Steve Berry believes the series could return in “four or five years”. <\/p>
Former Top Gear presenter Steve Berry has compared the motoring show\u2019s current hiatus to Doctor Who<\/a>\u2018s \u201crest\u201d in 1989.<\/p>\n Berry believes Top Gear could return in the next four or five years, despite the recent announcement it would not be returning<\/a> for the \u201cforeseeable future\u201d following Freddie Flintoff\u2019s car accident<\/a> in 2022.<\/p>\n The corporation recently said in a statement: \u201c[It] remains committed to Freddie, Chris [Harris] and Paddy [McGuinness], who have been at the heart of the show\u2019s renaissance since 2019, and we\u2019re excited about new projects being developed with each of them. We will have more to say in the near future on this.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know resting the show will be disappointing news for fans, but it is the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p> Berry, who presented Top Gear from 1993 to 1999, told Talk Today: \u201cThere\u2019s one easy way to freak out a millennial. Actually, there are lots of ways to freak out a millennial, but one of the best ones is to tell them that Doctor Who went missing for 16 years. They have to rush to their phones immediately to confirm that actually happened.<\/p>\n \u201cThe older ones among us know well that it happened. My mate bought a Dalek off the BBC, a real one, which is now worth a fortune because they thought they\u2019d never need them again. It was done and finished. Sylvester McCoy killed it off, consigned to history.<\/p>\n \u201cTop Gear will be back for the same reason that Doctor Who came back: money.\u201d<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n While Sylvester McCoy was at the helm of the series as the Doctor, the sci-fi was put on an \u201cindefinite hiatus\u201d before being revived in 2005, something Berry believes will happen with Top Gear.<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cThey\u2019ll rest it for four or five years until people forget the unpleasantness, and then it will be brought back in a new format, as James May himself has said. A new format in a few years\u2019 time when everyone\u2019s forgotten the nastiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n