How to watch Top Gear online: stream season 29 from anywhere

It's easy! Just head over to BBC iPlayer, where you can get a live BBC1 stream and watch new Top Gear season 29 episodes online at 8pm every Sunday - just live you would on the telly!

The best bit is that (provided you've got a valid UK TV license (which are now also required to use streaming services like iPlayer, ITV Hub etc), it's totally free to watch Top Gear online with the BBC.

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If you're in the US, you've got a couple of options. Every Sunday at 8pm ET and PT, 7pm CT, you'll be able to catch a brand new episode of Top Gear on BBC America.

If you don't have a cable package with BBC America included, signing up to an OTT provider like FuboTV or Sling will be your best bet – and new subscribers can claim a free 7-day trial with either.

However, if you want to catch the very latest episodes of Top Gear (BBC America is three weeks behind), grabbing a VPN and watching it live on the UK's BBC iPlayer at 3pm ET/12pm PT is your best bet. However, this is only suitable for Brits abroad, as iPlayer is only meant to be used by those who pay the TV licence fee. 

For those up north, it's not possible to watch Top Gear season 29 online when it airs without a bit of a workaround, as no domestic networks are carrying the show live.

If you've got a US cable subscription or a service like Fubo TV that carries BBC America and you're in Canada, you'll need to set yourself up with a VPN. Change the location to the US, log in, and then you can watch Top Gear online as if you were south of the border. 

However, without a subscription that gets you access to BBC America (and without a US credit card to sign up for one), you'll still be able to get your petrolhead fix from BBC Canada. Old episodes are often shown around the clock, and regularly from 8pm ET on Saturdays.

If you're a UK TV licence fee payer, you can also use a VPN to watch Top Gear when it's officially aired. All you need to do is change your location to the UK, and watch it live on iPlayer at 3pm ET/12pm PT.

Australia gets short shrift when it comes to watching Top Gear, especially the new iteration without Clarkson, May and Hammond. 

If you're a Brit in Australia and you pay a licence fee, you'll be able to catch it live on iPlayer, but you'll be waiting up until 3am AWST/6am AEDT on Monday morning to catch it. All you need to do is grab yourself a VPN, and change your location to the UK, log in, and watch.

If you don't want to do that, you can catch a number of old seasons on Stan and 9now, which should be enough to tide you over until the newest seasons are aired in Aus.