Trouble at Top Gear

[SaucyRossy]

All three of their contracts end this month at the BBC. Only thing is that BBC owns the format of the show so any new series will have to be started from scratch.

You can still make a car show. Have starts race each other in reasonably priced cars is one very simple but probably better segment change. The format is due for a bit of a slight refresh. Just enough that the bbc can't sue.

Ideally. I'd rather just have top gear continue as is, but if not I'll take another car show with the gents.

[Daggit]

This is a shame. Top Gear is one of my favorite shows.

[popple]

He got hangry. Ooops.

Whatever, they need him more than he needs them. He'll end up getting another show with more money probably.

[cweb]

On Twitter, everyone seems to want these guys to go to Netflix. But I agree, Sky or another real network would pay them quite well.

I'd like to see a slight format tweak. Everyone loves the nonsensical bits, but they feel forced at times. I guess it's still better than most shows out there even if they wouldn't change anything.

[missing transmission]

He wouldn't pull that shit in America. Someone would hit him back. I'm guessing he threw a punch at the smallest guy on the set.

He raised his fist/threw an air punch at a female producer...

...I wonder how the 500,000 people who signed the online petition would feel  if it was their wife, sister or mother in that situation.

In any other job it would be tantamount to instant dismissal.

[albrecht]

You can still make a car show. Have starts race each other in reasonably priced cars is one very simple but probably better segment change. The format is due for a bit of a slight refresh. Just enough that the bbc can't sue.

Ideally. I'd rather just have top gear continue as is, but if not I'll take another car show with the gents.

The Stigg. See, new concept because different spelling you can't sue us, BBC! I would SKY or going to an American network but I would think they would screw it up (like our American version of the show.)

[bateman]

He raised his fist/threw an air punch at a female producer...

...I wonder how the 500,000 people who signed the online petition would feel  if it was their wife, sister or mother in that situation.

In any other job it would be tantamount to instant dismissal.

It was not a female producer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2990616/A-row-steak-luvvie-BBC-boss-wants-Clarkson-Gear-host-said-got-row-producer-finding-hotel-offer-cold-platter-dinner.html

[albrecht]

It was not a female producer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2990616/A-row-steak-luvvie-BBC-boss-wants-Clarkson-Gear-host-said-got-row-producer-finding-hotel-offer-cold-platter-dinner.html

I hope nobody tries to serve him a cold platter after that sh*tty match result today. Watch out then!

[missing transmission]

It was not a female producer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2990616/A-row-steak-luvvie-BBC-boss-wants-Clarkson-Gear-host-said-got-row-producer-finding-hotel-offer-cold-platter-dinner.html

Damn the internet lied to me again.... still violence against anyone in the workplace is unacceptable.

I doubt Clarkson cares what anyone says or thinks of him as he's made millions off this reboot of the old Top Gear Show (the original ran from 1977-1998), and seems practically teflon coated when it comes to scandal.

[SaucyRossy]

Damn the internet lied to me again.... still violence against anyone in the workplace is unacceptable.

I doubt Clarkson cares what anyone says or thinks of him as he's made millions off this reboot of the old Top Gear Show (the original ran from 1977-1998), and seems practically teflon coated when it comes to scandal.

film sets are far from the normal workplaces

[bound4bristol]

It was not a female producer.

it may as well have been a female producer....

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Clarkson is what? 7'14" and Tymon is 5'2" at most?

[bound4bristol]

A senior BBC executive claimed: 'He is viewed as, well, someone called him a “complete tool”. He has always been his own worst enemy.

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lol tool

[Juan]

When I was a news producer, I was regularly threatened by the alleged talent.  Many of them are assholes with conceit at musician levels.  You just have to tell them to go fuck themselves and they act like most other bullies.  Of course that doesn't help with the true sociopaths, but nothing does.

[bateman]

http://metro.co.uk/2015/03/11/jeremy-clarkson-breaks-silence-over-suspension-thinks-hell-get-sacked-very-soon-5099347/

[Yorkshire pud]

I think Clarkson has resigned himself to leaving the BBC; although whether he's sacked or resigns remains to be seen. He's disliked by his employers, and liked by the viewers (generally). I think it will make it unfair for his fellow presenters as they're innocent in this crap. Will Sky snap it up if they could? Maybe. But more people watch the BBC than subscribe to Sky. Formula 1 went to Sky and left the BBC with a few live races, but most only showing the highlights that Sky broadcast live. There aren't as many viewers; the mass subscription to Sky didn't happen. Will people who are not with Sky get it because of TG? Bit of a gamble; they might, they might not. Netflix is a no no..Terrestrial TV channels? ITV, Channel 4? Possibly, but what people love about the Beeb is no ad breaks. To pay for TG they would need at least three breaks in an hour long show..that's taking out at least 15 minutes. Make it longer? Possibly, but they need to know they'll get the advertisers; and they're not queuing up for TV these days. Cheaper on the net.

Interesting times...if you're a TG fan.

[bateman]

It's over. Channel 4 it is.

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/jeremy-clarkson-reportedly-filming-for-bbc-rival-channel-4-new-full-throttle-show-coming-93296.html

[SaucyRossy]

It's over. Channel 4 it is.

http://www.autoevolution.com/news/jeremy-clarkson-reportedly-filming-for-bbc-rival-channel-4-new-full-throttle-show-coming-93296.html

Filming a segment for a rival show doesn't really say much..,,I also can't see him going to another show and not having full control. Just wouldn't make sense.

[cweb]

BBC dilly-dallying.

http://transmission.blogs.topgear.com/2015/03/16/further-news-about-this-sundays-top-gear/

The incident in question is currently being investigated and Ken MacQuarrie, the director of BBC Scotland, has been appointed to lead this process.

We can now confirm that Top Gear will not be back in the studio this week and, as such, the episode due for broadcast this Sunday night (22nd March) will also be postponed pending the outcome of the investigation.

[Nick el Ass]

The new shows are postponed, but the they sure are playing the hell out of the old ones on BBC America.

[bateman]

The new shows are postponed, but the they sure are playing the hell out of the old ones on BBC America.

BBC2 on the other hand, aired 'Red Arrows' and lost themselves 4 million viewers.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/top-gear-ratings-disaster-over-jeremy-clarkson-loss-4-million-viewers-switch-off-20150317-1m0r2c.html

[cweb]

Ah, the TV industry...

"We hate your politics but we have no problem squeezing money from your work."

[cweb]

Hrm.
https://twitter.com/mrjamesmay

Vegetables peel more easily if you wet them, yes. But why? #Unemployed

[Nick el Ass]

BBC2 on the other hand, aired 'Red Arrows' and lost themselves 4 million viewers.

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/top-gear-ratings-disaster-over-jeremy-clarkson-loss-4-million-viewers-switch-off-20150317-1m0r2c.html

We got to see such classics as this...




and when the Stig went off track among many others because they play episodes early Sunday morning here which would normally lead into the new episodes here in the good ol' US of A.


http://youtu.be/Vyau3VUVVtI

[cweb]

May and Hammond refuse to go on without Clarkson.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3002107/Top-Gear-hosts-James-Richard-Hammond-kept-air-refused-continue-without-friend-Clarkson.html

Stick it to 'em, boys!

[Yorkshire pud]

But James May scoffed at suggestions he and Richard Hammond were offered the opportunity to host the show without their under-fire colleague Jeremy Clarkson.

Reports suggested both had rejected the offer to host Top Gear without their suspended co-host.

However, speaking briefly from his west London home today, Mr May said he had not spoken to anybody at the BBC about it, so he hasn't had the opportunity to refuse to do it.

He said: 'It's not true. No-one has ever asked me if I was going to do it, there was never any suggestion that we were going to do it. So I've never had an opportunity to refuse to do it.

'I haven't spoke to anybody about it, it's completely new to me - I don't know where it's come from.'

Asked if he had spoke to Mr Hammond about hosting the show without Clarkson he said: 'No. But I definitely wasn't offered the opportunity, that's all I really want to say for now.'

May made light of the scenario again this morning on Twitter saying 'Once I've done the plumbing, I'm going to fire up Little Honda to see if Norman Tebbit's 'on yer bike' philosophy works. #StillUnemployed.'

Note. The woman in the car is referred to as 'Blond'...no mention of Clarkson's hair colour.


I read another version of events the othe rday that touches on what was said on this thread by someone about food and filming. It goes as follows: The crew had been testing at Dunstone (Top Gear track) and the producer who eventually got twatted by Clarkson wanted to re-shoot several things. The crew (Including May and Clarkson) asked apparently several times that thge food they were expecting when they flew to the hotel would still be there when they arrived. And they were assured it would be...this was asked a few times in the course of the re-shooting-concern was also raised about possibly losing the light and having to fly in the dark to the hotel; Heli flying at night isn't the best of things. Anyway, they finished got in the heli and flew to the hotel ,and as we know, no food. The chef had been sent home hours before. Clarkson was not best pleased. And the rest ensued.


Allegedly.

[SaucyRossy]

Note. The woman in the car is referred to as 'Blond'...no mention of Clarkson's hair colour.


I read another version of events the othe rday that touches on what was said on this thread by someone about food and filming. It goes as follows: The crew had been testing at Dunstone (Top Gear track) and the producer who eventually got twatted by Clarkson wanted to re-shoot several things. The crew (Including May and Clarkson) asked apparently several times that thge food they were expecting when they flew to the hotel would still be there when they arrived. And they were assured it would be...this was asked a few times in the course of the re-shooting-concern was also raised about possibly losing the light and having to fly in the dark to the hotel; Heli flying at night isn't the best of things. Anyway, they finished got in the heli and flew to the hotel ,and as we know, no food. The chef had been sent home hours before. Clarkson was not best pleased. And the rest ensued.


Allegedly.

Yeah.....pretty much exactly what I thought happened. How it escalated to a fight, well like I also said, film sets are not normal work environments.

http://youtu.be/7SG43wa7Alo

[bateman]

Yeah.....pretty much exactly what I thought happened. How it escalated to a fight, well like I also said, film sets are not normal work environments.

http://youtu.be/7SG43wa7Alo

David O. Russell is an enormous asshole on every set though. James Caan walked off a film for the first time in his career because of him. He got into a fistfight with George Clooney on the set of Three Kings - Clooney later said working with him was the worst experience of his professional life.

[SaucyRossy]

David O. Russell is an enormous asshole on every set though. James Caan walked off a film for the first time in his career because of him. He got into a fistfight with George Clooney on the set of Three Kings - Clooney later said working with him was the worst experience of his professional life.

Yeah, and David O. Russell isn't the only director or actor like that, I guess my point is sometimes it takes an asshole to make something great.

[Nick el Ass]

Yeah, and David O. Russell isn't the only director or actor like that, I guess my point is sometimes it takes an asshole to make something great.

Everybody needs a little ass in their life.

[paladin1991]

He wouldn't pull that shit in America. Someone would hit him back. I'm guessing he threw a punch at the smallest guy on the set.

The 'Talent' always thinks that it is better than the crew.  They can act like real shits.  "You wouldn't have a job if it weren't for me!"