(08-04-2015 18:21 )ShandyHand Wrote: [ -> ]^Bytor, can I ask what you think would have happened if Clarkson had been in the middle of his contract?
I have a feeling the BBC would have kept him. Maybe censored him and taken the show off air until next year. Let the fuss die down a while and then bring him back. This episode will soon be forgotten by fans and those who don't care either way. Those that hate will still hate.
Sorry to rake all this up again but I came to this story late and I thought I would wait until it played out before commenting. (I didn't like how many were judging before the full facts were known.)
I only asked the question above because I have agreed with every single thing Bytor has said about the media on this thread (so you can see I am by no means a Clarkson hater) but I'm afraid I can't really see this 'contract not renewed' thing as anything but an almighty convenient and typically BBC fudge. One that allows everyone to save a tiny bit of face when really no-one should come out of this with any.
The BBC put themselves in a silly no-win situation and this outcome smacks of a wish-washy, iffy, spider's compromise to me. (They should never have let the previous 'final warning' tag take hold in the press in the first place and could then have dealt with the situation as they pleased.)
Unfortunately, as much as I hate the trial by press aspects of this case, from there, I don't see how the BBC could have done anything but sack Clarkson if his contract had have had more outstanding on it. So the contract/sacked argument seems a little mute to me.
We need people like Clarkson on TV amid the wash of bland personalities but ultimately, to my mind, he simply made his own bed.
Well seems its all over James may has gone and the Executive producer Andy Wilman
James may had a dig in the telegraph about BBC Meddling Dept apparently they didnt want an all male team and complaing about too many ex public schoolboys.
tell you the BBC is becoming more like W1A all the time
(24-04-2015 07:19 )HannahsPet Wrote: [ -> ]Well seems its all over James may has gone and the Executive producer Andy Wilman
James may had a dig in the telegraph about BBC Meddling Dept apparently they didnt want an all male team and complaing about too many ex public schoolboys.
tell you the BBC is becoming more like W1A all the time
last paragraph "His weekly Sun column had not appeared in the interim but the paper had assured readers that he was on holiday and "had not been sacked"."
Make of this what you will but as HP said May and Wilman have confirmed they had quit Top Gear. Hammond has also said he has resigned too. Basically the driving force behind TG is now free to go elsewhere. Heres hoping anyway
^^^ Apparently the four amigos met yesterday at Clarkson's flat, perhaps discussing their next move together?
I think it was May was quoted as saying that there was always the possibility they could return to TG after a break, that Clarkson's contract was not renewed, he was not sacked, and the door was therefore open for a potential return.
