Punched each other, not their boss though.
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Punched each other, not their boss though.
Did you see the post I was responding to. He said if a footballer punched a team mate...
I did not.
To be fair, he missed the white text of the post he was responding to.
Nonsense
They could try and replace him with somebody like Chris Harris, but the whole cast would have to change. No way would it work still with Hammond and May, they are a team and would all go down together IMO.
They really need to think carefully, as a lot of weird people would not watch the show anymore just because Clarkson isn't there. They do also need to have a show of force though, as otherwise it will be seen as being acceptable.
They really need to think carefully, as a lot of weird people would not watch the show anymore just because Clarkson isn't there. They do also need to have a show of force though, as otherwise it will be seen as being acceptable.
Is a producer even his boss? From what I can gather they manage everything but seem like more of a colleague than a boss to me.
Obviously its still unacceptable and doesn't really matter but I did wonder.
Obviously its still unacceptable and doesn't really matter but I did wonder.
Yeah, stand corrected, wasn't aware he'd sold it, just remember reading about his ownership a good few years ago.
It would work well with Steve Coogan presenting it as Alan Partridge.
You should work for the BBC. Just tell them to put Alan Partridge into anything they ask you about.
Why not. He'd also be great on question time and the one show.
And the news, Graham Norton, newsnight, weekly wipe, cutest's animals. Let's just change the BBC to the APBC. Alan Partridge 24/7 365 days a week.
Very good.
Meh, it's Last of the Summer Wine with less-trendy people and some cars.
It obviously isn't a one-man band in the same way Ferguson wasn't but some people give Clarkson less credit than he deserves for the new style Top Gear.
Extracts from http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31832534
It can of course carry on without Clarkson, it just won't be as good (or the same feel to some) unless they hit gold with another presenter and revamp the style as I don't think some 'challenges' will work without a similar type of person.
Also I'm not saying he shouldn't be sacked, he's punched someone! He should just quit and save all the hassle instead of writing about he's going to quit. Typical Clarkson but he's a great presenter for Top Gear.
Extracts from http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31832534
It can of course carry on without Clarkson, it just won't be as good (or the same feel to some) unless they hit gold with another presenter and revamp the style as I don't think some 'challenges' will work without a similar type of person.
Also I'm not saying he shouldn't be sacked, he's punched someone! He should just quit and save all the hassle instead of writing about he's going to quit. Typical Clarkson but he's a great presenter for Top Gear.
It won't work without Clarkson, the whole thing relies on him otherwise it falls completely flat, it's his show and there is nobody out there who would do the same job. People are set in their ways and any change will have everyone turning off.
They might as well finish it and just live off the syndication.
They couldn't because nobody knows who he is outside a select petrolhead community and it would only be those same people that watch it. TG can't go back to being a car show cause it'll die a death.
They might as well finish it and just live off the syndication.
They couldn't because nobody knows who he is outside a select petrolhead community and it would only be those same people that watch it. TG can't go back to being a car show cause it'll die a death.
Oh my god, see my white text sarcasm thing
Hey Hamster I didnt know you posted on here
That's precisely how I see it.They'd be best off having a new show, same people, but just have it as their big adventures. However this time its all a lot less scripted and annoying, which is why it would be important to leave the Top Gear branding behind. Hammond is by far the most grating but when he isn't acting like a buffoon and talks normally he isn't too bad.
OK so we all know that Clarkson is a prize pratt , no doubt he would be the first to admit it , but this Savile bullshit is a joke.
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-16/jimmy-saviles-victims-slam-jeremy-clarkson-comparisons/
http://www.itv.com/news/2015-03-16/jimmy-saviles-victims-slam-jeremy-clarkson-comparisons/
I remember an interview with Clarkson where he talked about how people (usually car enthusaists) always asked him how they could do what he does. He said people imagine him, May and Hammond spending all their time chatting about cars and that being what motivated them, but he said this was not the case. His advice was to write and keep writing to get better - that his biggest passion was the feeling upon handing in a recorded segment for the show.
I agree with what James May said (and pretty much what Clarkson himself would say). He is a bit of a twat, but he is also phenomenally good at what he does as a journalist. As someone mentioned earlier - his tribute to Ayrton Senna was a fantastic piece of television.
The three of them work very well together and between them have created a number of exceptional pieces of television. I agree that he should be reprimanded for what he did, but think it would be a shame if the show itself is broken up.
I agree with what James May said (and pretty much what Clarkson himself would say). He is a bit of a twat, but he is also phenomenally good at what he does as a journalist. As someone mentioned earlier - his tribute to Ayrton Senna was a fantastic piece of television.
The three of them work very well together and between them have created a number of exceptional pieces of television. I agree that he should be reprimanded for what he did, but think it would be a shame if the show itself is broken up.
Hadn't seen that before, what a fecking idiot that guy is.
This producer wasn't his boss. If you watch the show, they refer to most of the office/production crew as producers.
That's alright then, as long as he punched someone less important than himself
There were plenty of supporters happy to use Saville to dig out the BBC last week. "Oh, the BBC will protect Saville, but suspend Jezza for a mere punch. Is this what we pay the license fee for?" etc etc.
Now the comparisson's tasteless?
What happened to harmless Clarkson-esque banter guys? You know, about dead hookers, or shooting women, or mexicans, or niggers? Pffft, you can't say anything anymore. It's political correctness gone mad. We need more 'maverick' BBC execs, I say.
There were plenty of supporters happy to use Saville to dig out the BBC last week. "Oh, the BBC will protect Saville, but suspend Jezza for a mere punch. Is this what we pay the license fee for?" etc etc.
Now the comparisson's tasteless?
What happened to harmless Clarkson-esque banter guys? You know, about dead hookers, or shooting women, or mexicans, or niggers? Pffft, you can't say anything anymore. It's political correctness gone mad. We need more 'maverick' BBC execs, I say.
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Apparently the producer he punched is now getting death threats.
Serves him right for getting in the way of Clarkson's fist when he was angry, I say! He deserved it, he should have gone out & slaughtered a cow, butchered it and prepared the steaks himself, that's what they would have dome on a Top Gear challenge, after all.
What is wrong with this World? Nearly 1M people condone violence at work?
Serves him right for getting in the way of Clarkson's fist when he was angry, I say! He deserved it, he should have gone out & slaughtered a cow, butchered it and prepared the steaks himself, that's what they would have dome on a Top Gear challenge, after all.
What is wrong with this World? Nearly 1M people condone violence at work?
Clarkson is a legend, don't care if he hit someone on the show at work. He and the other two make the show what it is and I wanna see Clarkson stay, probably as would most payers of the BBC 'tax'. I mean its basically Top Gear, MOTD, Snooker and thats about it, the rest is just karaoke, trick shows and propaganda news for the next country we go in and steal stuff from. Besides, Clarkson hit Piers Morgan so that cancels out any mistake IMO.
The comparison is tasteless no matter who is making it, this was the first I'd heard of it.There were plenty of supporters happy to use Saville to dig out the BBC last week. "Oh, the BBC will protect Saville, but suspend Jezza for a mere punch. Is this what we pay the license fee for?" etc etc.
Now the comparisson's tasteless?
Indeed, but it's hard for my outrage to outweigh my amusement when anyone championing Clarkson complains about a tasteless statement exagerrated for effect. The words irony, hypocrisy, medicine and taste of spring to mind. Also cnut.
It's a pretty bold assumption that an institution that's run for 92 years, is renowned throughout the world, accounts for 14 of the top 20 most popular shows in UK broadcast history, all 10 of the most watched 'events' and 17 out of 20 in the BFI list of the best British programmes of all time and probably accounts for more of your favorite comedies, dramas and docs than all of the commerical channels combined when you actually think about it, is apparently universally accepted to be reliant on niche sport shows and currently popular presenters.
Even in a country where the furiously anti-Beeb tabloids, pushing an agenda for Fox News style TV, are read by more people than all the broadsheets combined, it's still a bit surprising anyone is myopic enough to believe this kind of thing.
The BBC's very nature as the world's biggest public broadcaster makes it a unique target for knee-jerk nonsense, but however much it stumbles in the mind of Johnny Lunchbucket, it's still far more useful and relevant than not. ITV produces next to nothing but "karaoke and trick shows" but when the Beeb follows suit - entirely within it's remit to account for the tastes of the public who fund it - it's the one in the firing line of whatever section of the populace are annoyed they're not paying for a personally tailored output.
Even in this scenario, where you assume a majority of the 64 million people who pay this tax genuinely want Jeremy Clarkson reinstated, it's doomed to incur the wrath of either Johnny and Judy Lunchbucket, or Sam and Sarah Sandlewearer, whatever it's final decision. All the while ITV broadcasts Keith Lemon and fake hypnotism gameshows, Channel 4 pumps out a million variations on The Boy with Four Bums, and Channel 5 does....whatever Channel 5 does, all to amused indifference.
But yeah, snooker and Clarkson. It'd be dead on its feet without them.
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I do love it when Mockney goes in to preach mode.
Has the sense to generally keep it to things he knows a bit about, too.
Didn't really rate "load bearing pillock" though...
Has the sense to generally keep it to things he knows a bit about, too.
Didn't really rate "load bearing pillock" though...
I found The Boy with Four Bums strangely moving & delicately handled, along with Channel 5's Who'd Win a Punch-up: Hitler or Fred West?
Best poster on the site by an absolute mile, IMO.
Thing is, I couldn't have given less of a shit when this thing happened, but it's become such a ridiculous cause celebre, at a time when mass organised outrage could've been so better focused elsewhere, for a group so insular they think being anti-PC is some kind of Civil Rights movement for the oppressed, white, old school males who make up 90% of the people in power AND on TV in this country, that it's eventually conspired to genuinely piss me off.
The TV/Entertainment industry is probably the only big industry in the country that can reasonably be claimed to have any kind of liberal bent, and even it is hugely unrepresentative, with only 5.4% of the workforce non-white in a country where over twice that number reside. But yeah, some imagined liberal PC elite is out to get the Clarksons of this world. Even though they supported him through numerous ridiculous scandals before he physically assaulted a member of staff.
That attitude needs to be called as the absolute nonsense it is. And where better than the Entertainment section of the world's leading Manchester United forum.
I'm basically giving way too much of a feck, to encourage people to give far less of a feck. Because...I dunno, Monday.
The TV/Entertainment industry is probably the only big industry in the country that can reasonably be claimed to have any kind of liberal bent, and even it is hugely unrepresentative, with only 5.4% of the workforce non-white in a country where over twice that number reside. But yeah, some imagined liberal PC elite is out to get the Clarksons of this world. Even though they supported him through numerous ridiculous scandals before he physically assaulted a member of staff.
That attitude needs to be called as the absolute nonsense it is. And where better than the Entertainment section of the world's leading Manchester United forum.
I'm basically giving way too much of a feck, to encourage people to give far less of a feck. Because...I dunno, Monday.
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ITV >>>>>>> BBC for snooker.
Fella gets far too much credit imo. He just copies this Oscar lad's tweets and posts them on here. Despicable behaviour i reckon.
@ Sweet Square: You might be reading too much into this. 
@ Swaggy: I wish I had an alter ego...though preferably one who wasn't actually me.
@ Swaggy: I wish I had an alter ego...though preferably one who wasn't actually me.
You mean you don't put on a fake moustache and sombrero and post as Santos J?
Damn, busted.
*weepz*
*weepz*