Tag: BBC Top Gear crew

• Friday, May 29th 2015 - 09:34 UTC

  Falklands War plates' complaint rejected by BBC Trust: 'lack of evidence'

  

  The BBC Trust has rejected complaints over Top Gear's Patagonia special, in which a car number plate which appeared to refer to the 1982 Falklands war. The production team fled Argentina following protests over the use of the registration number H982 FKL.

• Monday, December 29th 2014 - 05:32 UTC

  Cotroversial two-part Top Gear Patagonia special aired on BBC2

  

  Critics agree only the segment where the crew is chased and thrown stones at by angry Argentines has some 'action'. The rest is the usual Top Gear travelogue.

• Friday, October 10th 2014 - 04:47 UTC

  Damon Albarn apologizes to Argentina for Top Gear's offensive behavior

  

  Damon Albarn has apologized to the people of Argentina after Top Gear offended the population with an inappropriate number plate while filming their BBC show in the country. In effect during his set at one Buenos Aires main theatres this week the Blur front-man called To Gear's Jeremy Clarkson a “f****** a*****” over the serious gaffe.

• Monday, October 6th 2014 - 06:34 UTC

  BBC2 To Gear claims “they threw us out of Argentina for the political capital”

  

  BBC2’s Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said his crew did nothing wrong and affirmed “someone could have been killed”, following incidents in which a group of people in Tierra del Fuego threw stones at their cars, thinking the license plates they used for filming were directly alluding to the Falklands/Malvinas War.

• Saturday, October 4th 2014 - 05:39 UTC

  Mobbing by Argentine officials forces BBC Top Gear team to flee to Chile

  

  Hooliganism and mobbing by government officials seem to be the norm in Argentina following on the experience of two incidents, one involving a BBC crew forced out of the country for their alleged 'disrespectful attitude' towards the Falklands/Malvinas conflict memory, and a second calling on hecklers to impede a conference in Buenos Aires of a former minister.