Jeremy on TFI Friday Special 12 June at 9pm on Channel 4

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Jeremy will be on the TFI Friday Anniversary Special Friday, 12 June 2015 at 9pm on Channel 4 (UK)

There are music shows. There are chat shows. There are even all-round entertainment shows. And then there's TFI Friday.
Are you ready for the television event of the year? TFI Friday returns for a live 90 minute special on Channel 4, Friday 12th June.

www.channel4.com/programmes/tfi-friday

Chris Evans hosts a one-off edition of the entertainment show that was at the heart of '90s Britpop, and featured some of the greatest British and international bands of the time. Hoping to remain contemporary yet be a little nostalgic, this special programme is broadcast from a new location in central London, with guests including Blur and Shaun Ryder, and contributions from Danny Baker and Will Macdonald.

www.radiotimes.com/episode/dnktk7/tfi-friday

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Clarkson’s TV return on Evans show ramps up Top Gear rumours


A BBC insider said they were not aware of Evans taking part in any official Top Gear projects

Kaya Burgess
Last updated at 12:01AM, June 9 2015

Jeremy Clarkson is to line up alongside a fellow motoring enthusiast to make his TV comeback on Friday, but Top Gear fans hoping for a reconciliation may be disappointed that it is only as a guest on TFI Friday with Chris Evans.

Evans, the Radio 2 DJ and car collector, has denied rumours that he would replace Clarkson as a host on Top Gear, but intrigued fans on Sunday when he said that he was due to make a “secret Top Gear film” with an “independent production company” today.

A BBC insider said they were not aware of Evans taking part in any official Top Gear projects — especially as the show is produced in-house and not by an independent company. This led to speculation that Evans was preparing a Top Gear-related segment for the 20th anniversary edition of TFI Friday, to air as a one-off live special this week on Channel 4.

Clarkson’s appearance on TFI Friday is his first TV appearance since he was sacked from Top Gear after assaulting a producer. He was due to appear as a guest host of Have I Got News for You in April but pulled out.

It is understood that Evans’s allusion to “a Top Gear sequence”, to be filmed today, refers to a segment featuring Clarkson for Friday’s Channel 4 show, although a source close to the production refused to confirm the reports. It is not known if James May and Richard Hammond will also appear in it, but it is believed they will turn down offers from the BBC to renew their Top Gear contracts worth up to £4.6 million each.

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/medianews/article4464317.ece

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Jeremy Clarkson's 'secret Top Gear film' part of Chris Evans' TFI Friday special
Presenter to make first TV appearance since being dropped from his BBC show, taking part in Channel 4 talkshow’s one-off 20th anniversary celebrations


Jeremy Clarkson is to make his first TV appearance since he was axed from the job as presenter of Top Gear. Photograph: Beretta/Sims/Rex Shutterstock

Jeremy Clarkson will make his TV return on Chris Evans’ Channel 4 show, TFI Friday – but Evans is not making a film for Top Gear.

But the BBC said on Monday that Evans was not making any film for Top Gear with its future still unclear.

Evans and Clarkson will appear together on TFI Friday when it returns to Channel 4 for a one-off 20th anniversary special this Friday that will also feature Liam Gallagher and Roger Daltrey in a TFI “supergroup”.

Evans, a petrolhead who has been among the favourites to take over from Clarkson on the BBC2 show, told Sunday Brunch presenter Tim Lovejoy: “Not started yet, but we are doing a secret Top Gear film on Tuesday.”

Lovejoy replied: “It’s not so secret now.”

Evans sparked an online frenzy on Sunday when he told Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch show that he was making a “secret Top Gear film”, fuelling speculation that the Radio 2 DJ would take over the BBC2 show.


Chris Evans reveals ‘secret Top Gear film’ on Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch

Evans went on: “It still will be, because nobody knows where it’s going to be. We’re making a Top Gear – we’re doing a Top Gear sequence with an independent production company and we’re going to see how it goes.”

But it is thought to be a Top Gear sequence only in the sense that it will feature Clarkson, axed from the show earlier this year after his assault on a producer.

Top Gear is made by the BBC’s in-house production team, and that is not expected to change when it returns next year.

It remains to be seen who will be at its helm, with presenters Richard Hammond and James May tipped not to return despite multi-million overtures from the BBC for them to present it alongside a different guest presenter each week.

The BBC confirmed that Evans was not making a film for Top Gear, but refused to comment further. A spokeswoman for Channel 4 declined to comment.

Evans’ comments prompted both Clarkson, May and Hammond to respond on Twitter with their own take on his remarks.

All three men’s contracts ran out earlier this year and the BBC refused to renew Clarkson’s after his much-publicised attack.

Andy Wilman, Top Gear’s former executive producer – and an old school friend of Clarkson – has left the show, which sparked rumours he was joining up with all three men to make an alternative programme, with Netflix and ITV among the broadcasters rumoured to be in the running to screen it.

Clarkson’s appearance on TFI Friday will be his first TV appearance since he was dropped from the show.

He has appeared on Evans’ Radio 2 breakfast show, but dropped out of a planned appearance on BBC1’s Have I Got News For You just weeks after the BBC decided not to renew his contract.

www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/08/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-chris-evans-tfi-friday-bbc

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TFI Friday | Jeremy Clarkson | Channel 4


Published on Jun 15, 2015
Chris gets some presenting tips from Jeremy Clarkson

Watch on All 4 - www.channel4.com/programmes/tfi-friday

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TFI Friday Special

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TV review:  TFI Friday

Andrew Billen
Last updated at 12:01AM, June 15 2015

Nineteen years since it began its original five-year run, Chris Evans brought back his TFI Friday for a one-off on Friday. With the cream from the old guest list, from Ewan McGregor to Shaun Ryder (whose language forced the programme to be pre-recorded), and the silliest of its old stunts revived, the show was glorious fun, although the more Evans turned to contemporary musicians and stars, the less certain it felt. Generously, he said that if TFI were to return permanently Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw should host it, although I doubt if Grimmers is quite naughty enough. Still, the revival showed what sufficient resources and goodwill can do with a format halfway between Letterman and Tiswas. Perhaps the sun has yet to set on the show (disconcertingly, it certainly didn’t on the river scene behind Evans’s studio window). I’d like to see Evans do TFI regularly. Every ten years, say.

www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/tv-radio/reviews/article4469562.ece