Clarkson Suspended by BBC

[blue sleeper]

Originally Posted by Revolver

And that show will soon come to an end. The doc has 12 incarnations and is up to number 11.....

Err actually he is back to number 1, so another 11 left....

[thehammer]

beat-up

that's all it is

[ebxr8240]

Has it been bought up before.. Is the show LIVE?
Then BBC can edit the show all they like ...
If anything BBC are responsible for what goes to air!!
Yes it's a beat up...

[DanielXR8]

Originally Posted by DAZZLR

Top Gear is finished..

The three latest episodes are being canned Clarkson will not be back...

But the last three "missing episodes" will be available exclusively on DVD as part of the Ultimate Top Gear collection. Sales start 2016.

[Boza]

great thanks clarkson you pompous up yourself **** I was actually looking forward to the classic car track day episode that was supposed to be aired next. I'm a bit over him anyway no biggie for me if he goes he should be taught a lesson in humility me thinks

[paulb351]

Did anyone se Clarkson in tv talking about going down to Surrey and taking one last lap of the top gear track?

To me that says it all about how out of touch JC is and how lost the whole thing is... bBC should ban him from the track and bury the series, release the unaired footage on DVDs and donate the proceeds rather than pay presenters that believe rules of decency don't apply to them I say...

[ivorya]

News of the hearing out tomorrow I think.

Interesting that media have already speculated that he won't be sacked and that they will have a minder with him at all times.
Also interesting is the mate ship the 3 of them had. Hammond and May have refused to resign their contracts and complete the rest of the series until they have Clarkson on board with them.
Also speculation, the 3 of them will take the show to another network, under a different name I guess.

I can't wait....

[FPV GTHO]

I'd imagine more than the name would have to change. They may get away with the same entertainment based format but I don't think other key things like the studio stage would be the same.

[Road Games]

RIP TOP GEAR

[Whitey-AMG]

Originally Posted by Revolver

And that show will soon come to an end. The doc has 12 incarnations and is up to number 11

True, but the sale of mugs, sonic screwdrivers , t shirts and new blu Ray series is so much more powerful than any gallifrean law.....MUCH more powerful.

The power of the $$$ transcends all time, thus it will be the driving force behind the BBC caving and putting JC back in the chair.

Money talks , actually it screams.

[Bushbasher]

I can't see JC putting up with a minder hovering around all the time, and if he does I can just see him winding the minder up non stop till they sack him or the minder cracks and runs for the hills.

I still think this is all a strategic exit strategy by Clarkson, but if the BBC cave this time I reckon Clarkson will just find another way to provoke them into not renewing his contract. When he goes, the other 2 will go with him and they'll start up another show on another network. Alas, there'll be no more Stig, no more star in a reasonably priced car and no more hot lap leaderboard, but I can see some sort of "star" challenge. Maybe weekly match races like a side by side special stage a-la WRC, except on tarmac.

[CoupeKing]

I wanted to see James May in a Hellcat.

[nz13boy]

Does anyone have a link to where I can watch this seasons previous episodes?

Im getting sick of waiting for channel 9 to show them.

[Bushbasher]

You can download the torrents from any of the torrent sites and get all of them that way.

[csv8]

"NOW that it increasingly looks like he’s out of a job, suspended Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson is moving his attention to another idea for a possible top-rating television series — farming.

Sources tell The Times in London that the rural enthusiast wants to do for agriculture what he did for motoring.

“In the last week [Jeremy] has had a chance to firm it up,” a source close to Clarkson told the newspaper.

“It’s about trying to run a farm when you don’t know anything about farming, and ... getting things wrong, in a Top Gear-esque way.”

The 54-year-old host was suspended by the BBC for allegedly punching producer Oisin Tymon during a row which took place after filming, and was again in hot water at the weekend for calling his bosses “f***ing bastards” in an expletive-laden rant at a charity event.

While an investigation into his conduct is under way, friends say Clarkson is already speaking as though he has been fired, and he’s exploring other work opportunities.

His idea for a show that explores the lives and challenges of farmers and people who work in the countryside is something he’s said to be currently developing. It doesn’t yet have a name, but friends have perhaps uncreatively joked Top Tractor could work.

Back in 2012, Clarkson pitched the idea to the BBC’s then director general George Entwistle, The Times reports. It didn’t go ahead because the pair couldn’t agree on a shoot location.


There could be strong interest in whatever project Clarkson moves to next, although he might have trouble striking a deal with the BBC after his rant last week.

“To be in the audience of Top Gear there was an 18-year waiting list,” he told the charity function.

“You know the BBC has ********* themselves, and so who gives a *******? It was a great show and they ********* it up.”

During the event, Clarkson also offered one lap around the Top Gear track for auction, Britain’s Mirror reports.

“I’ll drive somebody around in whatever I can get hold of. I’m sacked so it’s probably an Austin Maestro,” he said.

“But anyway it will be my last ever lap of the Top Gear track.”

Writing afterwards in The Sunday Times, Clarkson said it had all been in good humour.

“But it was all meant in jest and anyway it worked,” he said.

“By being brief, controversial and a bit sweary I woke the room up and the auction prize I was offering — one last lap of the Top Gear test track — raised STG100,000 ($193,050).”
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-1227273861902
Interesting !! imagine a John Deere v Steiger on the track!!!!

[csv8]

Stig and a tank

[Boza]

They might do a format like US top gear just do a challenge or road trip every week no laptimes or star in povo car thay just either get super cars, trucks or cheap stuff and do a challenge every week bit boring if you ask me.

[BradEL]

Any mord follow up on whether they will continue top gear without him if worst comes to worst, cause last I read may and richard were not going to film without him

[The Stylist]

Clarkson is gone:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/motoring/news...p-gear-to-stay

[Wretched]

I'll wait until the BBC officially announce it. That article is speculating.
If it happens then so be it.

[xxx000]

I hope it's true.
His ego is as big as Britain.

[Wretched]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bbc-insist...0.html#2frALv4

[castellan]

He is a typical pom and a great one !
Good on him.

[Bushbasher]

So he reported himself for the dust up at the time. That's the first time I've seen or read of that, but it seems to me, that would seem to back up my conjecture that it was a strategically planned exit strategy by Clarkson going back to when he sold his shares in the show back to the BBC.

I'll predict that May and Hammond go with him. May is a long time mate of Clarkson going back long before Top Gear and Hammond doesn't have the presence to take the lead in a new lineup. The chemistry between the 3 of them is what makes the show and if you take one away, especially Clarkson, the bubble will burst I reckon.

[BradEL]

Originally Posted by Bushbasher

So he reported himself for the dust up at the time. That's the first time I've seen or read of that, but it seems to me, that would seem to back up my conjecture that it was a strategically planned exit strategy by Clarkson going back to when he sold his shares in the show back to the BBC.

I'll predict that May and Hammond go with him. May is a long time mate of Clarkson going back long before Top Gear and Hammond doesn't have the presence to take the lead in a new lineup. The chemistry between the 3 of them is what makes the show and if you take one away, especially Clarkson, the bubble will burst I reckon.

Couldn't be more right, its like taking Ford or Holden out of V8 Supercars, sure you can bring in some one else like volvo, but its just not the same.

[Revolver]

Originally Posted by xxx000

I hope it's true.
His ego is as big as Britain.

You think Britain is big. Thats cute.

[Focused]

We can only hope that JM and RH follow him to another station and create a show suspiciously resembling Top Gear. There's talk of Chris Evan replacing JC but IMO it wouldn't work so Evans would simply be setting himself up for a failure (think: Top Gear Australia).

[Focused]

Originally Posted by Revolver

You think Britain is big. Thats cute.

I think he was referring to it's international influence and not Britain's land mass. Oh hang on... haha

[Sioso]

he's gone:

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-1227278881752

[Bushbasher]

Mays Twitter feed now updated to say "Former TV presenter", so he won't be back. Like I said above, Hammond doesn't have the presence to be the front man like Clarkson was and he'd be mad to stay on that sinking ship, so I'm now waiting for the confirmation that he's off as well.