About this Clarkson row

[blackburn_stevie]

What the smeg is going on?

It's a TV show, not a live broadcast.If there's a major issue, just edit it out before the final take. Problem solved.

So then the story is leaked to the newspapers, etc.

I think the report isn't so much about Clarkson's antics but more about Top Gear and he BBC's inability to control a leak.

By the way ....... 'Morning all

[cee-dee]

More seems to be coming out about the fracas at the hotel.

It seems that not only was the "team" late getting back to the hotel after filming being delayed by Clarkson being "in the pub", it's now been revealed that there was a late start due to Clarkson not getting up on time :-

http://news.sky.com/story/1448439/clarkson-faced-cereal-debacle-at-fracas-hotel

[upthecreekyetagain]

What's the name of this hotel? - sounds worse than Fawlty Towers!!!

Not surprised that the guy who booked it was threatened with losing his job!

[fallen-archie]

I thought the days of set meal times had long gone! Especially in a Hotel of this nature. He who pays the piper?

[electric*mayhem*band]

 I don't know of any hotel in the land who have their restaurant open 24 hours a day. When are they supposed to clean it ? While the patrons are sitting eating their a la carte ? Of course they have set meal times.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Most good hotels have a thing called room service 🙂

[fallen-archie]

Dear Dear Embs, Good Hotels always have food available, things have moved on, But find me one offering Egg Mayonaise or Pigs Liver n onions, that might be a challenge.

[electric*mayhem*band]

I think any hotel where Lord Clarkson is staying should be forced to have the restaurant OPEN on a twenty four hour basis, in order that his nibs can just swan in whenever he feels like it. Room service wouldn't wash with him. He has to been seen by his public, preferably with his entourage in tow. Good grief, are you not aware that the man is a famous television celebrity, and an expert on cars ?

[fallen-archie]

Really? A star? You didn't mention that when we were chatting to Esther McVey in Shills, When we're you last denied a canapé?

[fallen-archie]

Just days before the decision is taken on Clarksons future a video is in circulation showing him having a rant at the Beebs Bosses. It is of course preparing the ground to justify his sacking.The success of the show will in the end become its downfall. Once more the Bbc will be forced to produce dumbed down entertainment like the One show or put your money where your mouth is.
Some of the best TV ever made has been courtesy of the BBC the infernal pressure of tight fisted licence payers and commercial services which are free-ish but fill your screen with advertising is the alternative.

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

The Stig drove a tank to deliver a one-million-signature petition to the BBC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDR6na8QQqI

[cee-dee]

BREAKING NEWS.

CLARKSON SACKED:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32052736

[fallen-archie]

As I said earlier it had to happen and yes it is the right decision, hopefully the little irish producer will recover soon and be able to claim Damages.
Now we await an inspired decision by the Beeb on Clarksons replacement. And will the program take a different approach concentrating more on everyday cars, the interior plastic, whether they start first time and most importantly How slowly they can be driven around the Dunsfold test track. Plenty of scope to Dumb things Down and boy Dumbing down is so important.

[tommy.irene]

[fallen-archie]

Interesting take on the story and the BBC

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/03/jeremy-clarkson-was-sacked-because-the-bbc-loathes-...

[0-anthony-0]

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@cee-dee wrote:

BREAKING NEWS.

CLARKSON SACKED:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-32052736

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"Jeremy Clarkson's contract will not be renewed... ." SOURCE

That is not the same as being sacked. In fact technically he is still employed (if he ever was) by the BBC as his contract doesn't end for a number of days or weeks, depending the commentator.

The fact that it has been admitted that he actually physically assaulted the other person involved in this "fracas" gives meaning to the plethora of supporters petitioning and voicing their hope that "the situation can be resolved" without dismissal.

What we accept and allow in actuality governs the world we create for everyone to live in.

Fudge anyone?

[**caution**opinion_ahead]

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@fallen-archie wrote:
Interesting take on the story and the BBC

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/03/jeremy-clarkson-was-sacked-because-the-bbc-loathes-...

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Interesting indeed.

Still, it will probably harm the BBC more than Clarkson.  Their most profitable programme almost certainly won't be in future.  (I'm unlikely to watch it again for one.  HIGNFY survived without Angus Deayton, so they probably reckon they can pull it off again, but what they are failing to realise is people watched TG who genuinely are not interested in the subject matter, ie cars.)

[ravendays]

Personally I don't find Clarkson amusing or  rate the show but feel he is being used as little more than a scapegoat for far bigger issues.  This has been building up for years and how he's escaped the extreme political correctness forced upon the majority of the UK is quite hard to fathom.  The girl fight that all this clearly was (as opposed to actual bodily harm or GBH) is merely the straw that broke the camel's back and he's been binned as a result.  He needn't worry, Sky or ITV will pick him up for a far bigger paycheck and the BBC can go back to protecting nonces and pushing their blinkered politcal agenda.

[malacandran]

Perhaps, if Clarkson had stood about with his hands on his hips, and looked gay, the BBC would've kept him on?

[fallen-archie]

Should that not be one hand on his hip singing, I'm a little teapot short and stout, here's my handle here's my spout

[cee-dee]

After watching the following video all the way through, perhaps you might think that this young lady would be a worthy candidate for presenting TG in the future?:-