Top Gear won't quarantine its hosts when it resumes filming next month

Deadline

The BBC reality shot shot half its season internationally before the coronavirus shutdown. The other half will be shot in the UK starting in mid-June with presenters Andrew Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness. "The team will not be quarantined prior to cameras rolling — an idea that is being intensely discussed in the drama community — because producers are confident that the majority of filming will take place outside, or within cars, where presenters are naturally self-isolating and captured on remote cameras or drones," reports Deadline's Jake Kanter. "Producers explored the idea of erecting perspex dividers within cars if more than one presenter was required to be in a vehicle at one time, but they now think they have enough of this kind of footage. Hair and makeup is another potential complexifier that has been sidestepped as Flintoff, Harris and McGuinness don’t require this level of preening. They will, however, have to get used to putting on their own mics, which will be sanitized and prepared for them prior to filming."