Here's the video page of their website. If you click over to the "challenges" tab, you'll see lots of great stuff, including Space Robin, where they try and make a space shuttle/car that drive after it lands, Super Mini-Soccer, where they play soccer with subcompact Toyotas, and on page 4, one of my favorites, where the hosts' moms test out various Mom-type cars.

I'm guessing I shouldn't be irritated I missed Chopped then?

Unless you want to see Ted Allen channeling The Chairman rather than Alton Brown, I'd say no. It's not that the show is bad, just completely uninteresting.

I heart Ted Allen, but maybe not that much.

Oh, I read over at TWOP that Hammond is doing some children's science shows over the TG hiatus and, apparently, Oliver is included.

Jamie Oliver? That's a lot of smart, obssessive, British cuteness in one place.

"OLIVER!!"

That was probably the funniest bit from the Botswana special. That and "We got some water in our cars, too, Hammond--you just have to have the guide shoot a hole in the footwell and it'll drain great." "Yeah, thanks. I think I'll need a bit more than a gun."

I love how attached Hammond got to his Oliver, and how quickly, too. I showed the ep to my mom, and she immediately recognized the Opel Kadett and said she hadn't seen one of those since the '60s.

Scrappy, Hammond's Oliver is what he named his Opel Kadett in the Botswana special. It's the only time any of them have named a car, and he got loads of shit from the other two for being so cliched.

"It's such a happy little car! I think I shall call him 'Oliver'. Oh, God, no--now I've gone and named it!"

Ah--obviously haven't seen that special yet.

After they finished filming in Africa, he had Oliver shipped back to the UK, and he keeps it with the rest of his cars at home. AFAIK, it's the only time any of them has kept a car from a show challenge.

Hammond + Oliver