{"id":2177,"date":"2008-01-15T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2008\/01\/top_gear_usa\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T13:11:42","slug":"top_gear_usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/top_gear_usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Gear USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mediaguardian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/jan\/15\/bbc.television?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=media\">reports<\/a> that NBC has ordered a pilot of Top Gear to be made in the US and hosted by Americans. Now aside from the fact that with the writers&#8217; strike now in its 11th or 12th week, the networks need non-scripted programming to fill out the end of the season, could the choice of Top Gear be in any way related to the recent news that it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/top-10-most-pirated-movies-and-tv-shows-2007-080101\/\">second most<\/a> torrented programme on Mininova in 2007?<br \/>\nIndeed, it was the only non-US and non-scripted programme to make the list. There&#8217;s obviously a demand for it, so producing a US version is something really obvious to do. Quite who the US version of Clarkson will be should be an interesting decision.<br \/>\nAnd with a US version, and an Aussie version, I think that we can expect bigger and more elaborate stunts and set-ups since the same thing could be shot three times with different presenters and the same crew, sharing the costs if BBC Worldwide wanted.<br \/>\nIn any event, in a country where Nascar and Indy Car racing is huge, and where it&#8217;s every man&#8217;s right to drive the biggest, most fuel-guzzelling vehicle he can, a popular motoring show seems obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mediaguardian reports that NBC has ordered a pilot of Top Gear to be made in the US and hosted by Americans. Now aside from the fact that with the writers&#8217; strike now in its 11th or 12th week, the networks need non-scripted programming to fill out the end of the season, could the choice of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}