 In 2000, he was personally approached by the then-controller of BBC2 to present "Top Gear", and he went on to front 53 editions of the programme prior to its relaunch in 2002, with Jeremy Clarkson.Still under contract to the BBC, he presented BBC2's motoring programme "Wrong Car, Right Car" from 2002 to 2003.More recently, he has presented several editions of Channel 4's award-winning "Dispatches", a behind-the-scenes documentary for Sky One and Sky Movies on the making of Danny Boyle's 2006 sci-fi thriller "Sunshine", interviewed film director David Lynch for Bafta's David Lean lecture in 2007, presented "TV's Greatest Cars" and "Movie's Greatest Cars" for Sky One, and fronted "The Big New Preview Show" for Sky.