{"id":48981,"date":"2026-08-27T15:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/bbc-to-bring-back-top-gear-amid-speculation-about-shows-next-presenters\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:03:08","slug":"bbc-to-bring-back-top-gear-amid-speculation-about-shows-next-presenters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/bbc-to-bring-back-top-gear-amid-speculation-about-shows-next-presenters\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC to bring back Top Gear amid speculation about show\u2019s next presenters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motoring series to return four years after Andrew \u2018Freddie\u2019 Flintoff suffered serious injuries in crash during filming<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/top-gear\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Top Gear,<\/a> the long-running motoring show that has been off air since its co-host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/andrew-flintoff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew \u201cFreddie\u201d Flintoff <\/a>was seriously injured in a crash during filming almost four years ago, is to return to the BBC, the broadcaster has confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/dec\/13\/freddie-flintoff-airlifted-to-hospital-after-crash-during-top-gear-filming\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flintoff\u2019s accident <\/a>at Dunsfold aerodrome in Surrey, the BBC said the series would be \u201crested\u201d for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2026\/aug\/27\/bbc-top-gear-speculation-next-presenters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motoring series to return four years after Andrew \u2018Freddie\u2019 Flintoff suffered serious injuries in crash during filming Top Gear, the long-running motoring show that has been off air since its co-host Andrew \u201cFreddie\u201d Flintoff was seriously injured in a crash during filming almost four years ago, is to return to the BBC, the broadcaster has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 12:12:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}