Bored now that The Grand Tour's first season is done? In need of some arty, slow-motion shots of tires being converted into smoke? Hang in there, because the BBC's Top Gear is almost back. Last season ended in some ignominy. Ratings were awful, and Chris Evans took responsibility and duly fell on his sword. But there was plenty to like about the show in the post-Clarkson era, particularly Chris Harris and Rory Reid. Top Gear must have listened to the Internet, because it's giving the pair much more to do this season, alongside Matt LeBlanc.

Season 24 features the usual array of supercars: the Bugatti Chiron, Ford GT, and Ferrari FXX K, to name but three. And we can look forward to road trips through Kazakhstan, Cuba, and Nevada, among others.

Obviously the Stig will be back, and we're particularly looking forward to an episode involving Sabine Schmidt trying to overtake a million pounds' worth ($1,250,000) of supercars on the Nürburgring armed with nothing more than a Volkswagen Golf GTI and Reid in the passenger seat counting.

The new season starts in the UK—and therefore on the Internet via BitTorrent—on March 5, but if you want to watch it legally in the US you'll have to wait until March 13. Will an Evans-less cast gel more naturally? Lest we forget, the magic that was Clarkson, Hammond, and May firing on all cylinders also took some time to develop. Nor is that trio immune to making boring TV, either; there was plenty not to enjoy about The Grand Tour as its season wore on.