Anyone else out there sad at the news that Jeremy Clarkson and the boys will not be back? It is my favorite show and I hope those 3 go to netflix or something and create a new show for us. I know what he did was wrong but I am going to miss Top Gear.
Clarkson sacked - (
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If only he'd been a child molester like Jimmy Savile! Then the BBC would have had no problem looking the other way.
Note - I agree that he deserved the ax. I just think it's funny that the BBC suddenly has standards.
A week ago, Jones’s managers told him that a temporary assignment on Panorama was over. He should have been able to go back to his old job. But there was no old job to go back to. He had been fired.
Jones’s reporter on the Savile film was Liz MacKean, who documents the sufferings of the powerless – whether it be raped children in Britain or persecuted gay men in Putin’s Russia. But she spoke out, so the BBC forced her out too. “When the Savile scandal broke,” she told me, “the BBC tried to smear my reputation. They said they had banned the film because Meirion and I had produced shoddy journalism. I stayed to fight them, but I knew they would make me leave in the end. Managers would look through me as if I wasn’t there. I went because I knew I was never going to appear on screen again.”
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Yeah Clarkson behaved badly and he had a big mouth. If only he had been a serial child molester.
Watch Netflix or HBO or the Discovery group snap up the old cast and put the show back on. That show was worth too much money to let it sit.
True story...I had tickets for the cancelled episode after many years of waiting list. #fml
True story...I had tickets for the cancelled episode after many years of waiting list. #fml
Their contracts were all up after this month/April - so they were free agents, though likely to re-sign to one of the most lucrative properties out there. This is also why May and Hammond have the leverage they do right now.
From the sounds of it, they had a shoot go long with no food and only alcohol (possibly copious amounts) and Clarkson - likely even more difficult to deal with due to a few personal issues (including a messy divorce that's gone public thanks to the man no country wants, Piers Morgan) - blew up over something small. Not justifying it, but it doesn't sound like he just decided to cold cock someone for a laugh.
The three realize they're a package deal and I'm sure the BBC will keep the property going with other personalities attached, but will likely realize its the three of them that make the show. So long as they end up somewhere that lets them do the same format show without commercial influence (so they don't have to pretend a Mustang is proper sports car when Ford signs a check) - we will get the spiritual successor. Though it will likely be a while.
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Knows exactly what he is doing. He wanted out.
True story...I had tickets for the cancelled episode after many years of waiting list. #fml
Their contracts were all up after this month/April - so they were free agents, though likely to re-sign to one of the most lucrative properties out there. This is also why May and Hammond have the leverage they do right now.
From the sounds of it, they had a shoot go long with no food and only alcohol (possibly copious amounts) and Clarkson - likely even more difficult to deal with due to a few personal issues (including a messy divorce that's gone public thanks to the man no country wants, Piers Morgan) - blew up over something small. Not justifying it, but it doesn't sound like he just decided to cold cock someone for a laugh.
The three realize they're a package deal and I'm sure the BBC will keep the property going with other personalities attached, but will likely realize its the three of them that make the show. So long as they end up somewhere that lets them do the same format show without commercial influence (so they don't have to pretend a Mustang is proper sports car when Ford signs a check) - we will get the spiritual successor. Though it will likely be a while.
The show is great but Clarkson has a long history of being a jackass...
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Knows exactly what he is doing. He wanted out.
True story...I had tickets for the cancelled episode after many years of waiting list. #fml
Their contracts were all up after this month/April - so they were free agents, though likely to re-sign to one of the most lucrative properties out there. This is also why May and Hammond have the leverage they do right now.
From the sounds of it, they had a shoot go long with no food and only alcohol (possibly copious amounts) and Clarkson - likely even more difficult to deal with due to a few personal issues (including a messy divorce that's gone public thanks to the man no country wants, Piers Morgan) - blew up over something small. Not justifying it, but it doesn't sound like he just decided to cold cock someone for a laugh.
The three realize they're a package deal and I'm sure the BBC will keep the property going with other personalities attached, but will likely realize its the three of them that make the show. So long as they end up somewhere that lets them do the same format show without commercial influence (so they don't have to pretend a Mustang is proper sports car when Ford signs a check) - we will get the spiritual successor. Though it will likely be a while.
The BBC will keep the property going, it's been around since 1972.
Clarkson was on a final, final warning before this blew up. Even then the BBC was scrambling for a way out of it. Ultimately, they couldn't as they'd have open to action if they'd have kept him on. He struck a subordinate co-worker in public, regardless of who you are that's never a good look. Had it been a first time offense he'd have probably got suspended but after the warnings he's had over the last 18 months, and frankly after Saville, they were backed into a corner.
At the end of the day, part of the reason we all pay a TV license in the UK is so the BBC is largely free of commercial pressure.
They let go of Jonathan Ross (a huge celebrity talk show host over here) for far less.
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In comment 12203087 English Alaister said:
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Knows exactly what he is doing. He wanted out.
True story...I had tickets for the cancelled episode after many years of waiting list. #fml
Their contracts were all up after this month/April - so they were free agents, though likely to re-sign to one of the most lucrative properties out there. This is also why May and Hammond have the leverage they do right now.
From the sounds of it, they had a shoot go long with no food and only alcohol (possibly copious amounts) and Clarkson - likely even more difficult to deal with due to a few personal issues (including a messy divorce that's gone public thanks to the man no country wants, Piers Morgan) - blew up over something small. Not justifying it, but it doesn't sound like he just decided to cold cock someone for a laugh.
The three realize they're a package deal and I'm sure the BBC will keep the property going with other personalities attached, but will likely realize its the three of them that make the show. So long as they end up somewhere that lets them do the same format show without commercial influence (so they don't have to pretend a Mustang is proper sports car when Ford signs a check) - we will get the spiritual successor. Though it will likely be a while.
The show is great but Clarkson has a long history of being a jackass...
Understood - he's walked (and stomped over) the line many times. Although the Falklands thing was a bit contrived by the locals, he's obviously front and center any time controversy hits. Its also why he's entertaining/compelling to watch, though it definitely goes too far.
I don't want to pretend what he did (or has done) is acceptable, but I'll likely ditch Top Gear when it rolls out the replacements and follow the three of the current (I guess former?) talent goes. It sounds enabling to Clarkson to be an asshole and get away with it (and maybe it is), but that's kind of the dynamic they have captured and why its entertaining to watch.
The American version of Top Gear is awful to watch (though that gets to my comment about being commercially influenced), so its more than just a show about putting 3 people in dream cars in exotic locales, etc.
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In comment 12203087 English Alaister said:
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Knows exactly what he is doing. He wanted out.
True story...I had tickets for the cancelled episode after many years of waiting list. #fml
Their contracts were all up after this month/April - so they were free agents, though likely to re-sign to one of the most lucrative properties out there. This is also why May and Hammond have the leverage they do right now.
From the sounds of it, they had a shoot go long with no food and only alcohol (possibly copious amounts) and Clarkson - likely even more difficult to deal with due to a few personal issues (including a messy divorce that's gone public thanks to the man no country wants, Piers Morgan) - blew up over something small. Not justifying it, but it doesn't sound like he just decided to cold cock someone for a laugh.
The three realize they're a package deal and I'm sure the BBC will keep the property going with other personalities attached, but will likely realize its the three of them that make the show. So long as they end up somewhere that lets them do the same format show without commercial influence (so they don't have to pretend a Mustang is proper sports car when Ford signs a check) - we will get the spiritual successor. Though it will likely be a while.
The BBC will keep the property going, it's been around since 1972.
Clarkson was on a final, final warning before this blew up. Even then the BBC was scrambling for a way out of it. Ultimately, they couldn't as they'd have open to action if they'd have kept him on. He struck a subordinate co-worker in public, regardless of who you are that's never a good look. Had it been a first time offense he'd have probably got suspended but after the warnings he's had over the last 18 months, and frankly after Saville, they were backed into a corner.
At the end of the day, part of the reason we all pay a TV license in the UK is so the BBC is largely free of commercial pressure.
They let go of Jonathan Ross (a huge celebrity talk show host over here) for far less.
I likely shouldn't have put Clarkson's action in context, as it seems like I'm excusing it. The BBC's hands were ultimately tied and there was no other course of action. Yes, they've failed with other personalities - but that doesn't give them an excuse to allow for physical violence in the work place because of celebrity status.
I agree Top Gear will go on, but do question if it will be a cultural phenomenon as it has been. Finding that mix of personality is hard to replicate/duplicate.