Lee’s Daily Blog

Today (Sunday 21st June), Top Gear returned to our screens for a brand new series. The big hype about this episode though was that it was rumoured that the person who fills the role as The Stig would be revelaed.

Before this episode, several newspapers had name The Stig to be Ben Collins, with the BBC not commenting either way on whether this was true.

About half way through the program, The Stig was seen to remove his helmet and for his identity to be revealed as Michael Schumacher.

However, since the revealing, a lot of internet speculation believes that Michael Schumacher is not The Stig and it was in fact a publicity stunt.

Even the BBC’s own news story didn’t seem too sure:

The seven-times Formula 1 champion dressed as the show’s famous driver and removed his helmet during an interview with presenter Jeremy Clarkson.

But it is unclear whether he really is the Stig or whether it was all a stunt.

Clarkson jokingly pretended not to recognise the German driver and asked him his name, before shouting to the audience: “It’s Michael Schumacher!”

Do you think Michael Schumacher is The Stig. Personally, I think he is one of a few drivers who fulfill the role, but leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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A very quick post about TV this week, but has anyone else noticed there really hasn’t been a lot on recently?

I’ve been quite busy with work and organising different things,, which usually results in a backlog of TV programs to watch on iPlayer, however this really hasn’t happended. The only thing I’ve been watching of late is Qi, which isn’t too difficult to keep up with.

However, The Apprentice has started again – I’ll probably make a blog post on it a few weeks into the series. F1 also starts again on the BBC this weekend which I’m looking forward to.

Have I missed out on something I should be watching, or am I right in thinking that there really isn’t a lot on?

I’m a Derren Brown Fan. I think I’ve seen all his programs that have been on Channel 4 previous to this being aired and I imagine I’ll continue to watch everything he airs after. When I say I’ve watched them – that’s at least once. As a lot of them ended up on 4OD, I’ve watched quite a few of them again.

As such I probably shouldn’t be surprised that this happened. When an Evening of Wonders first aired, I must admit I missed the start (unfortunately this was due to revision for exams – it’s probably better that I was doing the revision). However, I decided to pop down  to the lounge to speak to someone, where they happened to be watching Derren Brown. I ended up down there watching it for the remainder of the program and catching up on the bit I missed at the start as soon as I could.

Derren Brown’s ‘An Evening of Wonders’ aired on 14th January on Channel 4. It was filmed at the Garrick Theatre in early June 2008 (the exact date can be found out as part of one of the acts).

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