sturginho Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 So it's official, my money is on Harry Enfield (as Stavros) to take over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 So it's official, my money is on Harry Enfield (as Stavros) to take overEh, last time I saw him on something, he was sort of bland. Also I don't think he has the car knowledge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 So it's official, my money is on Harry Enfield (as Stavros) to take overI guess Hammond and May will also leave Top Gear, so they'll need more than just (main) presenter.James May already changed his profile description on twitter: Former TV presenter only remembered for saying 'Oh cock'. Or was that the other bloke? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Here's to hoping James and Richard will jump ship with Jezza and do a new show with the old format somewhere. Fuck this shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Apparently things fell into place and Jeremy already has a new job: https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1546935808686937&theater(I just can't seem to embed these facebook vids, sorry) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 (edited) I get that they had to fire him, I would have done the same.But ffs they couldn't have waited 3 weeks until after the season ended?One of the things I'm most upset about is in the last episode he said they finally got the OK to do the LaFer 918 P1 race.... who knows when/if it will happen now... Edited March 25, 2015 by OmarBradley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grouse Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 It did not need to be turned into this media spectacle but sadly it did. Clarkson getting "fired" is in my honest opinion justified.The top gear guys will probably have stations knocking their door down throwing offers at them, let's just wait and see. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graeme Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake-Pit Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Well it was a good show while it lasted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DR DOOM Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Fucking hell, that tweet from Glasgow City Council is awesome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 I have changed my mind, Dara and professor Cox to take over Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 https://www.change.org/p/netflix-hire-jeremy-clarkson-james-may-and-richard-hammond-to-make-their-own-car-showhttp://www.theladbible.com/articles/clarkson-set-for-more-controversy-if-he-signs-a-deal-with-netflix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Do people really have nothing better to do than create petitions for Clarkson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Do people really have nothing better to do than create petitions for Clarkson?I have come to the conclusion that Britons occasionally act in a sort of, collective madness. I am looking at this Richard III thing also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Ragnar Posted April 3, 2015 Share Posted April 3, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdZuKiJtbDwRest In Peace Top Gear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 BBC to air unseen Top Gear material featuring Jeremy ClarksonFootage from Top Gear episodes shot before Clarkson was axed as presenter will be broadcast, as BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw says he will return to the BBCThe controller of BBC2 has said Jeremy Clarkson will return to the BBC in unseen material including footage of three Top Gear episodes shot before he was axed from the show.Kim Shillinglaw confirmed that material from the final three episodes of the last series of the motoring show, shelved after he was suspended following a “fracas” with a producer, would be broadcast, including appearances by Clarkson.She confirmed the show would return in a new form next year and said she would look at women presenters to front the new-look show.But she declined to speculate on whether Clarkson’s former co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, or the show’s long-running executive producer Andy Wilman, would return.Clarkson’s contract was not renewed after it emerged in March that he had launched an unprovoked physical and verbal attack on Oisin Tymon, which left the producer in need of hospital treatment.Tony Hall, the BBC director general, said that a line had been crossed and that Clarkson had failed to maintain standards of decency and respect at work.Clarkson has since said in his column in the Sunday Times that he had suffered a cancer scare two days before the incident. He has confirmed that he has since been given the all-clear.Tymon decided not to press charges, saying in a statement in March that he hoped “all parties should now be allowed to move on, so far as possible”. North Yorkshire police announced in early April that it would be taking no further action in relation to the incident.“Jeremy will be back on the BBC,” said Shillinglaw at a BBC2 programme launch on Tuesday.“It is serious and unfortunate what happened but there is no ban on Jeremy being on the BBC. It’s a big deal what happened and Jeremy, as any human being would, needs some time out.”Shillinglaw, the BBC’s former science and natural history chief, said the re-edited editions of Top Gear could be on BBC2 as early as the summer and definitely before the end of the year.Of the unseen Top Gear footage, Shillinglaw said it would definitely make it on to BBC2 – although not enough had been shot for three full one-hour episodes.“There is no way I would not want the available material not to be seen by viewers,” she said.“Top Gear is a show that I love, I genuinely watch it and I always have done.”Shillinglaw said the task of reinventing the show, which is watched by 6 million viewers on BBC2 and is a global hit generating £50m a year for the BBC, was “a challenge but it’s genuinely creatively exciting”.“We have got a great in house team that has always made it and will continue to make it,” she said.On the possibility of a female presenter – Sue Perkins quit Twitter after receiving death threats when she was installed as favourite to host the show – Shillinglaw said: “I am not really thinking about it in terms of gender.“I have done a lot with female presenters when I used to work in science. That was something that across the piece that I really wanted to tackle. It’s a really open book on that. We will definitely look at women but it is not the driving priority. I have never approached an individual show thinking that is the way you cast it.“It’s not been an easy year but it’s kind of creatively exciting what we are going to do, what we have to do. We have got to move the show on. That’s what we are going to do.”http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/21/bbc-to-air-unseen-top-gear-material-featuring-jeremy-clarkson Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Facekicker Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Lol relaunch it with female presenters and the backlash will be hilarious. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sturginho Posted April 23, 2015 Share Posted April 23, 2015 Lol relaunch it with female presenters and the backlash will be hilarious.They should do it just to see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 Top Gear Three reunited: Clarkson, May and Hammond hold talks with producer Andy Wilman as HE quits BBC too - and James rules out return saying working with 'surrogate Jeremy would be stupid'Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond today held talks with Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman - just hours before it was sensationally announced he had quit the BBC.The resignation marks another blow for the hugely-popular show, which has been marred by uncertainty since Clarkson was axed last month following a 'fracas' with a producer.It means Mr Wilman, a childhood friend of Clarkson who helped revamp Top Gear into the Corporation's most successful programme, is now free to reunite with the team on a rival channel.There is widespread speculation that the men are working on a new motoring series to be aired by Netflix, Amazon or another British broadcaster - in what would be a nightmare scenario for the BBC.The 52-year-old said the BBC would be ‘stupid’ to try a version of the programme with 'a surrogate Jeremy', Hammond and himself - adding that the idea was a ‘non-starter’.His comments mean that if the show does return next year, it will likely be with an entirely new presenting team. Both May and Hammond saw their contracts finish last month.May told The Guardian: ‘Me and Hammond with a surrogate Jeremy is a non-starter, it just wouldn’t work. That would be lame, or “awks” as young people say.‘It has to be the three of us. You can’t just put a surrogate Jeremy in and expect it to carry on. It would be forced. I don’t believe they would be stupid enough to try that.‘It doesn’t mean I won’t go back - we may all go back in the future. It might just be we have a break from it. I don’t know. It would be a bloody tough call to do Top Gear without Jeremy.’Former X Factor host Dermot O'Leary, model Jodie Kidd and Great British Bake Off host Sue Perkins have all been named as possible replacements for Clarkson.Speaking after the meeting today, May said he had just been 'having a pint' with his co-stars and Mr Wilman, adding that he still didn't know what he would do in the future.This evening, a BBC spokeswoman confirmed that Mr Wilman, Top Gear's longstanding executive producer and Clarkson's right-hand man, had handed bosses his resignation.She would not say whether or not the decision was related to the outspoken presenter.It comes just weeks after an email from Mr Wilman to colleagues titled 'au revoir' was leaked.In the email, the 52-year-old, who has made millions from the show, congratulated staff on making 'one of the most iconic programmes in TV history'.'At least we left 'em wanting more. And that alone, when you think about it, is quite an achievement for a show that started 13 years ago,' he wrote.After the email was leaked, Mr Wilman announced publicly that it had not been a resignation. The revelations today come after BBC2 boss Kim Shillinglaw, who has been tasked with finding a replacement for Clarkson on Top Gear, said the presenter ‘will be back on the BBC’ at some point.Miss Shillinglaw also confirmed Clarkson's final Top Gear scenes will be screened later this year and she was not thinking of his replacement ‘in terms of gender’.http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3052014/James-quits-Gear-saying-lame-without-Jeremy-Clarkson.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted April 24, 2015 Share Posted April 24, 2015 'At least we left 'em wanting more. And that alone, when you think about it, is quite an achievement for a show that started 13 years ago,' he wrote.Yeah I saw May said that weeks ago, and it always bothered me..... they could have continued for 10 years, and ended with a proper finale, and they still would have left us wanting more. There is no limit to the amount of Clarkson, Hammond, and May people want to see. There just isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daedalus Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Top Gear: Jodie Kidd, Philip Glenister and Guy Martin 'in advanced talks' to join showBBC bosses are reportedly in advanced talks to sign Jodie Kidd, Philip Glenister and Guy Martin as the new Top Gear presenters.The three names have been among the frontrunners tipped to present the show for some time.Kidd currently presents Channel 5's The Classic Car Show, while motorcycle racer Guy Martin has previously presented documentaries and Life on Mars actor Philip Glenister is thought to add an off-beat element to the line-up.The show’s co-creator Andy Wilman, who has quit the series, was allegedly overheard describing the new-line up while having lunch with Jamiroquai singer Jay Kay, the Sunday Express reported.The BBC has declined to comment on the speculation.The alleged “dream team” line-up follows the departure of Jeremy Clarkson from the flagship BBC2 show after he was suspended by the BBC for punching a producer on set.His co-stars Richard Hammond and James May also confirmed they would not be returning to the show without Clarkson.Last week, Clarkson, Hammond and May were seen filming at Goodwood Motor Circuit, prompting rumours of a possible Top Gear comeback.It later emerged the trio were filming for their forthcoming UK tour, formerly known as Top Gear Live, which has now been renamed Clarkson, Hammond and May Live following Clarkson’s dismissal from the BBC.Top Gear will return in a new form next year, with BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw refusing to rule out the possibility of a female presenter.http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/top-gear-jodie-kidd-philip-glenister-and-guy-martin-in-advanced-talks-to-join-show-10223806.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) Clarkson posted a photo of a Corvette, a film crew, a track, and Hammond the other day. Hope some good news is coming! Not terribly interested in what the BBC does with TG, I may watch it, but eh. Edited May 8, 2015 by OmarBradley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OmarBradley Posted May 15, 2015 Share Posted May 15, 2015 Latest news is looking like they're talking with Netflix and ITV, favoring Netflix. Hope they go that way. If they do, I deserve a medal, I was the first one to suggest Netflix, before any news publication, op-ed, or peer did!!! ZoSo, you can plan my commemoration ceremony. I want Pappy in attendance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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