Top Gear returns with drive-in live audience after Covid shutdown

By Tara Conlan

 

Top Gear at Dunsfold aerodrome in Surrey. Photograph: BBC

 

Coronavirus may have put the brakes on Top Gear earlier this year but on Tuesday night the BBC show became the first big UK entertainment TV series to return with a live audience.

 

The programme was recorded on a large outdoor stage in front of 500 fans in their cars, in what its co-presenter Paddy McGuinness called a “Covid-compliant, socially distanced, classic drive-in show”.

 

Following the same protocols as drive-in cinemas, parking positions at Dunsfold aerodrome in Surrey were 2 metres apart.

 

Other safety measures included audience temperature checks and large marquees for production crew partitioned into individual areas using clear plastic – like something from a science fiction film.

 

Full Story: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/sep/09/top-gear-returns-drive-in-live-audience-covid

Given the new show is so pants, they can do whatever they like and it's still going to be pants.

Bring back Jeremy and Co. if they want viewers.