The sun may have set on the British Empire, but nobody seems to have informed Mssrs. Andy Wilman and Jeremy Clarkson. Their creation, a revamp of the old staid ‘n’ standard English motoring show Top Gear, has an estimated global audience of 350 million people. An unqualified smash hit boasting a longer run than M*A*S*H—although it’s occasionally less realistic than the fictional Korean War hospital comedy—the formula’s been tweaked and exported to the U.S., Australia, Korea, and Russia. A Chinese edition was recently announced. Now, Britain’s longest-standing frenemies, the French, are set to receive their own version.
Produced by BBC Worldwide Production France and airing on the RMC Decouverte channel, the Gallic translation will feature a formula-standard trio of hosts: actor/comic Philippe Lellouche, ex-Pescarolo driver Bruce Jouanny, and journalist Yann Larret-Menezo. Naturally, they get their own liberté-égalité-fraternité-imbued version of The Stig.
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After over a decade of cross-Channel goosing, we hope the French give it back to the Brits in grand fashion. Though as Francophiles with a command of the language that essentially boils down to “crème brûlée”, “Chevrolet“, and “Liquide Hydraulique Minéral“, we’ll probably miss it when they do. In Burkina Faso, though? In Burkina Faso, they’ll be rolling.
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