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I was Top Gear's script editor for 13 years and all 22 series. I basically used to check spelling and think of stupid gags about The Stig. I also got to hang around with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It didn't feel like something you should get paid for.
From the disastrous pilot show of 2002 to the sudden and unexpected ending in 2015, working on Top Gear was quite a rollercoaster ride. We crossed continents, we made space ships, we bobbed across the world's busiest shipping lane in a pick-up truck. We also got chased by an angry mob, repeatedly sparked fury in newspapers, and almost killed one of our presenters.
I realised that I had quite a few stories to tell from behind the scenes on the show. I remembered whose daft idea it was to get a dog. I recalled the willfully stupid way in which we decorated our horrible office. I had a sudden flashback to the time a Bolivian drug lord threatened to kill us.
I decided I should write down some of these stories. So I have. I hope you like them.
And now, a quote from James May:
'Richard Porter has asked me to "write a quote" for his new book about the ancient history of Top Gear. But this is a ridiculous request. How can one "write a quote"? Surely, by definition, a quote must be extracted from a greater body of writing, for the purpose of illustrating or supporting a point in an unrelated work. I cannot "write a quote" any more than I could "film an out-take".
'Porter, like Athens, has lost his marbles.' - James May
- Sales Rank: #78757 in Books
- Published on: 2016-12-13
- Released on: 2016-12-13
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.00" w x 5.25" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
Review
I can't imagine that it's [Top Gear] triumphant 13 year run will have a finer chronicler. Daily Mail AND ON THAT BOMBSHELL is a funny and revealing look behind the scenes at the 13 years of the Clarkson-Hammond-May Top Gear era. CHOICE magazine ... a funny and, at times, thought-provoking look into the world of one of the biggest motoring programmes of all-time. AUTO EXPRESS a fascinating and amusing insight into a true TV phenomenon OCTANE
About the Author
Richard Porter worked alongside Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May for 13 years as writer and script editor for BBC's Top Gear. During that time he created implausible metaphors, invented Stig facts, and thought it was a good idea to write inflammatory slogans on cars for a drive through Alabama.
Also in the car world, he is evo magazine's longest serving columnist, the malfunctioning brain behind the Sniff Petrol website, and the author of 15 books on a range of automotive subjects, including the best-selling Crap Cars.
Away from machines, he has written serious things for the BBC science department and the Natural History Unit, and stupid things for Total Wipeout and Comic Relief.
He is reasonably tall.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
Filled the void of Top Gear history the obsessed fans have been craving for years
By Mandi Roberts
Not a hard read, at all. The simple and easy manner in which it was written takes nothing away from the content and knee-jerking into your face hilarity.
Those of us who love this show for literally everything in it have been craving this book for years and, now it has ended, we have been given our dues. It brings the boys into a bit more clarity and explains much of what made Top Gear such an international favorite; that is, much of what we figured.
Richard Porter was there for nearly everything and does a good job of relating TG history without too much bias; impressive since he was involved with it all on some level and to some degree.
I do wish more could have been fleshed out for this book. Perhaps what I truly want is someone from the team to make a book going through each episode ever made and giving us little inside jokes and trivia.
Top Gear was going to end up in flames, as Porter admits at the end (not his words), and I personally can't let it go. It was there for me in some of the worst parts of my life so far. I watched at least one episode, though usually more, every day, for years. I still do most days.
This book helps heal the wound that is left from the calamitous end of TG due to Jeremy's ill-fated date with a bottle of ros� and the events that followed. I think it is important to note that Porter is properly ticked at Jeremy for what happened and isn't making excuses for him. Top Gear was a tight knit team and that comes across exceptionally well. I like that Porter said what he did and how he said it about Jeremy's incident.
That said, I love the book, I love Porter's perspective, I love the history, I love the trivia, I love the way the passion and dedication of the whole team came across to me. I love that there was so much humor laced with facts, just like the show itself was.
I am grateful this book exists because I am one of those eternally obsessed fans of the show and the boys. I can't wait to re-read it again, and again. Definitely going to be a staple of my reading material (which regularly includes all three of the boys' books), anyway.
Thank you, Richard Porter. This story needed to be told.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent!
By J. Campbell
If you liked Top Gear even a bit and irreverent humour even more then this is for you. If you once looked at the sniffpetrol website and thought it was immature, appeared to be aiming for cheap laughs and thought that was a "bad thing" then it's probably not.
I read this in one sitting and amongst many standouts the chapter I remember most (I finished it 2hrs ago) was "The RAGE of James May"
I thought, "James? Rage?" "I can't picture that!" ...But by the end of the chapter I could. And it fitted perfectly.
This book meanders, repeats certain phrases and feels like it was written as a series of chapters rather than a book. ... as it completely drags you into feeling like you were part of the Top Gear team for 13yrs. Brilliant!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Incredible insight into the world of Top Gear.
By Scott Sloan
Just finished it, and really enjoyed it. Porter captures the highs and lows that made Top Gear such a phenomenal show. I came to the show during its 10th series and kept with it pretty much up until the end. Porter covers most of glory times of those earlier shows and in short easy to digest chapters in a prose that reads much in the same way as Clarkson speaks. My personal favorites were always the road trips to places like Vietnam, Bolivia, and the Second America Trip. Those along with some of the more amusing challenges was always what kept me coming back along with the segments on new cars and whatever ones seem to have caught one of the presenters fancy.
Porter seems to have been in the Inner Circle of the show for such a long period and am sure has tons of more stories and anecdotes to offer. I was surprised that the book seemed to end almost too quickly, and would have liked more insight into such things involved in the show. Porter also does his best to cover things that didn't go so well on the show. From segments that didn't work that we know about, for example The dreaded India special that seemed to show cracks in the foundation of the World's Most Watched Show, to the Burma special that i consider to be just un-watchable. He Porter offers his peek behind the curtain into segments that never saw the light of day and as he describes them for all very good reasons. The chapters devoted to the fictional tame racing driver The Stig were my favorites and the chapter singling out Michael Schumacher is touching and done very well and is one of my favorite moments from the show.
The final chapter in the book simply titled The End is a bit of a head scratcher for me. Porter who had gone on for the entire book about how they were all friends and got along fine seems to suddenly distance himself from Clarkson and the incident that spelled the end for Top Gear in this current incarnation. At first i was angered and disappointed by this as to how this guy who was such an integral part of the show's crew and continually praised Clarkson's devotion to the show and making it the best that it could be to suddenly change camps and call out Clarkson's apology to the staff as "Half-Hearted and Childish." About this time then realized that the show ended simply because the BBC wanted it to end. If they hadn't it wouldn't have and would have continued. They would have sat down Clarkson Oisin (the employee stated in the book that Clarkson "punched') and simply said let's come to terms with this and move on with our operation of entertaining people, and pretty much printing money. As that didn't happen Top Gear with Hammond, May, and Clarkson has now ended for better or worse.
Overall it's an excellent, excellent book for any fan of Top Gear and one that i can highly recommend. Enjoy!!
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