LONDON — He's been axed, but fans of Jeremy Clarkson haven't quite seen the last of the presenter on Top Gear.

Unseen footage of the controversial TV presenter, who was suspended last month and didn't have his contract renewed following a "fracas" with a Top Gear producer, will be shown later this year, the BBC has said.

The controller of BBC2 said the material filmed for the last three episodes in the current season will be aired as early as the summer, but there isn't quite enough for three, one-hour-long episodes.

“There is no way I would not want the available material not to be seen by viewers,” Kim Shillinglaw said, according to The Guardian. “Top Gear is a show that I love, I genuinely watch it and I always have done.”

She said the show, which is watched by an audience of 350 million globally and generates some £50 million ($75 million) for BBC Worldwide, will return next year.

On the question of who might front the vehicle, Shillinglaw said she wasn't thinking about the job in terms of gender.

"It’s a really open book on that. We will definitely look at women but it is not the driving priority. I have never approached an individual show thinking that is the way you cast it," she said. Last week, Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins received death threats after reports of her being tipped for the job started circulating.

It's not known whether co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May will return. Image: Tim Ireland /PA Wire /Associated Press

Meanwhile, Clarkson, writing in his column in the Sunday Times last weekend, said he was turning his attention to a new project.

"I have lost my baby, but I shall create another," he said. "I don't know who the other parent will be or what the baby will look like, but I cannot sit around any more organising my photograph album."

The host also revealed that the incident with producer Oisin Tymon, who decided not to press charges, happened shortly after a stressful cancer scare.

Following Clarkson's suspension, more than 1 million people called for his return and a petition was even delivered to the BBC by a man dressed as The Stig on a tank.