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according to most of todays papers the health and safety executives are taking a severe approach to this stunt as apparantly james may was supposed to be doing is and hammond took over on short notice when captain slow became ill. They are investigating whether he had sufficient training.

As such the upcoming series which was due to be filmed in november is being postponed if not cancelled. Which tbh wouldnt be a surprise considering the bbc's history of covering their own backs at the expense of its employees