Talking Top Gear with Script Editor Richard Porter! - SPOTCAST #15

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0:00 Intro
1:15 "stupid" credits in Top Gear specials
5:28 Richard accidentally being left off the credits for the final Grand Tour
6:23 The original plan for The Grand Tour finale (trip to the USA)
10:33 Richard's role at Top Gear

12:13 Who's the Stig?
16:52 Jeremy saying "Torques" amongst other slightly incorrect things
22:44 Avoiding Top Gear features/catchphrases on The Grand Tour
25:45 How the "scripted" moments worked
26:55 Avoiding Top Gear features/catchphrases on The Grand Tour (continued)
28:40 Why the guest segments on TGT were "never very successful"
31:04 How late were Top Gear episodes ready for airing on TV

34:00 The last ever Top Gear shoot, and when Jeremy tried to buy a 911
37:05 Jeremy recording his last Top Gear voiceover (post fracas)
39:02 Is it all really over for good?
41:42 Working out the specials format by breaking their own rules
44:51 Moving away from surveys and the cool wall

46:43 General chatting
55:53 Clarkson's TV brain
57:44 Talking diesels and coal rolling
59:36 Over-exaggerating on Top Gear
1:02:40 Finding the trio and the pressures of new new TG
1:11:51 Why were the "producers" in lab coats
1:13:27 Did Richard go on many of the specials
1:15:03 Getting the other Richard Porter’s emails

1:17:05 The City Rover
1:24:02 Brighton drivetime radio disaster
1:27:38 "Acronym for America", writing intro items, and inventing sludge content
1:34:37 Robin space shuttle
1:41:34 Season 9/10 storage unit fire
1:44:17 Peugeot Drivers skit
1:51:38 Jumping a wedding in a wedding limo
1:52:40 Naturally Hans is wet he's standing under a waterfall
1:53:15 The Fracas
1:56:18 Picking the music on Top Gear

2:00:30 Outro waffle

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