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Hard to imagine 'Top Gear' without Jeremy. Oh well...
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Brian

And now there's nobody left to watch it, anyway.

I started watching Top Gear when it was still a local/regional show, long before it went national. It was actually a good show, with interesting facts about cars and realistic road tests.

Clarkson and Co. turned it into something like The Three Stooges crossed with Monty Python. They were somewhat humourous at times but it was supposed to be a show about cars and car performance and not a vehicle for JC's ego!

Tako_Kichi wrote:...Clarkson and Co. turned it into something like The Three Stooges crossed with Monty Python. They were somewhat humourous at times but it was supposed to be a show about cars and car performance and not a vehicle for JC's ego!

Very well said, that man ...

Well, I for one have a lot of time for Clarkson and agree with his views that PC has gone too far and i think a few around here are quietly nodding their heads on that point. It is a simple fact though that these days you can't say some stuff on camera however silly you think it is for people to react.

(<Snipped> Massive rant about PC, the N word in a kiddies rhyme etc etc etc)

What surprises me is that, in my fetid mind at least, the most important fact seems to have been overlooked. Clarkson assaulted a colleague on work time. If I did that I'd be marched off the premises, never to return and expect a visit from the Constabulary. I know that TV stars and media types move in a different world to ordinary mortals, but assault is assault is assault. Give him time to clear his desk, if you will, since he turned himself in, but all this carry on and breast beating should never have happened IMHO.

He was already on dodgy ground. He should have been marched immediately and that's that. And no, I don't think £150m or whatever Top Gear is supposed to be worth mitigates anything. He hit the bloke. Finito Benito.

Paul

Very well said, that man ...

Seconded

I used to have a lot of time for Clarkson but we're going back a fair old while. I've not watched Top Gear for years and for the very reasons Larry posted.. the programmes focus has long turned toward what antics the trio will get up to next rather than cars.

As Paul said, he did hit a bloke after all and how many of us mortals would get away with that!!

Maybe they'll replace him with Russell Brand!
ATB
DaveB

Well said you Gents most of which are my sentiments,

Hang on though! what TV stations will be queuing up with their cheque books in a little while after all the hallabaloo has died down.i think i will nip into the bookies and place a bet

Roger.

I stopped watching Top Gear because I couldn't stand Clarkson

Peter, I was the same . He was much funnier on paper some 20 years ago, but Top gear became a one-joke show , and not a very funny one at that . We got to the stage where we would watch it, but only if we were desperate and polite conversation was the only alternative !!

DaveB wrote:

Very well said, that man ...

Maybe they'll replace him with Russell Brand!
DaveB

When I hear his squeaky high pitched voice, for me it is fingernails on a blackboard time. And as for Clarkson, good riddance, such an arrogant self aggrandizing fool. Though he is bound to bounce back as others have said.