RIP Top Gear

Over-stepping the mark is the whole point and delight of Clarkson and why those who get him are such fans. Punching someone out is a different ball game.

So he lives on his millions until another producer offers him a show - maybe time to write another book until then.
 
The problem is simplicity in motion, the BBC needs Jeremy not the other way round (and I can't stand him personally).
I wonder to myself if when they (bib) renew their charter next time they will somehow ask for some more blood from us the fee paying suckers. Considering what analysts describes as over a £100 millions/year net revenue without even taking to account the £ they get from franchising the program elsewhere on the globe I think we have a clear case of too large to fail.

Every year passing I spend £145 per year for a product I hardly ever use, I could have buy myself a new TV (mine is circa 1998) with this time and time again.
 
Shemen Zait said:
The problem is simplicity in motion, the BBC needs Jeremy not the other way round (and I can't stand him personally).
I wonder to myself if when they (bib) renew their charter next time they will somehow ask for some more blood from us the fee paying suckers. Considering what analysts describes as over a £100 millions/year net revenue without even taking to account the £ they get from franchising the program elsewhere on the globe I think we have a clear case to large to fail.

Every year passing I spend £145 per year for a product I hardly ever use, I could have buy myself a new TV (mine is circa 1998) with this time and time again.
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That buys you endless hours of advert free television plus catch-up plus access to lots of other channels. Compared to Sky/BT/Virgin it's good value IMO.
 
It got boring, repetitive, "star" is shit car, challenge, "some say.... Stig" shit, more repeat, scripted hammy conversations between them, oh look we're already on season 437 and made billions, wow. The greedy fat bloke became so arrogant that for a minute his brain thought it was OK to punch someone else. It would have been an outrage if the BBC hadn't sacked him. I wonder in what kind of world the 1 million + people live who signed the petition to bring him back.
 
Stavros said:
I wonder in what kind of world the 1 million + people live who signed the petition to bring him back.
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Oh that's easy… probably the same world as inhabited by those people who held up their je suis charlie banners… and marched… ymmv, frankw
 
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fancontroller said:
Shemen Zait said:
The problem is simplicity in motion, the BBC needs Jeremy not the other way round...
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"The graveyards are full of people the world could not do without." - Elbert Hubbard
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I agree, but I don't usually pay their fat salaries, UKrob I never denied the bib do good stuff which is worth paying for, but to me the word 'Worth' describes a personal choice not a an enforcement.

I pay plenty for DVD's for my child as I have to filter what she can and can't watch but other than those times in the mornings when she is not in nursery the box is gathering dust, the wife watch Stuff on the laptop sometime and I mostly read books.

Couple of years ago I stopped paying but the TV fee people gave me so much grief about owning my antiquated set where I had to prove that we don't have aerial blah blah it was simply not worth my time. So we pay, don't really use and quietly waiting for the gov to make it a choice and not a duty.
 
Surely if the BBC is so good it could survive as a pay per view service. Personally I only watch the BBC a couple of times a week less so now Top Gear has gone. I wasnt Clarksons greatest fan and yes he needed disciplinary action but did it really warrant sacking. If violence in the workplace is a sacking for one then surely this should be for everyone including the sports superstars that kick fans or the politicians that punch members of the public.
Maybe I am wrong though... wouldnt be the first time lol.

Jim
 
frankw said:
Stavros said:
I wonder in what kind of world the 1 million + people live who signed the petition to bring him back.
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Oh that's easy… probably the same world as inhabited by those people who held up their je suis charlie banners… and marched… ymmv, frankw
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I think support against murdering religeous fanatics is a bit different to a knob head tv presenter. Unless your a paid up jihadist that is, and believe the only valid opinion is your own. To the point where your willing to kill anyone who doesn't agree?

Oh sh1t, I've just described Clarkson:icon_razz:
 
I think Clarkson needs the Beeb more than he thinks, what advertisers other than UKIP would possibly want to be associated with all those casually racist comedy-free sketches?

Top Gear will go on and shuffle around until they find the right replacement(s) and it'll still be successful but not quite as much. After a few failed attempts at automotive programming somebody will eventually have the bright idea of giving Jezza a chat show on channel 5, it'll be shit as are most of his interviews and then he'll die on the vine as a reinvented shock jock on talk radio.
 
I expect Mr Clarkson will find plenty of consolation counting the millions of public money the BBC paid him a couple of years ago to buy him and the producer he didn't punch or call an " irish c..t " out of their 50% share of the production company they set up to produce and franchise the Top Gear programme and spin offs.

JohnnyO. :icon_razz:/.
 
I'm not so sure J, the likes of Clarkson believe they have a right of entitlement...better to knobel him by not giving him a platform.
 
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Oh… it's the same (western) world, characterised by bigotry and hypocrisy. The 'je suis charlie' supporters accepted their government's denial of freedom for those who questioned the holocaust, wished to dress-up for modesty, rather than strip naked provocatively on the beach and thought it was freedom of speech for the Charlie Hebdo magazine to publish disgusting pornographic cartoons of the prophet whilst sacking a journalist who penned an 'anti-semitic' article & cartoon ('he'll go far that lad').

And so the hypocrisy continues... with Clarkson supporters; who conveniently look the other way as Clarkson racially abused, threatened the livelihood and violently assaulted a BBC employee - who would have to work in excess of 300 years to amass the current reported wealth of Clarkson (also a BBC employee) - you really don't have to be 'a paid up jihadist' or be particularly aware, to appreciate the comparison of hypocrisy - sadly, this is the world we live in. frank.
 
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