The former Top Gear trio have signed a contract to present a new motoring show for Amazon Prime Instant
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The comedy and entertainment producer, who has previously worked on The Big Breakfast, Shooting Stars and Vic & Bob’s House Of Fools, has earned a resounding endorsement from Evans.
“Lisa is as good as it gets when it comes to making big, important television shows. She’s funny, sassy, super-experienced and has always absolutely LOVED cars,” he said.
Clark was head of comedy at LWT before becoming a senior commissioning executive at the BBC.
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In 2001, she set up Pett Television with Reeves & Mortimer, which produced a range of shows including Celebrity Dog School on BBC One, Tittybangbang on BBC Three, Angelos Epithemiou on Channel 4 and Matt Berry Does on BBC iPlayer.
In an email to Top Gear staff that was leaked to press in the wake of Clarkson’s sacking, Wilman said: “Our stint as guardians of Top Gear was a good one, but we were only part of the show’s history, not the whole of it. Those two words are bigger than us.”
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