Replace Clarkson with?

[mattley]

MG CHRIS said:

Top gear wont be back on at the bbc with a new line up it will fall flat on its arse the whole thing with top gear was the relationship between the 3 more than the cars. It was a light relief programme at the end of the week on a day when there is naff all on. You don't have to be a car nut to enjoy it that why it worked it was a show for everyone to watch. Replace that to be a proper car reviews it will die.
BBC knows this so I wont be surprised to see them sell the rights off to claw back the lose of money.

I was thinking this. Everyone who made the show what it was have said it's over. Most significantly IMO Andy Wilman and Richard Porter.

But then again Top Gear USA is more of the same with different people and that took a season or too to gel but now works well so maybe it can be done.

[Halb]

VolvoT5 said:

I rarely watched the regular shows but sometimes watched the extra long specials.

Same. I enjoy the specials, the normal show is a lil too contrived.

[MarshPhantom]

mattley said:

MG CHRIS said:

Top gear wont be back on at the bbc with a new line up it will fall flat on its arse the whole thing with top gear was the relationship between the 3 more than the cars. It was a light relief programme at the end of the week on a day when there is naff all on. You don't have to be a car nut to enjoy it that why it worked it was a show for everyone to watch. Replace that to be a proper car reviews it will die.
BBC knows this so I wont be surprised to see them sell the rights off to claw back the lose of money.

I was thinking this. Everyone who made the show what it was have said it's over. Most significantly IMO Andy Wilman and Richard Porter.

But then again Top Gear USA is more of the same with different people and that took a season or too to gel but now works well so maybe it can be done.

Apparently old Top Gear lost 70% of their audience after Clarkson left.

[Troubleatmill]

New New Top Gear = A career ending position for those dumb enough to take it.

The only way it would work is for the current incumbents to move on slowly and publicly laud their successors.


Anyone who takes this on now - their career is shagged.
( But there is a never ending procession of idiots willing to give it a go )

[marshall100]

Fun Bus said:

Angelos Epithemiou has auditioned:

https://youtu.be/ehGamnnMUKo

It's a shoe in.

[fartypants]

Replace Mr Clarkson with a 6 year old,spoilt,self centered,bigoted Toff who has a Teddy Bear called Ralph,could start a war in a phone box and lashes out at anyone who questions his know-it-all-y-ness.
Then, I guess, no-one would be any the wiser....

Edited by fartypants on Friday 27th March 09:05

[PeteFf]

Has anybody suggested Noel Edmonds, I'm sure he'd be glad to make a comeback and Hamster would have someone to talk to on his own level.

[Europa1]

fartypants said:

Replace Mr Clarkson with a 6 year old,spoilt,self centered,bigoted Toff who has a Teddy Bear called Ralph,could start a war in a phone box and lashes out at anyone who questions his know-it-all-y-ness.
Then, I guess, no-one would be any the wiser....

Edited by fartypants on Friday 27th March 09:05

Did you come home and find him doing your wife or something?

[Fetchez la vache]

David Moyes.
He's up for taking up a position following on from someone irreplaceable, knowing full well that whoever takes it will be an absolute disaster.

[Smollet]

fartypants said:

Replace Mr Clarkson with a 6 year old,spoilt,self centered,bigoted Toff who has a Teddy Bear called Ralph,could start a war in a phone box and lashes out at anyone who questions his know-it-all-y-ness.
Then, I guess, no-one would be any the wiser....

Edited by fartypants on Friday 27th March 09:05

Is there a Godwins law equivalent for Toffs?

[waynedear]

Matt le Blanc

[johnhealy1956]

tomsugden said:

Chris Evans.

There is no way Chris Evans would add any value to Top Gear. He proves that on The One Show.

[carinaman]

All change.

1. Perry McCarthy (Stig 1):

http://www.motorsportmagazine.com/f1/podcast-with-...

2. Sabine Schmidt (Driving Goddess, German and possibly good for the global audience for Top Gear):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tG3Tx1e704

'Taxi for Stig!'

3. Ben Collins (Stig 2 former part-time SAS and film stunt driver, has hands on experience of Top Gear so could see how Top Gear could be modified and improved).


The Racing Drivers come out from the Nomex racing suits and helmets and show that they can do more than drive.

[charlesfox]

Please make sure that if the PC Brigade want a Woman to take over from Jeremy Clarksom, that she drives a city Solar Powered Car, with no reverse gear, a huge interior mirror, would be happy to visit some of the Rat Infested locations that JC has visited, and has a diet of lettuce leaves, so she can get behind the wheel, and must watch all current and repeat episodes of TOWIE, and Finally can out drink her Male partner with shed loads of Lager!! I am really Sorry if this offends, but the alternative is a Male, that thinks he is the greatest driver on the planet, and just can't stop giving out instructions to his poor Female partner, when she is driving, when all he does when driving is shout abuse at other drivers, when he is the one making mistakes, has his mobile phone stuck to his ear, eats a meat pie, and smokes, and picks his nose, all at the same time whilst driving, and totally ignores all road signage, and most of all loves cutting people up!!
Yes give me a Woman Driver anytime to take over from Jeremy Clarkson!!

[Bedford Rascal]

charlesfox said:

Please make sure that if the PC Brigade want a Woman to take over from Jeremy Clarksom, that she drives a city Solar Powered Car, with no reverse gear, a huge interior mirror, would be happy to visit some of the Rat Infested locations that JC has visited, and has a diet of lettuce leaves, so she can get behind the wheel, and must watch all current and repeat episodes of TOWIE, and Finally can out drink her Male partner with shed loads of Lager!! I am really Sorry if this offends, but the alternative is a Male, that thinks he is the greatest driver on the planet, and just can't stop giving out instructions to his poor Female partner, when she is driving, when all he does when driving is shout abuse at other drivers, when he is the one making mistakes, has his mobile phone stuck to his ear, eats a meat pie, and smokes, and picks his nose, all at the same time whilst driving, and totally ignores all road signage, and most of all loves cutting people up!!
Yes give me a Woman Driver anytime to take over from Jeremy Clarkson!!

The Bard himself could not have come up with a more beautiful piece of prosde in those 7yrs and 5mths.

[GVLJ]

k99 said:

Guy martin

[carinaman]

Having read his car book and the Ben Collins book, I'll go with Stig 2.

[996jim]

My choices would be : Natalie Bennett (leader of the green party), Janet Street-Porter and just for the eye candy the luscious Nicola Sturgeon and the new Stig could be Ed Milliband.
The absolute dream team.
Love it or loathe it Top Gear worked because of the chemistry between the presenters, OK Hammond was the weakest link. It's like trying to replace Paxman on Newsnight, it ain't gonna work.

[RizzoTheRat]

k99 said:

Guy martin

Agreed but I think they'll struggle to make top gear work with a different team, they'd be a lot better off starting a new programme with a different format. The series Guy Martin's done recently have been very good so a halfway house between that at top gear could work.

I thought Paul Hollywood was pretty good on that John Surtees documentary too.



Actually how about breaking out the real old timers, I recon John Surtees and Murray Walker with maybe Stirling Moss or Jackie Stewart

[GetCarter]

Scrap and start again with a different format is what they should do, and what they will do (If they have a brain cell between them).