New Top Gear show to hit TV screens next May

New host Chris Evans revealed this weekend in an interview on BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen that Top Gear proper will return to television on May 8th, 2016, according to The Guardian.

The BBC quickly decided that the brand was too important to abandon, and announced British TV and radio presenter Chris Evans as the show’s new host. One of those episodes will involve an inter-continental road trip filmed in North America, Evans said, with filming scheduled to start in January. The new show will consist of 16 episodes in the first season.

Speaking to the Press Association, he explained: ‘We are going to do things differently, because we have to, we want to.

The hotly-anticipated revamp of BBC’s Top Gear will return to screens on Sunday May 8, the flame-haired star confirmed. Evans, 49, did not say anything about who his co-presenters would be.

Meanwhile, former presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May took to the stage for the last time at London’s O2 last night.

The much-loved petrol heads have been thrilling their fans with motoring mayhem and mischief during Clarkson, Hammond and May Live.

The London shows included James Bond’s Aston Martin DB10 and a Porsche 918.

Jezza was sacked from Top Gear in March following a “fracas” with the show’s producer.

Of course, Messrs Clarkson, May and Hammond have not been idle: the trio are launching a new vehicle show on Amazon Prime Video at some point next year, though we don’t know yet what it’s called or what format it will take.