Top Gear is in trouble. Again.

Although details are scarce, filming of the next series has been canned after presenter Freddie Flintoff was hurt driving a Morgan Super 3. At present, it’s only known he was airlifted to hospital for treatment and his son has revealed that he’s “lucky to be alive”. The expectation is he’ll make a full recovery, but there are plentiful suggestions in the tabloids that he may also have decided to call time on presenting the show.

As well we know, a change in presenter doesn’t have to spell the end of the franchise, but in television more than most aspects of life, momentum is everything.