(22-06-2015 16:49 )HannahsPet Wrote: [ -> ] (22-06-2015 16:37 )Charlemagne Wrote: [ -> ]It's mentioned that Top Gear is a francise, but I read that the BBC had bought the production company (Bedder 6) from Jeremy Clarkson in 2012. Clarkson was paid about 5 million for his share.
Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman formed the company in 2006
yeah thats why clarkson was on a 3 year contract which was up for renewal weeks before the incident and its the contract that wasnt renewed hence thats why Hammond and may were also free agents.
liked the story this weekend about carol vorderman was at the same place where clarkson and an un-named BBC producer were discussing him coming back. said didnt hear all the conversation but clarkson stayed for a drink with her and told her about this producer offering him his old job back. get the feeling parts of the bbc dont know what others are doing 
So essentially TG was originally Clarkson's baby? I bet he wished he'd never sold his share in the production company....Will he now try and get the 5m back from the BBC?
Top Gear has been a BBC program since the seventies with Angela Rippon and Noel Edmonds as the presenters. Clarkson started in the late eighties and others presented before and after including Quentin Wilson, Steve Berry, Kate Humble and Vicki Butler Henderson. Due to loosing audience the BBC cancelled it 2001. The then presenters took the show to Channel 5 and called it Fifth Gear.
2002 Andy Wilman and Jeremy Clarkson co produced a new imagined version of Top Gear for the BBC introducing Star in a Reasonable Priced Car, the Stig and the track timings for the supercars. In 2014 the BBC bought the rights to Top Gear in house paying Clarkson and Wilman substantial amounts.
The BBC therefore own the rights to the name and the format - basically the IP rights. It has been licenced in other countries and possibly they could licence it for Clarkson et al but with Chris Evans doing the new show I doubt very much they will do that.
Nah Top Gear has always been BBC show
basically after clarkson left first time and most of the production team left to create fifth gear for channel 5. Top gear was up shit creek
In 2002 Clarkson and Wilman went to BBC with the idea for new top gear as it is now so bbc used there production company Bedder6 to create and produce it
thats when in 2012 when it had become a global success BBC WorldWide bought Clarkson and Wilman out for £14 million and gave them all contracts
But seems Clarkson and Wilman have another production company called Newincco1189 since 2012
Read somewhere that he didn't like the attention Will got on TFI as "he" was the star so maybe not
(23-06-2015 19:55 )Tumble_Drier Wrote: [ -> ]Evans can be a cock, but TFi wouldn't last 5 minutes without him presenting.
A coincidence there as the same is true of Top Gear and Jeremy
The old trio are causing a fuss in South Africa now :
Quote:Jeremy Clarkson has landed in controversy along with his former co-stars James May and Richard Hammond while performing on their live show after making a poor-taste joke about the Oscar Pistorius trial.
During the live show in Johannesburg, Clarkson accidentally shoots an audience member with a paintball gun.
As the unfortunate victim is led away for treatment, Clarkson admits: 'I thought he was a burglar,' when James May replies 'was that member of the audience you just shot in the bathroom, no, then it can't have been a burglar then, can it?'
(25-06-2015 23:47 )circles_o_o_o Wrote: [ -> ]The old trio are causing a fuss in South Africa now :
Quote:Jeremy Clarkson has landed in controversy along with his former co-stars James May and Richard Hammond while performing on their live show after making a poor-taste joke about the Oscar Pistorius trial.
During the live show in Johannesburg, Clarkson accidentally shoots an audience member with a paintball gun.
As the unfortunate victim is led away for treatment, Clarkson admits: 'I thought he was a burglar,' when James May replies 'was that member of the audience you just shot in the bathroom, no, then it can't have been a burglar then, can it?'
Just another case of the media whipping up controversy where there is none. Seems these days that officially it's in bad taste to have a sense of humour. If the PC brigade had there way all of us would have to undergo surgery to have our sense of humour removed
FFS, if they're not careful they'll get the sack and then where will the show be
Oh, hang on a minute.........
Gotta love the hypocrisy of the bbc Clarkson gets a warning for not even using the N word on a show and were nearly 100,000 using it during glastonburys coverage of Kanye West last night wonder what sanctions the bbc will get
