Please seed this as much as you can, ill seed this until i need the space, then ill delete it. British comedian and guest of the show Steve Coogan has criticised the show, accusing it of lazy, adolescent humour and 'casual racism'. Gill, close friend of Clarkson and fellow Sunday Times columnist, described the show as 'a triumph of the craft of programme making, of the minute, obsessive, musical masonry of editing, the French polishing of colourwashing and grading'. The show has received acclaim for its visual style and presentation, as well as criticism for its content and comments made by presenters. Seventeen series have been broadcast, and the seventeenth series started on 26 June 2011. First run episodes are broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two, and since Series 14, also on BBC HD.

The programme is estimated to have around 350 million viewers per week in 170 different countries and is heavily downloaded from peer-to-peer file-sharing services, with roughly 300,000 downloads per episode via torrent programs. The show is currently presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and has featured at least three different test drivers known as The Stig. Over time, and especially since a relaunch in 2002, it has developed a quirky, humorous style. It began in 1977 as a conventional motoring magazine show. Top Gear is a British television series about motor vehicles, primarily cars.

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