Clarkson....BBC had no alternative but to sack him.....you can't allow him or anyone else to get away with physical and verbal violence.
Mountain made out of a molehill. If the bloke made no compliant of the incident there should have taken that into account. his career will be affected by the bbc sacking clarkson who will be snapped up by sky/itv/channel 4 make more money and carry on.
Oisin Tymon behaved impeccably throughout Clarkson ranting and attack......so why is he receiving death threats......no wonder he hasn't made a complaint with such nutters around.
Oisin Tymon behaved impeccably throughout Clarkson ranting and attack......so why is he receiving death threats......no wonder he hasn't made a complaint with such nutters around.
the bloke deserved a slap at the end of the day. Never promise a steak dinner with all the trimmings and then try and fob off cold and hungry northerners with sandwiches
Sir Francis Drake
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This is a dark day for the freedom to punch people at work and it's also a sad day when you're not powerful enough to verbally and physically assault somebody without fear of recourse to the law and due process. What's the point in getting on, amassing a personal fortune and becomingclose personal friends with the Old Etonian chief honcho if you can't behave how you like, when you like to whomsoever you like?
This is a dark day for the freedom to punch people at work and it's also a sad day when you're not powerful enough to verbally and physically assault somebody without fear of recourse to the law and due process. What's the point in getting on, amassing a personal fortune and becomingclose personal friends with the Old Etonian chief honcho if you can't behave how you like, when you like to whomsoever you like?
The whole world has gone mad.
If he had poured a pint over the blokes head in front of everyone nothing would have been said or done about it.
BBC really had no choice but to act as the story had gone public. Commercially disasterous for the BBC though as they and the licence fee payers are the real big losers. Clarkson, May and Hammond will get snapped up by one of ITV/Sky/Netflix in no time for a similar-ish show. BBC, who own the Top Gear rights (format etc), will attempt a 're-launch' without Clarkson, May and Hammond - but it will be shite, probably last for 1 series and then get cancelled.
Sir Francis Drake
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Fantasy Top Gear: Guy Martin; Damon Hill; that German woman; Jimmy Carr (gedditt??????).
Format: cut the stupid stunts (basically anything that ever put Richard Hammond in small vehicle and Clarkson in a rocket-powered anything - that all got reeeeeeeeeeeally boring); focus on the cars; more "sensible" stunts (like racing against a letter in the post, getting across London via different modes of transport etc); look for wacky eccentrics anywhere in the motor industry/world.
If Top Gear is to continue the same old same old forced, non-PC blokey bantz should be ditched along with the previous presenters: time to evolve or die.
Fantasy Top Gear: Guy Martin; Damon Hill; that German woman; Jimmy Carr (gedditt??????).
Format: cut the stupid stunts (basically anything that ever put Richard Hammond in small vehicle and Clarkson in a rocket-powered anything - that all got reeeeeeeeeeeally boring); focus on the cars; more "sensible" stunts (like racing against a letter in the post, getting across London via different modes of transport etc); look for wacky eccentrics anywhere in the motor industry/world.
If Top Gear is to continue the same old same old forced, non-PC blokey bantz should be ditched along with the previous presenters: time to evolve or die.
im so glad the world isnt made to your liking how dull the world would be.
If Top Gear is to continue the same old same old forced, non-PC blokey bantz should be ditched along with the previous presenters: time to evolve or die.
Oh it's gonna 'evolve' all right.. ...and die.
When you're one of the most popular programmes in the world (certainly the BBC's biggest) and you lose your 'talent', you have nowhere to go but down.
That all depends. There's no doubting Top Gear's popularity but, have you seen it lately?, it has become very tired. Much of it is cringeworthy in how bad it is and they've been scraping the bottom barrel in terms of new ideas for ages. The trips abroad are a good example: Botswana and Vietnam were very good but the Burma (was it? Thailand, maybe - I forget) USA and India ones? No. Not great at all. Rubbish, in fact.
It's needed a major over-haul for about 4 series now and this is the perfect chance to do it.
Let's wait and see what they come up with before we write its future off.
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Top gear is shite, IMO obvs, Clarkson to my mind is the best presenter on there and he's a cnut. Anyway, they just announced the lineup of Newsnight, "and joining the panel tonight the only other person that Jeremy Clarkson has punched, Piers Morgan!" pmsl. I've forgave him for that one in an instant.
If Top Gear is to continue the same old same old forced, non-PC blokey bantz should be ditched along with the previous presenters: time to evolve or die.
Oh it's gonna 'evolve' all right.. ...and die.
When you're one of the most popular programmes in the world (certainly the BBC's biggest) and you lose your 'talent', you have nowhere to go but down.
You gotta give the BBC their due, they will lose millions and millions because of this decision.
best thing they can do if they continue the franchise is reformat it with a new lineup and concept and accept that the first series may bomb but stick with it as it grows. If they continue it in its current format it will die like it did the last time Clarkson left the show.
Everybody said Have I Got News For You would fold after Angus Deayton was sacked, it became even more popular with a new celeb host each week. Vibes are that Stephen Fry is being wooed. The next recorded Top Gear will be box-office viewing to see if they feck it up - if they don't it'll survive.
Sir Francis Drake
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Everybody said Have I Got News For You would fold after Angus Deayton was sacked, it became even more popular with a new celeb host each week. Vibes are that Stephen Fry is being wooed. The next recorded Top Gear will be box-office viewing to see if they feck it up - if they don't it'll survive.
completely different shows. hignfy can be hosted by anyone as can buzzcocks as it a generic shows and can continue in their current states.
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