RE: Clarkson Comeback?
Monday 21st January 2002
Clarkson Comeback?
Could Jeremy Clarkson be the saviour of BBC's motoring programming?
Discussion
Interesting issue this. We're all a bit fed up of the Antiques Roadshow team producing Top Gear but they can't just go back to the halycon days of Clarkson/Needell/Wilson as things have moved on since then.
It's easy to criticise these programmes (I'm as guilty a party as anyone!), but what would we actually like to see in a quality production from the BBC that would appeal to a wide audience (that's what the bean counters need to justify after all)?
It's easy to criticise these programmes (I'm as guilty a party as anyone!), but what would we actually like to see in a quality production from the BBC that would appeal to a wide audience (that's what the bean counters need to justify after all)?
quote:Anyone who channel hops on Sky Digital will tell you that fishing is more than well catered for.. I know because it's all I can find when I'm flicking thru to find motorsports...
About time. As for the level of interest bit, isn't fishing one of the top sports that people take part in? Now there's a thought, Clarkson on worm dangling
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Interesting issue this. We're all a bit fed up of the Antiques Roadshow team producing Top Gear but they can't just go back to the halycon days of Clarkson/Needell/Wilson as things have moved on since then.
It's easy to criticise these programmes (I'm as guilty a party as anyone!), but what would we actually like to see in a quality production from the BBC that would appeal to a wide audience (that's what the bean counters need to justify after all)?
I want to see more un-pc motoring programs. What are around today must have an audience or they would have been pulled. How about engine designers for GT racing, then the car in action. Obscure rare fast beasties that none of us can afford. Weekly shoot outs with an XR2 and XR3 (not being funny) or a drag with a speed boat and a fast road car (some of them inshore ones are something like 0-60 in 2?). I could probably think of more as the day goes on but you get the drift. Anything other than how much you can get in the boot etc.
I do like Clarkson as a presenter though. His program where he hovered a fish tank or somethimg (real or not) brought a giggle.
As you say Ted, things have moved on slightly since the Top Gear hey day.
Motoring is not a Crime! - I think that sentiment, and topics that are near & dear, not just to Petrolheads, but also all car drivers, should be given coverage.
However, if the Beeb want to churn out the same, PC, 'on message' crap, then I'd suggest they don't bother.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
Motoring is not a Crime! - I think that sentiment, and topics that are near & dear, not just to Petrolheads, but also all car drivers, should be given coverage.
However, if the Beeb want to churn out the same, PC, 'on message' crap, then I'd suggest they don't bother.
Marcus
& Ocean Haze Griff 500
I have a terrible fear that producers' enthusiasm for DIY progs like "changing rooms" and "ground farce" will encourage them to hire Carol Smilley to search the local rag for a knackered banger for "oonly fifty pooonds" before that perfumed bufoon called Llwellyn is let loose on it with an angle grinder and some MDF in pursuit of making it look gothic.
I think Top Gear has lost the plot.They've chopped and changed a winning plot from the good days of Messers Clarkson and Berry. Its seems that they are now trying to copy 'Driven',which I think has got its act together and produces a quaility show from bikes,motorsport to MPV's.
Well done the BeeB 4 taking your eye of the ball and sticking your head up your bottom, bit like everything the BBC has done with all aspects of sport on the "we think where better than everone else" BBC
Well done the BeeB 4 taking your eye of the ball and sticking your head up your bottom, bit like everything the BBC has done with all aspects of sport on the "we think where better than everone else" BBC
At least with sport they could argue that they couldn't afford to compete with the satellite channels.
The programme had to change when it lost the top presenters. It should have changed more in its quest to find a more successgul format thoughm not just the window dressing job they've tried in the last few years.
I'm afraid I still don't share your enthusiasm for Drivel, it's equally unimaginative.
The programme had to change when it lost the top presenters. It should have changed more in its quest to find a more successgul format thoughm not just the window dressing job they've tried in the last few years.
I'm afraid I still don't share your enthusiasm for Drivel, it's equally unimaginative.
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