Top Gear

The audience figures for this episode: 5.2 million, a 23.3% share.

The audience figure for this episode was 5.4 million (19.9% share). The peak audience was 5.7 million.

Top Gear's audience figures were down this week, due to the live coverage of Spain's victory over Germany in the European Championships. The figure of 4.2 million gave Top Gear an 18.1% share of the TV audience. It remains the most-watched programme on BBC2.

The celebrities only finished setting their lap times 2 hours before the edited version was shown to the studio audience. Rupert Penry-Jones was particularly impressed with this speedy editing.

The camaraderie between the 3 lads is just as amusing as when the camera is running (however, James May seemed visibly irritated about something during the filming of this episode). Also The Stig introductions really do seem to be made up on the spot as it took several takes to shoot due to Hammond cracking up and Clarkson changing the introduction several times.

Clarkson spent at least 10 minutes of the time it took to film the News section chatting to a female member of the audience who was very attractive.

Clarkson tripped up the first time he stepped onto the stage for the news and skidded to a halt.

During the "Speed" challenge, when Richard drives through the hammerhead, his stinger falls off, then it comes back on again and disappears again when he finishes the lap.

Top Gear's viewing figures were 6.2 million - a 24.4% share, with a peak audience of 6.9 million.

The good audience figures continue for Top Gear, 6.8 million people watched this episode, with the audience peaking at 7.2 million - a 25% share of the available audience.

An average of 6.7 million people watched this episode, with the audience peaking at 7.3 million.

Chat show host, Jonathan Ross, was originally due to drive the Reasonably Priced Car this week, but he was 'bumped' at the last minute for James Blunt. This was revealed by Jeremy Clarkson when he appeared as a guest on Jonathan's chat show.

This week's audience figures: 7.9 million viewers - a 27.3% share.

This week's audience figures: 6.3 million viewers - a share of 22.9%. Once again, Top Gear was the most-watched programme on BBC2.

6.6 million watched this episode - a 23.4% share of the audience. Top Gear was the most popular programme on BBC2.

Graham Boanas, the man who walked across the Humber estuary, also walked across the river Mersey in August 2006. He wanted to raise money for Debra; a charity for people who suffer from the genetic skin blistering condition, Epidermolysis Bullosa. Mr. Boanas, who wanted to raise £100,000 for the charity said: "I saw a programme about children with EB and I just wanted to help".

"I came up with the idea of walking across rivers, I just wanted to do something different to raise lots of money for them".

7.4 million viewers watched this episode - a 25.9% audience share.

Richard's 'emotional attachment' to Oliver was not just a holiday romance; he has bought the car and shipped it back to England, where they will live happily ever after.

Even though the Honey Badger sounds like something Jeremy has made up, it truly is a real animal and, amazingly, is as ferocious as Jeremy states (except maybe the attacking testicles part). Called the Honey Badger because of it's love of honey, it has a reputation for being pound for pound, Africa's most fearless animal despite its small size. It is even listed as the "most fearless animal in the world" in the 2002 Guinness Book of Records.

6.3 million viewers watched this episode - a 24% share of the TV audience.