So whens the next season of 5th Gear?

[dino_martini]

Usually we get a season of Fifth Gear before the next season of Top Gear begins?

I enjoy the sensibility of Fifth Gear and the wide range of cars they test that I will never get to enjoy since I live in Canada.

I tried to sort out the Fifth Gear website, but its a mish-mash of things.

Any news on the new season?

[PistonBroke]

The Gadget Show - which shares the same time slot as Fifth Gear, but gets double the number of viewers - has been scheduled for the rest of the year, except for one Monday. Fifth Gear has already broadcast its customary two series for the year.

I'd guess at January 4 or 11, unless they do some sort of Christmas special.

[dino_martini]

Ahh I see. Oh well. I'm longing for some sort of car program lol.

[fsugino]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...elevision.html

Vicki’s career stalls as Five’s Fifth Gear is driven off television

By Miles Goslett
Last updated at 11:49 PM on 17th October 2009

Vicki Butler-Henderson has been an integral part of Fifth Gear since it launched seven years ago

Vicki Butler-Henderson has been an integral part of Fifth Gear since it launched seven years ago

Fifth Gear host Vicki Butler-Henderson has been forced into the pits, with TV bosses confirming the show has been axed.

The channel Five programme was regarded as the main competitor to BBC2’s Top Gear.

Butler-Henderson, 37, had been an integral part of it since it was launched seven years ago.

But the latest series, which ended in July, never attracted more than a million viewers and Five decided it should be the last.

A source at the station claimed the decision had nothing to do with budget cuts. It is likelier its failure to make it on to the list of Five’s top 30 watched programmes had a negative impact on advertising revenue.

Fifth Gear first aired in 2002 after the original incarnation of Top Gear was ‘rested’ in 2001 due to poor ratings.

Several former Top Gear presenters, including Butler-Henderson were hired by Five to present the show.

The self-confessed tomboy raced karts as a child and competed in Formula First.

As one of the few high-profile women motoring experts, she is not likely to be off the circuit for long. Her husband Phil Churchward is series director of Top Gear.

Five said it was proud of Fifth Gear but that it was ‘time to try something new’.