Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure by Andy Wilman

Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

Top Gear, Grand Tour, Clarkson and Me

Andy Wilman

Penguin UK · Print & ebook · Forthcoming

Lift the bonnet on 20 years of magic and mayhem on Top Gear and The Grand Tour - from the mysterious man behind the camera . . . -- Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights.

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Who it’s for
Co-creator Andy Wilman recounts more than twenty years behind Top Gear and The Grand Tour.
Themes
motoring, television history, friendship
Pacing
Mixed

About this book

Lift the bonnet on 20 years of magic and mayhem on Top Gear and The Grand Tour - from the mysterious man behind the camera . . . -- Top Gear turned gloomy Sunday nights into celebratory Friday nights. It made household names of presenters Clarkson, Hammond and May, their unique chemistry and buddy movie antics proving irresistible to a vast global audience.

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With these three at the helm, Top Gear earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the most popular factual TV show on the planet. Then, a short while later, it was all gone. How did a thoroughly sensible little consumer advice programme on cars turn into a global phenomenon in the first place, though? How did it all go wrong? And how did they rise from the ashes as The Grand Tour, and go on to scale even greater heights? One man has all the answers. There from the beginning, Top Gear and The Grand Tour co-creator, and Jeremy’s oldest friend, Andy Wilman, opens the bonnet on over twenty years of motoring mayhem. In Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure, the mysterious man in the shadows tells the inside story of your favourite TV shows for the first time. Irreverent, joyful and as laugh-out-loud funny as the shows themselves, it’s the best book about Top Gear and The Grand Tour . . . in the world.

Behind Top Gear

Co-creator Andy Wilman recounts more than twenty years behind Top Gear and The Grand Tour.

Come here for

  • How Top Gear became a global phenomenon
  • The story of The Grand Tour’s rise

Expect

  • An inside account of both shows
  • Wilman’s perspective as co-creator and Jeremy Clarkson’s oldest friend

Where it sits

Lives in Entertainment65%
Personal Memoirs33%
Television33%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Sports Lives
  • Personal Memoirs
  • Auto Racing
Authors
Andy Wilman
Publisher
Penguin UK
Published
Forthcoming
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
motoring · television history · friendship
Reading lane
Sports Lives