Top Gear Australia will premiere on Paramount+ on Friday, 17 May in Australia.
Beau Ryan, Blair Joscelyne and Jonathan LaPaglia will host the eight-part series, taking audiences across Australia, plus through the French Alps, the historic streets of Rome, the St Tropez coastline, and rugged Colombian jungle.
Internationally, the series will also premiere in Canada on Friday 17 May, and in Latin America, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and Japan at a later date.
Top Gear Australia, produced by BBC Studios Productions Australia, joins a host of the Paramount+ Australian Originals currently streaming on Paramount+, including Last King Of The Cross, Five Bedrooms, NCIS: Sydney, The Inspired Unemployed, and (Impractical) Jokers, plus Fake streaming soon.
Mediaweek was on the ground at the F1 in Melbourne last month when co-host Beau Ryan has confirmed the eight-part series would hit Paramount+ in May.
Ryan, speaking at the Paramount suite during the weekend’s Australian Grand Prix alongside co-hosts Joscelyne and LaPaglia, said the trio had recently finished filming on the F1 track.
The hosts wrapped the series by doing a ‘hot lap’ around the Albert Park circuit, after filming for four months. Ryan emphasised how unusual it is to take four months to film just eight episodes.
“This is the most excited we’ve been for a show in 10 years,” he added.
The new Australian version of the show was announced at Ten’s upfront in October.
At the time, Paramount AUNZ’s SVP of content and programming, Daniel Monaghan said: “Top Gear Australia promises to deliver everything fans love about the show but with an Aussie twist. We can’t wait for Jonathan, Beau and Blair to get behind the wheel of the world’s biggest car entertainment show.”
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Top image: Beau Ryan, Blair Joscelyne and Jonathan LaPaglia