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This article is about the TV series. For other uses of "5th Gear", see 5th Gear.
Fifth Gear
The Fifth Gear Logo
StarringTiff Needell
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Tom Ford
Jason Plato
Jonny Smith
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Production
Running time46 minutes currently
23 minutes originally
Original release
NetworkFive
Release2002 –
present

Fifth Gear (formerly 5th Gear) is a motoring magazine show on British television channel Five. The programme began its eleventh season on 30 April 2007. Fifth Gear has also aired on the SPEED Channel in the USA for a short period in 2006 to early 2007.

Fifth Gear first aired in 2002 as a replacement to the original incarnation of the BBC show Top Gear (as opposed to the current format), which was cancelled in 2001 due to low ratings. Five originally wanted to carry on using the Top Gear name, however the BBC refused. Several of Top Gear's ex-presenters, including Quentin Willson, Tiff Needell and Vicki Butler-Henderson were hired by Five to present Fifth Gear. After the completion of Fifth Gear's first series, the BBC relaunched Top Gear in a new hour-long format presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and Jason Dawe (replaced after the first season by current presenter James May).

Show format

The original format consisted of a 30 minute programme, including approximately 7 minutes of adverts. The eighth season returned in the autumn of 2005 in a longer format of 45 minutes, and the ninth series (which went to a 13-week run) was increased to a one hour airtime slot (approximately 46 minutes excluding adverts). Despite giving away a car in each episode, Fifth Gear is increasingly indistinguishable from Top Gear and is only let down by it's falling technical standards.[citation needed].

The tenth season, in addition to the arrival of Soccer AM's Tim Lovejoy as one of the main presenters, saw the introduction of filming the feature sections at the Ace Cafe in London, rather than the previous format of filming the links between features in the production company's offices in Birmingham.

The 11th season saw Tom Ford replace Tim Lovejoy as main presenter alongside Vicki Butler Henderson.

Accidents

During Season 12[1] two accidents took place during filming.

  • Episode 7: Tom Ford broke his foot and several toes[2] when he crashed a modified Bedford Rascal van. Ford was recording a piece about drifting He and co-host Jonny Smith were racing each other in a D1 Grand Prix style around a private track. After winning the event, Ford was performing a victory drift that went wrong, put his van (painted to resemble the A-Team GMC Van)up on two wheels and sent him into a safety barrier. The incident was alluded to in the Autumn 2007 series of Top Gear by presenter Jeremy Clarkson.
  • Episode 8: BTCC driver Jason Plato suffered multiple burns when a Caparo T1 he was driving at Bruntingthorpe proving ground, burst into flames[3]. The car, capable of 200mph, burst into flames at an estimated 150mph. Plato said: "There was a slight loss of power, I looked in the mirror and saw some smoke, there was a slight smell of oil and then suddenly there was this intense heat. The car spontaneously erupted into a ball of flames and I was sat in the middle of a fireball." The presenter was initially taken to Market Harborough and District Hospital by former BTCC driver Phill Bennett before being treated at Kettering General Hospital. He later received specialist burns treatment at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Viewing figures

According to BARB [1] viewing figures for October 2006, Fifth Gear averaged around 0.9 million viewers and is about the 20th most popular programme on Five, ignoring repeats. In comparison, similar figures for the summer 2006 series of Top Gear were approx 4.5 million viewers, and it was almost consistently the most popular programme on BBC2 by a margin of up to 1.2 million, aside from two weeks when it was placed second to closing episodes of The Apprentice.[citation needed]. By season 13 (January 2008) BARB figures indicate that Fifth Gear attracts 1.12 million viewers[4] for the Monday night broadcast, making it the 21st most popular programme on the channel.

The Fifth Gear awards

Each year, the programme gives out various awards:

2004

2005

2006

2007

Shoot outs

Fifth Gear claims to be 'world renowned' for their 'infamous' shoot outs, between similarly priced, similarly powerful cars, or, recently, cars versus bikes. These shoot outs take place at the Anglesey Circuit on the Isle of Anglesey close to Tŷ Croes. During the refurbishment of Anglesey, shoot-outs were switched to Castle Combe Circuit.

2002 (Seasons 1 and 2)

2003 (Seasons 3 and 4)

2004 (Seasons 5 and 6)

2005 - Season 7

2005 - Season 8

2006 - Season 9

2006 - Season 10

2007 - Season 11

  • Hire car shoot-out: Vauxhall Astra 1.6 vs. Ford Focus 1.6 Zetec
  • White van Megane shoot-out: Renault Sport Megane 230 F1 R26 vs. Ford Transit Connect X-press

2007 - Season 12

2008 - Season 13

  • Week 1: Lotus Exige S vs. Caterham CSR
  • Week 2: Renault Clio 197 vs. Rage Buggy R180RT
  • Week 3: Vauxhall VXR8 vs. Vauxhall Carlton

References

  1. ^ Fifth Gear: Behind the scenes Accessed 11 February 2008
  2. ^ Fifth Gear star Tom Ford hurt in crash Autotrader.co.uk News - Accessed 10 October 2007
  3. ^ Plato injured as Caparo T1 bursts into flames Crash.net News - Accessed 10 October 2007
  4. ^ Broadcasters' Audience Research Board Estimated viewing figures. Access date 11 February 2008


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