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Returning: Top Gear

New episodes of Top Gear returns to Nine from next week with the two-part African Special.

2013-03-04_1821New episodes of Top Gear returns to Nine from next week with the two-part African Special to screen on Thursday nights at the unusual time of 7pm.

These screened on Pay TV and in the UK earlier this month.

The irrepressible Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are back for an epic road trip around the heart of Africa. Starting in a small village in Uganda, the boys set off on a journey that pits them against nature at its most brutal.

“So, you’ve seen Sir David Attenborough’s take on Africa – now it’s time to see ours,” said Clarkson.

At a mighty 4000 miles (6400 kilometres) the Nile is the longest river in the world, running from the heart of Africa to the Mediterranean Sea. Finding its source has occupied the minds and claimed the lives of explorers for thousands of years.

Now the boys plan to join that illustrious band of brothers and write themselves into the history books.

Top Gear UK Premieres: Africa Special Part 1, Thursday, April 4, at 7.00pm
Clarkson, Hammond and May go to Africa with a simple mission: to find the definitive source of the river Nile. Over the years many explorers claim to have done just that, but the Top Gear trio believe they can do better by travelling further and faster than any exploration team in history, using only grit, ingenuity and three ageing estate cars.

Top Gear UK: Africa Special Part 2, Thursday, April 11, at 7.00pm
In the second part of the Top Gear special, Clarkson, Hammond and May continue their African odyssey. After surviving insane traffic, lethal mud slides and some distinctly dubious map reading, they reach the climax of their quest to find the definitive source of the Nile in their ailing estate cars.

7 Responses

  1. and the following week they will play the Bond cars special for the 417th time.

    The sequence is then:
    repeat
    repeat
    new ep
    repeat
    repeat (2 eps ‘movie length’)
    repeat
    new ep
    repeat
    new ep
    repeat
    repeat
    repeat

  2. @Secret Squirrel – many will probably be giving TG a miss, fans may have already seen it on BBCK or have friends that recorded it for them, or got it by other means. Plus given the viewer numbers last time it was on many previous fans will not bother tuning in.

  3. @Craig – Nine are prob looking to also show the African special at the end of the series, thus getting two bites at the cherry. I’ll be giving this a miss as I’ll be watching ABC news at 7pm.

  4. I was 100% sure Nine would use Easter as a good opportunity to show both parts of the African special on the one night. Still hate they are showing the final 2 shows of the latest season first. Its another example of Nine screwing with the shows running order. I guess when they air the 5th show in S19 they will edit the end which refers to the African special ‘next week’.

    As for the series and this special it was the usual mixture of high-jinx from the guys. Not a bad special, just not the best they have done IMO.

    My bet is if (or when) the ratings fail for the first or 2nd show they will bump the remainder of the series to 9 or 10pm.

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