Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Making Show For Amazon 207
mrspoonsi writes: Amazon has announced that former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be reuniting to create “an all-new car show” that will be exclusively on Amazon Prime. The first season will be made available worldwide in 2016 and will be produced executive producer Andy Wilman. The BBC reports: "The move follows their departure from the hit BBC Two show earlier this year. Clarkson's contract was not renewed following an 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer. His co-hosts then followed him in leaving the show. They will now make the unnamed new programme with former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman, who also quit the BBC following the 'fracas.' In a statement from Amazon, Clarkson said: 'I feel like I've climbed out of a biplane and into a spaceship.'"
I wonder (Score:3)
I wonder how many parts of the show they are not allowed to copy.
I think of David Letterman and how he had to change the name of his top ten list.
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They can just replace The Stig with Jeff Bezos...
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I'm looking forward to the Popular person in a production car and seeing their feral racing driver the Gits test supercars. ;-)
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I have no idea how he got
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As an aside there was a direct clone of the Letterman thing in Australia. The presenter (Steve Vizard) would even wander around with an empty coffee cup at the start of the show to copy what Letterman did.
Wasn't he in some comedy show as well?
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Vizard was in some of the funniest sketch comedy in Australia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
It's aged, but some of it still works.
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He was the money and connections guy for Fast Forward production and he got time on screen to keep his ego fed.
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Yes. Some of the others were very funny. His stuff was pretty well the homosexual version of "blackface" and other unoriginal shit, but he was the guy with the finance so went in the show.
Did you know him?
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They might have bought the format off CBS.
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The Vizard show slavishly copied his mannerisms (eg. walking around with a cup at that start of the show) and the timing of the segments. It was all very strange until I saw an episode of Letterman. Of course someone who ended up being forbidden for running a company for ten years after being caught at insider trading is exactly to sort of person that doesn't care about copying someone else's show that
Amazon Prime (Score:1, Offtopic)
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Of late? That infestation has been there as long as I can remember, which is as long as I've had a TV && bothered to see Top Gear. And it's probably 5 years since I started to refuse to watch anything with Clarkson in it after his "trade unionists should be shot" claim. Friends of mine have been shot by firing squads for being trade unionists, and I'd be more than happy to return the favour to Clarkson (with him trusting that the f
First note to the PAs on the new show: (Score:5, Funny)
Mr. Clarkson prefers WARM STEAKS.
Re:First note to the PAs on the new show: (Score:4, Funny)
Note to executive producers: hire PAs with mixed martial arts experience. Bonus points if they're Mexican or Argentinian. Come to think of it, keep the cameras rolling too because that's something I'd pay to watch.
Re:First note to the PAs on the new show: (Score:5, Interesting)
You know, that would be the best prank ever. Convincing Clarkson that he's getting a new TV show but having the actual point being to secretly film him when he's not acting for the fake "show", as they subject him to situations that would be increasingly uncomfortable for a speed-obsessed labour-hating hot-headed racist diva. Sort of "Top Gear" crossed with "An Idiot Abroad". ;)
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World Wide? (Score:5, Insightful)
I figured I would try it. I signed up for it, Amazon happily took my credit card details and, after they were potentially billing me (yeah I know first month is free), they tell me I can't watch it from my location. Now, I know they have my address on file. I know they can figure out what country my visa card was issued. You would think they would warn me that I cannot view their apparently 'world wide' service from Australia.
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You would think they would warn me that I cannot view their apparently 'world wide' service from Australia.
Where has Amazon ever claimed that Amazon Video streams all content "world wide"?
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Yeah, good call. The BBC news channel added that, and Slashdot copied them.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/ph... [corporate-ir.net]
Is the original press release and seems to only say that it will be released for Amazon Prime viewers, not mentioning anything about being a "worldwide release".
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I figured I would try it. I signed up for it, Amazon happily took my credit card details and, after they were potentially billing me (yeah I know first month is free), they tell me I can't watch it from my location. Now, I know they have my address on file. I know they can figure out what country my visa card was issued. You would think they would warn me that I cannot view their apparently 'world wide' service from Australia.
The best part is that you will now be getting regular e-mails from them informing you of 'deals' available to you on their world wide service that you cannot subscribe to from your location.
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VPN's won't help either. If you have to pay via a credit card, they know which country you're from and they they can deny the service based on this. You'd have to get a credit card in the issuing country, with a corresponding address in that country
They have this same implementation for restricting the sale of mp3's; you can't for example buy mp3's from amazon.co.uk if you live in Canada and have a Canadian credit card.
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What, did something happen to Doctor Who?
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Well, Peter Capaldi happened.
(Sorry, just not a fan)
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I'm just trying to get an accurate handle on just how much of an arsehole Clarkson is, so that his career is destroyed and he disappears from public life.
Isn't it called "Grand Theft Auto?" (Score:5, Funny)
>> 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer
Let's see...driving around in awesome cars and smacking around random people. Isn't that already called "Grand Theft Auto?"
Hats off, Amazon (Score:2)
It's always been a bit of a PITA to even consume Amazon content; I've got a fairly poor network connection and they're nowhere near as good at throttling as Youtube, let alone Netflix. When you compound that with their long-standing and only relatively recently-relaxed attitude towards permitting Android devices to consume Amazon Instant Video, my desire to have Amazon Prime has been extremely limited... until now.
Assuming this is true, this might be what finally lures me into Prime membership.
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On the connection issues, I wonder why these streaming services don't allow more caching of content. I'd expect that you could flag a movie that you want to watch and the player would download the whole thing for me in the background. I could either attempt to watch in real time or catch it much later, or anywhere in between.
But they don't work that way, which means that I have problems with amazon streaming from time to time. (I have Comcast Cable internet, and I have my suspicions as to the source of t
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I only have shitty 4mb ADSL in the UK and I have absolutely no problems streaming their content. How bad is your connection exactly?
I agree their lack of Android support was shitty, but given that I could play it on my X1, my 360s, my PS4, my PS3 my Smart TVs, and I think even my WiiU as well as my computers (I also have two internet connections with different IPs) I always wondered how long it'd be before they phoned me to tell me I'd been banned from sharing my account. There was never really much of a sh
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I only have shitty 4mb ADSL in the UK and I have absolutely no problems streaming their content. How bad is your connection exactly?
It's a 6mb connection from a local WISP that brings the signal into our town via four microwave links...
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They tend to throttle their flash player even if you have a 100 mbit connection.
I have the opposite problem. My connection is kiddie grade, from a WISP that phones it in, and the Amazon video player often won't buffer properly, doesn't cut down the bitrate enough, something. Netflix works great and Youtube works OK so I blame Amazon.
this is not the Leaked show synopsis (Score:2, Funny)
What can they call the show that's both amusing and punitive?
B.B.C - British Blokes Cars (just use and promote the acronym, ought to be no end of merry japes)
Synopsis - several Middle Aged and Unexpectedly Wealthy dufus's from the crumbling British Empire lark and prank about in cars, without the hindrances of a Politically Correct overseer, making enough poo poo and boom boom jokes to keep a newly minted prince Harry soiling his duds in merriment. Long live the Queen.
Featuring segments including 'Who Can W
Pirate anyway (Score:2)
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You know the X3 is wack...
Yes, I think that's exactly how James May put it.
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I have a subscriptions and will still pirate it, i refuse to be beholden to use streaming services players. Wake me when they get their act together and get a functional API so things like plex/xbmc can embed them.
there is one thing they will never top (Score:2)
turning a Reliant Robin into a fucking space shuttle. And actually launching it.
Amazon Prime? (Score:2)
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Are they going to ship it to me for free within two days? No, it is Amazon Prime's streaming service. I can't figure why those are bundled together. I'm sure it's great for people who subscribe.
Oh, I thought you were smarter than that, based on your posting history. It's good for Amazon, that's why they are bundled together.
It goes without saying (Score:2)
"What could possibly go wrong?"
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...Frankly, part of the charm of the show was the sort of kludgy, clumsily-produced, backyard-BBC feel to it.
As much as I look forward to the show, it's not likely to succeed.
1) there's no flipping way any American audience will stand around. Holy shit, I've always been amazed at how desperate one would have to be to be on TV to stand in a crowd of people, mostly in the dark, for the hours and hours it would take them to shoot that show.*
* unless you're a hottie, in which case you'd clearly have been escor
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Yes, unprovoked (Score:5, Insightful)
You do realize that the only reason Clarkson was not fed is because he went drinking at a local pub after shooting was completed for the day. He arrived at his hotel after the restaurant was closed (but some people were still there chatting) and then blew up because there was no hot food for him.
Clarkson went on a 40 minute rant blaming a producer named Oisin Tymon. Clarkson called the producer lazy, told him he would make certain he lost his job, and used a racial slur describing him as a "lazy Irish cunt". All this in public in front of many people. Eventually he punched the producer, who was taken to the local hospital for treatment of facial injuries.
Clarkson's show also claimed a Tesla ran out of electric power after 55 miles when the claimed range was 200 miles. Tesla sued for libel but the lawsuit was dismissed because "rectification of inaccuracies is not a function of the courts"! However, the BBC admitted in court that the scene where the car ran out of power was faked. I hope Clarkson and friends don't have the same leeway with the truth under Amazon.
Re:Yes, unprovoked (Score:5, Interesting)
I've seen that episode several times. I like the Tesla, but I think Top Gear made a good point.
Clarkson's show also claimed a Tesla ran out of electric power after 55 miles when the claimed range was 200 miles.
The actual quote:
âoeAlthough Tesla say it will do 200 miles we worked out that on our track it would run out after just 55 miles.â
55 miles on their TRACK.
55 miles on a track isn't really even that bad... but it would be a terrible track day car. I had to fill my 911 twice last time I took it to a track, and then again to get it home. But a complete fill on my car takes less than 5 minutes at the gas station next to the track. A tesla owner would not have that luxury.
the BBC admitted in court that the scene where the car ran out of power was faked.
Not "faked", but yes it was was done purely for dramatic effect.
And, again, in context, it was simply illustrating the point that after a day on the track the car would be dead; and wouldn't make the trip home. (without another lengthy recharge.)
Only a Tesla fangirl would get all twisted up in knots over the episode. It was a legitimate criticism delivered with typical Topgear dramatic sensibilities. (Ie 'over the top') But Clarkson and the gang routinely slag excellent cars and its all in pretty good humor. Clarkson has called the 911 Turbo a car that plots to kill its driver, and compared the Carrera 4S to a boob job... meanwhile he fell over himself in adulation of the Ford GT which he pre-ordered for himself and which had proven to be something of a lemon to actually own... "leeway" is what the audience wants from that show.
There are plenty of other places to get 'boring'. Few magazines ever say anything remotely critical of anything. Its pretty refreshing and entertaining to see these supercars and hypercars both shown in their best lights but also to see them taken down a peg now and again. To see a ferrari stuck in an alley it's too wide for, to watch them try and park a lambo, to see them collectively decide a cheap VW hatchback is more fun to drive than a BMW... that's what made TopGear.
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Actually the real bone of contention was not the fact that they faked it running out of charge, it's that they faked it breaking down. The claimed it was less reliable than it really was.
They really seem to hate EVs for some reason, except hybrid sports cars. Even then, Clarkson was too thick to work out how to use the charger so didn't get maximum benefit from it.
Re:Yes, unprovoked (Score:4, Interesting)
it's that they faked it breaking down.
Cite?
All the coverage I can find of a "fake breakdown" is simply an alternate phrasing for their "dramatization" of it running out of juice, and then being pushed into the garage.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i... [liveleak.com]
That said, the drivetrain did overheat on one, and the brakes did fail on the other one. (Yes they abused them... but that's what they do. And plenty of other super and hyper cars have broken down on them too and they've taken the piss out of them too.)
Even then, Clarkson was too thick to work out how to use the charger so didn't get maximum benefit from it.
And he wasn't able to run a Reliant Robin more than a 100 yards without rolling it over either. He's Clarkson... his persona for like 15+ years is to be a bit of hooligan gorilla. Taking his on-screen and off-screen antics seriously... says more about the viewer than it does about Clarkson. Its not fair and balanced journalism. Sit back and enjoy the spectacle.
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. Any experienced sports car driver, like Clarkson claiks to be, could roll a Reliant Robin over inside of 50 yards
And if I'd originally written 50 you'd have claimed it should only need 25. No real point even engaging. The point remains that he set out to make the robin look like all it does is roll over, when lots of people have managed to drive one without constantly going over.
As for 'antics', punching somebody in the face isn't 'off-screen antics', it's assult with intent.
I am not defending the assault, per se; nor was i even referring to it; By off screen antics I meant his persona in general. His columns, his books, his political views, his public appearances... etc.
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The Reliant rolling was in the context of an segment that was deliberately and obviously taking the piss out of a car that is a bit of a running joke in British culture. In fact he rolled it four times in the segment.
Nobody watching it would have mistaken it for a serious attempt to evaluate the Robin.
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Nobody watching it would have mistaken it for a serious attempt to evaluate the Robin.
Nobody watching TopGear should take anything they do as a serious attempt to evaluate anything.
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I see people criticize Top Gear the way you just did over and over and I can think is that you don't get the show, or you've never seen it.
As a fan of the show, what do I think it is? I think it's about a few adolescent boys that exist in 50 year old bodies and the hi jinx they get up to. And they frame this in the form of "a motoring show" in the sense that all the hi jinx are based around cars. And I also think that anyone who thinks it's a car review show and criticizes it for the quality of it's revi
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Only a Top Gear fangirl would think that Top Gear is a car show that reviews cars.
It si not about the cars. They could just as easily insult celebrities or trees all the time.
It is basically Grumpy Old Man.
Are you saying that it's a TV car analogy of some show like Jersey Shore?
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55 miles on a track isn't really even that bad... but it would be a terrible track day car. I had to fill my 911 twice last time I took it to a track, and then again to get it home. But a complete fill on my car takes less than 5 minutes at the gas station next to the track. A tesla owner would not have that luxury.
That actually sounds like an opportunity for Tesla. 55 miles would be really close to what you'd need for a typical 20-30 minute run session on track. I bet it would be feasible to have a "Tesla track day support" truck with a mobile version of the battery-swap machinery, and a semi-trailer full of charged batteries. They just set it up in the pit lane. At the start of the day/weekend, you swap out your "road" pack for one of the rentals, and then again every time you come off the track. The events I've bee
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"Oh, it would have only lasted 55 miles on our track!" SO FUCKING WHAT? That's a frigging RACE you retarded shitepile!
You do realize topgear runs pretty much every car that comes in on its track right? Every other car however, can be filled up and driven home immediately afterwards. That's a fairly signficant difference between other cars and the Tesla. They decided to make much ado about that point. Accept it and move on.
How long would a car able to go so fast last on the same track? 50-80 miles tops.
Did you not read my post? I actually answered that. I said 55 wasn't that bad on the track. I said my 911 needed to be filled up twice on a track day, plus a 3rd time to go home. I figure I was getting around 3-4 mpg... my range wouldn't be much better than a Tesla.
But I could (and did) fill it in the space of time it took to wolf down a sandwich... twice; and then get back onto the track. My track day in a Tesla would have been... cut shorter to say the least; and I'd have had to sit around for a while charging it up again to go home too.
And it would beat the same sized car in acceleration and speed OR in range on the racetrack. No similar car could beat it on all three. You'd need a proper "road legal" racer for that.
That's just fangirl talk. It wins drag races. That's about it.
Here's the Tesla S at the Nurburgring
http://ecomento.com/2014/07/10... [ecomento.com]
The car overheated around 5 miles in. Without overheating they figured around 9 minutes. That's pretty good (but it didn't actually do it... what with the overheating.) And 9 minutes while very good is NOT amazing. LOTS of high performance 4 door sedans can do that... Mercedes C55, BMW 335i, Audi S5... are all comfortably sub 9 minute cars.
I like Tesla. I like the car. I like what the company is doing to the automotive world. But I don't want to own one (at least not one they've made so far). Its a pretty amazing car, and the torque is phenomenal... it wins drag races against almost everything.
Its a good car, but not as good your making it out to be.
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"Oh, it would have only lasted 55 miles on our track!" SO FUCKING WHAT? That's a frigging RACE you retarded shitepile! How long would a car able to go so fast last on the same track? 50-80 miles tops. Less if it were a big car rather than a light racer.
If you compare it to, say, a Lotus Elise, an expectation of an owner of a car in that class is that you can take it on a track day. So take it to Castle Coombe (for example) and after an hour, the battery is dead. What are you going to do for the rest of the day while it recharges? watch everybody else driving round after refuelling with petrol in about five minutes?
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Some of the funniest shows and not so political correct punchlines they made involved travel episodes into other countries. Clarkson was an ass, and everyone knows this. But being an arrogant prick is sometimes what's necessary to make the funny shows he made.
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But cyclists are the enemy!! (Score:3, Insightful)
Seems nearly everyone of them feels they can peddle anywhere despite local laws. My city has sacrificed car lanes to make bike lines and bikers still ride the wrong way on one way streets, let alone to mention sidewalks. What is needed is a biker's license equal to a driver's license and equivalent penalties for violating the rules of the road. Breeze by a stop sign? Be subject to strip search just as everyone else is.
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There has never been an instance where a bicyclist plowed into a family car and killed its occupants. There have been many other cases of the revers happening. When it does, to motorists is not prosecuted.
So ride a bicycle. It is fun.
We call this cognitive dissonance.
Riding a bicycle where cars aren't is indeed fun. Riding a bicycle where cars are is terrifying, if you love life and understand how fragile it is. This is why I own a MTB whose rubber cannot even sustain contact with asphalt. Super nice on single track, though.
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Insightful)
The whole thing boils down to Political Correctness
No. Not at all.
Seriously, read what happened. Yeah, BBC has done plenty of bone-headed things in the name of PC. This, however, is not one of those things. Clarkson punched a staff member. He admitted to doing it. Physical assault is very clearly a violation of workplace terms there. Hell, if you punched a coworker at your place of employment could you reasonably expect to keep your job? I'm quite sure I could not and I am not nearly as highly regarded (or highly paid) as Clarkson.
This ended up being about the fact that the same rules need to be applied all through the pay scale. Just because he is a celebrity, and a host of the most watched television program in the world does not mean that rules do not apply to him. Hell, if that had happened here in the US, he'd be facing a multi-quintillion-dollar lawsuit already.
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Insightful)
The whole thing boils down to Political Correctness
No. Not at all. Seriously, read what happened. Yeah, BBC has done plenty of bone-headed things in the name of PC. This, however, is not one of those things. Clarkson punched a staff member. He admitted to doing it.
If we call a spade a spade, Clarkson is basically a dick. The only bad thing about this is that he didn't get a solid smack in the face himself.
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Funny)
If we call a spade a spade, Clarkson is basically a dick.
You say dick, May called him a knob, Clarkson would refer to himself as a "bell-end". Thats what he gets paid for - a professional arsehole would be a better metaphor IMHO. And we love him for it.
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People enjoy the fact he acts an arse, him actually being an arse is a bit different. People often love "characters" on television they would despise in real life, sadly Clarkson let his idiot persona take over his real one.
Yes, exactly. People love Woody Allen movies about sexual deviants. If he had made a movie about hooking up with his adopted daughter, people would have loved it. When he did it in real life, people were shocked, although they now have come to accept it.
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When he did it in real life, people were shocked, although they now have come to accept it.
Nobody really shocked in real life has come to accept it. Anyone who was actually shocked by it then still feels queasy about it now.
A-haha-ha-ha-ha - gipsies. (Score:2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Interesting)
This may not be about PC, in fact I highly doubt it but to say that this isn't politically motivated is bone headed.
Clarkson has been at odds with the BBC's director of TV, Danny Cohen since he became Director of TV. Cohen has been gunning for Clarkson for years but hasn't been able to do anything as Clarkson and Wilman owned a significant part of Top Gear as TG was originally a joint venture between the BBC and Clarksons/Wilmans production company. Months before the "fraccas", BBC acquired Wilmans and Clarksons stake in Top Gear.
However with the loss in revenue the BBC will feel over this and the inevitable failure of the Chris Harris led Top Gear, I suspect that Cohen will be out of a job within a year.
That's a cop out.
The BBC is not above applying double standards and if this happened at a lower rank, you can bet your arse the person involved would be sent off for "anger management" and that would be the end of it... But as I said, the BBC is not above applying double standards.
Which would be settled for a fraction of a million instead of being the circus that it was in the UK.
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Insightful)
This may not be about PC, in fact I highly doubt it but to say that this isn't politically motivated is bone headed.
He punched a producer over some steaks being cold, and it was widely circulated. Your conspiracy theory is beyond bone-headed.
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Informative)
Clarkson has been at odds with the BBC's director of TV, Danny Cohen since he became Director of TV.
There is somebody that Clarkson has met that he didn't end up being at odds with?
That's a cop out. The BBC is not above applying double standards and if this happened at a lower rank, you can bet your arse the person involved would be sent off for "anger management" and that would be the end of it... But as I said, the BBC is not above applying double standards.
I don't think that this hullabaloo about the firing of Jeremy Clarkson (aka. the unjustified politically motivated attack PC attack on Clarkson) is entirely about him punching that producer. It is also about other incidents of him punching people and just generally being a pain-in-the-ass arrogant diva who has gone out of his way to make enemies. He had it made, all he had to do was think before he talked and not punch people over food deliveries or because they published photos of him snogging a woman who isn't his wife but Clarkson being Clarkson had to screw it up by being a dick. It's nobody's fault but his own.
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Clarkson had to screw it up by being a dick
Hahahaha you still think this was a screw-up? It cost Clarkson basically nothing and got him a bunch of free publicity, and he's getting precisely what he wanted. You ignorant tool. You think that because Clarkson's character is a buffoon that he's an idiot? You really think you're something special, don't you?
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Clarkson had to screw it up by being a dick
Hahahaha you still think this was a screw-up? It cost Clarkson basically nothing and got him a bunch of free publicity, and he's getting precisely what he wanted. You ignorant tool. You think that because Clarkson's character is a buffoon that he's an idiot? You really think you're something special, don't you?
Hahahahahaha If anybody here is an ignorant tool it's you. Are you really trying to convince us that Clarkson pretended to blow his gasket and punched Oisin Tymon in the face to get out of his BBC lucrative contract and strike it big on Amazon Prime of all places? I am simply awestruck by the genius of that plan.
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his BBC lucrative contract
You really think nobody would pay him more than the BBC? Seriously?
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However with the loss in revenue the BBC will feel over this and the inevitable failure of the Chris Harris led Top Gear,
The internets have been calling for a Chris Harris-led Top Gear since the show was cancelled... it's got a fair shot if it doesn't try to be the old show.
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It wasn't just the punch either, he had been on warning for a long time after several racist comments, some of them broadcast. He's one of those people who likes to think he ins't a racist, but really is and can't always keep it from coming out.
It will be interesting to see what happens now, because Amazon is likely to give the team more leeway. The thing is, he won't be able to avoid more incidents like those, and there will be complaints... But is Amazon regulated under TV broadcasting rules? Will they ju
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The difference is that the BBC, as a publicly funded enterprise, should uphold the highest of values and everyone has some kind of say in how it is run.
You can be a total dick on Amazon Prime if you like. People who don't like you simply will not pay for you and won't watch you. There will be very little outcry and no-one will be demanding your job, your boss' job, and the downfall of your company.
Bottom line; people care about the BBC (for better or worse), no one cares about Amazon Prime.
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If there is one thing that the media and the internet has taught me. EVERYONE is a racist. EVERYONE. You are a racist, you just don't know it yet. It's coming though, something you say offends someone of a different race, trust me. I'm a white male, my existence alone is racist.
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(Technically pure
cable channels aren't either, but they tend to pretend they are, which is why BBC America censors BBC shows. For example, when Clarkson called TTs "titties" that got bleeped.)
Ah yes, the BBC, where you can show titties but you can't say titties. And then talk about how superior you are because your media is more sane.
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Of course you can, I bet it only got censored in the US.
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I preface this by saying none of the following excuses the conduct, but I do think many of the accounts leave out some of the context behind the punch. Clarkson was going through a divorce and had just been told he had cancer. The day of filming had not gone well, he was tired, and drunk. He profusely apologized in the morning and went to the BBC himself to confess. He did something wrong, he made a mistake, but the reports make it sound like it happened because he was a terrible human being rather than a
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Clarkson was at fault. BBC is at fault. Society is at fault. We like to watch Clarkson BECAUSE he is not above being non-PC if he thinks he has a reason.
You can assign blame however you like, but the punch was thrown by Clarkson. Nobody physically forced his hand. If he really is the same person on and off screen, he may want to consider seeking psychiatric help.
If you don't like him, don't watch him.
Personally I think he's hilarious. I've been watching Top Gear for about a decade or more now. That is not an endorsement for him to be as arrogant off screen as on, though; I view Top Gear as a source of entertainment. People who watched Breaking Bad didn't expect Bryan Cranston to be a meth
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Do you think the BBC should have disregarded his transgressions as they did with Jimmy Savile?
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if Clarkson had been caught with his cock in a six year old girl, he'd still have his job and we wouldn't have heard fuck all about it.
Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Insightful)
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Clarkson even said weeks later that he regrets his actions.
It's good to know that you believe everything you read. It just so happens that I've got a relative in Nigeria who would like to communicate with you via email.
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Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness (Score:5, Insightful)
If it wasn't that BBC insisted that all its employees must accept their Political Correctness doctrine, Mr. Jeremy Clarkson would still be hosting the Top Gear program at BBC
I suggest you go to work tomorrow and when something doesn't run 100% smoothly shout at another employee and then punch them in the face. See how long you get to keep your job, and see if using the word "political correctness" helps you at all.
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I think Clarkson crossed the line when he challenged BBC in a public forum. BBC felt that it couldn't back down, which meant its only recourse was to fire Clarkson. It's unfortunate because I'm a Top Gear fan, and I rather like Clarkson's sometimes rude demeanor.
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Only if you want to get anything done.
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if i hire steve-o from jackass for a cooking show i know its gonna have ball sac's in it
if i hire clarkson for a tv show hes gonna be a brash asshole and talk out his arse
these are facts BBC knew the man and how he acted before they issued him 10 contacts
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"and love how Clarkson can get away with it"
For small values of getting away with it.
Slashdot is entirely over rickb928 (Score:2)
And has been for a few years.
I'm tired of whining.
I'm tired of whining everywhere.
Stop.
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*whoosh*