Rumour has it Guy Martin could be lined up to replace Clarkson?
It might just work ......

 

Yeah, my work colleague mentioned this on Thursday.

He's certainly a petrolhead (obviously!) and has a compelling personality. He's quite the nut.

 

Tbh I'd much rather watch guy than Jeremy.

 

If JC is to be replaced then surely the best bet is Chris Harris.

 

Doubt it, having read his autobiography I can't see him being interested in the Top Gear job in the slightest.

 

thing is Guy doesn't really like media attention, and whoever the BBC choose to take over from Clarkson will get a lot of media attention. Also get the impression Guy only makes program's that he wants to make.

What did Jezza do the night he was 'sacked', sloped off to a party. What did he do the following day, he was seen meeting James May and Andy Wilman, the later of which apparently had a meeting with ITV execs.
Do I think he will be enjoying an early retirement, no I don't.
Do I start to wonder that this whole thing has been somehow manufactured to get him away from the BBC, and a relationship that has become increasingly strained over the last few years, and create some sort of media frenzie and bidding war, quite possibly.

 

Topical.

 

Yes, I was aware of what I did there, but no racism intended at all.

 

 

Probably. And he's already got good links with Murdoch so a switch should've been easy and lucrative. But he didn't go.


Truth is, Clarkson needed the BBC as much as the BBC needed him.


The BBC is one of the very few broadcasters that can commission a series that can slag off the products of the industry with the second biggest TV advertising budget in the world and not give a toss about what those motor industry advertisers think.


If a BBC TG3 isn't going to be the same without Clarkson, then in '6th Gear', 'DSG Dave' or 'Loaded: Hatch' or whatever he chooses to call his next TV incarnation, Clarkson isn't going to be the same without the BBC.

 

|Guy Martin.lol

Clarkson and sidekicks will be fine doing exactly the same show for another channel

its the beeb who lose 50 million and no one is going to properly replace him. lol

 

Yes very true, and has recently been brought into stark focus by the HSBC / Telegraph debacle

Not sure how JC would cope with being told that he could not trash the latest BMW, because of their advertising spend

 

Which is why any online platform, Netflix, Amazon Prime etc would be a good home for him. No advertisers to worry about.

 

Good post, and quite right.

 

sure - but as I said, I doubt JC would be entirely happy swimming in the backwaters of the televisual entertainment pool

being on the BBC primetime gave him massive exposure and credibility too

may as well start his own youtube channel

 

Or may be he'll start posting on Scoobynet and Pistonheads type places, to be close to his die hard fans, and get exposure that way.

 

Within a few hours of making his JC sacking announcement, Lord Tony Hall received a death threat on 25th March. Must be some utterly devoted JC worshipper with a screw or two loose in his upper storey.

 

Well, slightly harsh perhaps

 

Threat came from abroad apparently

 

Fvcking foreigners

 

Jason Plato posts on Pistonheads.

 

This article written by Chris Harris is pretty much spot on in my book, especially the comments about the show trying to reach a wider audience and not just all be about cars (which some on here moaned about) and why it didn't harm HIGNFY but would top gear.

http://jalopnik.com/how-top-gear-mad...ars-1688464737

 

Still not sure how the BBC can justify sacking Clarkson for punching someone but covered up Jimmy Savile being a kiddie-fiddler...

 

They haven't 'sacked' him.
In fact, they are now grovelling and trying to get him to do the live shows so they don't have to fork out another 10 mill in ticket refunds.

 

And lets remember, ex DG Thompson bit someone on the arm and became BBC DG!

http://www.theguardian.com/media/200...oadcasting.bbc

 

Were they on the clock or off the clock??

If off the clock then is this not a personal matter rather than a company matter? If they were on the clock then do the BBC allow workers to be getting lashed on company time or should everyone who was drinking when it happened not also be fired for misconduct?

 

I always thought they did allow them to get pissed while on the clock. You often see fictional shows, showing a character and a BBC boss in expensive restaurants, having luxurious lunches and lots to drink. The basis for these scenes must have come from somewhere.

 

And how excited people got when they discovered that it was really him posting there.

Perhaps Jeremy Clarkson has already been posting here on SN for a long time, right under our noses. My money is on PS Lewis.

 

Would have been a good post had it not been nicked from Chris Harris' Jalopnick article and passed off as his own

 

Money lost: Clarkson never liked Blair, nor Labour.