Top Gear Series 21

[Zad]

Don't Clarkson and Willman both own the Top Gear name and brand anyway? Or did the BBC buy it back off them for a stupid amount of money again.

[anonymous-user]

Zad said:

Don't Clarkson and Willman both own the Top Gear name and brand anyway? Or did the BBC buy it back off them for a stupid amount of money again.

BBC bought Clarkson's bit last year for £14m apparently.

[iva cosworth]

RichB said:

Halmyre said:

yonex said:

I don't know if anyone else saw it but Andi Peters seemed to mock the comment on breakfast TV...

Andi Peters; for fk's sake.

Who is she?

Not sure if serious but MR Peters ,formerly children's TV presenter,now producer etc.

[anonymous-user]

Halb said:

What did he say?

He was doing some 'thing' with spinning a wheel and had to choose between two topics....

#eeniemeenie

I thought it was genius personally.

Edited by anonymous-user on Friday 2nd May 23:16

[rubystone]

Crossflow Kid said:

BBC bought Clarkson's bit last year for £14m apparently.

They bought Wilman's bit too.

[Gandahar]

Shame non of them can drive properly, they have to pay someone to do all the drifts at Brunters it seems.

So it's more like Bottom Gear in effect.

Can I say that without being banned ?

[anonymous-user]

Gandahar said:

Shame non of them can drive properly

Why should they? It's not a motoring show, it's entertainment.

[iva cosworth]

Gandahar said:

they have to pay someone to do all the drifts at Brunters

Isn't most of it at Dunsfold ?...

[JonRB]

iva cosworth said:

Isn't most of it at Dunsfold ?...

Listen to Gandahar. He *clearly* knows what he is talking about.

[Halmyre]

Gandahar said:

Shame non of them can drive properly, they have to pay someone to do all the drifts at Brunters it seems.

This is another favourite dig at Top Gear that I don't really understand. I suspect, given the amount of experience of different machinery, driving conditions and length of time in the job, that the three of them are considerably more accomplished drivers than the majority of PH members. And I never realised drifting was such a prominent indicator of driving skill.

[chris watton]

IIRC, there was a scene in Ricky Gervais's Extras where exactly this situation was parodied!

The BBC is now a parody of itself!

Edited by chris watton on Saturday 3rd May 10:30

[JonRB]

What an absolutely agenda-laden storm in a teacup this has been.

On reflection, "Eeeny meeny miney mo" was a poor choice of rhyme. However, it's clear from the context that he did his utmost *not* to say the word.

[r11co]

iva cosworth said:

Not sure if serious but MR Peters ,formerly children's TV presenter,now producer etc.

..and part-time presenter on ITV's latest desperate revamp of breakfast television.

[RichB]

iva cosworth said:

RichB said:

Halmyre said:

yonex said:

I don't know if anyone else saw it but Andi Peters seemed to mock the comment on breakfast TV...

Andi Peters; for fk's sake.

Who is she?

Not sure if serious but MR Peters ,formerly children's TV presenter,now producer etc.

Ah right, no, I assumed Andi was a sort of girls way of spelling Andy. Never heard of him, I'll look him up on Google.

[gpo746]

After reading something JC has written, I think the end may be approaching for the show.

[anonymous-user]

gpo746 said:

After reading something JC has written

Where?

[craigjm]

Crossflow Kid said:

Where?

In this sun column quoted here

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/03/jerem...

[Gun]

Gandahar said:

Shame non of them can drive properly

[FiF]

In a way I hope they sack him. Then he can move on from the serial feckwit BBC control by management and producers who haven't got a bloody clue what they are doing. Ref J Lloyd's rant about state of BBC comedy.

Then JC can move onwards and upwards and the bloody BBC will one day realise what a set of fools they have been. It's a shame as they have been and could still be great. But like to some extent areas of the Nhs they are retarded midgets standing on the shoulders of giants.

[NDA]

JonRB said:

What an absolutely agenda-laden storm in a teacup this has been.

On reflection, "Eeeny meeny miney mo" was a poor choice of rhyme. However, it's clear from the context that he did his utmost *not* to say the word.

Agree.

JC is my age and that rhyme was frequently sung (with the N word) without shame by me when I was a kid. If I sang it now, it's so ingrained from when I was a child, I would have to pause, as JC did, to mentally block the word. I'm not a racist and nor is JC.

Funny that the BBC had child abusers running around the studios, but a word that wasn't actually said causes such a stir.