Former Top Gear team sets sights on domination of the four-wheeled Internet

When things ended badly with the BBC, Clarkson, May, and Hammond were snapped up by Amazon with a budget reported to be $7 million (£4.5 million) per episode. But they evidently want more. On Monday Variety revealed that the gang, together with a tech entrepreneur called Ernesto Schmitt, want to create a digital home on the Internet for car people.

Meanwhile, over at the BBC Top Gear lives on, recreating itself for at least the third time. Headed by UK radio and TV presenter Chris Evans, and joined by a massive cast that includes Matt LeBlanc, Sabine Schmitz, and Chris Harris, the show has been dogged by negative coverage in the UK's newspapers and a bit of a controversy involving someone drifting near the Cenotaph (a war memorial in London).