Join you in this & wish Richard all the best. The news seems to be encouraging. I only hope the show survives this and the BBC resist the, already active, anti Top Gear brigade.  

That is true, Robin. Noël Edmonds’ Late Late Breakfast Show was cancelled as a result of an accidental death, and Top Gear was cancelled once before while the magazine kept going. I hope the BBC sees sense and keeps it going: its biggest motive, I must say, is the earning capacity of this show. But I am disturbed that the number of episodes keeps dropping, which leads me to believe it’s not as favoured by the corporation as it should be. And it can’t go back to its earlier, safer, more documentary-style format, because the rights for that have been sold to Channel 5 (Fifth Gear).