TV.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
TV.com's pick of the best TV shows on Aussie screens this week. Top Gear: Winter Olympics Special Never mind that this was filmed in 2006, it's first-run in Australia, and in its usual cheeky style, is outrageous fun. The boys travel to Norway where they race a speed skater around an ice rink, pit a bobsled against a rally driver, test whether Richard Hammond can outlast a car in temperatures of 40...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
The host of 'Top Gear' aims higher. He recounts his childhood fascination with space travel, endures astronaut training and travels in a U-2 spy plane. Any big questions, though, go unexplored. James May begins his new documentary, " James May on the Moon " (BBC America, 8 p.m. Tuesday), where he belongs: in a car, on the ground. He's a host of " Top Gear ," the cheeky British automobile...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Programmes 'ignore consequences of dangerous behaviour' The violence portrayed in children's programmes such as Scooby-Doo and Batman should be more realistic, an international expert on child safety will tell the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents this week. Children's television should be given cinema-style ratings that encourage parents to choose programmes where characters sustain realistic...
Denverstrope (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
With all the fireworks going off all around town - all evening - sending my dog into paroxysms of hysterical barking, I was reminded of this great documentary from a a few years ago about the gunpowder plot. Reconstructing the House of Lords to scale, Richard Hammond and team then blew it up to see what would have happened. So, what would have happened? Well, take a look... Boom!
The Final Redoubt (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
With Guy Fawkes night fast approaching I thought it might be appropriate to post The Gunpowder Plot - Exploding the Legend with Richard Hammond. Today with its current bunch of shysters inhabiting its walls, I would imagine that there are quite a few people would get a great deal of pleasure seeing Parliament blown up like this, albeit an imitation one. And although I love the smell of gunpowder, I...
The Sun (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
DAREDEVIL Richard Hammond hobbles on crutches after tearing tendons in a leg
BBC News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Presenter Richard Hammond is among nominees for this year's British Academy Children's Awards for his show Blast Lab.
Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Presenter Richard Hammond has been nominated for a Bafta for his Blast Lab children’s TV show.
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Presenter Richard Hammond has been nominated for a Bafta for his Blast Lab children's TV show.
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
TV PRESENTER Richard Hammond has been nominated for a Bafta for his Blast Lab children's show.
Edinburgh Evening News (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
RICHARD Hammond has been nominated for a Bafta for his Blast Lab children's TV show.
Sidepodcast (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Welcome our very first official Sidepodcast Competition, coming to you courtesy of Shell V-Power. We've played games, set challenges and held contests in the past, but this is the first time there has been a real prize on offer - and it's a good one. MPH featuring Top Gear Live, is coming to Earl's Court in London and you can win a pair of tickets. Before we get to the competition, first, a bit of...
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
His gag about war amputees has drawn outrage from press and politicians, but what exactly did they expect? It's open season on comedians yet again. Except this season is lasting all year. The latest stand-up in the firing line is Jimmy Carr, who has the tabloids fulminating over a joke he told at the 2,500-seater Manchester Apollo on his current Rapier Wit tour: "Say what you like about these...
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
TOP Gear star Richard Hammond tried to sleep with a Navy captain while filming on an aircraft carrier.
Insurance Daily (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Young Marmalade, the car insurance firm that caters specifically to young drivers, has received an endorsement from Richard Hammond, Top Gear’s resident Hamster. In September Young Marmalade launched Provisional Marmalade into the UK marketplace. Managing Director Crispin Moger has compared Provisional Marmalade to iTunes and Amazon in terms of user-friendliness. To use it, details are logged...
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