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Petrolheads
''Petrolheads'' is a BBC television panel game presented by Neil Morrissey, with team captains Richard Hammond and Chris Barrie. The show pitted motoring wits against each other and included car stunts shot on location. There were two guests each episode. The show was produced by Brian Klein (''Top Gear Top Gear may refer to: * "Top gear", the highest gear available in a vehicle's manual transmission Television * ''Top Gear'' (1977 TV series), a British motoring magazine programme * ''Top Gear'' (2002 TV series), a relaunched version of the or ...''), directed by John L Spencer and executive producers were Marie-Claire Walton and Steve Ayres. The theme music was by British composer Leigh Haggerwood. It was created and scripted by author Norman Giller, with input from ''Top Gear'' writer Richard Porter and comedy scriptwriter Ged Parsons. Episode list The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows: : – Indicates Chris's team won : – Indicates Richard's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hammond
Richard Mark Hammond (born 19 December 1969) is an English journalist, television presenter, mechanic, and writer. He is best known for co-hosting the BBC Two motoring programme ''Top Gear'' from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and James May. Since 2016, the trio have presented Amazon Studios' ''The Grand Tour''. Hammond has also notably presented entertainment documentary series '' Brainiac: Science Abuse'' (2003–2008), the game show ''Total Wipeout'' (2009–2012) and nature documentary series '' Planet Earth Live'' (2012). In 2016, again with Clarkson and May, Hammond launched the automotive social media website DriveTribe, where he regularly provides content on his tribe "Hammond's Fob Jockeys". Early life Richard Mark Hammond was born the oldest of three boys on 19 December 1969 in Solihull, England, and is the grandson of workers in the Birmingham car industry. In the mid-1980s Hammond moved with his family (mother Eileen (née Dunsby), father Alan, and younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Morrissey
Neil Anthony Morrissey (born 4 July 1962) is an English actor. He is known for his role as Tony in ''Men Behaving Badly''. Other notable acting roles include Deputy Head Eddie Lawson in the BBC One school-based drama series '' Waterloo Road'', Nigel Morton in '' Line of Duty'', and Rocky in ''Boon''. Morrissey also provides the voice of many cartoon characters, including Robert McGraw (Bob the Builder), Roley, Lofty, Mr. Angelo Sabatini, Mr. Fothergill, Farmer Pickles and Scrufty in the original UK version of ''Bob the Builder''. Early life Morrissey was born on 4 July 1962 in Stafford, Staffordshire, the third of four sons of Irish parents who were both psychiatric nurses. He and his youngest brother Stephen spent much of their childhood in separate foster homes, Morrissey spending most of his time at Penkhull Children's Home, under the care of Margaret Cartlidge. He attended Thistley Hough High School in Penkhull, where he discovered a love for acting through the encourag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Barrie
Chris Barrie (born Christopher Jonathan Brown, 28 March 1960) is a British actor, comedian, and impressionist. He worked as a vocal impressionist on the ITV sketch show ''Spitting Image'' (1984–1996) and as Lara Croft's butler Hillary in the '' Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' (2001) and '' Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life'' (2003). Barrie is most renowned for starring as Arnold Rimmer in 13 seasons of the sci-fi space comedy ''Red Dwarf'' between (1988–2020), and as Gordon Brittas in 7 seasons of the BBC leisure centre sitcom ''The Brittas Empire'' (1991–1997), Early life and career Barrie was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony, West Germany, to a father who was serving in the British Army, and attended Methodist College Belfast boarding school in Northern Ireland. After dropping out of his Combined Studies course at Brighton Polytechnic, he became a grave filler. He then began his television career as a sports personality impersonator on '' The David Essex Showcase'' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Giller
Norman Giller (born 18 April 1940, Stepney, East End, London) is an English author, a sports historian and television scriptwriter, who in October 2015 had his 100th book published. His 101st book, ''July 30, 1966 Football's Longest Day'', was published in 2016 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of England's World Cup final victory at Wembley. With 121 books to his name, Norman Giller is a prolific author who began as a Fleet Street journalist. He was chief football reporter with the ''Daily Express'' in London (1966–74, succeeding Clive Toye), and has been a freelance writer since leaving Fleet Street in 1974. He spent 14 years as a member of the ''This Is Your Life'' scriptwriting team, and devised several television series including ''Who's the Greatest?'' (ITV, 1980s), ''The Games of 48'' and ''Over the Moon'', ''Brian, with Brian Moore and Brian Clough'' (ITV 1990s), '' Petrolheads'' (BBC2 2006); he co-produced 63 editions of ''Stand and Deliver'' (Sky TV, 1990s), and was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fountain Studios
Fountain Studios was an independently owned television studio in Wembley Park, northwest London. The company was last part of the Avesco Group plc. Several companies owned the site before it was bought by Fountain in 1993. Originally a film studio complex, it was formerly the base for the ITV contractors Rediffusion from 1955 to 1968, and London Weekend Television from 1968 to 1972. More recently, the studios were best known for being the venue for the live stages of ITV shows ''The X Factor'' and ''Britain's Got Talent''. The last show to be broadcast live (and recorded) at the studios was ''The X Factor'' on 4 December 2016, after which the studio was closed, and the site sold to property developer Quintain. History In 1927, Ralph J. Pugh and Rupert Mason founded British Incorporated Pictures with the intention of creating an American-style studio complex in the former British Empire Exhibition's Palace of Engineering. They bought a lease at Wembley in June 1927, though i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top Gear (2002 TV Series)
''Top Gear'' is a British motoring magazine and factual television programme, designed as a relaunched version of the Top Gear (1977 TV series), original 1977 show of the same name by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman for the BBC, and premiered on 20 October 2002. The programme focuses on the examination and reviewing of motor vehicles, primarily cars, though this was expanded upon after the broadcast of its earlier series to incorporate films featuring motoring-based challenges, special races, timed laps of notable cars, and celebrity timed laps on a course specially-designed for the relaunched programme. The programme drew acclaim for its visual and presentation style since its launch, which focused on being generally entertaining to viewers, as well as Top Gear controversies, criticism over the controversial nature of its content. The show was also praised for its occasionally-controversial humor and lore existing in not just the automotive community but in the form of internet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leigh Haggerwood
Leigh Haggerwood is a contemporary composer based in London, UK. He specializes in songwriting, keyboards, singing, music production, audio engineering and sound-to-picture scoring. His credits include music for numerous TV shows and commercials which are broadcast around the world. Along with chef Jamie Oliver, Leigh Haggerwood was a founding member of the band Scarlet Division, which released the single, "Sundial", in October 2000 through Sony Music. Haggerwood also wrote several songs for Jamie Oliver's live shows which included the YouTube hit "Lamb Curry – Give It to Me Hot", " The Kiss of Summer and "Fish Stew". His TV credits include the ITV ''Text Santa'' Theme and incidental musical, ''Oliver's Twist'' ( Just the Start, the theme song), Trinny and Susannah, '' Jamie's School Dinners'', '' Petrolheads'' on BBC Two and TV Land's '' High School Reunion''. The Florin Street Band Haggerwood is best known for his Victorian-themed creation The Florin Street Band which h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Panel Show
A panel show or panel game is a radio or television game show in which a panel of celebrities participates. Celebrity panelists may compete with each other, such as on ''The News Quiz''; facilitate play by non-celebrity contestants, such as on ''Match Game'' and ''Blankety Blank''; or do both, such as on ''Wait Wait Don't Tell Me''. The genre can be traced to 1938, when ''Information Please'' debuted on U.S. radio. The earliest known television panel show is '' Play the Game'', a charades show in 1946. The modern trend of comedy panel shows can find early roots with '' Stop Me If You've Heard This One'' in 1939 and ''Can You Top This?'' in 1940. While panel shows were more popular in the past in the U.S., they are still very common in the United Kingdom. Format While many early panel shows stuck to the traditional quiz show format in which celebrities tried to get the right answers and win, the primary goal of modern panel shows is to entertain the audience with comedy, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Martin (chef)
James Martin (born 30 June 1972) is a British chef and television presenter, best known for his television work with the BBC and ITV. Martin presented the BBC cookery series ''Saturday Kitchen'' from 2006 until 2016, before leaving the BBC. More recently, Martin has presented ''James Martin's French Adventure'' (2017), ''Saturday Morning with James Martin'' (2017–present) and ''James Martin's American Adventure'' (2018) for ITV. Early life Martin's family were farmers on the Castle Howard estate where he helped his mother in the kitchen, igniting his interest in cuisine. He lived in Welburn, UK, where he attended Amotherby School in Malton and later on, Malton School. Career Early career James Martin trained at Hostellerie De Plaisance, Saint-Émilion, France, and from there, spent two years as a Pastry Chef at Chewton Glen Hotel in the South of England. Television He first appeared on television in 1996 on programmes including ''James Martin: Yorkshire's Finest'' (se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Panel Games
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Game Shows
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BBC Panel Games
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