Top Gear - BBC accused of breaking undertakings over filming

[RESSE]

Article on page 3 of today's Daily Telegraph stating Indian High Commission has written to the BBC accusing the latter of breaking undertakings over filming and attacks Top Gear's lavatory humour.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/...

Not a good week for Clarkson:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/08/jeremy-...

If posted before/somewhere else usual apologies.

[GeraldSmith]

RESSE said:

Not a good week for Clarkson:

Depends on your definition of 'good', he and is programme are getting lots of free publicity.

[bodhi]

Very little sympathy for the Indian High Commission in this case. They must have seen Top Gear before, so knew what to expect. I also don't see the difference between what Top Gear said they would do and the program itself.

[Grayham]

Documentry?

Seriously

[P-Jay]

Some more people you've never heard of moaning about Clarkson, hardly news.

BUT TWO FANNIES!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/11/woman-w...

(spotted on the side of one of the links.)

[Esseesse]

bodhi said:

Very little sympathy for the Indian High Commission in this case. They must have seen Top Gear before, so knew what to expect. I also don't see the difference between what Top Gear said they would do and the program itself.

This. I caught most of the episode. Some of the jokes I found unfunny (and a shame to ruin the cars ) as normal, but I can't think of anything really offensive?

[johnfm]

What undertakings?

I expect the 'agreement' the Indians are talking about is part of the visa application process. It is unlikely the BBC or BBW worldwide entered into any co-pro or finance agreement - so not sure exactly where these undertaking would be.

[RESSE]

Esseesse said:

This. I caught most of the episode. Some of the jokes I found unfunny (and a shame to ruin the cars ) as normal, but I can't think of anything really offensive?

Agreed

It appears anything "non-pc" causes issues nowadays?

[smileymikey]

O.k weve done Top Gear can we get onto the women with two fannies now please? Two

[Digga]

RESSE said:

Indian High Commission has written to the BBC accusing the latter of breaking undertakings over filming

Until they sort out their endemic corruption and huge social divides (which aint going to be the moment of a mere decade IMHO) they'd best pipe down really.

Those 'hurt' were most likely the egos arriving for their shambolic soiree.

As for P-Jays woman with two whizzers, intriguing!

[williamp]

speaking of which, when is the new top gear series starting?

Its usually this time of year, as it gets interrupted by the snooker which starts on sunday

[Shaw Tarse]

williamp said:

speaking of which, when is the new top gear series starting?

Its usually this time of year, as it gets interrupted by the snooker which starts on sunday

January 29th (according to TG mag)

[RESSE]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-16519240

[steviegunn]

smileymikey said:

O.k weve done Top Gear can we get onto the women with two fannies now please? Two

Go Google diphallus, it'll blow your mind.

[Shaw Tarse]

smileymikey said:

O.k weve done Top Gear can we get onto the women with two fannies now please? Two

There was a thread about that yesterday, it was deleted.

[sirtyro]

williamp said:

speaking of which, when is the new top gear series starting?

Its usually this time of year, as it gets interrupted by the snooker which starts on sunday

In this months TopGear Magazine it says it starts on the 29th Jan

[DonkeyApple]

Digga said:

ntil they sort out their endemic corruption and huge social divides (which aint going to be the moment of a mere decade IMHO) they'd best pipe down really.

I think they should focus on their own problems before trying to fix the BBC for us.

That said, some of the TG 'documentaries' have been genuinely good TV such as the Africa and Bolivia programs but I think this recent one was considerably weaker and must admit that I thought it a poor show and something you were more likely to see aired on ITV.

[dandarez]

The BBC has so far received 23 complaints that the string of crude jokes and gags were "offensive to India and Indian culture".

What a pathetic world, don't these poor lost bandwagon souls have nothing better to do?

There were also some complaints against the show by some users on Twitter, with a small number of users of the micro-blogging service accusing the show of "casual racism". and "racist stereotyping".

I love this reply given, sums it up exactly:

Jeremy Clarkson today caused further outrage with his “Good Morning” comment, triggering further complaints to Offcom.
The Union of Shift Workers said:
“ Good Morning is just a provocative comment aimed at getting cheap laughs from shift workers who have to work at night and sleep in the day ”.

[jonnylarge]

Some of the jokes may have been pushing the boundaries a bit, but I do remember the first challenge in this programme.

It was trying to emulate the exceptional efficiency of a lunch delivery service, which was remarkably reliable and cheap.

It wasn't all toilet humour.

[PGM]

P-Jay said:

Some more people you've never heard of moaning about Clarkson, hardly news.

BUT TWO FANNIES!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/11/woman-w...

(spotted on the side of one of the links.)

Awesome!

You'd walk up to that like a dog with two dicks