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FIFTH GEAR HAS BEEN CANCELED APPARENTLY ! <img src="http://forum.autolanka.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":o" border="0" alt="ohmy.gif" />

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Vicki’s career stalls as Five’s Fifth Gear is driven off television

By Miles Goslett

Last updated at 3:49 PM on 18th October 2009

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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’.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

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Devinda,

Does that mean they telecast old Fith Gear programmes in Discovery Turbo?

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Devinda,

Does that mean they telecast old Fith Gear programmes in Discovery Turbo?

Yes they do air older Fifth Gear episodes on Discovery Turbo

Else one can always download all the old episodes via torrents off of www.finalgear.com

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For those who are not so much in to torrents and downloading, I found a shop near Romafour, Bamba where you could grab a TG season (at least from S7 onwards) + other extras like Clarkson Powered Up, for 100 bucks a disk, boxed.

(of course the latest seasons are HDTV rips but CPU was a BluRay copy and that was marvelous to look at).

P.S. Mods, if this looks like an ad (which it's not :)) - do remove.

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For those who are not so much in to torrents and downloading, I found a shop near Romafour, Bamba where you could grab a TG season (at least from S7 onwards) + other extras like Clarkson Powered Up, for 100 bucks a disk, boxed.

(of course the latest seasons are HDTV rips but CPU was a BluRay copy and that was marvelous to look at).

P.S. Mods, if this looks like an ad (which it's not :)) - do remove.

Yeah thats the place I buy my stuff...good stuff and reasonably priced. Just opposite Romafour carpark.

MINIACE

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is it eagle by any chance?

Not eagle, just the place opposite Romafour carpark (Joseph Lane?) as Miniace said.

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Top gear Christmas special aired a few hours ago.Torrents are already up for those who don't get BBC

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BTW, probably a stupid question - but I currently don't subscribe to BBC in DTV. Does this feed carry TG?

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BTW, probably a stupid question - but I currently don't subscribe to BBC in DTV. Does this feed carry TG?

Nope.Its on BBC 2.Not the 24 hour BBC news channel we get in SL.

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Cheers,

K9M

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Nope.Its on BBC 2.Not the 24 hour BBC news channel we get in SL.

Cheers! So it's either downloading episodes or waiting till the season is over, for the bootleg disk to come out :)

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