Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...
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Moonhawk said:
ZOLLAR said:
This is what annoys me, why is that a problem? why does everything have to appeal to both men and women? You have programs like "loose women" you don't see men arguing for a male presenter etc
Why can't they just accept that men and women like different things and that sometimes a man is better at presenting a certain show just as much as a woman is presenting other shows?
Why force it upon us, if Sabine Schmidt was to present it I would probably be great but not when it's forced and we're told to like it because it's equal.
That's one thing I don't get - why do people assume that for a programme or movie to appeal to women - it has to be presented by or headlined by women.Why can't they just accept that men and women like different things and that sometimes a man is better at presenting a certain show just as much as a woman is presenting other shows?
Why force it upon us, if Sabine Schmidt was to present it I would probably be great but not when it's forced and we're told to like it because it's equal.
My wife loved top gear as it was - she doesn't think it has to be made more "female friendly". She finds female comedians in general rather less funny than their male counterparts and dislikes the BBCs new policy of insisting panel shows have at least one female comedian. I told her about the new 'all female' Ghostbusters - and her reply "it'll be s
t".Top gear could be good with the right female presenter - but I think it would be a mistake to put a female presenter in just to make it appeal to women more - or because it's seen at the thing to do. Whoever gets the new slot in TG (assuming there is one) - should be chosen based on merit alone (car knowledge and enthusiasm, humour etc), not to fulfill some sort of PC agenda.
Dara O'Briain made the point when the BBC announced it's token woman policy. (And for some reason he was villified by the hard of thinking)
As soon as you make the announcement the woman that gets the job is a quota filler, a token.
Don't make the announcement, employ a woman and she's there because she's right for the job.
If the BBC are going to make Top Gear they should look at all candidates and then (for example) give it to VBH because she's the best person for the job.
I can only speak for myself but i found TG only tolerable because of the interaction, and JC's over acting and sound bites. Oh, and the superb foreign locations.
Replace that and I don't think I would watch.
Replace it with Chris Evans hyper squeaking and mates/'posses' and that would be lights out.
Replace that and I don't think I would watch.
Replace it with Chris Evans hyper squeaking and mates/'posses' and that would be lights out.
98elise said:
As has been said before, he's not an outgoing funny person in real life.
Ok, not read the entire mahoosive thread (apologies), but all I'd say is that he'd work well with the other two.I can just see him giving a piece to camera, followed by a retort from James or Richard, and they'd either get a Black Adder retort or a Mister Bean look.
In the mould of Jack Dee, just a look or a well placed backhanded comment is all it takes to create comedy genious, and great TV.
Rowan wouldn't have to reinvent himself too much at all (we know he's got the passion for cars), and we'd be all laughin' in the ailes,
including them, which is what makes the show!
I'd say it would work.
Hell, I'd even start watchin' again..
Edited by pacman1 on Sunday 14th June 16:12
pacman1 said:
98elise said:
As has been said before, he's not an outgoing funny person in real life.
Ok, not read the entire mahoosive thread (apologies), but all I'd say is that he'd work well with the other two.I can just see him giving a piece to camera, followed by a retort from James or Richard, and they'd either get a Black Adder retort or a Mister Bean look.
In the mould of Jack Dee, just a look or a well placed backhanded comment is all it takes to create comedy genious, and great TV.
Rowan wouldn't have to reinvent himself too much at all (we know he's got the passion for cars), and we'd be all laughin' in the ailes,
including them, which is what makes the show!
I'd say it would work.
Hell, I'd even start watchin' again..
Atkinson and May are a bit similar.
Both wrote for CAR Magazine in the mid to late 90s, with Atkinson doing a piece on specifying his Ferrari 456 in green with red leather and the experience being sullied by being asked for the cheque, and May more recently doing a piece for The Engineer on how designing a Supermini is more difficult than designing a Hypercar.
Atkinson got his HGV licence so he could drive his Edinburgh fringe sets to Scotland himself reportedly.
With regard to TG having to adhere to BBC Tick Box quotas, haven't they got a get out there due to Hammond having a bump on the head in that dragster?
Both wrote for CAR Magazine in the mid to late 90s, with Atkinson doing a piece on specifying his Ferrari 456 in green with red leather and the experience being sullied by being asked for the cheque, and May more recently doing a piece for The Engineer on how designing a Supermini is more difficult than designing a Hypercar.
Atkinson got his HGV licence so he could drive his Edinburgh fringe sets to Scotland himself reportedly.
With regard to TG having to adhere to BBC Tick Box quotas, haven't they got a get out there due to Hammond having a bump on the head in that dragster?
Edited by carinaman on Sunday 14th June 18:29
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