Top Gear comes 'to rest' indefinitely

Top Gear, the pokey BBC motoring show that became a global phenomenon, has come ‘to rest’ after 46 years in the wake of Freddie Flintoff’s serious accident while filming at the Dunsfold test track last December. Given the extent of Flintoff’s injuries, it was widely thought very unlikely that the show would return in its current format; now, in a short statement released by the BBC today, it confirmed that Top Gear’s hiatus from TV screens would continue indefinitely. "Given …