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]

Solidarity is a good thing especially when puts egg on the face of show producers. Like it or lump it, Top Gear is an institution like Blackpool Rock, Taj Mahal or the Walls of Jericho.

[Cleoriff]

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@anticpated wrote:

Solidarity is a good thing especially when puts egg on the face of show producers. Like it or lump it, Top Gear is an institution like Blackpool Rock, Taj Mahal or the Walls of Jericho.

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Ermmmm ......yeah ok then  

[anticpated]

No really you have to believe me...

[anticpated]

It's maybe not that important although it's good to see them stick together.

[Beenherebefore]

They're only sticking together because they're negotiating with another broadcaster and that broadcaster wants all 3 not just Clarkson.

[anticpated]

Really. It doesn't matter why and hopefully we'll see what happens soon.

The BBC were making cuts and this could be a major leak in the budget possibly.

I mean what else is there, The Voice? I rather pour bleach into my eyes and endure that sort of TV all of the time.

[Anonymous]

I'm a bit late to this but, for what it's worth, I don't think Top Gear would work without the three presenters together.  As much as I like Captain Slow and the Hamster I think it needs all three of them.  If all of them are replaced it would be in danger of turning into another Fifth Gear. 

I hope that the three of them take the show (which is one of the few things worth watching on BBC) to another channel and carry on where they left off.

[jonsie]

Good for them.. they can forget me to, I'm not doing it without JC..... 

[Anonymous]

If the BBC investigation go's against Clarkson then they have to terminate his contract, or they set a president and all complaints against employees could be overturned in the future.

If Captain Slow and the Hamster refused to finish the filming as said by someone else, they could be in for disciplinary action. For not for filling there contactural obligations. Unless it says in the contract they don't film if one of them is not there,which is very unlikely.

[viridis]

Not when the precedent was set by the BBC that because one was suspended, the remaining shows were put on hiatus, as a result the presenters have a legal leg to stand on because BBC chose to punish all because of one's mistakes.
BBC nullified the contracts when they put the show on suspension and not just Clarkson.