I believe he is hosting Have I got news for you next week. It will be interesting to see what he has to say.
Sadly not. He decided not to do that this month but may later in the year:
However it isn't all bad news as he will be on rebranded Top Gear Live shows as they were already planned:
Oh right, guess he must still be unemployed then. I reckon he'll be back on TV sooner or later, although if its not on a car show I think it'd be a shame. I can't imagine him hosting Britain's got talent.
One can only hope Richard Hammond and James May keep with it. Maybe they can import Tanner from the American Top Gear, a rally driver who's hosted a similar (if worse) show may be able to work wonders when combined with May and Hammond with the budget British Top Gear has.
Hmmm I'm not sure. As much as I loved Top Gear (I think I've watched every episode 2002-), I was beginning to think it had run it's course. I thought it was a bit too samey last few series, however I can see why they kept things similar because it was a proven formula. Not sure what to think of tanner, brilliant rally driver, but not as strong a character as Jeremy.
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Clarkson made the mistake of selling the show to the BBC. The original Tog Gear was a consumer car show years back. It ended and Clarkson and one of the producers (sorry can't remember his name) conceived of the new format and the BBC commissioned their independant company to produce it. A lot of what people think of as BBC shows are in fact independently produced. Once the BBC owned the rights they became responsible, Clarkson became a BBC employee at which point they could fire him. He and the other owners did sell it for around £10 mill to the BBC a few years ago.
Clarkson still has other jobs, he is still a journalist and he is worth a fortune so "unemployed" isn't quite the right term. Hammond is a popular TV presenter and I'm sure he will continue to appear on other shows as he has done throughout his time with top Gear. Not sure about May, he has become a very popular TV presenter, I'm not sure if he is still working as a journalist. May's Youtube channel is a hoot, I learnt how to make shepherd's pie last week...
If the BBC is to continue to make the show I would love to see Chris "Monkey" Harris involved. The guys is a well respected motoring journalist and real funny in front of the camera and he can drive the wheels off any car you give him. The formula worked, two motoring journos and a TV presenter but I think it's important that the general public shouldn't know them, they shouldn't come with lots of baggage, a fresh start. If they just roll out some of the regular BBC old boys it will become a farce and the public will rip it apart.
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yeah top gear will never be the same again.
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Sad, sad news indeed. Here's hoping that the 3 will get together on a show of their own.
I'm over it. Give me Chris Harris and a few of the guys from evo magazine and I'll be happy. They already make great content on what is effectively a zero budget.
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Their YouTube channel is still alive so that's interesting:
It's worth noting to anyone that doesn't know the show that it has a worldwide viewership of 350 million and it airs in 214 territories.
Last i heard, Hammond and James decided to pull out with Clarkson if someone can confirm this.
Well, it's not like they can't continue on with the same car madness by latching onto a competitor of BBC. Most of the team have good relations with Discovery and Explorer i guess, and they could make a new show that may even be an improvement on Top Gear as a clean platter.
But yeah, Top Gear is just meh and bland without them, it will never recover from this no matter who they put into it.
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Does anyone know, who the current stig is?
From what I have read earlier today, this is what's going on.
Hammond and May's contracts have expired, and not been renewed, meaning they can now take offers from other networks. The BBC bosses are trying desperately to get them back, but Hammond and May are maintaining silence. I truly believe they won't be going back, a rival network would be absolute FOOLS not to pick them all up, and make something similar. Considering that Top Gear was the single most watched factual show in the history of Television. 250 million viewers around the world? How could ANYONE not pick that up?
No matter what or who the BBC finds to replace the original 3, it just will not be Top Gear in spirit. And it will utterly fail, this was the death knell of Top Gear.
I dont understand why the BBC has created all this mess in the first place.
I cannot blame Jeremy for the actions he did, of course its not allowed or any good to hit some one.
But if you worked your ass off the whole day, early mornings, till late in the evenings just to get they show recorded, then you might expect that the boss, or atleast the leader, which was the producer in this case, would have orginised a decent meal right?
I would have been pissed off aswell.
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The sad thing is, a few decades ago, this would have just been a scuffle, both men would have apologized to one another, and gone on with business as usual. But NOOOO, in today's world, all that can happen is running to "teacher" and saying "HE HIT ME! WAAAAH"
Then someone gets fired, and the most popular factual television program in history is now essentially dead. Hope it was worth it over some chicken shits fat ass lip (I've had worse from a night of drinking with friends, no one cried about it)
If anyone deserves to be fired, the producer does, for being a complete and utter pussy.
Of course the BBC is allways free to give me a call lol.
i might concider it.
haha
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If they called me, I would accept, and just give clarkson my pass in order to troll them.
That, or show up wearing a clarkson mask.
lol.
I would just be me... xD
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