Jeremy Clarkson suspended

dr.fuzzenstein

Dravokivich wrote: »

I watch the show and have one of his books, which are just collections of articles. I've read that too.

Same here, the books are a great Lou Reed.

awec

Gatling wrote: »

So how many on here actually watch Top Gear every week or read clarksons articles

Genuinely that is ?

Watched it ages ago and sometimes have the Dave repeats on when eating my breakfast in the morning. Really it's a pile of crap most of the time.

The only time it's any good is the special episodes. When they actually review and talk cars it's mind-numbingly dull.

ScumLord

garp wrote: »

Have you met him in "real life" so as to be able to say that he is not as he presents himself to be on the box because he acts like a bit of a tosser on the TV IMO.

I haven't met him but I haven't made any assertions about him other than him being a toff.

Thargor

Gatling wrote: »

So how many on here actually watch Top Gear every week or read clarksons articles

Genuinely that is ?

I have all the Top Gear albums on my MP3 player, great cycling and driving music. Cycling probably not the intended purpose there.

It really was a great show once upon a time, clips like that Space Shuttle one make me all nostalgic, drinks and Top Gear before heading out in college...

Sterling Archer

I'd regularly watch it and have most of his books (as does my brother), don't read newspapers,
My brother met him, says he came across as a rather nice guy.

Tarzana2

Gatling wrote: »

So how many on here actually watch Top Gear every week or read clarksons articles

Genuinely that is ?

Haven't watched Top Gear for a few years, as it became tedious.

Sometimes used to read his Sunday Times column, but I don't really buy that any more so haven't in a good while.

A Dub in Glasgo

I cannot believe the amount of media spin this is getting, the fecker is lucky not to be charged with assault and dismissed

Harry Palmr

James May was "very very drunk at the time"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo85xMi8imY

Gatling

Watch it religiously on Sundays it's my little guilty pleasure wife's in college and I've the kids all day most days .
I'm a united fan and haven't been able to enjoy my footy for the last year and a half .

It does need a shake up but it wouldn't work without clarkson .

Top gear oz was crap
Top gear US they try

Maybe be a super topgear 5th gear mash up might work .

There's Something about viki getting all emotional or hot and bothered with certain cars .

Sheep Lover

Tarzana2 wrote: »

How original.

Well, Clarkson certainly has his dedicated fanboys, that's something I've learned today. The Beeb definitely won't be letting him go any time soon! You can all rejoice.

No fanboy here, I like how he's so unPC is all.

Just pointing out the plain obvious that you keep going on how he's insufferable, yet you're still here.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

So...

Top gear is crap or not?
Calrkson should have been suspended or not?

Which one we tlaking about?

Gatling

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

So...

Top gear is crap or not?
Calrkson should have been suspended or not?

Which one we tlaking about?

A bit of both depends on how you feel about jeremy clarkson apparently

Tarzana2

Gatling wrote: »

I'm a united fan and haven't been able to enjoy my footy for the last year and a half .

:pac::D Hee hee!

Gatling

Tarzana2 wrote: »

:pac::D Hee hee!

Yep rub it in and now no Top Gear



Literally I could cry

Tarzana2

Sheep Lover wrote: »

No fanboy here, I like how he's so unPC is all.

Just pointing out the plain obvious that you keep going on how he's insufferable, yet you're still here.

Well, that's kinda how discussion forums work. Nobody has time to be posting on all the threads so you pick a few.

The thread is about Jeremy Clarkson, he himself isn't posting on the thread. So, unless you can elaborate, I'm not seeing why finding someone insufferable means one wouldn't post on a thread discussing them. Can you flesh out your point a bit more?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Gatling wrote: »

A bit of both depends on how you feel about jeremy clarkson apparently

Indifferent. Would love to if he really did hit someone juts to see people gloss over the assault and bullying because he's a bit of a laugh.

ScumLord

Gatling wrote: »

Watch it religiously on Sundays it's my little guilty pleasure wife's in college and I've the kids all day most days .
I'm a united fan and haven't been able to enjoy my footy for the last year and a half .

It does need a shake up but it wouldn't work without clarkson .

Top gear oz was crap
Top gear US they try

US top gear went and did their own thing eventually (well sort of) and it's an ok show.

I'd love to see an international top gear challenge, they've done some cross over stuff once or twice. It would be nice to see American top gear bring American cars and so on for the rest.

zcorpian88

World is getting far too PC, we need the old dinosaurs like Clarkson to keep it real and keep television from getting as boring as it's getting lately, he only says what most people would think but he doesn't keep it to himself and puts a funny spin on it.

That bint Katie Hopkins is way worse, her remarks are just annoying and off-putting and aimed at rising people and she's on every fecking programme lately, where Jeremy would use some wit and general humour.

If Clarkson quits Top Gear and it gets axed, I'm done with tv, one of the few good shows still on, I love the specials especially.

Tarzana2

I dunno, I know Top Gear is a good ratings stalwart for the the Beeb, but I kinda wish they'd work on developing some good new programmes instead of relying on shows that should have been put out to pasture long ago. They've lost their nerve, IMO.

I always feel like ratings tyranny is the death of innovation when it comes to TV. If Father Ted had continued for another series, it would have got high ratings no matter what. But the creators admitted it had ran its course. They were out of ideas and wanted to end it. That takes guts and integrity. They could have continued on making a show that was a facsimile of its former self but they bowed out. Take note, BBC, instead of engaging in your annual tawdry Top Gear publicity stunt.

P. Breathnach

zcorpian88 wrote: »

World is getting far too PC....

That's an AH meme. Acting like a dick is not a useful expression of freedom: it's simply acting the dick.

Clarkson makes no useful contribution to the great debates of our time. He's an annoying distraction from them.

A Dub in Glasgo

zcorpian88 wrote: »

World is getting far too PC, we need the old dinosaurs like Clarkson to keep it real and keep television from getting as boring as it's getting lately, he only says what most people would think but he doesn't keep it to himself and puts a funny spin on it.

That bint Katie Hopkins is way worse, her remarks are just annoying and off-putting and aimed at rising people and she's on every fecking programme lately, where Jeremy would use some wit and general humour.

If Clarkson quits Top Gear and it gets axed, I'm done with tv, one of the few good shows still on, I love the specials especially.

If he stays and TC stays, do you want to pay my TV licence for me?

Harry Palmr

P. Breathnach wrote: »

That's an AH meme. Acting like a dick is not a useful expression of freedom: it's simply acting the dick.

Clarkson makes no useful contribution to the great debates of our time. He's an annoying distraction from them.

what the ****? He's the knowing clown not the Caesar. Its not his job to make any contributions to the great debates of our time. Pompous or what?

Karl Stein

I enjoy Top Gear for the cars, the spectacular locations, and superb quality of production. I've learned to tune out the painfully scripted 'comedy'. 'OMG the caravan has caught fire'.. em.. not funny.

May is the presenter I dislike least because he actually has some mechanical ability instead of being proud of his mechanical ignorance like Clarkson. Hammond just comes across as Clarkson's adoring pooch. Clarkson himself is a fucking twat with little talent. I think the show could easily survive without Clarkson if they got the right person in.

Sterling Archer

Karl Stein wrote: »

I enjoy Top Gear for the cars, the spectacular locations, and superb quality of production. I've learned to tune out the painfully scripted 'comedy'. 'OMG the caravan has caught fire'.. em.. not funny.

May is the presenter I dislike least because he actually has some mechanical ability instead of being proud of his mechanical ignorance like Clarkson. Hammond just comes across as Clarkson's adoring pooch. Clarkson himself is a fucking twat with little talent. I think the show could easily survive without Clarkson if they got the right person in.

Question would be will the other two jump ship if fear/anticipation of the show being axed?

Gatling

P. Breathnach wrote: »

That's an AH meme. Acting like a dick is not a useful expression of freedom: it's simply acting the dick.

Clarkson makes no useful contribution to the great debates of our time. He's an annoying distraction from them.

He's presents a petrol heads programme he's not a political ,philosophy rapping art critic .

He's a side ways driving blundering oaf and he's knows it

Harry Palmr

Karl Stein wrote: »

Clarkson himself is a fucking twat with little talent. I think the show could easily survive without Clarkson if they got the right person in.

Did you see any of his documentaries?

Harry Palmr

Shane_ef wrote: »

Question would be will the other two jump ship if fear/anticipation of the show being axed?

All three are out of contract in a month or so (after the current series was due to end) so my guess is that they and Wilman will pitch a format to someone like Netflix or Amazon. They are unlikely to turn up on ITV and SKY for editorial reasons while the new world of VOD and downloads offers plenty of scope for rebuilding a profile directly into peoples homes (and phones).

P. Breathnach

Harry Palmr wrote: »

what the ****? He's the knowing clown not the Caesar. Its not his job to make any contributions to the great debates of our time. Pompous or what?

So he should not be held out by zcorpian88 as the poster-boy for an anti-PC position.

Karl Stein

Shane_ef wrote: »

Question would be will the other two jump ship if fear/anticipation of the show being axed?

Or out of 'loyalty' to Clarkson. I get the impression James May tolerates Clarkson. Actually when you think of it James May and Hammond currently do quite a lot of work for BBC outside of TG unlike Clarkson.

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Did you see any of his documentaries?

No? I didn't realise he was a maker of documentaries.

Tarzana2

Karl Stein wrote: »

I enjoy Top Gear for the cars, the spectacular locations, and superb quality of production. I've learned to tune out the painfully scripted 'comedy'. 'OMG the caravan has caught fire'.. em.. not funny.

Yeah, the photography and production values are the only reason to watch it now.

Karl Stein wrote: »

Hammond just comes across as Clarkson's adoring pooch.

Yup.

Karl Stein wrote: »

Clarkson himself is a fucking twat with little talent. I think the show could easily survive without Clarkson if they got the right person in.

Agreed. People are overstating his importance massively.

Gatling

Change.org petition now had 450,000 signatures in less than 24 hours .

Come on petrol heads

A Dub in Glasgo

That just proves that there are enough gob****es spurred on by the Mail and Sun

Harry Palmr

P. Breathnach wrote: »

So he should not be held out by zcorpian88 as the poster-boy for an anti-PC position.

Well that's something for zcorpian88 to debate not Clarkson.

Karl Stein wrote: »

No? I didn't realise he was a maker of documentaries.

he has made a series of first class films about Brunel, Operation Market Garden, the Raid on St Nazaire and the relief convey that sailed to Murmansk in 1942 which was left to be destroyed by the German military due to Allied bungling. Inventions That Changed the World was also good.

dr.fuzzenstein

Gatling wrote: »

Watch it religiously on Sundays it's my little guilty pleasure wife's in college and I've the kids all day most days .
I'm a united fan and haven't been able to enjoy my footy for the last year and a half .

It does need a shake up but it wouldn't work without clarkson .

Top gear oz was crap
Top gear US they try

Maybe be a super topgear 5th gear mash up might work .

There's Something about viki getting all emotional or hot and bothered with certain cars .

Oh fcuk, yes!

Sheep Lover

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

That just proves that there are enough gob****es spurred on by the Mail and Sun

Or people just genuinely like him/the show. Not everything is a big conspiracy, ya know. People forgot this is one of the most popular TV programmes around at the moment..

Karl Stein

Harry Palmr wrote: »

he has made a series of first class films

He presented/narrated them I think you might mean.

Littlehorny

I heard on the radio that Clarkson was filming in Newcastle and had a fit because his grub wasn't ready when filming finished, is this true?

Harry Palmr

Karl Stein wrote: »

He presented/narrated them I think you might mean.

He made them in the same way David Attenborough made Frozen Planet.

P. Breathnach

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Well that's something for zcorpian88 to debate not Clarkson....

I was expressing my disagreement with zcorpian88, not inviting Clarkson to debate with me.

A Dub in Glasgo

Littlehorny wrote: »

I heard on the radio that Clarkson was filming in Newcastle and had a fit because his grub wasn't ready when filming finished, is this true?

The petulant child lashed out because his food was late. The guy he hit is apparently Irish

Karl Stein

Here's Clarkson being none to pleased by being the subject of a prank.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwuymC_CrdU

A Dub in Glasgo

Harry Palmr wrote: »

He made them in the same way David Attenborough made Frozen Planet.

So how did he make them?

Harry Palmr

P. Breathnach wrote: »

I was expressing my disagreement with zcorpian88, not inviting Clarkson to debate with me.

You mentioned him in a reply to me. I don't really care either way!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

zcorpian88 wrote: »

World is getting far too PC, we need the old dinosaurs like Clarkson to keep it real and keep television from getting as boring as it's getting lately, he only says what most people would think but he doesn't keep it to himself and puts a funny spin on it.

That bint Katie Hopkins is way worse, her remarks are just annoying and off-putting and aimed at rising people and she's on every fecking programme lately, where Jeremy would use some wit and general humour.

If Clarkson quits Top Gear and it gets axed, I'm done with tv, one of the few good shows still on, I love the specials especially.

Wheer the **** does PC come into it? No probelm with what he says, but you can't call PC the moment he starts hitting people!

Karl Stein

Harry Palmr wrote: »

He made them in the same way David Attenborough made Frozen Planet.

Which is to say he didn't make Frozen Planet. I'm sure David Attenborough would be the first to make it clear that he's a presenter who has led a charmed life.

Iranoutofideas

If Clarkson leaves he takes the show with him. His company makes it for the BBC. And ITV, C4 will only gladly snap it up.

Harry Palmr

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

So how did he make them?

He wrote the script and was the instigator of the Brunel film for example. He wrote and presented Greatest Raid of All Time (St Nazaire), PQ17 An Arctic Convoy Disaster, The Victoria Cross: For Valour (operation Market garden).

Magico Gonzalez

He seems to be in the middle of a divorce from a wife he is never seen in public with anymore, an ex-wife who claims they were at it whilst he was married to the new wife. He was also apparently caught having an affair when in Australia.

He's plenty of reasons to be stressed, lost the head with some asst producer for not having a dinner out.

Doubt he's the first star to lash out at a lacky! That's showbiz innit.

I used to be a fan of the show but feel it's lost it's way in recent years. I reckon they should keep him on the payroll to make the specials. The studio part is usually pretty bad but the location stuff is interesting.

Harry Palmr

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

If Clarkson leaves he takes the show with him. His company makes it for the BBC. And ITV, C4 will only gladly snap it up.

Clarkson and Wilman sold Bedder 6 to the BBC so they own Top Gear.

Magico Gonzalez

Iranoutofideas wrote: »

If Clarkson leaves he takes the show with him. His company makes it for the BBC. And ITV, C4 will only gladly snap it up.

He owns 30% , the BBC own 50%.