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Fifth Gear is a British motoring television magazine series which has been broadcast since 2002. Originally shown on Channel 5 from 2002 to 2011 (and branded as 5th Gear until 2005), it began as a continuation of the original version of the BBC show Top Gear, which ran from 1977 until being cancelled in 2001.
Fifth Gear is a British motoring television magazine series. Originally shown on Channel 5 from 2002 to 2011, Discovery from 2012 to 2014, History in 2015 and Quest since 2018. The show is currently presented by Jason Plato , Vicki Butler-Henderson , Jonny Smith and Jimmy de Ville with occasional appearances from Karun Chandhok .
5th Gear may refer to: Fifth Gear, a British television show formerly known as "5th Gear" 5th Gear, an album by Brad Paisley; 5th Gear, a video game for the ...
Needell is a television presenter and motoring journalist and co-hosted the original run of the BBC TV series Top Gear starting in 1987. [3] In 2001, when the BBC cancelled Top Gear (the show was revived in 2002 under a new format), Needell and the whole cast defected and signed with Channel 5 to produce and host a new motoring show named Fifth Gear.
Ford became a presenter of Fifth Gear for Channel 5 in 2002. [1] The show was planned to be cancelled in 2009, [3] however it did return in 2010 but without Ford. [4]In autumn of 2007 he crashed heavily during the filming of episode 7 of series 12 which resulted in broken toes.
In 2007 Butler-Henderson married television producer and director Phil Churchward. Churchward worked on several motoring programmes as a producer of Fifth Gear, series director of Top Gear and The Grand Tour. [14] Butler-Henderson owns or has owned a Mk II Golf GTI, a Honda S2000, a Ducati Monster 750 and a Ford Ranger (T6) Raptor. [3] [15]
Smith appeared on Sky One's Movies' Greatest Cars in 2005, where he was noticed by North One Television, producers of Fifth Gear, and subsequently asked to attend a screen test. [2] Smith hosted his own engineering-based documentary television series, Industrial Junkie. [3]
In 2021 Reid began hosting the newly renamed Fifth Gear Recharged on Discovery+ and Quest, along with Vicki Butler-Henderson, Jason Plato and Karun Chandhok. The show is a continuation of the original Fifth Gear series (which was created as a continuation of the original 1977 Top Gear series) but focuses purely on electric and hybrid drive ...