Hmm, I do think this was a decision (was there really ever going to be a decision...) that wasn't taken lightly. The BBC haven't had a great reputation for a long while so something like this is perfect for them to show they are the 'good' channel and will do the 'good' thing.

It will take quite a while for Top Gear to get back on its feet (the next question will be, will Hammond and May stay or go). I think we've got to remember Clarkson has been presenting Top Gear since it started (the modern version we know now). Clarkson, May and Hammond have been presenting it for 12 years together, that's a long time in TV. Even though this decision to sack Clarkson had to happen, I bet the show producers and directors of the BBC are very worried now about how Top Gear can move forwards and still retain its audience.

oh well

May and Hammond have probably already been made an offer by another channel, along with Clarkson lol.

Yeah I imagine the offers have been rolling in for at least a week now.

Inevitable really. I don't think Clarkson will lose an awful lot of sleep over it.

Oh, I do hope so. If Chris Evans is signed in his place I will never watch Top Gear again

Haha yeah, probably.

Would be quite amusing if all three of them appeared on ITV or another channel in a year with their own new motor show.

LOL. You cant blame him for the idiocy of his fans :laugh2:

Yes Even Netflix.


But of course Top Gear stays on the BBC
with new stars and maybe a old one

Yes some Fans become
"Like to Death"

To save their star

I will buy 10,000
of that mag
to ship to China

Do you think he should have just got away with punching someone he works with just because he's Jeremy Clarkson?

BBC let paedos get away with their abuse for years

Gone but not forgotten

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They did and that was terrible......... :laugh:

Clarkson is toast and as expected has been rightly sacked by the BBC over his latest episode.

The long suffering Beeb have finally plucked up the courage to tell clarkson to take a hike and some might say not before time.

The show was great in it's heyday but is dated now and looks a bit like Last of the Summer wine on wheels.

All things must go eventually and Top Gear is no exception. Mr Clarkson had been skating on thin ice for years but the thing that really sealed his fate was the whole "Celebrities are above the law" with ref to Jimmy Savile.

I think the BBC realised they cannot ever allow their employees no matter how famous to flout the law with impunity. so on that Bombshell I'll finish this Post.

As a footnote - I think the whole show will be scrapped and May,Hammond and STIG might come back along with a few new faces in a revamped show next year.

Or might we see May & Hammond and STIG leave the BBC to team up with Clarkson to continue the show under a new guise at say CH4 or CH5 or even ITV

Excellent

Genuinely loled.

Oh no of course not. There's no excuse for getting physically violent against someone, whoever they are and whatever they've done.

Even though he has been sacked, he has got away with it in a way. I bet the BBC are letting him go with some lump of money. If this happened to any old person they would be suspended, go through months of investigation, and before all that probably be arrested and have a criminal record stamped against their name, being left jobless, their future unknown and their job prospects very thin.

Despite this incident other channels and platforms aren't going to ignore the potential gain from taking Clarkson on (financially speaking), so I can easily see another channel or online platform taking the risk and perhaps ensuring Clarkson is controlled and not let loose for something like this to happen again.

I'm kinda neutral over the whole thing. I think he should have been sacked, but personally I liked him as a presenter of Top Gear, so I will miss that.

Bringing up the whole Jonathon Ross situation again, I loved his show on BBC and I really like the man himself and I genuinely believed that the BBC would suffer big time when Jonathon left them but it didn't affect them at all, Graham Norton slipped into his place quite easily and I doubt they lost any viewers at all since his departure. I did think that I would watch JR on ITV but tbh I find myself still watching BBC and Graham instead because the show itself is better. I'm hoping that the same will happen with Jeremy because if there's one thing I can't stand it's too big for their boots superior assholes like him

Good ol BBC always making great decisions, doing things right and by the book..oh wait...no, no.

Meh. BBC is rubbish anyway. Quite sure he will get picked up by another channel. Not that I particularly like him mind.

only on this forum could take something serious like the 'je suis charlie' incident and use it to show solidarity for their problematic fave.

I don't think I've ever said he was my favourite. Or even that I like the man.