Top Gear USA cancelled, BBC confirms
Top Gear USA
has been cancelled, the BBC has confirmed.
The programme,
broadcast on the History channel in the US, is a spin-off from the popular
motoring series and not the version shown in the UK starring Matt LeBlanc and
Chris Evans.
Tanner Foust, Adam Ferrara and Rutledge Wood host
Top Gear USA
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Presenter
Rutlege Wood first announced the news on Facebook - and suggested the show
could return on a new channel.
"I'm not
saying Top Gear is done, but it's done for the immediate future on
History," he wrote.
Wood described
co-presenters Adam Ferrara and Tanner Foust as "like brothers to me"
and described working on the show as "a total dream come true".
"The three
of us will stick together and hope to bring you much more Top Gear USA, albeit
somewhere else," he said.
Top Gear USA has
been running since 2010 - racking up 72 episodes across six seasons.
A spokesperson
for BBC Worldwide North America said: "History treated Top Gear USA with
great care, and the show had a solid five-season contractual run with the network.
"We are
fully committed to the hugely successful Top Gear brand - known all over the
world - and have begun exploring new opportunities for the series in the
US."
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