Former Top Gear boss doesn't think BBC will bring it back after Freddie Flintoff crash
Grand Tour producer Andy Wilman opened up on the series's future after Freddie Flintoff's crash.
The future of Top Gear was left uncertain following Freddie Flintoff's crash on the Top Gear test track at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey back in 2022.
In the wake of the accident, the BBC suspended filming for season 34 before announcing it would be resting the Top Gear format "for the foreseeable future".
During a chat with Radio Times magazine, Grand Tour producer (and former Top Gear producer) Andy Wilman discussed the series's future, and why he thinks it won't be back at all.
“What happened to Freddie was terrible and it’s wonderful to see him back [with Freddie Flintoff’s Field of Dreams]. Top Gear coming back is a different question," he said.
"I don’t think the BBC has the will to make a car show. I don’t think they’re interested in the topic, or that there’s anyone interested in doing it.”
Wilman also discussed former Top Gear and The Grand Tour host Richard Hammond's own accident in 2006, explaining: “It’s still burned in my brain.
"I have never felt fear and panic like that. You are completely helpless and completely angry and frustrated that you’re making an eight-minute TV item and he’s a father, critically ill in a hospital bed.”
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Earlier this year, it was announced The Grand Tour would continue with new presenters, with Hammond and fellow presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May set to bid farewell to the series after the upcoming Zimbawe special.
You can read the full interview in this week's issue of Radio Times magazine.
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