BBC Suspends Jeremy Clarkson. Again.

[KgB]

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[KgB]

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[danny76]

I don't have the slightest issue about insensitive remarks against the Argentinians, however just because he hosts a popular show does not give him the right to behave like a petulant child in a school yard. If I slapped my gaffer I would be out of a job instantaneously and brought up on criminal charges, he was a prat and lucky not to find himself before a beak.

As for the low life scum making death threats to the producer for getting punched!!!!! They are all in dire need of being dragged out into the street and shot

[MrRiplEy[H]]

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[zack1234]

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[Swoop]

I don't think he understands what the phrase 'being on a pedestal' actually means cos he's not using it correctly.

[PR3D4TOR]

lol what happened here?

[Skuzzy]

lol what happened here?

Nothing which was conducive to maintaining a respectful discussion.

[FLOOB]

I think top gear uk is awesome and I'm not english or even british, I'm an american.

If nothing else can be said for that program, it sorts those who have a sense of humor from those who don't.

Of course there are those who are going to say, "if I punched a coworker I'd be canned", yeah, well you don't work on Top Gear. There are professional collaborations in which a physical altercation is forgettable and dismissable. Think of the many great ensembles we'd never have heard of if they were dismantled the first time thing went drunken fistycuffs.

[jeep00]

I think top gear uk is awesome and I'm not english or even british, I'm an american.

If nothing else can be said for that program, it sorts those who have a sense of humor from those who don't.

Of course there are those who are going to say, "if I punched a coworker I'd be canned", yeah, well you don't work on Top Gear. There are professional collaborations in which a physical altercation is forgettable and dismissable. Think of the many great ensembles we'd never have heard of if they were dismantled the first time thing went drunken fistycuffs.

This.
You can't fake being the way he is, the way they are. You are effectively paying them to be irreverent and in some cases irresponsible and incorrigable (mangled it quite likely) so when they are just that, you can't really effectively punish it especially in this case where, as has been pointed out, producers in part decide what gets to the air. It makes them money, and lots of it. Will it end quietly away from prying eyes? Quite likely. But we will have to see. I would hate to see it go because they are hilarious and factually helpful in what they do, and if they end it or move it off BBC, we probably won't see the like again here in the US where people could make diamonds from charcoal dust between their cheeks because they are so uptight.
Additionally, I can watch Motorweek or any of the car shows here and see the same thing on every one as with the magazines. No originality, nothing to upset potential sponsors, nothing that really helps when you need it most-behind the wheel.

[SysError]

Hang on

...Of course there are those who are going to say, "if I punched a coworker I'd be canned", ...

Unless you work in a one person shop (and I guess you punched yourself Fight Club style), yep you are going get fired.  If you do not get fired, you are working for a company with a very short future.

And I like Top Gear.

So are you saying that our expectations of what should happen should somehow be based on a Nielsen ratings scale?

... well you don't work on Top Gear.

I hope that the BBC does not fire him, but I think that if they made him stand in Speakers Corner every Sunday for a month with a full a body sign saying "Sometimes I am an idiot"  I'd be OK with that.

[Mano]

 Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson made up officially  .
 BBC will decide this week to continue with Clarkson as one of the hosts.

 

[Gman]

I'd agree with you Danny, but don't know what a Gaffer, Prat, or Beak is.   

I think if the BBC decides this was the final straw with Clarkson, they'll seriously regret it.  IMO they'll lose the show, these three "chaps" (that's British for fellows, gents, guys, etc) are pretty loyal to one another from what I've read, and if they all pulled the plug and walked if Clarkson is canned, it wouldn't be shocking to anyone.  Off to another network, or perhaps even the greatest TV producing country in the world.  It sort of fits, the most popular show on the planet, being run out of Hollywood. 

[SysError]

Piers Morgan and Jeremy Clarkson made up officially  .
 BBC will decide this week to continue with Clarkson as one of the hosts.

 

So there is a history here that I didn't know about. 





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[Swoop]

I'd agree with you Danny, but don't know what a Gaffer, Prat, or Beak is.   

Boss, idiot, judge.  In that order.