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That's one way to guarantee the death of TG.
Jeremy Clarkson suspended from BBC
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That's one way to guarantee the death of TG.
Maybe it exposes the calibre of the person that watches it. Desperate people do desperate things.
Good lord no.
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You can write off Sky, they've never taken any talent from the BBC and only throw their money at sports rights which is their USP. People buy Sky for the footy, not for it's entertainment shows and they certainly wouldn't enter a bidding war with the Beeb over Clarkson's presenting job.
ITV would be the more likely candidate as they have history (Jonathan Ross and Susanna Reid for example), but I still doubt it. It's the Top Gear brand that makes the millions for the BBC, and whilst Clarkson is a significant part of that brand, he alone would be no guarantee of pulling viewers under a new project. In fact he's done quite a few documentaries for the Beeb and they never got anywhere the figures as Top Gear.
Ultimately however, it is extremely unlikely that some BBC boss concocted a scheme in which specifically one dish was made deliberately unavailable in the hope this sparks an outrage and some argy-bargy, all so they would have the upper hand is negotiating a new contract.
What could go wrong? He doesn't get angry and eats whatever they have and the plan fails and of course given he is being tempted (under your theory) to work for someone else, encouraging him to fall out with colleague(s) would likely make him want to start work with another team even more.
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Are you sure?
You think Sky paid a record amount (£4.2bn for 5 of the 7 packages for sale) for premiership football because the majority of people dont have sports ? If it is the case, it must be a very poor business descision.
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F1 + Top Gear would make Sky the petrolheads choice.
Sky's most popular package is Sky Sports.
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I dont have sports or movies, but still get the F1, so I am happy without all the footie.
Why do you think its do expensive for sports and its also why the sports package went up when they won the rights.
How, when you cant get sports without normal channels
I have had sky since I can remember, I have always had sky sports and movies.
Seems we are at a deadlock good sir.
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Me either.
Because it's syndicated. You don't even need Sky to get Sky Sports.
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I said 'people' which was a general term, I wasn't saying no one at all has ever bought Sky just for the exclusive entertainment.
The point is 'Sky One' [where Jeremy would end up] is not Sky's money maker and whilst some people are willing to pay £28 a month for Free View with MTV and Game Of Thrones they ain't paying it for Sky's own content. Ergo, it is highly unlikely that Sky would have thrown money to 'outbid' the BBC in terms of contract renewals to get Clarkson.
Sky don't even reveal how many subscribers they have let alone how they are split in terms of packages taken [source], so not sure where your claim most people don't have the sports comes from???
Probably says more about you than him.
Most watched show on the planet...
So was baywatch and despite all those female lifeguards the total **** is still bigger in top gear.
I thought Peppa Pig was more watched than Top Gear according to a piece not long back on 5Live. It could have been more countries though but in total in certainly made more money.
You can't do that I don't think. Isn't that what Cowell did with Xfactor and got sued because he ditched the Simon Fuller one and more or less copied and pasted. Didn't he then have to hand over a percentage to fuller?
Don't forget it doesn't actually have to be a UK based channel just one available here, I.E Spike is just about to launch in the UK as a Freeview/Sky channel and scoring a Clarkson/May/Hammond car show would be a massive addition to their arsenal (Spike was once called TNN and is a massive US network which is in 80% of US homes and in Canada).
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