Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC
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That would be epic and a massive "Up yours!" to the BBC.
Considering it is an article in pigeon English reporting a 'rumour' on an obvious click bait site I'd say it's not the most reliable of stories.
Mentioned to me by a friend. I've seen it on the that link too. Also heard the studio at Dunsfold has been dismantled by BBC. I assume they meant just stripping out the inside of the hanger.
It would never be as popular or as big money making as what Top Gear was. Not everyone pays out for Sky for a start.
And that Top Speed ident is clearly just what someone knocked up in Photoshop as part of the rumor. The photo of the three men is stolen from similar Top Gear idents.
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Interesting, yes, but it doesn't really address the main point. The success of Top Gear depends on the presenters. There's a lot of work done behind the cameras and that's done very well, but people watch Top Gear mainly because it's some friends having a laugh and messing about. The presenters and the interaction between them is the key to the whole thing. Remember Jason Dawe? That didn't work at all well because he didn't fit with the other two presenters.
They'd need to do a lot more than replace Jeremy Clarkson with another presenter, any other presenter, even if that presenter already has a lot of relevant experience. They might be better off just hiring the 5th Gear presenters as a package - at least they're proven to work together.
They're going to have to rework the show in a much more fundamental way than just getting a new presenter, especially as it's Clarkson who's gone. I could see some straight swaps maybe working. Vicki Butler-Henderson for Richard Hammond, for example (though it would all hang on how well the new presenters fitted together), but a straight swap for Jeremy Clarkson on the program he's mostly responsible for creating is a rather tall order. It's going to have to be a different program with the same name and that's going to be a hard sell.
It was part of Clarkson's job to not be a petulant prima donna who abused his power and hit someone who was doing some of the behind the camera work for the show. He failed at that. It was a far bigger failure than failing to organise the right kind of food. Clarkson's reaction was wildly disproportionate. No doubt he was tired and hungry and stressed and having a bad day. Rudeness and swearing would have been understandable and handled with an apology for being an arse about it. But a sustained tirade and some sort of physical assault isn't.
Indeed.
I like Top Gear a lot but I cant get my head around how people are defending what he did.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/bbc...ould-make-Top-Gear-comeback-in-Australia.html
Tickets have been sold for a two-day event in Sydney in which 54-year-old Clarkson with James May, 52, and Richard Hammond, 45, was expected to appear in front of 40,000 fans.
However, organisers could be forced to rename it Clarkson, May and Hammond Live or MPH Live rather than Top Gear Live.
Also, death threats to BBC DG Tony Hall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32103665
Lord Hall is reported to have received a threatening email after dropping presenter Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear because he had punched a producer.
The Mail on Sunday also reported Lord Hall and his wife were under 24-hour protection from security guards at their Oxfordshire home.
The Met said the email appeared to have been sent from outside the UK.
Tickets have been sold for a two-day event in Sydney in which 54-year-old Clarkson with James May, 52, and Richard Hammond, 45, was expected to appear in front of 40,000 fans.
However, organisers could be forced to rename it Clarkson, May and Hammond Live or MPH Live rather than Top Gear Live.
Also, death threats to BBC DG Tony Hall.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32103665
Lord Hall is reported to have received a threatening email after dropping presenter Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear because he had punched a producer.
The Mail on Sunday also reported Lord Hall and his wife were under 24-hour protection from security guards at their Oxfordshire home.
The Met said the email appeared to have been sent from outside the UK.
Because the downside of caring about what happened is no more Top Gear?
Ignoring what happened isn't condoning wife beating, it just requires giving Clarkson a producer who doesn't massively suck at doing his job.
Cry all you want to about the situation, but if all you want to watch on TV is Call the Midwife and painfully correct chat shows then yeh, cry me a river over nothing.
What a load of tosh. The producer had been with the program for 10 years so clearly a valued member of the team.
Clarkson is the one that "sucks at doing his job", if he can't control his temper he shouldn't be there.
Lol if you genuinely believe that a producer who had been working on the show for 10 years sucked at their job for not being able to magic a chef back into a hotel restaurant.
I'm glad everything you do at work goes perfectly, and I hope you would accept that being hit in the face is an acceptable response for any time it doesn't.
I'm glad everything you do at work goes perfectly, and I hope you would accept that being hit in the face is an acceptable response for any time it doesn't.
Hitting someone at work is not acceptable in any situation, it is as simple as that.
How you can accuse the producer of being rubbish at his job over what happened is beyond me. Grow up.
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This was on Chinese news sites early this morning, so a heavy pinch of salt is required
Any situation?
What if you are a boxer? Policeman, soldier, sportsman?
Is it as simple as that?
And the producer was rubbish at his job, while he doesn't deserve to be abused physically, he failed at what he was hired to do with indirect and catastrophic results for the production itself, so should be disciplined for that.
It is a separate thing from what Clarkson did.
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