A Top Gear Writer Has Spilled The Beans On How The Show Was Put Together

Everyone’s favourite car show will continue in the hands of Chris Evans, but I think it’s fair to say that it’ll never be the same again. Obviously Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May were the faces of Top Gear, but behind the scenes there was a massive team of talented people helping them put the show together.

One of those people was former script editor Richard Porter (who runs satirical car blog Sniff Petrol on the side). When Clarkson and friends quit Top Gear, Porter also walked away from the show, and now he’s written a fascinating article about what it was like putting the show together.

It might have liked to pretend that it was just thrown together on a whim, an ambitious but rubbish show about cars, but that couldn’t be further from the truth.

You probably won’t be surprised to learn that workaholic Jeremy Clarkson had a big say in what got made. Apparently, even after loads of brainstorming and putting scripts together, Clarkson could rock up the next day with dozens more ideas, after laying “awake all night worrying over tiny details and agonising over the smallest point until he’d got it right.”

To read the brilliant article in full, head over to Jalopnik.