Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC

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Burned_Alive said:
In your opinion... however, about 5 million people (in the UK alone) disagree with you.
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Yes and I'm sure many think Russell Brand is great too - doesn't make it true but it does show the state of the nation, and the rest of the world when Clarkson is defended, even lauded, for such behaviour.

Let's hope they bring back Tiff, at least he was a gentlemen and actually knows something about cars!
 
Jeremy is a berk but he does make me laugh. I also like the rapport between the 3 of them. However if I punched someone at work, I'd expect to be sacked so I wouldn't be surprised if he was... I'll be sad at no more Top Gear(As we know it..) but hopefully the 3 of them would just go and do something similar somewhere else. :)
 
Johno please? said:
hahahaaaa chris evans, just imagine it, I can't its too awful.
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Unfortunately I can, it'd be a perfect hat-trick for Evans:

- Take over the Radio 2 Breakfast show from Sir Terry Wogan, make it vacuous, unfunny nonsense;
- Take over The One Show from Adrian Chiles, make it vacuous unfunny nonsense;
- Take over Top Gear from Clarkson - you get the idea.

Sadly the "Christophe Lammy-Pie" morons will still lap it up, so it'll go on and on.
 
Well, as I said earlier..Chris Evans has just said that he isn't taking over top gear and any reports that suggest otherwise are complete nonsense. He isn't interested in doing it even if it's offered to him.

Which is no surprise really. He wouldn't have the time.
 
I think any Top Gear reboot with JC could end up on Netflix. These streaming services are churning shows out like sweets from a 20p machine nowadays.
 
balky12 said:
I think what it boils down to is this.

BBC: Clarkson, will you sign another long contract with us? No? Ok you're fired.
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Castiel said:
Quoted for truth.
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Only that makes no sense. His contract expires in a month anyway at which point both would be in the position of either renewing or parting ways. Threatening to fire someone whose contract expires shortly unless they renew it isn't really a bargaining chip.
 
estebanrey said:
Only that makes no sense. His contract expires in a month anyway at which point both would be in the position of either renewing or parting ways. Threatening to fire someone whose contract expires shortly unless they renew it isn't really a bargaining chip.
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It means the BBC can save face about not being able to renew his contract...
 
Jono8 said:
It means the BBC can save face about not being able to renew his contract...
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Was there any likelihood he wouldn't prior to this incident? They're on series 21 or something now, so I presume he's renewed plenty of times before and have no reason to believe he wouldn't have this time.

If you're talking post incident then it doesn't work logically. He's the one who's done the bad thing, so it would be the BBC who would now doubt whether to renew and he would be hoping for leniency and they would. Punching a producer puts the BBC is charge when it comes to negotiations not Clarkson.
 
If I was Mr C then I would have put out a statement saying I wasn't going to renew the contract anyway.

Then copy the whole format under a different name and have it all back under the 3 presenters control on another channel / service
 
estebanrey said:
Was there any likelihood he wouldn't prior to this incident? They're on series 21 or something now, so I presume he's renewed plenty of times before and have no reason to believe he wouldn't have this time.

If you're talking post incident then it doesn't work logically. He's the one who's done the bad thing, so it would be the BBC who would now doubt whether to renew and he would be hoping for leniency and they would. Punching a producer puts the BBC is charge when it comes to negotiations not Clarkson.
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Who knows. It is a bit "tin foil hat", but perhaps the BBC had been heavily out bid by SKY or something to sign him up and instead of admitting they couldn't afford/tempt him to stay, they decided to blow this "fracas" thing out of all proportion and sack him.
 
Halfmad said:
The guardian website are simply saying his contract for TG wont' be renewed.
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I doubt the BBC would do that as it leaves them open to a lawsuit. Not firing him over the incident but then opting to let his contract expire without renewal as a direct result of the incident when they were originally planning to renew it is an employment no no surely?
 
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