Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC

Robosapien · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:10

Slow news day...

OhEsEcks · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:15

Pink stig, unknown if gay or female, but there to meet BBC's equality quota.

Glaucus · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:16

This will keep those stupid feminists happy.
Get rid of top gear and replace it with grand theft auto drama. Well not really, it's only a drama on the people behind the game.
http://uk.ign.com/articles/2015/03/12/bbc-working-on-new-drama-based-on-grand-theft-auto

Still can't cut out all the violence and sex surly.

Destination · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:21

Moses said:
They killed off the black Stig and replaced him with the white Stig... maybe the white Clarkson will be sacked and replaced with a blacked up Clarkson?

Blacking up Clarkson, a feat only Clarkson could have though of, and then act bemused when folks deign offence.

SexyGreyFox · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:29

Judgeneo said:
The BBC are not for profit, if they lose revenue, they have to stop doing things to balance the books.

Top gear brings in many millions in profit for the BBC, which is then used to fund other things, people work on these other things.

If Top gear were not to exist, then these millions would disappear from the BBC budget, the things the millions are used to fund would disappear, and the jobs of the people working on them would disappear.

Its really quite simple.

Put way better than myself

Mr Jack · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:43

Judgeneo said:
Top gear brings in many millions in profit for the BBC, which is then used to fund other things, people work on these other things.

The amount of millions that would be lost is debatable though. A lot of the Top Gear money is made from licensing the brand around the world, various side projects, and selling rights to show older episodes. This revenue stream will not suddenly dry up if Clarkson goes.

Also, the BBC budget is around £5bn a year. Top Gear's total value makes up around 1% of that.

StoutMeister · 12 Mar 2015 at 22:50

mark0006 said:
While we wait here is some Jeremy Clarkson Memes to remind us why we like him.

22 Jeremy Clarkson Memes

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Thank you for that

9. “You do not just avoid the Suzuki Wagon R. You avoid it like you would avoid unprotected sex with an Ethiopian transvestite.”

The ugliest ******** that couldn't even be recreated on Minebox.

If you're having to insert numbers to get round the swear filter then it's worth considering you shouldn't be using the word on here.

Aston998 · 12 Mar 2015 at 23:21

Any news on what the going to do?

StriderX · 12 Mar 2015 at 23:50

Mr Jack said:
The amount of millions that would be lost is debatable though. A lot of the Top Gear money is made from licensing the brand around the world, various side projects, and selling rights to show older episodes. This revenue stream will not suddenly dry up if Clarkson goes.

Also, the BBC budget is around £5bn a year. Top Gear's total value makes up around 1% of that.

Perhaps, but with licensees dropping, the BBC cant be picking and choosing its most highly value produce.

Just more reason that the BBC is not working as intended.

Castiel · 13 Mar 2015 at 01:53

So sky news reporting that it wasn't physical at all, JC swore at and threatened to get the producer sacked for not doing his job properly because there was no hot food supplied.

http://news.sky.com/story/1444054/clarkson-told-colleague-he-will-lose-his-job

I can't count how many times a superior or manager swore at me, or threatened me with the sack..

If that's all there is then what on earth is the Beeb doing!!!

humbug · 13 Mar 2015 at 02:02

humbug said:
So its gone from:

Punched to Threw a Punch to Manhandled... whats next?

Castiel said:
So sky news reporting that it wasn't physical at all, JC swore at and threatened to get the producer sacked for not doing his job properly because there was no hot food supplied.

http://news.sky.com/story/1444054/clarkson-told-colleague-he-will-lose-his-job

I can't count how many times a superior or manager swore at me, or threatened me with the sack..

If that's all there is then what on earth is the Beeb doing!!!

Behaving like a spoilt brat.

Next....

Skidder · 13 Mar 2015 at 06:39

The BBC are a bunch of flailing leftist mumsnetters and cant deal with Clarkson's alphaness.

Glaucus · 13 Mar 2015 at 06:42

I just like how newspapers are finding witnesses and investigating faster than BBC, who seem to be doing nothing.

kitch9 · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:13

Castiel said:
So sky news reporting that it wasn't physical at all, JC swore at and threatened to get the producer sacked for not doing his job properly because there was no hot food supplied.

http://news.sky.com/story/1444054/clarkson-told-colleague-he-will-lose-his-job

I can't count how many times a superior or manager swore at me, or threatened me with the sack..

If that's all there is then what on earth is the Beeb doing!!!

The BBC is going to be the laughing stock of the world in the next 24-48 hours it appears.

If they have cancelled their biggest earnings show an risking numerous legal challenges from around the world because 2 long time work colleagues had an argument is going to be toe curlingly excruciatingly embarrassing.

antijoke · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:22

If that's true...then wow.

Mynight · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:30

I hope that isn't true.

Freefaller · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:35

If that's true the it is totally pathetic... though it is a bit of a primadonna behaviour from JC.

I still think it is daft to cancel the shows which have already been filmed.

Cosimo · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:39

kitch9 said:
If they have cancelled their biggest earnings show an risking numerous legal challenges from around the world because 2 long time work colleagues had an argument is going to be toe curlingly excruciatingly embarrassing.

They might have got themselves covered:

An executive at an insurance broker specialising in the media industry suggested that the BBC may have ensured that Clarkson would be liable for any loss of its earnings from Top Gear. It was common for broadcasters to insure against the loss of production expenses when a celebrity goes “rogue”. Edel Ryan, of JLT Speciality, said: “Broadcasters have to consider the options available to them to protect their liability in this area.”

Terminal_Boy · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:44

Glaucus said:
I just like how newspapers are finding witnesses and investigating faster than BBC, who seem to be doing nothing.

Just like with Saville and all the other paedophiles they protected over the year's then.

Cosimo · 13 Mar 2015 at 07:45

Beeb have sent a letter..

Clarkson has been sent a letter summoning him to a disciplinary hearing. Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the BBC director-general, indicated yesterday that the presenter will come face to face with Mr Tymon during the inquiry. It is being overseen by Ken MacQuarrie, the BBC executive who handled the inquiry into a Newsnight investigation that falsely accused a Conservative peer of a child abuse scandal.

Lord Hall said: “We have to get the people who are impacted by this together. There is a lot of speculation. We have got to establish the facts and I intend to do that before we come to a final decision.”

Maybe they should televise it. What an audience that would have...