TUNE IN ALERT: Season Premieres of "Lodge 49," "Fear the Walking Dead," and "The Terror: Infamy", Plus All-New Episodes of "Sherman's Showcase," "Preacher," "Riviera," and "Top Gear" on AMC Networks this weekend!

***TUNE-IN ALERT***

George Takei as Yamato-San

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7TH

MUSIC LEGEND MORRIS DAY AND RAPPER VIC MENSA GUEST STAR IN AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF THE NEW VARIETY SKETCH SHOW, SHERMAN’S SHOWCASE

AT 10:00 PM ET/PT ON IFC

THURSDAY, AUGUST 8TH

GEORGINA HAS TO REVEAL A DARK AND DIFFICULT TRUTH TO PROTECT THE FAMILY EMPIRE ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF SUNDANCE NOW’S “RIVIERA” SEASON TWO

SUNDAY, AUGUST 11TH

AMC’S “THE WALKING DEAD” SEASON 10 PREVIEW SPECIAL

AT 8:00 PM ET/PT ON AMC

PADDY MCGUINESS, FREDDIE FLINTOFF AND CHRIS HARRIS EACH GO ON THE ULTIMATE CAR ADVENTURE ON THE SEASON 27 FINALE OF “TOP GEAR” AT 8:00PM ET/PT ON BBC AMERICA

THE GROUP DOUBLES-DOWN ON THEIR MISSION TO FIND

AND HELP SURVIVORS ON

THE MID-SEASON PREMIERE OF “FEAR THE WALKING DEAD” SEASON 5

AT 9:00PM ET/PT ON AMC

TULIP MUST RECKON WITH THE MOST TERRIFYING THING SHE CAN IMAGINE ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF AMC’S OUTRAGEOUS DRAMA “PREACHER”

AT 10:07 PM ET/PT ON AMC

MONDAY, AUGUST 12TH

STRANGE EVENTS FORCE CHESTER TO CONFRONT HIS FATE ON THE SEASON PREMIERE OF AMC’S ANTHOLOGY SERIES  “THE TERROR: INFAMY”

AT 9:00 PM ET/PT ON AMC

THE POOL SHOP IS UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT  ON

THE SEASON TWO PREMIERE OF  AMC’S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED SERIES “LODGE 49”

AT 10:10PM ET/PT ON AMC

This week on AMC Networks, “The Walking Dead” Season 10 preview special, premieres of “Fear the Walking Dead,” “Lodge 49” and “The Terror: Infamy,” plus all-new episodes of “Sherman’s Showcase,” “Riviera,” “Preacher” and “Top Gear.” 

Bashir Salahuddin as Sherman McDaniels and Vic Mensa as Charade

Season one of IFC’s Sherman’s Showcase continues with an all-new episode on Wednesday, August 7th at 10pm ET/PT. On the third episode, “Behind the Charade,” host Morris Day, documents the rise, fall and rise of iconic pop star, Charade, from his discovery on Sherman's Showcase through his historic 2007 comeback.

Each episode of Sherman’s Showcase is hosted by Sherman McDaniels (Salahuddin) as he takes viewers through time via music and comedy drawn from the 40-year library of a legendary (but fictional) musical variety show, drawing inspiration from Solid Gold, Soul Train and Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Whether it's a questionably-attired funk super group in the 1970s, an up-and-coming MC in the 1980s or an R&B diva from the 1990s, Sherman's Showcase has it all: music, comedy, gameshow segments, political roundtables, commercial parodies, breakout hits destined to climb the charts, a dancing robot and a legendary host who’s been there from the beginning.

Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin serve as executive producers on Sherman’s Showcase along with John Legend, Mike Jackson and Ty Stiklorius through their Get Lifted Film Co. (Underground, Jesus Christ Superstar) and Frank Scherma and Jim Bouvet of RadicalMedia (Stan Against Evil, Conversations With a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes).

Jack Fox as Nico Eltham

Season two of Sundance Now’s “Riviera,” continues on Thursday, August 8th. On this week’s episode, Georgina (Juila Stiles) must reveal a dark and difficult truth to the Clios family to try and protect the family empire from Nico (Jack Fox), while the ensuing chaos leads Georgina to resort to desperate measures.

“Riviera’s” highly anticipated return picks up in the immediate aftermath of the explosive first series finale, where the Clios family is faced with the tragic death of one of their own. Only this time, the blood is on the hands of our female protagonist, Georgina.

As Georgina tries to find a way to live with her crime, secrets from her past wash up on the sandy shores of the Cote d’Azur that force her to explore her turbulent childhood against her will. Following an unprecedented and unavoidable visit to her childhood home, Georgina returns with a refreshed sense of self to re-establish her power and position in the family alongside her charismatic confidant, uncle Jeff (Will Arnett).

Georgina very quickly becomes acquainted with the Eltham family, an English dynasty that sail in to the Cote d'Azur providing its shores with a dose of new money and glamour. She goes on to form relationships with the whole family, some that appear genuine from the outset and others that unravel around her as secrets, old and new, become exposed. Juliet Stevenson takes on the role of Lady Cassandra Eltham and is joined on the Riviera by her children, the impossibly stylish Daphne (Poppy Delevingne) and the brooding Nico (Jack Fox) and Daphne’s husband Raafi (Alex Lanipekun).

Elsewhere in the Riviera, the rest of the Clios family is still reeling from Constantine’s death. Christos (Dimitri Leonidas) is on the brink of losing everything, Adriana (Roxanne Duran) loses herself in a dangerous affair and Irina struggles to find her lost son, Adam.

The Riviera has never been so tempestuous. Torn between her past and her present, can Georgina navigate her way to safer waters or will she lose her place in a world that she has grown to control?   

“The Walking Dead” Season 10 Preview Special airs Sunday, August 11th at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. Tune-in for the special sneak peek of “The Walking Dead” ahead of the season 10 premiere on Sunday, October 6th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. Catch up on season 9 of “The Walking Dead” with the full season now available on amc.com, the AMC app and On Demand through August 31,2019.

Chris Harris and Freddie Flintoff

Season 27 of “Top Gear” finales on Sunday, August 11th. On this season finale episode, Freddie Flintoff heads to Iceland to compete in the world's maddest motorsport, while Paddy McGuinness gets to grips with the new Toyota Supra and Chris Harris investigates the story of the Lotus 79, the most beautiful F1 car of all time.

The new season sees Paddy, Freddie and Chris tackling the fastest, hottest, toughest Top Gear challenges to date: pushing their cars, and themselves, to the very limits of endurance. From the brutal heat of the Ethiopian desert to the pedestrianized shopping district of downtown Mansfield in England, Top Gear is going bigger than ever before - all brought from the world-famous Top Gear test track, where a fresh batch of celebrities will demonstrate their driving prowess, or lack thereof, in the Reasonably Fast Car as well as being put through a new challenge which will be set by the presenters each week.

Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia Clark

The mid-season premiere of “Fear the Walking Dead” Season 5 airs on Sunday, August 11th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. In this week’s episode, “Channel 4,” the group, traveling in a convoy, doubles-down on their mission to help survivors. In an effort to encourage more survivors to reach out, Al, Luciana, and Charlie document Morgan and the gang on a dangerous mission to help a reclusive survivor.

In the second half of Season 5, after successfully proving their way can work, our heroes gain momentum, rescuing survivors, and spreading the message of hope along the way -- until foes both familiar and unexpected arise, forcing the group to question whether their brand of altruism can really make a difference in a world filled with death and decay.

 

Dominic Cooper as Jesse Custer

“Preacher” season four continues on Sunday, August 11th at 10:07 p.m. ET/PT. On the third episode, “Deviant,” in her head first attempt to rescue Cassidy, Tulip may have bitten off more than she can chew, and she must reckon with the most terrifying thing she can imagine: psychiatric care. As his hopes of escape fade, Cassidy reflects on decisions he made one hundred years ago. Meanwhile, the Saint of Killers is closing in on Jesse.

“Preacher” stars Dominic Cooper, Academy Award® nominee Ruth Negga and Joseph Gilgun, along with series regulars Ian Colletti, Graham McTavish, Pip Torrens, Julie Ann Emery, Noah Taylor, Mark Harelik and Tyson Ritter. As the series inches closer to the finale, God's endgame for the universe begins to click into place. Trapped between heavenly prophecies, hellish prisons, and all-out nuclear war, Jesse, Tulip, and Cassidy make their bloody way to the Most High. Whether they can reach God in time — or whether all this carnage is part of His divine plan — will soon be revealed as “Preacher” barrels towards the end of the world.

The Sony Pictures Television and AMC Studios co-production was developed for television by executive producer and showrunner Sam Catlin (“Breaking Bad”) and executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg (“Sausage Party,” “This is the End,” “Superbad”). The series is also executive produced by James Weaver for Point Grey Pictures, Neal H. Moritz, Ori Marmur, Vivian Cannon, Jason Netter, Michael Slovis, Mark McNair, Garth Ennis, Ken F. Levin and Sara Goodman.

Derek Mio as Chester Nakayama

“The Terror: Infamy” premieres on Monday, August 12th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT with an episode titled “A Sparrow in a Swallow’s Nest.” In 1941, Chester Nakayama is caught between his insular Japanese American neighborhood on Terminal Island and his current all-American life. Extreme circumstances push his community and personal life to the brink, all while someone watches closely.

“The Terror: Infamy” centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese American community, and a young man's journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible. In addition, the series is one of the first depicting the internment of Japanese Americans on such a massive scale – complete with authentically recreated camps in scope and scale as post-WWII.

The series stars Derek Mio, Kiki Sukezane (Lost in Space), Cristina Rodlo (Miss Bala), Shingo Usami (Unbroken), Naoko Mori (Everest), Miki Ishikawa (9-1-1) and renowned actor, producer, author and activist George Takei (Star Trek), who also serves as a consultant.

“The Terror: Infamy” is an AMC Studios production produced by Scott Free, Emaj Productions and Entertainment 360. In addition to Woo and Borenstein, Ridley Scott, David W. Zucker, Alexandra Milchan, Scott Lambert, Guymon Casady and Jordan Sheehan also serve as executive producers.

 

David Pasquesi as Blaise St John, Eric Allan Kramer as Scott Wright, Brent Jennings as Ernie Fontaine and Wyatt Russell as Sean "Dud" Dudley

“Lodge 49” season two premieres on Monday, August 12th at 10:10 p.m. ET/PT. On the season premiere episode, “All Circles Vanish,” the pool shop is under new ownership. Dud recuperates from his shark attack while searching for Ernie. Ernie deals with the aftermath of his adventure with El Confidente. Liz enters the TempJoy workforce.

Season two of this modern fable set in Long Beach, CA centers on likable “Squire” and ex-surfer Sean “Dud” Dudley (Wyatt Russell), whose beloved fraternal order -- the Ancient and Benevolent Order of the Lynx -- is suffering under new rule by an ill-suited leader. Despite his “Knight” and mentor Ernie’s (Brent Jennings) lost faith, and his twin sister Liz’s (Sonya Cassidy) struggle with their past, Dud believes he is the key to restoring the Lodge to its former grandeur and putting the rightful king on the throne. In addition to Russell, Jennings and Cassidy, this season’s cast includes Linda Emond (Connie), Eric Allan Kramer (Scott) and David Pasquesi (Blaise).

Jim Gavin (Author, Middle Men) serves as creator, writer and executive-producer alongside showrunner Peter Ocko (Pushing Daisies, The Office). Additional executive producers include Paul Giamatti (Billions, Sideways, Outsiders, Hoke), Dan Carey (Outsiders, Hoke, John Dies at the End, All Is Bright) and Jeff Freilich (Halt and Catch Fire, Grace and Frankie). Lodge 49 is an AMC Studios production.

About AMC

AMC is home to some of the most popular and acclaimed programs on television. AMC was the first basic cable network to ever win the Emmy® Award for Outstanding Drama Series with Mad Men in 2008, which then went on to win the coveted award four years in a row, before Breaking Bad won it in 2013 and 2014. The network’s series The Walking Dead is the highest-rated series in cable history. AMC’s other current original drama series include Better Call Saul, Fear the Walking Dead, The Terror, Into the Badlands, Preacher, The Son, Lodge 49, The Little Drummer Girl and NOS4A2. AMC also explores authentic worlds and discussion with original shows like Talking Dead, AMC Visionaries and Ride with Norman Reedus. AMC is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. and its sister networks include IFC, SundanceTV, BBC America and WE tv. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile.

About BBC AMERICA

BBC AMERICA is a hub of innovative, culturally contagious programming including the critically acclaimed series Killing Eve starring Golden Globe® and SAG Award-winner Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and from Phoebe Waller-Bridge; top-rated phenomenon Doctor Who starring Jodie Whittaker; Emmy® and IDA-winning Planet Earth II and the producers’ next epic story of our planet, Dynasties; Emmy®-winning Blue Planet II; acclaimed drama Luther starring Golden Globe®-winner Idris Elba; ground-breaking unscripted series Top Gear; buzzy and hilarious The Graham Norton Show; and the world’s biggest darts championships. A joint venture between AMC Networks and BBC Studios (the commercial arm of the BBC), BBCA’s influential shows such as Orphan Black and Broadchurch, among many others, have attracted critical acclaim and earned Emmy® Awards, Peabody Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, TCA Awards, Gotham Award and Golden Globes®. Created in 1998, the irrepressible network has garnered one of cable’s most curious, educated and affluent audiences, with many properties boasting super-fan levels of engagement. Get caught up, BBCA offers full episodes On Demand across all major digital platforms, BBC AMERICA app and bbcamerica.com. .

BBCA on social: YouTube – Twitter – Instagram – Facebook – Tumblr

About Sundance Now

Sundance Now is AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, offering original and exclusive dramas, comedies, and true crime series, in addition to award-winning movies from every genre, including foreign-language and documentary features – all streaming commercial-free. Built on the Sundance legacy, Sundance Now is proud to present an extensive array of entertainment for a passionate and intellectually curious audience.

Follow Sundance Now on Twitter@sundance_now, Facebook@SundanceNow, Instagram@SundanceNow and YouTube@Sundance Now

TUNE IN ALERT: All-New Episodes of "Top Gear" and "Riviera" on AMC Networks this weekend!

***TUNE-IN ALERT***

Julia Stiles as Georgina

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1ST

GEORGINA ATTENDS HER FRIEND’S MEMORIAL WHILE NICO (JACK FOX) SETS HIS SIGHTS ON THE CLIOS EMPIRE ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF SUNDANCE NOW’S “RIVIERA” SEASON TWO

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4TH

PADDY MCGUINESS, FREDDIE FLINTOFF AND CHRIS HARRIS EACH PURCHASE A RARE CAR AND TRAVEL TO BORNEO ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF “TOP GEAR” AT 8:00PM ET/PT ON BBC AMERICA

This week on AMC Networks, all-new episodes of “Riviera” and “Top Gear.” 

Jack Fox as Nico Eltham and Julia Stiles as Georgina

Season two of Sundance Now’s “Riviera,” continues on Thursday, August 1st. On this week’s episode, Georgina (Juila Stiles) attends her friend’s memorial to channel a new found grief, while Nico (Jack Fox) sets his sights on the Clios empire, dropping a bombshell which threatens to explode the family and send shockwaves through the Elthams. And Georgina learns Noah (Grégory Fitoussi) isn’t all he seems to be...

“Riviera’s” highly anticipated return picks up in the immediate aftermath of the explosive first series finale, where the Clios family is faced with the tragic death of one of their own. Only this time, the blood is on the hands of our female protagonist, Georgina.

As Georgina tries to find a way to live with her crime, secrets from her past wash up on the sandy shores of the Cote d’Azur that force her to explore her turbulent childhood against her will. Following an unprecedented and unavoidable visit to her childhood home, Georgina returns with a refreshed sense of self to re-establish her power and position in the family alongside her charismatic confidant, uncle Jeff (Will Arnett).

Georgina very quickly becomes acquainted with the Eltham family, an English dynasty that sail in to the Cote d'Azur providing its shores with a dose of new money and glamour. She goes on to form relationships with the whole family, some that appear genuine from the outset and others that unravel around her as secrets, old and new, become exposed. Juliet Stevenson takes on the role of Lady Cassandra Eltham and is joined on the Riviera by her children, the impossibly stylish Daphne (Poppy Delevingne) and the brooding Nico (Jack Fox) and Daphne’s husband Raafi (Alex Lanipekun).

Elsewhere in the Riviera, the rest of the Clios family is still reeling from Constantine’s death. Christos (Dimitri Leonidas) is on the brink of losing everything, Adriana (Roxanne Duran) loses herself in a dangerous affair and Irina struggles to find her lost son, Adam.

The Riviera has never been so tempestuous. Torn between her past and her present, can Georgina navigate her way to safer waters or will she lose her place in a world that she has grown to control?   

Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff

Season 27 of “Top Gear” continues on Sunday, August 4th. On this week’s episode, you don’t need to spend millions on a classic Ferrari or Aston Martin if you want a truly rare car. Because, if you’re prepared to spend a long time trawling the oddest corners of the classifieds, you’ll discover cars out there that are very rare, and very cheap. Cars, in some cases, with just a couple of examples left on the road. The most endangered of endangered species. But should you buy one? To find out, Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness each purchased a super-rare car for just a few thousand pounds. Paddy got himself a Matra Bagheera, France’s forgotten Seventies sports car, while Freddie went truly exotic with… an Austin Allegro estate. According to the producers, there was only one place to test such rare beasts. Borneo, the vast rainforest island that’s home to many rare beasts of its own. And, on account of being somewhat jungly, a challenging environment for a pair of knackered old cars. But an even more challenging environment for Paddy, a man who, by his own admission, isn’t a confident traveler. And also, isn’t a fan of eating still-squirming sago worms.

The new season sees Paddy, Freddie and Chris tackling the fastest, hottest, toughest Top Gear challenges to date: pushing their cars, and themselves, to the very limits of endurance. From the brutal heat of the Ethiopian desert to the pedestrianized shopping district of downtown Mansfield in England, Top Gear is going bigger than ever before - all brought from the world-famous Top Gear test track, where a fresh batch of celebrities will demonstrate their driving prowess, or lack thereof, in the Reasonably Fast Car as well as being put through a new challenge which will be set by the presenters each week.

About AMC

AMC is home to some of the most popular and acclaimed programs on television. AMC was the first basic cable network to ever win the Emmy® Award for Outstanding Drama Series with Mad Men in 2008, which then went on to win the coveted award four years in a row, before Breaking Bad won it in 2013 and 2014. The network’s series The Walking Dead is the highest-rated series in cable history. AMC’s other current original drama series include Better Call Saul, Fear the Walking Dead, The Terror, Into the Badlands, Preacher, The Son, Lodge 49, The Little Drummer Girl and NOS4A2. AMC also explores authentic worlds and discussion with original shows like Talking Dead, AMC Visionaries and Ride with Norman Reedus. AMC is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. and its sister networks include IFC, SundanceTV, BBC America and WE tv. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile.

About BBC AMERICA

BBC AMERICA is a hub of innovative, culturally contagious programming including the critically acclaimed series Killing Eve starring Golden Globe® and SAG Award-winner Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and from Phoebe Waller-Bridge; top-rated phenomenon Doctor Who starring Jodie Whittaker; Emmy® and IDA-winning Planet Earth II and the producers’ next epic story of our planet, Dynasties; Emmy®-winning Blue Planet II; acclaimed drama Luther starring Golden Globe®-winner Idris Elba; ground-breaking unscripted series Top Gear; buzzy and hilarious The Graham Norton Show; and the world’s biggest darts championships. A joint venture between AMC Networks and BBC Studios (the commercial arm of the BBC), BBCA’s influential shows such as Orphan Black and Broadchurch, among many others, have attracted critical acclaim and earned Emmy® Awards, Peabody Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, TCA Awards, Gotham Award and Golden Globes®. Created in 1998, the irrepressible network has garnered one of cable’s most curious, educated and affluent audiences, with many properties boasting super-fan levels of engagement. Get caught up, BBCA offers full episodes On Demand across all major digital platforms, BBC AMERICA app and bbcamerica.com. 

BBCA on social: YouTube – Twitter – Instagram – Facebook – Tumblr

About Sundance Now

Sundance Now is AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, offering original and exclusive dramas, comedies, and true crime series, in addition to award-winning movies from every genre, including foreign-language and documentary features – all streaming commercial-free. Built on the Sundance legacy, Sundance Now is proud to present an extensive array of entertainment for a passionate and intellectually curious audience.

Follow Sundance Now on Twitter@sundance_now, Facebook@SundanceNow, Instagram@SundanceNow and YouTube@Sundance Now

TUNE IN ALERT: Two-Part Season finale of "NOS4A2," Plus All-New Episodes of "Top Gear" and "Riviera" on AMC Networks this weekend!

***TUNE-IN ALERT***

Zachary Quinto as Charlie Manx

THURSDAY, JULY 25TH

GEORGINA CONFESSES HER DARKEST TRUTH TO HER UNCLE JEFF (WILL ARNETT) ON AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF SUNDANCE NOW’S “RIVIERA” SEASON TWO

SUNDAY, JULY 28TH

PADDY MCGUINESS, FREDDIE FLINTOFF AND CHRIS HARRIS SET OUT TO TRANSFORM AN OLD HEARSE INTO A FAMILY CAR AN ALL-NEW EPISODE OF “TOP GEAR” AT 8:00PM ET/PT ON BBC AMERICA

VIC STRIVES TO RESCUE A LOVED ONE ON THE TWO-PART SEASON FINALE OF AMC’S SUPERNATURAL HORROR SERIES “NOS4A2”

AT 9:00 PM ET/PT ON AMC

This week on AMC Networks, all-new episodes of “Riviera,” “Top Gear,” and “NOS4A2.” 

Lena Olin as Irina and Will Arnett as Jeff

Season two of Sundance Now’s “Riviera,” continues on Thursday, July 25th. On this week’s episode, Georgina (Juila Stiles) confesses her darkest truth to a horrified Jeff (Will Arnett). While he confronts a distraught Irina (Lena Olin) over her part in the conspiracy of silence, an explosive secret held by Cassandra (Juliet Stevenson) finally gets out. Georgina is called to the fort where she comes face to face with a familiar face from her past.

“Riviera’s” highly anticipated return picks up in the immediate aftermath of the explosive first series finale, where the Clios family is faced with the tragic death of one of their own. Only this time, the blood is on the hands of our female protagonist, Georgina.

As Georgina tries to find a way to live with her crime, secrets from her past wash up on the sandy shores of the Cote d’Azur that force her to explore her turbulent childhood against her will. Following an unprecedented and unavoidable visit to her childhood home, Georgina returns with a refreshed sense of self to re-establish her power and position in the family alongside her charismatic confidant, uncle Jeff (Will Arnett).

Georgina very quickly becomes acquainted with the Eltham family, an English dynasty that sail in to the Cote d'Azur providing its shores with a dose of new money and glamour. She goes on to form relationships with the whole family, some that appear genuine from the outset and others that unravel around her as secrets, old and new, become exposed. Juliet Stevenson takes on the role of Lady Cassandra Eltham and is joined on the Riviera by her children, the impossibly stylish Daphne (Poppy Delevingne) and the brooding Nico (Jack Fox) and Daphne’s husband Raafi (Alex Lanipekun).

Elsewhere in the Riviera, the rest of the Clios family is still reeling from Constantine’s death. Christos (Dimitri Leonidas) is on the brink of losing everything, Adriana (Roxanne Duran) loses herself in a dangerous affair and Irina struggles to find her lost son, Adam.

The Riviera has never been so tempestuous. Torn between her past and her present, can Georgina navigate her way to safer waters or will she lose her place in a world that she has grown to control?   

Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff

Season 27 of “Top Gear” continues on Sunday, July 28th. On this week’s episode, according to Paddy McGuinness, the perfect second-hand family car is not a sturdy Volvo estate, or a dependable Land Rover Discovery. No, the perfect second-hand family car is… an old hearse. His logic? They’re spacious, carefully driven, and really very cheap, on account of no sane human wanting to buy something that’s spent a decade ferrying corpses about. To prove the genius of his plan, Paddy bought himself an old Daimler hearse, and invited Chris Harris and Freddie Flintoff to the Top Gear test track to experience its magnificence. Magnificence that was, for some reason, best proved by loading the hearse with vegetables and lawnmowers and grandmothers. Convinced, somehow, of Paddy’s genius, Chris and Freddie took it upon themselves to lightly upgrade Paddy’s Daimler, transforming it from hearse into… the Overtaker, Britain’s ultimate family car. Which the Top Gear producers then challenged to a series of sensible, family car tests including a beach assault course, a hill climb off-road challenge, and a no-holds-barred banger race.  It was during the hill climb off road challenge, with Freddie at the wheel, that things went really, really wrong.

The new season sees Paddy, Freddie and Chris tackling the fastest, hottest, toughest Top Gear challenges to date: pushing their cars, and themselves, to the very limits of endurance. From the brutal heat of the Ethiopian desert to the pedestrianized shopping district of downtown Mansfield in England, Top Gear is going bigger than ever before - all brought from the world-famous Top Gear test track, where a fresh batch of celebrities will demonstrate their driving prowess, or lack thereof, in the Reasonably Fast Car as well as being put through a new challenge which will be set by the presenters each week.

Ashleigh Cummings as Vic McQueen

*SEASON FINALE*

AMC’s supernatural horror series, “NOS4A2,” finales with two back-to-back episodes on Sunday, July 28th at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. On the penultimate episode, “Sleigh House,” Vic strives to rescue a loved one despite Maggie’s warning. Manx learns a disappointing detail about Vic.

Then, on the season finale episode, “Gunbarrel,” Vic enlists help to confront Charlie Manx. On the way to Christmasland, Manx makes a pitstop.

“NOS4A2” stars Emmy®-nominated actor and producer Zachary Quinto (“Star Trek,” “American Horror Story”) and rising star Ashleigh Cummings (“The Goldfinch”). Emmy®-nominated director Kari Skogland (“The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Sons of Liberty”) directed the first two episodes of the series. The cast also includes Olafur Darri Olafsson (“Lady Dynamite”), Virginia Kull (“The Looming Tower”), Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“The Punisher”) and Jahkara Smith (aka Sailor J). The series is executive produced by showrunner Jami O’Brien (“Fear the Walking Dead,” “Hell on Wheels”), Lauren Corrao, co-president of Tornante Television, and Joe Hill. The series is produced by AMC Studios in association with Tornante Television.

Based on the 2013 novel by Joe Hill, “NOS4A2” introduces Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), a gifted young woman who discovers she has a supernatural ability to find lost things. This ability puts her on a collision course with the evil and immortal Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto). Manx is a supernatural villain who feeds off the souls of children and then deposits what remains of them into Christmasland — a twisted place of Manx’s imagination where every day is Christmas Day and unhappiness is against the law. Vic strives to defeat Manx and rescue his victims — without losing her mind or falling victim to him herself.

About AMC

AMC is home to some of the most popular and acclaimed programs on television. AMC was the first basic cable network to ever win the Emmy® Award for Outstanding Drama Series with Mad Men in 2008, which then went on to win the coveted award four years in a row, before Breaking Bad won it in 2013 and 2014. The network’s series The Walking Dead is the highest-rated series in cable history. AMC’s other current original drama series include Better Call Saul, Fear the Walking Dead, The Terror, Into the Badlands, Preacher, The Son, Lodge 49, The Little Drummer Girl and NOS4A2. AMC also explores authentic worlds and discussion with original shows like Talking Dead, AMC Visionaries and Ride with Norman Reedus. AMC is owned and operated by AMC Networks Inc. and its sister networks include IFC, SundanceTV, BBC America and WE tv. AMC is available across all platforms, including on-air, online, on demand and mobile.

About BBC AMERICA

BBC AMERICA is a hub of innovative, culturally contagious programming including the critically acclaimed series Killing Eve starring Golden Globe® and SAG Award-winner Sandra Oh, Jodie Comer and from Phoebe Waller-Bridge; top-rated phenomenon Doctor Who starring Jodie Whittaker; Emmy® and IDA-winning Planet Earth II and the producers’ next epic story of our planet, Dynasties; Emmy®-winning Blue Planet II; acclaimed drama Luther starring Golden Globe®-winner Idris Elba; ground-breaking unscripted series Top Gear; buzzy and hilarious The Graham Norton Show; and the world’s biggest darts championships. A joint venture between AMC Networks and BBC Studios (the commercial arm of the BBC), BBCA’s influential shows such as Orphan Black and Broadchurch, among many others, have attracted critical acclaim and earned Emmy® Awards, Peabody Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards, TCA Awards, Gotham Award and Golden Globes®. Created in 1998, the irrepressible network has garnered one of cable’s most curious, educated and affluent audiences, with many properties boasting super-fan levels of engagement. Get caught up, BBCA offers full episodes On Demand across all major digital platforms, BBC AMERICA app and bbcamerica.com. 

BBCA on social: YouTube – Twitter – Instagram – Facebook – Tumblr

About Sundance Now

Sundance Now is AMC Networks’ premium streaming service, offering original and exclusive dramas, comedies, and true crime series, in addition to award-winning movies from every genre, including foreign-language and documentary features – all streaming commercial-free. Built on the Sundance legacy, Sundance Now is proud to present an extensive array of entertainment for a passionate and intellectually curious audience.

Follow Sundance Now on Twitter@sundance_now, Facebook@SundanceNow, Instagram@SundanceNow and YouTube@Sundance Now