Top Gear: The future?

[Cleoriff]

Unless you have been in a news free zone for 24 hrs it wont have gone unnoticed that Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has been suspended...

Allegedly he punched a producer....

Sundays episode has been shelved along with the remaining two in the Top Gear series..

Clarksons suspension has led to a massive petition for his reinstatement.

Personally, I wonder why so many want him back? Surely this massively popular show can survive without him? (Stands back ready to be panned for that comment )

Maybe this 'hero worship' of Clarkson is a 'man thing'? (apologies if that appears sexist )

I don't particularly like him. I think he arrogantly believes he is invincible....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-31828184

[anticpated]

Does he have hairy feet? That will be a big clue.

[L_W_Ward]

Looks like it's going to cost the BBC a wedge of cash:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/bbc-jeremy-clarkson-suspension-top-gear

[Cleoriff]

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@L_W_Ward wrote:
Looks like it's going to cost the BBC a wedge of cash:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/bbc-jeremy-clarkson-suspension-top-gear

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The BBC decision to pull the show was their downfall in my opinion. Do what they like to Clarkson...but there was absolutely NO need to cancel the show. Stupid fools...

[jonsie]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@L_W_Ward wrote:
Looks like it's going to cost the BBC a wedge of cash:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/bbc-jeremy-clarkson-suspension-top-gear

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The BBC decision to pull the show was their downfall in my opinion. Do what they like to Clarkson...but there was absolutely NO need to cancel the show. Stupid fools...

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That's why we pay them big bucks for the licence....

[viridis]

By pulling the show, the BBC just admitted that Clarkson IS the show.

[anticpated]

Bunch of arrogant so and so's the BBC are. It was one of the very few decent shows still on the BBC.

What will they replace it with now? 

It's a sad day.

It may be only the last couple of shows however the point stands.

[viridis]

Trust me, if they culled BBC 3 because at 57million it was too expensive, then they will not get rid of a show that generates over 150million

[L_W_Ward]

Didn't they pull the show as they have not been filmed yet? I know the big scenes have been done but the in studio stuff is done week by week so they are current?

[Cleoriff]

Zoe Williams, a Guardian columnist, had this take on the Clarkson fiasco...

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2015/mar/11/jeremy-clarkson-suspended-eco-fem...

Her opening statement made me grin...

"The problem with Jeremy Clarkson, apart from him being a dick, is that he’s on the wrong side of history. There is a future for cars. There is a brilliant future for cars. There is even a future for programmes about cars. But for people doing stupid stunts in cars, while insisting that they are for petrol heads, who by definition don’t accept the bald facts of anthropogenic climate change? Not so much".

[viridis]

And then she started banging on about the relevance of feminism and i though "any excuse eh love"