Clarkson sacked - and now?

[Moonhawk]

Mr. Fastidious said:

Hammond and May have been offered £1 million each to return to the show with a different guest presenter each week like have I got news for you, so that's Boris Johnson, Jo Brand and Anne Robinson!

Hope this isn't true - guest presenters don't work IMO. HIGNFY and Buzzcocks were never as good after they changed to this format.

[Riley Blue]

Moonhawk said:

Hope this isn't true - guest presenters don't work IMO. HIGNFY and Buzzcocks were never as good after they changed to this format.

On some occasions they have been much better, it all depends who is in the chair/presenting.

[bakerstreet]

Mr. Fastidious said:

Hammond and May have been offered £1 million each to return to the show with a different guest presenter each week like have I got news for you, so that's Boris Johnson, Jo Brand and Anne Robinson!

Whats the source? If true, then that suggests considerably more than the reported £500k they were on.

I'm hoping that we get to see the challeneges from the series that never made it to air

I think the guest presenters thing could work as long as they fond someone that JM and RH could work with and the chemistry is there. People forget that May and Clarkson have known each other a lot longer than new style top gear.

[Willy Nilly]

When Freddie Mercury died, the remaining members of Queen didn't ring up Front Men R US and order a new one, because any replacement may well be a better singer or performer than Freddie, but he/she wouldn't have been Freddie, so they have to pack up. Like it or not, Top Gear in its current format needs Clarkson and really he needs May and Hammond. One out, all out. If they want to reuse the brand it will have to be totally different, but it won't be as good.

[P-Jay]

Willy Nilly said:

When Freddie Mercury died, the remaining members of Queen didn't ring up Front Men R US and order a new one, because any replacement may well be a better singer or performer than Freddie, but he/she wouldn't have been Freddie, so they have to pack up. Like it or not, Top Gear in its current format needs Clarkson and really he needs May and Hammond. One out, all out. If they want to reuse the brand it will have to be totally different, but it won't be as good.

Erm... but they did didn't they?

They've had long breaks, but they've never split and had 2 different lead singers since Freddie died, they toured all last summer.

[Du1point8]

P-Jay said:

Willy Nilly said:

When Freddie Mercury died, the remaining members of Queen didn't ring up Front Men R US and order a new one, because any replacement may well be a better singer or performer than Freddie, but he/she wouldn't have been Freddie, so they have to pack up. Like it or not, Top Gear in its current format needs Clarkson and really he needs May and Hammond. One out, all out. If they want to reuse the brand it will have to be totally different, but it won't be as good.

Erm... but they did didn't they?

They've had long breaks, but they've never split and had 2 different lead singers since Freddie died, they toured all last summer.

Marc Martel first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I

Adam Lambert second time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTalNt_TAw

[Blib]

Du1point8 said:

P-Jay said:

Willy Nilly said:

When Freddie Mercury died, the remaining members of Queen didn't ring up Front Men R US and order a new one, because any replacement may well be a better singer or performer than Freddie, but he/she wouldn't have been Freddie, so they have to pack up. Like it or not, Top Gear in its current format needs Clarkson and really he needs May and Hammond. One out, all out. If they want to reuse the brand it will have to be totally different, but it won't be as good.

Erm... but they did didn't they?

They've had long breaks, but they've never split and had 2 different lead singers since Freddie died, they toured all last summer.

Marc Martel first time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREKkAk628I

Adam Lambert second time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHTalNt_TAw

Was it Lambert who 'sang' during Queen's 2014/15 New Years Eve concert on the BBC. Diabolically dire, IMO.

[bingybongy]

The Adam Lambert version of Somebody to Love, just made me cry a bit.

Complete wk.

[droopsnoot]

And Paul Rodgers did some stuff with them. I wasn't a fan of Adam Lambert to watch, but he sounded pretty good.

[anonymous-user]

P-Jay said:

Willy Nilly said:

When Freddie Mercury died, the remaining members of Queen didn't ring up Front Men R US and order a new one, because any replacement may well be a better singer or performer than Freddie, but he/she wouldn't have been Freddie, so they have to pack up. Like it or not, Top Gear in its current format needs Clarkson and really he needs May and Hammond. One out, all out. If they want to reuse the brand it will have to be totally different, but it won't be as good.

Erm... but they did didn't they?

They've had long breaks, but they've never split and had 2 different lead singers since Freddie died, they toured all last summer.

Yeah but there's something about the Freddie Mercury era that's just......different somehow as though.....I dunno.....it's a kind of magic?

[227bhp]

Riley Blue said:

Moonhawk said:

Hope this isn't true - guest presenters don't work IMO. HIGNFY and Buzzcocks were never as good after they changed to this format.

On some occasions they have been much better, it all depends who is in the chair/presenting.

Like Clarkson for instance.

[Europa1]

Crossflow Kid said:

P-Jay said:

Willy Nilly said:

When Freddie Mercury died, the remaining members of Queen didn't ring up Front Men R US and order a new one, because any replacement may well be a better singer or performer than Freddie, but he/she wouldn't have been Freddie, so they have to pack up. Like it or not, Top Gear in its current format needs Clarkson and really he needs May and Hammond. One out, all out. If they want to reuse the brand it will have to be totally different, but it won't be as good.

Erm... but they did didn't they?

They've had long breaks, but they've never split and had 2 different lead singers since Freddie died, they toured all last summer.

Yeah but there's something about the Freddie Mercury era that's just......different somehow as though.....I dunno.....it's a kind of magic?

Don't forget moving vehicle stuntman and part time singer George Michael.

[budfox]

They'll do it, the viewing figures will be garbage. A year later Christ will return having served his time.

[Smollet]

budfox said:

They'll do it, the viewing figures will be garbage. A year later Christ will return having served his time.

I think it'll be off air for a year after its new format flops and then Clarksonius et al can return and do it all over again. I suspect in 2025 JC will commit another act of naughtiness that will see him eventually retire from TV to count his millions.