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How Top Gear overcame its 'problem phase'

By Steven McIntosh

 

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Flintoff, Harris and McGuinness boosted the Top Gear audience from 2.2 million to 3.8 million

 

Paddy McGuinness has spotted someone rather important in the audience at the premiere of Top Gear's 28th series.

 

"Sir Tony! Get the Sambucas in son!" the presenter yells at the BBC's outgoing director-general Tony Hall at the show's Leicester Square launch.

 

Someone quietly telling him the DG is actually a Lord and not a Sir does little to dampen his spirits ("It's all the same anyway," he smiles the next day) and the overall mood of the night is resolutely upbeat.

 

And it's clear why. The show's new presenting trio of McGuinness, Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff and Chris Harris has been both a commercial and critical success.

 

Full Story: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51137358

 

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