Top Gear is dead

[Malenko]

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-contract-bbc


so great for as long as it lasted.

[Typefighter01]

Jeremy Clarkson "IS" (was) Top Gear...want proof, just try sitting through an episode of the train wreck that was Top Gear "US". I'm a car guy and I would rather watch Survivor with my wife then endure that horseshit. A car is a car, it was Jeremy's personality that made the show.

Also, Top Gear (BBC) had some of the best cinematography I have ever seen for a TV show...gorgeous. Look at it this way...it died on top and didn't linger around till it was cancelled cause it sucked.

[wp34]

Jeremy Clarkson "IS" (was) Top Gear...

You are so right.   

[BadMouth]

Jeremy Clarkson "IS" (was) Top Gear...want proof, just try sitting through an episode of the train wreck that was Top Gear "US".

I tried.  Episode #1.  Didn't make it all the way through.  Have not attempted watching any others.

My favorite segment on the BBC show was when they did various things to destroy an old Toyota truck.
I've owned 4 or 5 of those old trucks and love them to death.

[Malenko]

Im bad with names, but the comedian is occasionally funny but ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- for a gear head, Tanner Foust is a great driver but a meh host.......... but the other guy is unbearable. No discernible car knowledge, anti-personality, and his face looks like someone set it on fire and put it out with a bike chain.

[Mr_Numbers]

I had to try as well and must concede, US Top Gear sucks and more than likely the UK show is going to die. 

[wp34]

Top Gear America did stink.  I tried Adam Carolla's version of the show as well and was disappointed.  The original just can't be beat.

[eds1275]

He should totally do an internet show. I'd sign on as camera man or audio. People would totally watch that, even if it didn't have the name.

[pbj]

He's lucky he's not in jail.

[wp34]

He's lucky he's not in jail.

That may yet happen. I saw on the news this morning that the Bobbies were getting their whistles ready to go after him.

[Locke141]

I meat him in Uganda once. He was very funny.

I'd watch Top Gear AMERICA if they re launched it with Jeremy Clarkson. It would be the ultimate revenge. History should jump on it and try to pick them all up. It would be a win win History would get a huge hit and the BBC would get to keep collecting the royalties.
   

[Malenko]

Bringing the original hosts over from the UK is about the only way Id ever watch Top Gear America.

[nitrogen_widget]

He's lucky he's not in jail.

For punching someone in the mouth?

It took longer to read the part of the article where they try to make it seem like he dropped a gangland style beating on the guy than it actually took (30 seconds) to give him a split lip.

maybe the producer was being a wanker & had it coming?

[pbj]

England is a nation of cowards and video cameras.  I didn't say, "he should be in jail." 

 

[eds1275]

maybe the producer was being a wanker & had it coming?

Although I often get the urge to punch people out, if I were to do it that wouldn't make it right. I love Top Gear but just because he's a celebrity doesn't mean he should be immune to responsibility. He deserved what he got. I would expect to lost my job if I hit a co worker.

[danny_galaga]

maybe the producer was being a wanker & had it coming?

Although I often get the urge to punch people out, if I were to do it that wouldn't make it right. I love Top Gear but just because he's a celebrity doesn't mean he should be immune to responsibility. He deserved what he got. I would expect to lost my job if I hit a co worker.

 

Yes, you have to make some accommodations for the 'divas', but you can only bend over backwards so far before you say 'you know, we'll let you go and take our chances. Maybe start another TV franchise. That doesn't involve you.'

I did like Top Gear although I got bored of it after a while. The fun stuff was well, fun but the reviews of regular cars are so pretentious. Like it really matters to the average driver if a car corners a smidgen better than some other car and therefore the other car must be garbage. Or things like that comparison of a Prius and a BMW M3 which leaves people thinking the BMW M3 is more economical than the Prius! Yes, Jeremy elaborates at the end that is all about how you drive it but that is lost on most people. And I can only watch so many reviews of supercars I'll never ever be able to afford to buy, before it gets a bit 'meh'.

They also tried a Top Gear Australia and it sounds like it was about as loved as the American version. I watched maybe two episodes. I think we can all agree that Top Gear is Jeremy, Richard and James.

R.I.P Top Gear. You had a fantastic run. I'm sure something else just as great will come along eventually.

[nitrogen_widget]

maybe the producer was being a wanker & had it coming?

Although I often get the urge to punch people out, if I were to do it that wouldn't make it right. I love Top Gear but just because he's a celebrity doesn't mean he should be immune to responsibility. He deserved what he got. I would expect to lost my job if I hit a co worker.

Lose your job?
Sure.
But jail?
Do they really do that over in england?
I thought it was full of drunk soccer hooligans beating people up.
Their jails would be full.

[ark_ader]

PBJ is right, not only are they a bunch of cowards, they protect the criminals, and victimise the victims even further.  Lots of well known examples. Those poor kids in Rochdale was simply disgusting, and all the police could do was say "sorry".  The UK is a mere shadow of itself.

I'm not condoning violence, but if you wind up a person like Jeremy Clarkson, you are expecting to receive a smack.  Top Gear will appear on SKY or another of Murdochs outlets, besides the syndication will last for decades.

[ChanceKJ]

This is the BEST ---smurfing--- thing on the planet.  Some people may know I'm one of the shows biggest fans. And I can't be more happy. The BBC has been making horrible decisions since the 2008 economic downturn. And this is just the latest.  Most people don't realize that Clarkson reported himself to the BBC after the incident. Not the other way around. May has now said on record that the three of them are a package deal.  For the last few years we've only ever gotten 6 episode series of the show, then we wait. And it was always under the thumb of a state run broadcasting company. Netflix, Sky, Channel 2, and iTV are all looking at their pocketbooks to see what kind of crazy offer they can make. So what? We still wait another 8-10 months (as usual) and we get a new, better show with Andy Wilman and Clarkson at the helm.  Wilman's also gone on record saying that the BBC didn't trust the TopGear staff after what went down in Argentina. i think he's been dissolutioned with the Beeb for some time now.