Acting
Jason Barlow
Place of birth
United Kingdom
Known for
Acting
Credits
3 titles
Jason Barlow is a motoring journalist and broadcaster from Northern Ireland. He began his television career in 1998, when he was approached to present Channel Four's new car programme Driven, with co-presenters Mike Brewer and James May. In 2000, he was personally approached by the then-controller of BBC2 to present Top Gear, and he went on to front 53 editions of the programme prior to its relaunch in 2002, with Jeremy Clarkson. Still under contract to the BBC, he presented BBC2's motoring programme Wrong Car, Right Car from 2002 to 2003. More recently, he has presented several editions of Channel 4's award-winning Dispatches, a behind-the-scenes documentary for Sky One and Sky Movies on th…
Known for
8.0Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.
Top Gear
1978
10.0Driven was a motoring television programme launched by Channel 4 in 1998 as a rival to the successful and long-running BBC series Top Gear. The style was similar to its rival, but with additional features such as the "Driven 100", a road test of three cars in the same class, where each car would be given marks for qualities such as practicality, desirability and cost of ownership. The car with the highest total score would be the winner. The programme launched with the concept that the presenters should interact with each other rather than present items on their own, as was then the case on Top Gear. The first series also featured a "headquarters", a racing team truck, set on a former air force base at which cars were put through their paces. These concepts resurfaced in the reborn Top Gear soon after.
Driven
1998
Series credits
8.0Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.
Top Gear
1978
8.0Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.
Top Gear
1978
10.0Driven was a motoring television programme launched by Channel 4 in 1998 as a rival to the successful and long-running BBC series Top Gear. The style was similar to its rival, but with additional features such as the "Driven 100", a road test of three cars in the same class, where each car would be given marks for qualities such as practicality, desirability and cost of ownership. The car with the highest total score would be the winner. The programme launched with the concept that the presenters should interact with each other rather than present items on their own, as was then the case on Top Gear. The first series also featured a "headquarters", a racing team truck, set on a former air force base at which cars were put through their paces. These concepts resurfaced in the reborn Top Gear soon after.
Driven
1998