Top Gear USA Alive, Heading To History Channel  Despite being
killed by NBC, Top Gear USA lives on at The History Channel.
Sources there tell us they've ordered between 10 and 12 episodes
and they're currently interviewing candidates for the hosts.  If
you'll remember, NBC killed the idea for a Top Gear USA show
starring Carolla, racer Tanner Faust and dapper doily designer
Eric Stromer at about the same time they realized the
Carpocalypse was gonna kill any chance they'd have of
advertising. Also, there was the whole Knight Rider fiasco.  The
History Channel's an interesting choice for Top Gear. The
positive is they've got a lot of cash to throw around thanks to
their very high net worth viewers. The negative is it still
won't be the UK version. Still, there's good people involved in
the production of the show.  In fact, much of the impetus for
our decision to provide a bounty for the unaired pilot of the
NBC version of Top Gear USA (more on that later) was because we
knew from our sources that History had p