Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC

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Suggestions for the new JC helmed Top Gear equivalent :

"6th Gear"
or
"Properly Top Gear"
or
"The Best Top Gear .........................................................................................................................................................................in The World (Show)"
 
And on that bombshell...Goodnight

To my TV Licence.

I won't watch it with a new presenter, I like the 3 they have good chemistry. I think May and Hammond will also leave.

Hopefully Sky or someone else will pick it up and make it better.

I agree that if he hit someone he should lose his job, however I will miss the show.
 
JOSH86 said:
And on that bombshell...Goodnight

To my TV Licence.

I won't watch it with a new presenter, I like the 3 they have good chemistry. I think May and Hammond will also leave.

Hopefully Sky or someone else will pick it up and make it better.

I agree that if he hit someone he should lose his job, however I will miss the show.
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Thats it nobody even JC fans can defend him smacking the guy, and I am a big fan.

Well they could get Tiff back.... *zzzzzzzZZZzZzzZz* :)
 
Plunk13 said:
Suggestions for the new JC helmed Top Gear equivalent :

"6th Gear"
or
"Properly Top Gear"
or
"The Best Top Gear .........................................................................................................................................................................in The World (Show)"
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Gear Knob :p

I actually like Top Gear and JC's presentation. Be a shame to see it gone now and more reason I wonder what other decent shows my Licence fee is paying.

F1, practically gone.
At least 6 Nations still on, Wimbledon is there.
Horizon and a handful of BBC 4 shows. Everything else is beginning to make me feel like a cynical old man.
 
The BBC will now drop Top Gear and start a brand new Car Programme called 'Meals on Wheels', a Programme where Cars are used to deliver the meals various 'Celebrity Chefs' Cook to new weekly-guest 'Z-List Celebrities' where they will get a chance to 'Plug' their latest offerings. Yet another Cookery Show on the Beeb but with 'Celebrities' and Cars...

This is all going from 'Fracas' to 'Fiasco'. It could only get better if there was mass, and I mean mass TV Licence Cancellations over the whole thing, you'd have the Beeb ****ting a brick and even the UK Govt. would have to get all involved, it would be hilarious! :cool::D
 
[TW]Fox;27824174 said:
Except he wasn't an employee was he?
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Fine he might be a contractor, but he can still be held to a similar standard.
This just makes it easier for the BBC to terminate his contract
 
balky12 said:
I think you are a little naive to how the world works.
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Or you are jaded?

I have had the good fortune to work for companies with good disciplinary procedures. I do not doubt there are places out there that do not operate in that manner, and yes they may be in the majority. But that does not mean every company is the same or that high standards are not achievable when using an inclusive and transparent rulebook.

We have sacked managers as well as field staff for the same breaches in the code of conduct. If you start to decide what behaviour is acceptable from someone based on how much they earn for the company, or how famous they are then you are on a very slippery slope.

How could the BBC justify keeping Clarkson on after all of the other issues they have had topped off with a physical attack on a colleague? What message are they sending to the TVL payers? When we look at greater good, the BBC is under a lot of scrutiny as it is. With scandals like Saville, I can see why they were keen to take the hard line with JC. I think the majority of people looking at this objectively will see there really wasn't an alternative and the only person to blame is JC.
 
"Over the subsequent days, Jeremy Clarkson made a number of attempts to apologise to Oisin Tymon by way of text, email, and in person; and it is the case that Jeremy Clarkson reported the incident to BBC management."
 
Westyfield2 said:
"Over the subsequent days, Jeremy Clarkson made a number of attempts to apologise to Oisin Tymon by way of text, email, and in person; and it is the case that Jeremy Clarkson reported the incident to BBC management."
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He might have taken steps to soften the blow, but it's still gross misconduct.
 
Moothead2 said:
It's been a good run. The only person you can blame though is Clarkson himself.
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This. As May has just said on Sky, he is a knob, but I always found him an entertaining knob.

But you simply cannot physically abuse a fellow worker and not expect to get sacked.
 
Westyfield2 said:
"Over the subsequent days, Jeremy Clarkson made a number of attempts to apologise to Oisin Tymon by way of text, email, and in person; and it is the case that Jeremy Clarkson reported the incident to BBC management."
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Somehow I think if we all gave you a good kicking and said sorry afterwards you'd not be that forgiving.
 
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