When does top gear australia start on tv?

[68XTFairmont]

Monday 29th September

7:30pm on SBS

[AusM]

Originally Posted by Fev

oooo im definately applying for that! cant wait for the aussie version, im already buying the aussie top gear mags every time they come out

Unfortunately the Top Gear Australia mags have nothing to do with Top Gear Australia TV... Separate businesses - SBS for the TV show vs ACP for the mag. Australian Consolidated Press is PBL co-owned. PBL own Nine Network, hence there won't be any free plugs for the Aus show on SBS.

ACP did a deal with BBC magazines for the magazine licence which is why the UK show will get a good run via what appears to be 80+% recycled content from the UK mag, leaving the rest for token Aussie stories unrelated to TV. Unless the Top Gear Aus show hits Foxtel (25% PBL owned) in the future, I doubt there will ever be much magazine coverage...

... And then there's TGUS, which I imagine is a whole different ball game again... (lookin' forward to that one too!).

[AusM]

TGUS - Just looked it up... BBC are making the pilot for NBC, so US content should flow into the UK/Aus mags.

NBC site also says the show will be online (though it may be US only, so you'll have to run through a US proxy server to watch it)