Mark Cahill
Full ISDC Members 2015Member Number 555
New series start date
Posted by The Mole at 6:21 pm on Friday October 10, 2008
Amidst all the excitement of sending the presenters off to Vietnam we seem to have forgotten to mention when the new series of Top Gear is actually back on the telly.
TV scheduling is of course a murky business, and one thats largely out of the production teams hands.
The BBC actually has dedicated scheduling people and they use a variety of techniques to decide when shows should be on air, often revolving around sacrificing a chicken and reading the entrails, throwing a variety of different sized fruits at a wall and seeing which ones stick or feeding a pile of DVDs to a cow and seeing which one gets pooed out first.
Although in fairness, all those things only happened when we let The Stig go on attachment to the scheduling department.
Anyway, the upshot is that Top Gear was going to be back on 26 October but then there turned out to be some sport on or something and as a result the new series will now start on Sunday 2 November.
So dont move a muscle until then.
Actually you probably should move at least some muscles. Otherwise youll get really hungry and start to smell.
Can't wait!!
Posted by The Mole at 6:21 pm on Friday October 10, 2008
Amidst all the excitement of sending the presenters off to Vietnam we seem to have forgotten to mention when the new series of Top Gear is actually back on the telly.
TV scheduling is of course a murky business, and one thats largely out of the production teams hands.
The BBC actually has dedicated scheduling people and they use a variety of techniques to decide when shows should be on air, often revolving around sacrificing a chicken and reading the entrails, throwing a variety of different sized fruits at a wall and seeing which ones stick or feeding a pile of DVDs to a cow and seeing which one gets pooed out first.
Although in fairness, all those things only happened when we let The Stig go on attachment to the scheduling department.
Anyway, the upshot is that Top Gear was going to be back on 26 October but then there turned out to be some sport on or something and as a result the new series will now start on Sunday 2 November.
So dont move a muscle until then.
Actually you probably should move at least some muscles. Otherwise youll get really hungry and start to smell.
Can't wait!!