Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...

Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...

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Sheets Tabuer

18,975 posts

216 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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TTwiggy said:
This has just pinged my inbox:

'Following a fracas with a BBC producer, Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended pending an investigation. No one else has been suspended. Top Gear will not be broadcast this Sunday. The BBC will be making no further comment at this time.'
Thanks to our roving reporter TTwiggy, now over to BSR for the weather.

Cheese Mechanic

3,157 posts

170 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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TTwiggy said:
This has just pinged my inbox:

'Following a fracas with a BBC producer, Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended pending an investigation. No one else has been suspended. Top Gear will not be broadcast this Sunday. The BBC will be making no further comment at this time.'
One wonders, are the Police involved? If "yes" , oh dear for JC, if not, lefty handwringer stitchup

FredClogs

14,041 posts

162 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Just want this thread to beat the other one because I posted on this one first... So I'll say it again, Clarkson is a tool.

Alex

9,975 posts

285 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Je Suis Jezza

hantsxlg

862 posts

233 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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I bet Channel 4, ITV, Channel 5, Sky etc etc are melting their phones trying to get through to JC et al offering them prime time slot for 'Top Gear 2/Sixth Gear'. BBC shooting themselves in the foot if they can't manage JC to keep TG on air.

The Don of Croy

6,002 posts

160 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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I like this BBC piece;

"At the time, he said the BBC had told him he would be sacked if he made "one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time".

- so letting go a stray word someone, somewhere might find offensive would result in immediate dismissal, but Savile could grope and bugger his way across the decades at Television Centre without censure...

WestyCarl

3,265 posts

126 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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FredClogs said:
Just want this thread to beat the other one because I posted on this one first... So I'll say it again, Clarkson is a tool.
but a very rich, successful and popular tool. Also the biggest source of revenue for the BBC (licence fee aside)

smn159

12,685 posts

218 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Yep, money should clearly be the only criteria here, regardless of what Jezza has done

Hoofy

76,384 posts

283 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Sounds like a slippery Slope to me.

PorkInsider

5,889 posts

142 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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hantsxlg said:
I bet Channel 4, ITV, Channel 5, Sky etc etc are melting their phones trying to get through to JC et al offering them prime time slot for 'Top Gear 2/Sixth Gear'. BBC shooting themselves in the foot if they can't manage JC to keep TG on air.
Couldn't agree more.

I really hope that TG moves away from the BBC to somewhere not so left leaning.

carinaman

21,319 posts

173 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Jezza is leading beyond authority.

The problem with that is he's not been on any Common Purpose courses.

fido

16,801 posts

256 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Maybe this is a made-up [either by the BBC or JC] tiff designed to allow Clarkson to escape Top Gear and join another channel .. maybe he's had enough (big ego according to a friend of mine) and wants out?

Foppo

2,344 posts

125 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Stop watching this show a while ago.If Clarkson is out he can spout his mouth off whenever he likes to whom he likes.The short one of the show with his put on accent and the posh speaking geezer are allowed to disappear.

markcoznottz

7,155 posts

225 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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carinaman said:
Jezza is leading beyond authority.

The problem with that is he's not been on any Common Purpose courses.
Some of the common purpose drones at the bbc must be perplexed why people like him and his show, and seething at his wealth. They don't like people having fun....

MarshPhantom

9,658 posts

138 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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PorkInsider said:
hantsxlg said:
I bet Channel 4, ITV, Channel 5, Sky etc etc are melting their phones trying to get through to JC et al offering them prime time slot for 'Top Gear 2/Sixth Gear'. BBC shooting themselves in the foot if they can't manage JC to keep TG on air.
Couldn't agree more.

I really hope that TG moves away from the BBC to somewhere not so left leaning.
Really? I'm not sure in what way you think being on the BBC has ruined Top Gear, but I want an hour of TG, not 40 mins.

sleep envy

62,260 posts

250 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Star in a reasonably priced fracas.

Paddymcc

943 posts

192 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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I thought i read something before that Clarkson owns something to do with the Top Gear rights worldwide or their merchandise??

CAPP0

19,596 posts

204 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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fido]Maybe this is a made-up [either by the BBC or JC said:
tiff designed to allow Clarkson to escape Top Gear and join another channel .. maybe he's had enough (big ego according to a friend of mine) and wants out?
I alluded as much on one of the other 37* threads running on this.

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coetzeeh

2,648 posts

237 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Bonefish Blues said:
Wills2 said:
If it's Andy Wilman he has worked with Clarkson for years on loads of stuff, bit of an argument between old mates got of hand?
This. Odd.
I think the statement read "A producer" - Andy Willman is the executive producer.

V8 Fettler

7,019 posts

133 months

Tuesday 10th March 2015
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Did not Clarkson sell the Top Gear "rights" back to the BBC a couple of years ago? I stopped watching Top Gear a year or so ago, mainly because thrashing the latest Ferrolamboghirninini around the same test track became tedious. As did star in a car, as did the sameoldsameold camera work. Ambushed into watching it a couple of weeks ago, it's still quite good.

Good luck to Klaxxxon in whatever he does, although he looks like someone in his late sixties so perhaps some health issues?