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Top Gear Australia Angers Car Companies
10:45AM Jess McGuire | The folks at SBS’s Top Gear are apparently in trouble with some big name car companies, with the Herald Sun reporting that the program caused over $200,000 worth of damage to vehicles which appeared in the first series of the show. Now that’s some good driving!
Filming of the Australian series of Top Gear has turned into a demolition derby with a repair bill close to $200,000. Eager driving and wild stunts have left a trail of destruction behind the Top Gear team that goes beyond the expected bill for bald tyres from slides and burnouts.
Luxury cars have needed total resprays because of flying stones, and lesser brands have reported damage from silly stunts created for the SBS TV series, which is unofficially confirmed for a second series in Australia in 2009.
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Defamer Predicts the 2008 Emmys: The Dramas
4:50AM Kyle Buchanan | We’ve already run through our predictions for Emmy’s comedy categories, but now it’s time to sit down for forty-four minutes (excepting commercials) and soberly judge this year’s crop of dramas. Again, we’ll be blogging the Emmys live from the East Coast starting at 7pm EDT/4pm PDT, so if Mariska Hargitay lets loose with an expletive-laden diatribe or Jeremy Piven has a nip slip on the red carpet, you can be sure we’ve got it covered. Now, onto the predictions:
