK] said, ‘oh, I’ll start ripping and sending you things,’” Viper explained. “We’re talking about 100 megabytes for an episode—those little postage stamps, so [terrible quality], you know?”
But “then other people wanted copies of it after they saw that was going on,” Viper said.
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Eventually, he explained, the Scene—the merry pirates responsible for ripping much of the content that’s out on the Internet—took over ripping duties from VUK.
FinalGear then grew into a repository of reliable torrent links, making it easier than ever for fans to download episodes without having to worry that you’ve got the wrong, possibly virus-ridden link. The site never hosted pirated content itself, but it became the definitive place to find the original broadcast versions of a show that wasn’t available in the U.S.
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It was a grueling schedule for the handful of fans who kept FinalGear running, who had to be home every time there was an episode of the several shows they covered for the main page’s 11-year run.
“That piece of FinalGear, kind of, was no longer important as it used to be, but you know this was all before Netflix and I think Top Gear was just a U.K. show,” Viper said.
“I don’t think they realized that it would be popular outside of the U.K.,” he explained. “Of course, old [pre-2002] Top Gear was like Motor Trend or whatever.very U.K.-focused. Once they rebooted, it became an entertainment show rather than an informational show.”
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Network execs likely didn’t initially consider that Top Gear would find an audience abroad, given its location on a British public broadcasting network and now, a huge swath of viewers who were watching it without paying the BBC’s license fees to fund it all. But they certainly took notice of its popularity online once it did. Cast members and staff occasionally made mention of their Internet following on the show and its related websites, much to FinalGear’s amusement.
“I can’t speak for the BBC themselves when it comes to FinalGear,” explained Richard Porter, Top Gear’s script editor during the Clarkson, Hammond and May era. “They always get a bit uptight when they think people are nicking their stuff. But FinalGear was well known in the old Top Gear office and I remember we used to have a good chuckle over the demotivators thread.”
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On the show itself, presenters still tiptoed around their known pirate-heavy following.
“Never in name,” Viper explained, “Always jokingly like ‘oh the internet, dah, dah, dah, whatever.’ You know, that kind of thing. I know they were aware of the site. I can’t speak officially. I don’t know for sure, but my understanding is that everyone but the legal department didn’t mind, because to them they were just producing something and more fans were enjoying it.”
It wasn’t until the BBC had the legal means to distribute the show outside the United Kingdom in places like Netflix that anyone started taking real legal issue with FinalGear.
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Even then, many believe that these “utter pirates” (as an old shirt FinalGear users made for themselves once read) were what finally convinced the BBC to broadcast Top Gear in America.
“I assume they saw it torrented and stuff and that’s when they realized, ‘oh, we should put this on BBC America,’” Viper mentioned. “I don’t take any FinalGear credit for that—I mean, sure, probably in part, but the internet at large, the fact that [the show was] pirated—I assume, I’m guessing that’s how it led to BBC America and eventually came out on DVD and all that kind of stuff.”
Top Gear’s widespread piracy may have also convinced the BBC’s international commercial arm to move the broadcast schedule up as well, as it was hard to justify waiting for it to appear on TV when it was released shortly after its original airtime in the U.K.
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“It used be Top Gear would air a month later after the U.K. airing and now it’s within 24 hours,” Viper noted.
Ultimately, it was the the Federation Against Copyright Theft, an industry group representing the BBC, who handed FinalGear a DMCA take-down request for all the torrent links on the site.
Since other sites now catalog the shows FinalGear covered and it’s much easier to find television shows online now, Viper simply shut down FinalGear’s main page in response, but kept the forums and IRC channels alive. Those remain one of the major places to discuss all things related to Top Gear, its spin-offs like Top Gear USA and The Grand Tour, and other car-related topics.
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“Times have certainly changed, and that’s why I never felt too bad about shutting down the front end of FinalGear,” explained Viper. “Gosh, that was 13 years ago now? Internet streaming wasn’t a thing, especially for full TV shows. Hulu and all that stuff didn’t exist. I don’t know. Piracy always gets ahead. Movies were pirated for the longest time and now you can actually watch them [online] legally.”
Naturally, there are fans (admittedly, myself included) who still bemoan that the show has to swap out its original music for broadcast outside the United Kingdom. Top Gear’s other big appeal to car geeks—once file sharing technology improved to let us see bigger, better quality show files—was in its production values.
Elements like the music weren’t network afterthought like many car shows seem to be, and the non-profit BBC wasn’t bound by the same music copyright laws so many American shows were.
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Top Gear felt cinematic and spectacular, and its music selection was far more thoughtful than the usual iMovie dad-rock loop that gets plopped over classic car build shows. Clarkson ruminating over the future of cars while driving a delightfully old-school V12 Aston Martin, for example, was set to Brian Eno’s “An Ending,” as he speculates the car may be one of the last of its kind. There’s meaning conveyed in song choice. Musical touches like that and stunning visuals let it reach beyond car fans, over to a more general audience.
Top Gear’s online legions seem to have influenced the international broadcasts, too.
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“When it first came to BBC America.it was like the music was supposed to be this huge part of the show and then they would just dub over generic stuff,” Viper noted. “I don’t know if you’ve watched [the BBC America version] at all recently, but . they would actually go to the trouble of licensing most of the songs [in the original U.K. edit], or they would pick songs that would work for the international market.” Progress.
And now, after becoming popular because of the internet, the trio makes it their broadcast medium. It feels like we’re finally getting what we want in The Grand Tour: a car show that lives on the web. While we’re all finding out at the same time later tonight whether this is the case, whatever music is in the background hopefully won’t have to change across international borders. It’s a show made for online consumption, and geared towards the online masses who will inevitably dissect every minute detail of the show.
In a way, the internet is Clarkson, Hammond and May’s home. It’s how a vast chunk of their fanbase found them. The Grand Tour may be stressing all of the ways it’s different to avoid their own set of legal troubles with the BBC, however, as a viewer sitting back down in front of a computer to download a car show, the trio’s new format feels more like a homecoming.
Comments are closed.Top Gear (UK : 2002) (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
Reviews and other segments enlighten viewers on motor-vehicles of all sorts.
Start date: Oct 2002
End date: ___ ____
Status: current show
Network(s): BBC One (UK) / BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 80+ eps
Genre(s): Miscellaneous
*presenters:
*Matt LeBlanc [ 23- ]
*Chris Evans [ 23 ]
*Jeremy Clarkson [ 1-22 ]
*Richard Hammond [ 1-22 ]
*James May [ 2-22 ]
*Jason Dawe [ 1 ] Episode list & details from: TVmaze • TV.comEpisode #Original
Air DateTitlesSeason 11.1-1 20 Oct 02Stig Outruns a Speed Camera2.1-2 27 Oct 02A Bus Jumps Not-Very-Many Motorbikes3.1-3 03 Nov 02Grannies Do Donuts4.1-4 10 Nov 02The Mondeo Beats the Germans5.1-5 17 Nov 02The Team Turns a Rover 800 Into a Bond Car6.1-6 24 Nov 02The Grannies Learn How to Handbrake Park7.1-7 01 Dec 02The Team Finds the Fastest Faith8.1-8 08 Dec 02Gambon Corner Gets Its Name9.1-9 22 Dec 02The Stripped-Out Jaguar XJS10.1-1029 Dec 02The Team Finds Out the Fastest Faith - AgainSeason 211.2-1 11 May 03Richard Becomes a Driving God12.2-2 18 May 03The Team Finds the Fastest Political Party13.2-3 25 May 03David Soul Breaks Two Lianas14.2-4 01 Jun 03Clarkson Doesn’t Get Bored of Driving15.2-5 08 Jun 03Clarkson Doesn’t Hate a 91116.2-6 15 Jun 03The Team Doesn’t Set a Caravan Land Speed Record17.2-7 22 Jun 03Richard Flattens a Portakabin18.2-8 06 Jul 03James and Richard Go Camping in Cabriolets19.2-9 13 Jul 03Jeremy Drives from the Backseat20.2-1020 Jul 03Clarkson Doesn’t Kill a DogSeason 321.3-1 26 Oct 03The Team Kills Off Old Stig22.3-2 02 Nov 03The Team Meets New Stig23.3-3 09 Nov 03Hammond Nearly Drowns24.3-4 16 Nov 03The Lambos25.3-5 23 Nov 03The Hilux Won’t Die26.3-6 07 Dec 03The Hilux Still Won’t Die27.3-7 14 Dec 03The Big Boffin Burnout28.3-8 21 Dec 03The Top Gear Generation Game29.3-9 28 Dec 03There’s No Money LeftSeason 430.4-1 09 May 04Rover CityRover31.4-2 16 May 04Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, Alfa Romeo 166, Cadillac Escalade32.4-3 23 May 04Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale, 1968 Dodge Charger 440 R/T33.4-4 30 May 04Car Darts34.4-5 06 Jun 04Hammond Gets Struck by Lightning35.4-6 13 Jun 04Renault Clio 182, Jaguar XJS, Nissan Cube36.4-7 11 Jul 04Mercedes CL 65 AMG, Spyker C8 Spyder37.4-8 18 Jul 04Ford GT, Toyota Prius, Maserati Quattroporte38.4-9 25 Jul 04Best Convertible39.4-1001 Aug 04The Olympic Long Jump ChallengeSeason 540.5-1 24 Oct 04The Colonial Invasion on the Beach41.5-2 31 Oct 04Ferrari Enzo and Supercars of the Past & Present42.5-3 07 Nov 04Dodge Viper43.5-4 14 Nov 04Caravan Conkers44.5-5 21 Nov 04Jaguar S-Type Diesel Lapping the Nürburgring45.5-6 05 Dec 04£1500 Porsches46.5-7 12 Dec 04Murcielago vs. Evo VIII47.5-8 19 Dec 04Ferrari 612 Scaglietti vs. Jet Plane48.5-9 26 Dec 04Ariel AtomSeason 649.6-1 22 May 05Toyota Aygo Football50.6-2 29 May 05Cheap 2-Door Coupés51.6-3 12 Jun 05Swimming Pool Aston52.6-4 19 Jun 05Mothers53.6-5 26 Jun 05Snipers54.6-6 03 Jul 05From London to Oslo55.6-7 10 Jul 05Ford Transit at Nürburgring56.6-8 17 Jul 05Iceland57.6-9 24 Jul 05Scootermen58.6-1031 Jul 05Off-Road Toys59.6-1107 Aug 05Bull RunSeason 760.7-1 13 Nov 05The Isle of Man Race61.7-2 20 Nov 05The RS4 Against a Climber62.7-3 27 Nov 05The Supercar Road Trip63.7-4 04 Dec 05The Old Italian Supercars64.7-5 11 Dec 05The Bugatti and the Plane65.7-6 27 Dec 05The NSX on the Playstation66.7-7 12 Feb 06Winter Olympics SpecialSeason 867.8-1 07 May 06Convertible People Carrier68.8-2 14 May 06Car vs. Canoe69.8-3 21 May 06Amphibious Cars70.8-4 28 May 06Interior Design71.8-5 04 Jun 06Captain Slow Goes Fast72.8-6 16 Jul 06Top Gear Goes Caravanning73.8-7 23 Jul 06Kit Car Challenge74.8-8 30 Jul 06VansSeason 975.9-1 28 Jan 07Roadworks76.9-2 04 Feb 07Golf77.9-3 11 Feb 07USA Special78.9-4 18 Feb 07Space Shuttle79.9-5 25 Feb 07Tractors80.9-6 04 Mar 07Stretch LimosSeason 1081.10-107 Oct 07The Best Driving Roads in Europe82.10-214 Oct 07Crossing the Channel83.10-328 Oct 07Typhoon Jet Fighter84.10-404 Nov 07Botswana Special85.10-511 Nov 07Fastest Way Across London86.10-618 Nov 07Motorhome Racing87.10-725 Nov 07The British Leyland Cars88.10-802 Dec 07Vauxhall VXR889.10-909 Dec 07The 24-Hour Race90.10-1023 Dec 073 Cars in SpainSeason 1191.11-122 Jun 08Police Cars92.11-229 Jun 08Cool Wall93.11-306 Jul 08Proper Petrolhead94.11-413 Jul 08Bullet Train95.11-520 Jul 08Fox Hunting96.11-627 Jul 08SumoSeason 1297.12-102 Nov 08Lorries98.12-209 Nov 08Muscle Cars99.12-316 Nov 08Second-Hand Sports Saloon100.12-423 Nov 08Economy Run101.12-530 Nov 0840th Birthday Ferrari Daytona102.12-607 Dec 08Communist Cars103.12-714 Dec 08Tesla Roadster104.12-828 Dec 08Vietnam SpecialSeason 13105.13-121 Jun 09Train, Jaguar, and Motorbike Race106.13-228 Jun 09The Perfect Car for a 17 Year-old107.13-305 Jul 09Sensibly Priced Small Cars108.13-412 Jul 09Race Against a Stamp109.13-519 Jul 09A Budget Rear-Wheel Drive Coupe110.13-626 Jul 09Budget Auction111.13-702 Aug 09Volkswagen AdvertisementSeason 14112.14-115 Nov 09Grand Tour of Romania113.14-222 Nov 09Electric Ambitious114.14-329 Nov 09The Greatest Number of Great Cars115.14-406 Dec 09High-Performance Off-Roaders116.14-520 Dec 09More Popular Than Traditional Art117.14-627 Dec 09Bolivia Special118.14-703 Jan 10Most Expensive Road TestsSeason 15119.15-127 Jun 10Icelandic Volcano120.15-204 Jul 10Cheap Sports Saloons121.15-311 Jul 10Four-Door Supercars122.15-418 Jul 10Motor Homes123.15-525 Jul 10Why Ayrton Senna Was the Best124.15-601 Aug 10Old British RoadstersSeason 16125.16-123 Jan 11Yeti Road Test126.16-230 Jan 11The Motoring Ashes127.16-306 Feb 11Big Albanian Road Trip128.16-413 Feb 11Cheap Second-Hand Convertibles129.16-520 Feb 11Snowbine Harvester130.16-627 Feb 1180s Supercar NirvanaSeason 17131.17-126 Jun 11E-Type 50th Anniversary132.17-203 Jul 11Hot Hatchbacks in Italy133.17-310 Jul 11Cheapest Car in the UK134.17-417 Jul 11The TG V12 Express135.17-524 Jul 11The Interceptors136.17-631 Jul 11Sensible Electric Car TestSeason 18137.18-129 Jan 12Italian Supercar Shootout138.18-205 Feb 12Top Gear Goes to China139.18-312 Feb 12Filming a Climactic Car Chase140.18-419 Feb 12Off-Road Mobility Scooters141.18-526 Feb 12Saab Tribute 1/2142.18-604 Mar 12Three Stripped Out Track Cars at Donington143.18-711 Mar 12Motor Racing for Less Than It Costs to Play GolfSeason 19144.19-127 Jan 13World’s Smallest Car145.19-203 Feb 13Western USA Road Trip146.19-310 Feb 13Wembley to Milan147.19-417 Feb 13Cee’d Rugby148.19-524 Feb 13Vehicle for the Elderly149.19-603 Mar 13Africa Special (1)150.19-710 Mar 13Africa Special (2)Season 20151.20-130 Jun 13New Zealand Yacht Race152.20-207 Jul 13World’s Best Taxi153.20-314 Jul 13Budget Supercar Convertibles154.20-421 Jul 13Hovervan155.20-528 Jul 13Lamborghinis and Caravaning156.20-604 Aug 13Jaguar F-TypeSeason 21157.21-102 Feb 14Retro Hot Hatches158.21-209 Feb 14Alfa 4C vs. Quadski159.21-316 Feb 14Ukraine Road Trip160.21-423 Feb 14Hammond vs. 6 by 6161.21-502 Mar 14M135i vs. GTI162.21-609 Mar 14Burma Special (1)163.21-716 Mar 14Burma Special (2)Season 22164.22-127 Dec 14Patagonia Special (120 min)165.22-225 Jan 15Race Across St. Petersburg166.22-301 Feb 15Australian Road Trip167.22-408 Feb 15Homemade Ambulance168.22-515 Feb 15M3 vs. i8169.22-622 Feb 15History of Peugeot170.22-701 Mar 15Lexus RC F Coupe171.22-808 Mar 15World RallycrossSeason 23172.23-129 May 16Episode 1173.23-205 Jun 16Episode 2174.23-312 Jun 16Episode 3175.23-419 Jun 16Episode 4176.23-526 Jun 16Episode 5177.23-603 Jul 16Episode 6 (30 min)Season 24178.24-105 Mar 17Episode 1179.24-212 Mar 17Episode 2180.24-319 Mar 17Episode 3181.24-426 Mar 17Episode 4182.24-502 Apr 17Episode 5183.24-616 Apr 17Episode 6184.24-723 Apr 17Episode 7Season 25185.25-125 Feb 18Episode 1186.25-204 Mar 18Episode 2187.25-311 Mar 18Episode 3188.25-418 Mar 18Episode 4189.25-525 Mar 18Episode 5190.25-601 Apr 18Episode 6Season 26191.26-117 Feb 19Episode 1192.26-224 Feb 19Episode 2193.26-303 Mar 19Episode 3194.26-410 Mar 19Episode 4195.26-517 Mar 19Episode 5Season 27196.27-116 Jun 19Episode 1197.27-223 Jun 19Episode 2198.27-330 Jun 19Episode 3199.27-407 Jul 19Episode 4200.27-514 Jul 19Episode 5Season 28201.28-126
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In the United States, the explosive popularity of Top Gear started with the Internet. By now, sitting down at a computer to watch Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May feels normal. When their version of Top Gear first gained notoriety beyond the United Kingdom, it did so in clips and torrents posted online. If you wanted to track down episodes of Top Gear before they regularly started appearing on cable stateside, chances are you found your way onto its fan site FinalGear, which once linked to torrents of every episode. Similar shows, such as Top Gear’s international versionsand Fifth Gear also made it on the site.The Grand Tour Will Actually Debut A Day Early In The United States
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The site stopped posting torrent links in 2014, but its forums and IRC channel live on.
Top Gear didn’t get to be the international juggernaut it is by exactly legal means—otherwise, it might have been stuck in the United Kingdom forever or, at best, relegated to some fourth-tier U.S. cable channel. Rather, its popularity came from car fans’ tendency to rip and share.
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I wanted to know more about car shows’ long and storied relationship with the Internet, so I spoke with FinalGear’s U.S.-based owner, who goes by Viper007Bond (or “Viper” for short) on the forums, and asked us to refer to him as such to preserve his anonymity.
Back around 2003, it was incredibly difficult to find anything from Top Gear online. Movies, not television, dominated the nascent torrent scene, and the internet wasn’t quite up to the task of streaming anything yet. Short, pre-YouTube, low-quality clips from the show started to appear on car forums, however, and that left guys like Viper and a forum friend who went by VUK wanting more.
Top Gear was this funny British show that was willing to be brutally honest about cars—something we rarely see on highly-commercialized American television, where the wrong word could kill a sponsorship. Plus, it dealt in high-octane fantasy, the kind of stuff car people dream they could do with their friends and an unlimited budget. Of course it resonated with automotive forums, where car folks go to kvetch, commiserate and laugh.
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“Somehow the discussion of Top Gear came up.and [VUK] said, ‘oh, I’ll start ripping and sending you things,’” Viper explained. “We’re talking about 100 megabytes for an episode—those little postage stamps, so [terrible quality], you know?”
But “then other people wanted copies of it after they saw that was going on,” Viper said.
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Eventually, he explained, the Scene—the merry pirates responsible for ripping much of the content that’s out on the Internet—took over ripping duties from VUK.
FinalGear then grew into a repository of reliable torrent links, making it easier than ever for fans to download episodes without having to worry that you’ve got the wrong, possibly virus-ridden link. The site never hosted pirated content itself, but it became the definitive place to find the original broadcast versions of a show that wasn’t available in the U.S.
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It was a grueling schedule for the handful of fans who kept FinalGear running, who had to be home every time there was an episode of the several shows they covered for the main page’s 11-year run.
“That piece of FinalGear, kind of, was no longer important as it used to be, but you know this was all before Netflix and I think Top Gear was just a U.K. show,” Viper said.
“I don’t think they realized that it would be popular outside of the U.K.,” he explained. “Of course, old [pre-2002] Top Gear was like Motor Trend or whatever.very U.K.-focused. Once they rebooted, it became an entertainment show rather than an informational show.”
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Network execs likely didn’t initially consider that Top Gear would find an audience abroad, given its location on a British public broadcasting network and now, a huge swath of viewers who were watching it without paying the BBC’s license fees to fund it all. But they certainly took notice of its popularity online once it did. Cast members and staff occasionally made mention of their Internet following on the show and its related websites, much to FinalGear’s amusement.
“I can’t speak for the BBC themselves when it comes to FinalGear,” explained Richard Porter, Top Gear’s script editor during the Clarkson, Hammond and May era. “They always get a bit uptight when they think people are nicking their stuff. But FinalGear was well known in the old Top Gear office and I remember we used to have a good chuckle over the demotivators thread.”
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On the show itself, presenters still tiptoed around their known pirate-heavy following.
“Never in name,” Viper explained, “Always jokingly like ‘oh the internet, dah, dah, dah, whatever.’ You know, that kind of thing. I know they were aware of the site. I can’t speak officially. I don’t know for sure, but my understanding is that everyone but the legal department didn’t mind, because to them they were just producing something and more fans were enjoying it.”
It wasn’t until the BBC had the legal means to distribute the show outside the United Kingdom in places like Netflix that anyone started taking real legal issue with FinalGear.
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Even then, many believe that these “utter pirates” (as an old shirt FinalGear users made for themselves once read) were what finally convinced the BBC to broadcast Top Gear in America.
“I assume they saw it torrented and stuff and that’s when they realized, ‘oh, we should put this on BBC America,’” Viper mentioned. “I don’t take any FinalGear credit for that—I mean, sure, probably in part, but the internet at large, the fact that [the show was] pirated—I assume, I’m guessing that’s how it led to BBC America and eventually came out on DVD and all that kind of stuff.”
Top Gear’s widespread piracy may have also convinced the BBC’s international commercial arm to move the broadcast schedule up as well, as it was hard to justify waiting for it to appear on TV when it was released shortly after its original airtime in the U.K.
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“It used be Top Gear would air a month later after the U.K. airing and now it’s within 24 hours,” Viper noted.
Ultimately, it was the the Federation Against Copyright Theft, an industry group representing the BBC, who handed FinalGear a DMCA take-down request for all the torrent links on the site.
Since other sites now catalog the shows FinalGear covered and it’s much easier to find television shows online now, Viper simply shut down FinalGear’s main page in response, but kept the forums and IRC channels alive. Those remain one of the major places to discuss all things related to Top Gear, its spin-offs like Top Gear USA and The Grand Tour, and other car-related topics.
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“Times have certainly changed, and that’s why I never felt too bad about shutting down the front end of FinalGear,” explained Viper. “Gosh, that was 13 years ago now? Internet streaming wasn’t a thing, especially for full TV shows. Hulu and all that stuff didn’t exist. I don’t know. Piracy always gets ahead. Movies were pirated for the longest time and now you can actually watch them [online] legally.”
Naturally, there are fans (admittedly, myself included) who still bemoan that the show has to swap out its original music for broadcast outside the United Kingdom. Top Gear’s other big appeal to car geeks—once file sharing technology improved to let us see bigger, better quality show files—was in its production values.
Elements like the music weren’t network afterthought like many car shows seem to be, and the non-profit BBC wasn’t bound by the same music copyright laws so many American shows were.
Advertisement
Top Gear felt cinematic and spectacular, and its music selection was far more thoughtful than the usual iMovie dad-rock loop that gets plopped over classic car build shows. Clarkson ruminating over the future of cars while driving a delightfully old-school V12 Aston Martin, for example, was set to Brian Eno’s “An Ending,” as he speculates the car may be one of the last of its kind. There’s meaning conveyed in song choice. Musical touches like that and stunning visuals let it reach beyond car fans, over to a more general audience.
Top Gear’s online legions seem to have influenced the international broadcasts, too.
Advertisement
“When it first came to BBC America.it was like the music was supposed to be this huge part of the show and then they would just dub over generic stuff,” Viper noted. “I don’t know if you’ve watched [the BBC America version] at all recently, but . they would actually go to the trouble of licensing most of the songs [in the original U.K. edit], or they would pick songs that would work for the international market.” Progress.
And now, after becoming popular because of the internet, the trio makes it their broadcast medium. It feels like we’re finally getting what we want in The Grand Tour: a car show that lives on the web. While we’re all finding out at the same time later tonight whether this is the case, whatever music is in the background hopefully won’t have to change across international borders. It’s a show made for online consumption, and geared towards the online masses who will inevitably dissect every minute detail of the show.
In a way, the internet is Clarkson, Hammond and May’s home. It’s how a vast chunk of their fanbase found them. The Grand Tour may be stressing all of the ways it’s different to avoid their own set of legal troubles with the BBC, however, as a viewer sitting back down in front of a computer to download a car show, the trio’s new format feels more like a homecoming.
Comments are closed.Top Gear (UK : 2002) (a Titles & Air Dates Guide)
Reviews and other segments enlighten viewers on motor-vehicles of all sorts.
Start date: Oct 2002
End date: ___ ____
Status: current show
Network(s): BBC One (UK) / BBC Two (UK)
Run time: 60 min
Episodes: 80+ eps
Genre(s): Miscellaneous
*presenters:
*Matt LeBlanc [ 23- ]
*Chris Evans [ 23 ]
*Jeremy Clarkson [ 1-22 ]
*Richard Hammond [ 1-22 ]
*James May [ 2-22 ]
*Jason Dawe [ 1 ] Episode list & details from: TVmaze • TV.comEpisode #Original
Air DateTitlesSeason 11.1-1 20 Oct 02Stig Outruns a Speed Camera2.1-2 27 Oct 02A Bus Jumps Not-Very-Many Motorbikes3.1-3 03 Nov 02Grannies Do Donuts4.1-4 10 Nov 02The Mondeo Beats the Germans5.1-5 17 Nov 02The Team Turns a Rover 800 Into a Bond Car6.1-6 24 Nov 02The Grannies Learn How to Handbrake Park7.1-7 01 Dec 02The Team Finds the Fastest Faith8.1-8 08 Dec 02Gambon Corner Gets Its Name9.1-9 22 Dec 02The Stripped-Out Jaguar XJS10.1-1029 Dec 02The Team Finds Out the Fastest Faith - AgainSeason 211.2-1 11 May 03Richard Becomes a Driving God12.2-2 18 May 03The Team Finds the Fastest Political Party13.2-3 25 May 03David Soul Breaks Two Lianas14.2-4 01 Jun 03Clarkson Doesn’t Get Bored of Driving15.2-5 08 Jun 03Clarkson Doesn’t Hate a 91116.2-6 15 Jun 03The Team Doesn’t Set a Caravan Land Speed Record17.2-7 22 Jun 03Richard Flattens a Portakabin18.2-8 06 Jul 03James and Richard Go Camping in Cabriolets19.2-9 13 Jul 03Jeremy Drives from the Backseat20.2-1020 Jul 03Clarkson Doesn’t Kill a DogSeason 321.3-1 26 Oct 03The Team Kills Off Old Stig22.3-2 02 Nov 03The Team Meets New Stig23.3-3 09 Nov 03Hammond Nearly Drowns24.3-4 16 Nov 03The Lambos25.3-5 23 Nov 03The Hilux Won’t Die26.3-6 07 Dec 03The Hilux Still Won’t Die27.3-7 14 Dec 03The Big Boffin Burnout28.3-8 21 Dec 03The Top Gear Generation Game29.3-9 28 Dec 03There’s No Money LeftSeason 430.4-1 09 May 04Rover CityRover31.4-2 16 May 04Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, Alfa Romeo 166, Cadillac Escalade32.4-3 23 May 04Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Ferrari 360 Challenge Stradale, 1968 Dodge Charger 440 R/T33.4-4 30 May 04Car Darts34.4-5 06 Jun 04Hammond Gets Struck by Lightning35.4-6 13 Jun 04Renault Clio 182, Jaguar XJS, Nissan Cube36.4-7 11 Jul 04Mercedes CL 65 AMG, Spyker C8 Spyder37.4-8 18 Jul 04Ford GT, Toyota Prius, Maserati Quattroporte38.4-9 25 Jul 04Best Convertible39.4-1001 Aug 04The Olympic Long Jump ChallengeSeason 540.5-1 24 Oct 04The Colonial Invasion on the Beach41.5-2 31 Oct 04Ferrari Enzo and Supercars of the Past & Present42.5-3 07 Nov 04Dodge Viper43.5-4 14 Nov 04Caravan Conkers44.5-5 21 Nov 04Jaguar S-Type Diesel Lapping the Nürburgring45.5-6 05 Dec 04£1500 Porsches46.5-7 12 Dec 04Murcielago vs. Evo VIII47.5-8 19 Dec 04Ferrari 612 Scaglietti vs. Jet Plane48.5-9 26 Dec 04Ariel AtomSeason 649.6-1 22 May 05Toyota Aygo Football50.6-2 29 May 05Cheap 2-Door Coupés51.6-3 12 Jun 05Swimming Pool Aston52.6-4 19 Jun 05Mothers53.6-5 26 Jun 05Snipers54.6-6 03 Jul 05From London to Oslo55.6-7 10 Jul 05Ford Transit at Nürburgring56.6-8 17 Jul 05Iceland57.6-9 24 Jul 05Scootermen58.6-1031 Jul 05Off-Road Toys59.6-1107 Aug 05Bull RunSeason 760.7-1 13 Nov 05The Isle of Man Race61.7-2 20 Nov 05The RS4 Against a Climber62.7-3 27 Nov 05The Supercar Road Trip63.7-4 04 Dec 05The Old Italian Supercars64.7-5 11 Dec 05The Bugatti and the Plane65.7-6 27 Dec 05The NSX on the Playstation66.7-7 12 Feb 06Winter Olympics SpecialSeason 867.8-1 07 May 06Convertible People Carrier68.8-2 14 May 06Car vs. Canoe69.8-3 21 May 06Amphibious Cars70.8-4 28 May 06Interior Design71.8-5 04 Jun 06Captain Slow Goes Fast72.8-6 16 Jul 06Top Gear Goes Caravanning73.8-7 23 Jul 06Kit Car Challenge74.8-8 30 Jul 06VansSeason 975.9-1 28 Jan 07Roadworks76.9-2 04 Feb 07Golf77.9-3 11 Feb 07USA Special78.9-4 18 Feb 07Space Shuttle79.9-5 25 Feb 07Tractors80.9-6 04 Mar 07Stretch LimosSeason 1081.10-107 Oct 07The Best Driving Roads in Europe82.10-214 Oct 07Crossing the Channel83.10-328 Oct 07Typhoon Jet Fighter84.10-404 Nov 07Botswana Special85.10-511 Nov 07Fastest Way Across London86.10-618 Nov 07Motorhome Racing87.10-725 Nov 07The British Leyland Cars88.10-802 Dec 07Vauxhall VXR889.10-909 Dec 07The 24-Hour Race90.10-1023 Dec 073 Cars in SpainSeason 1191.11-122 Jun 08Police Cars92.11-229 Jun 08Cool Wall93.11-306 Jul 08Proper Petrolhead94.11-413 Jul 08Bullet Train95.11-520 Jul 08Fox Hunting96.11-627 Jul 08SumoSeason 1297.12-102 Nov 08Lorries98.12-209 Nov 08Muscle Cars99.12-316 Nov 08Second-Hand Sports Saloon100.12-423 Nov 08Economy Run101.12-530 Nov 0840th Birthday Ferrari Daytona102.12-607 Dec 08Communist Cars103.12-714 Dec 08Tesla Roadster104.12-828 Dec 08Vietnam SpecialSeason 13105.13-121 Jun 09Train, Jaguar, and Motorbike Race106.13-228 Jun 09The Perfect Car for a 17 Year-old107.13-305 Jul 09Sensibly Priced Small Cars108.13-412 Jul 09Race Against a Stamp109.13-519 Jul 09A Budget Rear-Wheel Drive Coupe110.13-626 Jul 09Budget Auction111.13-702 Aug 09Volkswagen AdvertisementSeason 14112.14-115 Nov 09Grand Tour of Romania113.14-222 Nov 09Electric Ambitious114.14-329 Nov 09The Greatest Number of Great Cars115.14-406 Dec 09High-Performance Off-Roaders116.14-520 Dec 09More Popular Than Traditional Art117.14-627 Dec 09Bolivia Special118.14-703 Jan 10Most Expensive Road TestsSeason 15119.15-127 Jun 10Icelandic Volcano120.15-204 Jul 10Cheap Sports Saloons121.15-311 Jul 10Four-Door Supercars122.15-418 Jul 10Motor Homes123.15-525 Jul 10Why Ayrton Senna Was the Best124.15-601 Aug 10Old British RoadstersSeason 16125.16-123 Jan 11Yeti Road Test126.16-230 Jan 11The Motoring Ashes127.16-306 Feb 11Big Albanian Road Trip128.16-413 Feb 11Cheap Second-Hand Convertibles129.16-520 Feb 11Snowbine Harvester130.16-627 Feb 1180s Supercar NirvanaSeason 17131.17-126 Jun 11E-Type 50th Anniversary132.17-203 Jul 11Hot Hatchbacks in Italy133.17-310 Jul 11Cheapest Car in the UK134.17-417 Jul 11The TG V12 Express135.17-524 Jul 11The Interceptors136.17-631 Jul 11Sensible Electric Car TestSeason 18137.18-129 Jan 12Italian Supercar Shootout138.18-205 Feb 12Top Gear Goes to China139.18-312 Feb 12Filming a Climactic Car Chase140.18-419 Feb 12Off-Road Mobility Scooters141.18-526 Feb 12Saab Tribute 1/2142.18-604 Mar 12Three Stripped Out Track Cars at Donington143.18-711 Mar 12Motor Racing for Less Than It Costs to Play GolfSeason 19144.19-127 Jan 13World’s Smallest Car145.19-203 Feb 13Western USA Road Trip146.19-310 Feb 13Wembley to Milan147.19-417 Feb 13Cee’d Rugby148.19-524 Feb 13Vehicle for the Elderly149.19-603 Mar 13Africa Special (1)150.19-710 Mar 13Africa Special (2)Season 20151.20-130 Jun 13New Zealand Yacht Race152.20-207 Jul 13World’s Best Taxi153.20-314 Jul 13Budget Supercar Convertibles154.20-421 Jul 13Hovervan155.20-528 Jul 13Lamborghinis and Caravaning156.20-604 Aug 13Jaguar F-TypeSeason 21157.21-102 Feb 14Retro Hot Hatches158.21-209 Feb 14Alfa 4C vs. Quadski159.21-316 Feb 14Ukraine Road Trip160.21-423 Feb 14Hammond vs. 6 by 6161.21-502 Mar 14M135i vs. GTI162.21-609 Mar 14Burma Special (1)163.21-716 Mar 14Burma Special (2)Season 22164.22-127 Dec 14Patagonia Special (120 min)165.22-225 Jan 15Race Across St. Petersburg166.22-301 Feb 15Australian Road Trip167.22-408 Feb 15Homemade Ambulance168.22-515 Feb 15M3 vs. i8169.22-622 Feb 15History of Peugeot170.22-701 Mar 15Lexus RC F Coupe171.22-808 Mar 15World RallycrossSeason 23172.23-129 May 16Episode 1173.23-205 Jun 16Episode 2174.23-312 Jun 16Episode 3175.23-419 Jun 16Episode 4176.23-526 Jun 16Episode 5177.23-603 Jul 16Episode 6 (30 min)Season 24178.24-105 Mar 17Episode 1179.24-212 Mar 17Episode 2180.24-319 Mar 17Episode 3181.24-426 Mar 17Episode 4182.24-502 Apr 17Episode 5183.24-616 Apr 17Episode 6184.24-723 Apr 17Episode 7Season 25185.25-125 Feb 18Episode 1186.25-204 Mar 18Episode 2187.25-311 Mar 18Episode 3188.25-418 Mar 18Episode 4189.25-525 Mar 18Episode 5190.25-601 Apr 18Episode 6Season 26191.26-117 Feb 19Episode 1192.26-224 Feb 19Episode 2193.26-303 Mar 19Episode 3194.26-410 Mar 19Episode 4195.26-517 Mar 19Episode 5Season 27196.27-116 Jun 19Episode 1197.27-223 Jun 19Episode 2198.27-330 Jun 19Episode 3199.27-407 Jul 19Episode 4200.27-514 Jul 19Episode 5Season 28201.28-126
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