Save The Top Gear One

[Baldric]

Come on Guys, JC needs your help, sign now

You know you want to!


https://www.change.org/p/bbc-reinstate-jeremy-clarkson

[B00]

Erm no, sorry.

His leaving or staying doesn't make a shred of difference to me, nor do I care either way.

[Dizmo]

Oh my, that'll feed his ego.

[mikey4444]

Can anyone point me in the direction of a similar but opposite petition, that calls for Clarkson to be sacked please. He is behaving like a silly, petulant schoolboy, who has been sent to his bedroom for being cheeky.

[sunny-dave]

Can we just get an estoppel on this please?

[Deskdiary]

I haven't signed it......simply because there's really no need to.

The BBC have to be shown to be taking a stance, and if the situation is as has been reported, then they are right to do so.

However, anybody thinking this is the end of Clarkson on Top Gear are deluded fools.

Top Gear is the BBCs Golden Goose, and most, if not all, of the success of Top Gear is down to Clarkson.

If they sack Clarkson, and try to continue with Top Gear, it will fail.

They know that, so they won't do it.

I'm always amazed at the humourless who walk amongst us who hate Clarkson so much. Those that do must have to go out of their way to read what he writes or watch what he appears in, and if they are doing so, then they are idiots. It really is very simple, if people hate him so much, don't watch Top Gear or buy The Sun on Saturday, The Sunday Times, Top Gear Magazine or any of his books. If the people that hate him so much don't do any of these things, then why would they hate him so much? Its just, well, odd and a bit pathetic.

[ChillDoubt]

Lot of fuss over a storm in a teacup, with posters elswhere on AB using words like hate etc. An enormous amount of vitriolic bile over a TV presenter.

The main thing to remember is that the BBC needs Clarkson, Clarkson does not need the BBC. Were he to leave I could see the Hammond and May leaving too.
The whole dynamic of the programme would change and the thing simply wouldn't function.
I believe Clarkson owns the rights to Top Gear. He would have rival companies falling over themselves to broadcast the programme.
Love him or loathe him the BBC would kill the goose that laid the golden egg were he to be sacked, so someone at board level in the ultra-PC BBC needs to sit back, take stock and think long and hard about what they're about to do.

[Retrochic]

He (allegedly) physically assaulted a work colleague -how many people signing this petition would condone that behaviour in their workplace? However, I don't think there is any need to prevent the already recorded TV programmes to go out.

[ichkeria]

I've lost my pen :-)

[Retrochic]

Chilldoubt Clarkson sold his rights in Top Gaar to the BBC in 2012

[Old_Geezer]

Look: the petition to make him PM failed, why would this have an effect ?

[PankySmooch]

No thanks, don't watch Top Gear any more, too many silly staged pranks, it's a load of crap.

[Old_Geezer]

Is that so Retro ? In which case the BBC has to either take the loss, or work it out with him. Clarkson himself is going to be less fussed then. Probably made enough to retire umpteen times over anyway. You know what a gold mine the entertainment industry can be for those lucky enough to win through.

[ChillDoubt]

Thanks for the info Retrochic. Still can't see the programme continuing with a different presenter, simply wouldn't work.
Think there's people complaining about the programme now? Wait until they use a replacement(if it gets that far).

[Retrochic]

It was reported on TV this morning he no longer has the rights to Top Gear. IF he gets the push the threat then will be the other two presenters may go with him and develop a new programme on a different channel. the question here: is Top Gear bigger than Jeremy Clarkson?

[Baldric]

If it was the usual Producer, Andy Wilman, they've known each other for years,
///After the original Top Gear was cancelled by the BBC, Wilman and his fellow ex-presenter Jeremy Clarkson pitched a new format and succeeded in getting permission for a new show. Apart from Top Gear, Wilman has worked with Clarkson on a number of other television projects. Wilman and Clarkson were both educated at Repton School///
So there has to be a certain amount of doubt at what actually occurred, and more to the point the reasoning behind it.

[sandyRoe]

I'll pass. This is one petition I hope flounders.

[Old_Geezer]

No. Unless they can get an equally controversial extrovert character to front it. After all it's just cars. Looking at, expressing opinion, driving around a circuit, or across some foreign country. It needs something more to pull in the viewers as otherwise it is small interest group viewing.

[bob561941]

my wife can't stand him. i think he's a bully always talking down to hamster
and taking the *** out of james.

[Garador]

Like others, I will not sign either. Clarkson, along with Brand (R), Norton and Ross have me snatching for the remote.

I have no reason to like of dislike any of these people, I don't even know them, but I can't stand any of them.