Guide Note
Adam Carolla is set to star in the U.S. version of the long-running U.K. reality television show Top Gear. Co-hosts auto racer Tanner Foust and HGTV's Over Your Head host Eric Stromer will join Carolla in challenges and testing fast cars.
Fast Facts
- Network: NBC
- Executive producers: Tod Mesirow and Kevin Harris
- Starring: Adam Carolla, Tanner Foust and Eric Stromer
- Original show aired on the BBC network
- Jay Leno turned down the host position
- Carolla's car collection includes Lamborghinis and Ferraris
- Carolla is the current host of The Adam Carolla Show
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"This franchise is a proven winner worldwide and the hosting team of Adam, Tanner and Eric that we have brought together for the U.S. version offers a perfect match of humor, insider know-how and priceless track experience. We are going to create a high-powered show that, like the original, will keep viewers in every demographic clutching the edge of their seat"1—Craig Plestis, head of alternative programming at NBC
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