Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...

[Chim]

Gandahar said:

I'd like to see Chris Harris take over. He can jibber jabber as much as Clarkson and actually can drive a car.

Even when at Performance Cars the joke was he couldn't bloody drive the things and was more suited to a funny photoshoot of him trying to fit into a Suzuki Cappuccino.

If they put Chris in they could call it Top Gear On Cars, which would be a novel spin considering.

Or Alan Partridge. Now Alan Partridge would be a brilliant replacement. He met Jackie Stewart once.

Yip, and all 100 PH car geeks can tune in each week to fall asleep while watching it. Great idea.

[TEKNOPUG]

anonymous said:

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Your TV only works at 9pm on Sunday and can only receive BBC2? How odd. You should probably get someone to take a look at it for you

[Tunku]

Good old JC, keeping the pink beebies on their toes!

Can't keep a petrol head down.

[Pesty]

StottyEvo said:

They'd be doing the studio recording for the show tomorrow. No studio recording, no show!

Ahh I see. I though those bits were pre recorded.

So does that mean people were in the audience who witnessed this

[MarshPhantom]

Chim said:

Gandahar said:

I'd like to see Chris Harris take over. He can jibber jabber as much as Clarkson and actually can drive a car.

Even when at Performance Cars the joke was he couldn't bloody drive the things and was more suited to a funny photoshoot of him trying to fit into a Suzuki Cappuccino.

If they put Chris in they could call it Top Gear On Cars, which would be a novel spin considering.

Or Alan Partridge. Now Alan Partridge would be a brilliant replacement. He met Jackie Stewart once.

Yip, and all 100 PH car geeks can tune in each week to fall asleep while watching it. Great idea.

I don't think he will get the boot but the only person I can see replacing him and it working would be Chris Evans - can't stand the guy personally, but a petrolhead with a big following.

[StottyEvo]

Pesty said:

StottyEvo said:

They'd be doing the studio recording for the show tomorrow. No studio recording, no show!

Ahh I see. I though those bits were pre recorded.

So does that mean people were in the audience who witnessed this

No the recording with witnesses would be tomorrow. So the invited audience are going to be very miffed that they aren't to attend now!

The fracas was done behind closed doors seemingly.

[Chim]

MarshPhantom said:

Chim said:

Gandahar said:

I'd like to see Chris Harris take over. He can jibber jabber as much as Clarkson and actually can drive a car.

Even when at Performance Cars the joke was he couldn't bloody drive the things and was more suited to a funny photoshoot of him trying to fit into a Suzuki Cappuccino.

If they put Chris in they could call it Top Gear On Cars, which would be a novel spin considering.

Or Alan Partridge. Now Alan Partridge would be a brilliant replacement. He met Jackie Stewart once.

Yip, and all 100 PH car geeks can tune in each week to fall asleep while watching it. Great idea.

I don't think he will get the boot but the only person I can see replacing him and it working would be Chris Evans - can't stand the guy personally, but a petrolhead with a big following.

You know, that could just maybe work, as you say, he is the only person that could possible save it if Clarkson goes

[WinstonWolf]

Gandahar said:

Supernova190188 said:

FredClogs said:

Clarkson is such a tool, they should just sack him and bring a new team in.

In my opinion it wouldn't work well without him , it'd be like Bon Jovi without Jon, U2 without Bono or Queen without Freddie it would be such a loss that it would never be as good as it once was, to many people Clarkson is what makes Top Gear.

That's like saying it wouldn't be the same without Woollard or Goffey.

But even they got replaced by Noel Edmonds and his jumpers. Things move on

Now check this out, William Woollard introducing Jeremy in a very old show. Check out his opening line.

"And now to less controversial matters ..." Oh William, in hindsight brilliant ironic joke. I missed it at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lXI_IDBXfg

He couldn't resist a punt at the Marina driver could he, even then. And he's still wearing the same pair of jeans as he did in the last episode on Sunday.

Meanwhile Tiff drives the Labatts RS500 with lots of oppo through Paddock hill later in the video whilst JC stuck to doing an auto jumble.

Nuff said.

Fifth gear isn't even good enough for a slot on C5 these days, nuff said...

[audidoody]

And the head of the BBC Trust can carry on aiding and abetting tax dodgers at HSBC.

Funny old world

[smn159]

Chim said:

You know, that could just maybe work, as you say, he is the only person that could possible save it if Clarkson goes

Pffft. I reckon that I could do it... how hard can it be?

[AKA PABS]

Bring back Quentin Wilson!

[kilty2]

Radio Times (of all sources) reporting that Jezza took a swing at a producer last week. It was only reported to the Beeb yesterday.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-03-10/top-gear...

[audidoody]

Gandahar said:

I'd like to see Chris Harris take over. .

Chris Harris is an astoundingly good motoring journalist/presenter.

But he's not a light comedy act.

Which is what TG is all about.

[Gandahar]

Chim said:

MarshPhantom said:

Chim said:

Gandahar said:

I'd like to see Chris Harris take over. He can jibber jabber as much as Clarkson and actually can drive a car.

Even when at Performance Cars the joke was he couldn't bloody drive the things and was more suited to a funny photoshoot of him trying to fit into a Suzuki Cappuccino.

If they put Chris in they could call it Top Gear On Cars, which would be a novel spin considering.

Or Alan Partridge. Now Alan Partridge would be a brilliant replacement. He met Jackie Stewart once.

Yip, and all 100 PH car geeks can tune in each week to fall asleep while watching it. Great idea.

I don't think he will get the boot but the only person I can see replacing him and it working would be Chris Evans - can't stand the guy personally, but a petrolhead with a big following.

You know, that could just maybe work, as you say, he is the only person that could possible save it if Clarkson goes

That will be 100 PH tv licence paying viewers surely ? I demand, as a PH minority to get my own show, just like all the other minorities.

More seriously Chris Evans would be a good choice. Not that the show needs saving, it actually needs a refresh. Perhaps this the BBC way of doing it without having to pay over the odds If Vladamir Putin is the first star in a reasonably priced Lada on the next post JC show then I told you so.

[Grumfutock]

TTwiggy said:

Grumfutock said:

So why was the producer not suspended?

As neither of us was there to witness the event, we really wouldn't know. But an unprovoked attack would be a reasonable scenario under which to only suspend one person.

And who is to say, until the investigation is complete, that it is unprovoked? As I say. Guilty as sin!!! Rubbish.

[hairyben]

MarshPhantom said:

Chim said:

Gandahar said:

I'd like to see Chris Harris take over. He can jibber jabber as much as Clarkson and actually can drive a car.

Even when at Performance Cars the joke was he couldn't bloody drive the things and was more suited to a funny photoshoot of him trying to fit into a Suzuki Cappuccino.

If they put Chris in they could call it Top Gear On Cars, which would be a novel spin considering.

Or Alan Partridge. Now Alan Partridge would be a brilliant replacement. He met Jackie Stewart once.

Yip, and all 100 PH car geeks can tune in each week to fall asleep while watching it. Great idea.

I don't think he will get the boot but the only person I can see replacing him and it working would be Chris Evans - can't stand the guy personally, but a petrolhead with a big following.

Evans I guess has the "lad/bloke" thing going on that we can connect with rather than a god-like st-hot all-that racer, hence why the stig is presented as a kind of weird diety, a concept half of PH seem unable to grasp. But he's just such an annoying, try-hard, self-pulicising massive douche as well. The TG trio have never tried to be cool.

[p1stonhead]

Amazed they canceled Sunday's show.

Agree with others, the show won't work without him so every tv channel on the planet will be lining up to bring him to their top gear.

Stupid move by the BBC

[buckline]

kilty2 said:

Radio Times (of all sources) reporting that Jezza took a swing at a producer last week. It was only reported to the Beeb yesterday.

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-03-10/top-gear...

He's done that before. I remember reading his Sunday Times column years ago where a runner went to pick up a Lamborghini Diablo and subsequently stacked it en route to a shoot. JC happily decked him for being a pillock. I hope this latest incident was deserved as before and we can forget about it and move on.

[nosmallfiat]

Good decision. Now more time can be spent airing the views of CAGE and the like. Sound thinking.

[simonrockman]

Pit Pony said:

simonrockman said:

And I had tickets for the recording tomorrow :-(

I'm not sure where in the country you are, but I always find a bit of alternative theatre at the (salford) LOWRY or the (Liverpool) Everyman, always good for a laugh.

'Sokay, I've a Polestar being delivered to play with for a week, I'm sure I can find somewhere other than Dunsfold to go in it.