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General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Lucky_Lou on March 11, 2015, 01:00:31 PM

Title: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Lucky_Lou on March 11, 2015, 01:00:31 PM: Seems Jerremy has upset the PC brigade again who are condemning his restaurant bust up without knowing the facts, one of the BBC,s biggest cash cows will be picked up straight away by competitors.
He may be many things but I would not have him down as violent, the producer must have done more than offer him lettuce during their cold March Yorkshire shoot. Going a bit too far canning the un shown programmes and cancelling the rest of the series.............
Lou
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: clonmore1 on March 11, 2015, 04:34:08 PM: I am sure he will be back soon...
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Tony Smith on March 11, 2015, 05:49:59 PM: I find it difficult to care. It is after all a show specifically drawn to appeal to one-eyed, bigoted, knuckle-dragging misogynists with Clarkson as the grand wizard.

Clarkson has been on my personal "better dead" list for years.
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: marcmax on March 11, 2015, 10:05:03 PM: Are us colonials missing something? I don't understand what this is in reference to.
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Burt on March 11, 2015, 11:25:16 PM: The weekly TV series "Top Gear". An entertaining car show in which three of the UK's most well know faces, battle each other attempting to destroy each others credibility and whatever they happen to be driving on the day.

Quite juvenile in its humour at times but refreshing after the usual PC garbage that is regulated to be shoved down our throats nowadays. The series is built on the personalities of the three presenters.

There is a US version which is quite tame and an Aussie version which flopped. It is in its 22 year and is watched worldwide.

Google "The Stig".
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Lucky_Lou on March 12, 2015, 03:33:39 AM: Quote
Are us colonials missing something? I don't understand what this is in reference to.
There have been some brilliant moments on this programme and the occasional knuckle dragging however here are a couple of my favourite moments....
Nasa watch out the British are coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJdrlWR-yFM
And Bugatti Veyron vs Euro Fighter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NZ9X9A2efA
Lou
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Barry on March 12, 2015, 03:39:47 AM: Clarkson owns 30% of the Top gear production company. He must be worth many millions. I guess he'll survive.
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Lucky_Lou on March 12, 2015, 12:25:48 PM: The incident happened in a hotel in Hawes (great bike country) my guess would be that they were filming on his favourite road ... Buttertubs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6qsHnGKAiM
Dodging cattle grids sheep and despite being pushed by a cage I did not rise to the bait...
Lou
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: clonmore1 on March 12, 2015, 04:21:19 PM: I understand that contracts are due for renewal at the end of this month, first shot in negotiations?
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: clonmore1 on March 26, 2015, 02:17:22 AM: Well the Beeb has pulled the plug on Mr Clarkson.

Where now for Top Gear?
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: MichaelSydney on March 26, 2015, 08:01:24 AM: Top Gear was a success before Clarkson. It is a good format and will be reinvented with a new cast.
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: k_enn on March 26, 2015, 11:37:23 AM: Top Gear is (was?) a great show. The British version is so much better than the American version, due largely (IMO) because of the interactions between Clarkson, May and Hammond. (Of course, the Stig is a good gimmick).

There have been a number of memorable episodes, but one of my favorites was where they each bought used (i.e., beater) sport utility vehicles and took them across South America. Another great story was the one (over serveral episodes) where they were trying to kill a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, including chaining it to jetty while the tide came in and putting it on the roof of building that was being demolished by implosion.

I will concede that they have been politically incorrect at times (like the comment about the person on the bridge in Burma (or was it about the bridge itself?). That is all part of the low-brow appeal of the show.

Without Clarkson, it would never be the same.

k_enn
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Lucky_Lou on March 26, 2015, 12:02:54 PM: Going...going... gone May says sod it I wont do it without JC, Hamster has been quiet but he has his finger in other BBC pies.
Watch out for a new programme on ITV or SKY my bet would be Murdick and his cronies will grab them.
Lou
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: Ed Miller on March 26, 2015, 04:58:04 PM: Quote
Another great story was the one (over serveral episodes) where they were trying to kill a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck, including chaining it to jetty while the tide came in and putting it on the roof of building that was being demolished by implosion.

k_enn

I have a truck like that one. My version so far has involved skidding off an icy bridge and dropping a tree on it. But I'm not doing it on purpose!
:-[
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: balibeemer on March 27, 2015, 08:45:49 PM: He was great - except in his attitude to 'bikes!
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: thrang on March 28, 2015, 12:38:49 PM: Although I don't usually agree with what Clarkson comes out with, he does make entertaining telly. Its also rather nice to see in the uber PC world of the BBC, to have a completely unreconstructed and unapologetic petrol head on prime time. Hopefully the program will carry on, but I do think it will lose its edge with out Clarkie.
Title: Re: Is that "it" for Clarkson
Post by: clonmore1 on March 29, 2015, 09:06:59 AM: Here is one the contenders to replace JC

http://youtu.be/5472KlsQ7Zw