There's a world of difference between one crew member not getting a meal, and some muppet forgetting to arrange for a catering van. I could easily accept 20,30 people may be on location ... and if that location is remote and cold, suddenly learning that there's no food at all would certainly explain a severe reaction.
The TV industry is mature enough now, that duties should be clearly delineated - *if* the catering wasn't arranged, and the producer and assistant producer started blaming each other, I might end up punching them both ....
It's possible the item being filmed was short and expected to end long before a meal break. And over-ran for whatever reason. But not much of a problem to send out for sandwiches etc.
Exactly HOW remote does it have to be before there's nobody who can just jump in a car, find a pub or shop that can knock some food together, and be back within the year?
Remote apparently being near Newcastle, so the arse end of nowhere for 90% of the population and especially a bunch of southerners who would need interpreters to shop at Greggs or Pret a Manger.
Producer's job is programme content and budget. And making sure he has the team about him to do what's needed. They don't have much to do with the nuts and bolts of anything - especially on a production of this size.
But it seems it was an assistant producer. That can mean near anything.
They're not likely to have been far from base on a studio week. And in that part of the SE, you're never that far from somewhere that sells sandwiches, etc.
Dunfold Aerodrome. Fairly remote, as most airfields are (out of necessity) and impossibly so if you don't have a car, but that's not an issue for Top Gear.
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