Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...

[AnotherClarkey]

Grumfutock said:

AnotherClarkey said:

The biggest mistake would be to replace three presenters with three new presenters - the format needs a complete overhaul and replacement with something fresh.

Like axing and replace it with re-runs of Danger Mouse!

Would work for me. In fact DM and Penfold could make excellent presenters...........

[Otispunkmeyer]

Grumfutock said:

CAPP0 said:

Grumfutock said:

CAPP0 said:

Interesting tweet from Mr C this evening. Looks like he's with a film crew, possibly at a track, which if so would be a track with a lot of open space and grass on the infield. Wonder where that is…...

They were all at Goodwood filming last week.

Except his tweet (from yesterday) said "I took this picture TODAY".

Yes, the point being they are filming something new, together i.e. a TG rival type thing.

I presumed its filming to fill holes in the TG live show that is in the UK later this year. The show did feature TG best bits whilst they set up the stage. As the BBC have withdrawn, all the BBC branding including the videos have gone. So now they need filler to replace it, hence all this stuff at Goodwood and this recent one.

[Grumfutock]

Otispunkmeyer said:

I presumed its filming to fill holes in the TG live show that is in the UK later this year. The show did feature TG best bits whilst they set up the stage. As the BBC have withdrawn, all the BBC branding including the videos have gone. So now they need filler to replace it, hence all this stuff at Goodwood and this recent one.

We will see.

[unpc]

If I was a presenter and got approached I'd run a mile. This is career ending stuff as I fail to how this could be anything but a slow motion car crash. I like Guy Martin but as this is shown on BBC America, they'd need subtitles. Jodie Kidd is so wooden they could make a gear knob out of her and that Glenister bloke knows as much about cars as your average 4 year old.

I'd like to see Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry and Chris Evans and watch them go down with the sinking ship.

[carinaman]

andygo said:

Blib said:

Martin I like. As for Glenister, I couldn't get past the first episode of that recent car restoration series that he lazily appeared in. Kidd? Meh.

Watched one of Glenisters things last night. Just came across as a relatively disinterested sarcastic person. Not good.

Agreed, I only saw the Mini one, so I'll doubt I'll watch another.

Sorry about referencing a Tweet that's already old news that may be wrong.

[irocfan]

unpc said:

If I was a presenter and got approached I'd run a mile. This is career ending stuff as I fail to how this could be anything but a slow motion car crash. I like Guy Martin but as this is shown on BBC America, they'd need subtitles. Jodie Kidd is so wooden they could make a gear knob out of her and that Glenister bloke knows as much about cars as your average 4 year old.

I'd like to see Sue Perkins, Stephen Fry and Chris Evans and watch them go down with the sinking ship.

got to be honest I'm with you on SP - I watch Thronecast and she properly fks me off, she just comes across as a supercilious, smug tt. No thank you! At least CE (as much of a cock as he can be) does seem more human (except for being ginger of course!)

[55palfers]

Just watched Glenister in the episode with the Golf Gti to rally car.

I got the impression his agent had got him the gig to cover a tax bill and he really didn't want to be there.

Nice car though.

[ellroy]

Couldn't be more wrong.

Met him in the highlands when they were filming. Up until 1am chatting about cars in the pub with them both.

Real car nut and a top bloke.

[Butter Face]

ellroy said:

Couldn't be more wrong.

Met him in the highlands when they were filming. Up until 1am chatting about cars in the pub with them both.

Real car nut and a top bloke.

If that's the case, then he's a great actor as he is doing a fantastic job of looking like he doesn't give two fks!

[carinaman]

So in the Mini one he was just playing a role?

[anonymous-user]

Butter Face said:

ellroy said:

Couldn't be more wrong.

Met him in the highlands when they were filming. Up until 1am chatting about cars in the pub with them both.

Real car nut and a top bloke.

If that's the case, then he's a great actor as he is doing a fantastic job of looking like he doesn't give two fks!

I disagree and think he's much better on this second series.

[55palfers]

Butter Face said:

If that's the case, then he's a great actor as he is doing a fantastic job of looking like he doesn't give two fks!

The Jack Dee of petrolheads.

[CorvetteConvert]

We met Clarkson in 2013 and he is as much of an arrogant bigot in real life as he comes across on tv.

[hornetrider]

CorvetteConvert said:

We met Clarkson in 2013 and he is as much of an arrogant bigot in real life as he comes across on tv.

I'm glad to hear it.

[PRTVR]

hornetrider said:

CorvetteConvert said:

We met Clarkson in 2013 and he is as much of an arrogant bigot in real life as he comes across on tv.

I'm glad to hear it.

Just what I was thinking.

I would have been really pissed off if it was all just a show for TV, no wonder the BBC wanted rid of him, really does not fit in with their everything PC beliefs.

[Derek Smith]

CorvetteConvert said:

We met Clarkson in 2013 and he is as much of an arrogant bigot in real life as he comes across on tv.

I met him way back in 2006. Despite the fact that he was working on a bit for TG I found him approachable and quite chatty about cars, especially when considering that he was being pulled this way and that. Further intimacy was limited by me as the chap was impregnated with nicotine and was a bit too smelly.

This tends to support the suggestion that he got more up his own fundament as time went by.

Nothing corrupts like success.

[Derek Smith]

PRTVR said:

. . . no wonder the BBC wanted rid of him, really does not fit in with their everything PC beliefs.

Why do you think 'the BBC' wanted to get rid of him? From what I've read, they did everything they could to keep him on their books, including ignoring racist terminology. Sky, for instance, sacked a couple of presenters just because of a throwaway comment on female refs. Fair enough, it was out of order, but I think it was the first offence, so to speak.

I can't think of any other presenter who'd not be sacked after the quite outrageous slope comment.

There was something of a campaign to ditch him by the PC brigade outside of the BBC. It is remarkable that he lasted so long.

The Daily Mail ran something of a campaign against him which had nothing to do with the fact that they own a large part of ITV. Nothing at all, let's make that quite clear. It was the DM-style person who wanted him out, not the BBC.

I know someone who works for ITV and he reckoned, at the time of the above comment, that anyone working for his company would have been out instantly. The BBC never sacked him. Brawling with production staff just before contract renewal time does suggest that he'd had enough.

[Ilovejapcrap]

carinaman said:

So in the Mini one he was just playing a role?

What about the stag episode,

[don4l]

CorvetteConvert said:

We met Clarkson in 2013 and he is as much of an arrogant bigot in real life as he comes across on tv.

Good to hear this. I'd be disappointed if it was all just an act.

Looking forward to seeing the three of them on ITV.

[PRTVR]

Derek Smith said:

PRTVR said:

. . . no wonder the BBC wanted rid of him, really does not fit in with their everything PC beliefs.

Why do you think 'the BBC' wanted to get rid of him? From what I've read, they did everything they could to keep him on their books, including ignoring racist terminology. Sky, for instance, sacked a couple of presenters just because of a throwaway comment on female refs. Fair enough, it was out of order, but I think it was the first offence, so to speak.

I can't think of any other presenter who'd not be sacked after the quite outrageous slope comment.

There was something of a campaign to ditch him by the PC brigade outside of the BBC. It is remarkable that he lasted so long.

The Daily Mail ran something of a campaign against him which had nothing to do with the fact that they own a large part of ITV. Nothing at all, let's make that quite clear. It was the DM-style person who wanted him out, not the BBC.

I know someone who works for ITV and he reckoned, at the time of the above comment, that anyone working for his company would have been out instantly. The BBC never sacked him. Brawling with production staff just before contract renewal time does suggest that he'd had enough.

I would question the reasons that the BBC wanted to keep him, could it be that they had just paid a massive amount of money for top gear and did not want to have it all go down the plug hole ? Or did they enjoy his outspoken comments, I think we all know the answer to that one, for me the PC crap is getting worse, it is almost as if people are thinking of things to get offended over,then adding it to a very long list, JC was one of the few people who didn't conform and for that he will always have my respect.