Author Topic: Jeremy Clarkson to 'start again' with new car show (Read 2308 times)

roo_ster · « **on:** April 24, 2015, 01:44:12 PM »

http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2015/0422/Jeremy-Clarkson-to-start-again-with-new-car-show?cmpid=TW
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/comment/columns/jeremyclarkson/article1545053.ece
http://www.theweek.co.uk/62887/jeremy-clarkson-is-he-building-a-team-to-rival-top-gear

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Andy Wilman, Top Gear's executive producer and an old school friend of Jeremy Clarkson, has quit the BBC, leading many media watchers to predict that the pair will reunite to work on a rival motoring show.

Clarkson and Wilman met Top Gear presenters James May and Richard Hammond at Clarkson's west London flat yesterday, provoking speculation that the four men are planning to start up a new car show to rival Top Gear.

No word yet on if they are considering my suggestion:
http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=47655.msg971633#msg971633

Viking · « **Reply #1 on:** April 24, 2015, 03:13:32 PM »

James May left BBC as well, according to what I read earlier today.

Scout26 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:01:36 PM »

If the above are true, then the Hamster won't be far behind.

Plus getting out from under the control of the BBC will be a good thing.

just Warren · « **Reply #3 on:** April 25, 2015, 03:31:18 PM »

But a I said in another thread on this losing aces to all that archival material has got to hurt. A part of their show was going back and looking at previous reviews and adventures and that was always fun.

And what to cal it? 6th Gear? Overdriven? New Car Show?

Fly320s · « **Reply #4 on:** April 25, 2015, 04:05:13 PM »

Quote from: Viking on April 24, 2015, 03:13:32 PM

James May left BBC as well, according to what I read earlier today.

Hammond, too, according to Facebook.

Northwoods · « **Reply #5 on:** April 25, 2015, 11:29:02 PM »

Quote from: Warren on April 25, 2015, 03:31:18 PM

And what to cal it? 6th Gear? Overdriven? New Car Show?

POWAAHHH!!!

K Frame · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2015, 09:17:35 AM »

There are a number of outlets in the running to pick it up -- Amazon, Netflix, Sky... I'm hoping for Netflix myself.

Meanwhile, apparently BBC has huge plans to "reinvent" the show.

I have a funny feeling that it's going to fall flat.

Viking · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2015, 09:30:32 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 26, 2015, 09:17:35 AM

There are a number of outlets in the running to pick it up -- Amazon, Netflix, Sky... I'm hoping for Netflix myself.

Meanwhile, apparently BBC has huge plans to "reinvent" the show.

I have a funny feeling that it's going to fall flat.

I'm not betting against you.

mtnbkr · « **Reply #8 on:** April 26, 2015, 09:53:59 AM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 26, 2015, 09:17:35 AM

I have a funny feeling that it's going to fall flat.

Yup. They'll make it about the cars, which was never the draw of the show. It was about the three musketeers.

Look how weak the American version is/was (is it still on?).

Chris

lupinus · « **Reply #9 on:** April 26, 2015, 10:30:27 AM »

BBC would be better off letting that dog lay and finding a different replacement. Anything they do, particularly with the guys moving somewhere else with a different show, is just going to feel like a knock off.

K Frame · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2015, 11:19:09 AM »

BBC is probably pretty desperate to hold on to the 50+ million pounds the show generates every year.

My prediction is that they're going to make it multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, and multigender.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that...

But what's going to absolutely kill it is that they are going to make it so screamingly PC that there won't be any interplay banter or chemistry between the presenters because that might offend someone.

It's going to be a lot like PBS' Motorweek. Dry facts, figures, and bland reports delivered in a monotone. What absolutely staggers me is Motorweek has been able to last since 1981!

I guess PBS viewers are already humorless, accountant-type drones for whom a stream of numbing facts and figures are nourishment, and any colorful commentary is the work of satan.

Balog · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2015, 01:12:56 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 26, 2015, 09:17:35 AM

There are a number of outlets in the running to pick it up -- Amazon, Netflix, Sky... I'm hoping for Netflix myself.

Meanwhile, apparently BBC has huge plans to "reinvent" the show.

I have a funny feeling that it's going to fall flat.

A Netflix produced Top Gear esque show would be incredible.

Calumus · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2015, 01:51:21 PM »

Personally I'd be thrilled if whoever makes it rents the Dunsfold airfield. Keeping the Top Gear test track would be great. If BBC goes the ecofeminist route, They'll get a moderate viewership for the first episode. People will tune in out of curiosity. Same way you'll crane your neck to see a wreck on the highway. After that, it will fade out to almost nothing. They've repeatedly thrown out Jodi Kidd's name as a potential host. I don't think that will work out for them. She's a friend of Clarkson, and a pretty big petrol head. I don't think she'd enjoy testing nothing but hybrids and electrics.

Scout26 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2015, 03:56:29 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on April 27, 2015, 11:19:09 AM

BBC is probably pretty desperate to hold on to the 50+ million pounds the show generates every year.

My prediction is that they're going to make it multicultural, multiethnic, multiracial, and multigender.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with that...

But what's going to absolutely kill it is that they are going to make it so screamingly PC that there won't be any interplay banter or chemistry between the presenters because that might offend someone.

It's going to be a lot like PBS' Motorweek. Dry facts, figures, and bland reports delivered in a monotone. What absolutely staggers me is Motorweek has been able to last since 1981!

I guess PBS viewers are already humorless, accountant-type drones for whom a stream of numbing facts and figures are nourishment, and any colorful commentary is the work of satan.

Which part of "PBS' Motorweek" has you confused?

Balog · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2015, 04:00:01 PM »

PBS doesn't need people to like its programming for the most part. Donating to it is more of status symbol or at best a love of one or two shows. And I would bet the majority of those would be things like Mystery or Masterpiece Theater.

K Frame · « **Reply #15 on:** April 27, 2015, 04:05:59 PM »

Quote from: scout26 on April 27, 2015, 03:56:29 PM

Which part of "PBS' Motorweek" has you confused?

What has me confused is how you could possibly think I'd see Motorweek as anything other than what it is. Boring.

K Frame · « **Reply #16 on:** April 27, 2015, 04:06:58 PM »

Quote from: Calumus on April 27, 2015, 01:51:21 PM

Personally I'd be thrilled if whoever makes it rents the Dunsfold airfield. Keeping the Top Gear test track would be great. If BBC goes the ecofeminist route, They'll get a moderate viewership for the first episode. People will tune in out of curiosity. Same way you'll crane your neck to see a wreck on the highway. After that, it will fade out to almost nothing. They've repeatedly thrown out Jodi Kidd's name as a potential host. I don't think that will work out for them. She's a friend of Clarkson, and a pretty big petrol head. I don't think she'd enjoy testing nothing but hybrids and electrics.

I've seen JK on the show a couple of times.

The only way I'm going to tune in to see her is if she puts her rack on the steering rack.

Every week.

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #17 on:** April 27, 2015, 04:59:03 PM »

Quote from: Warren on April 25, 2015, 03:31:18 PM

And what to cal it? 6th Gear? Overdriven? New Car Show?

"Two and a Half ~~Men~~ Blokes"?

vaskidmark · « **Reply #18 on:** April 27, 2015, 08:34:39 PM »

Hammond is commenting on a NatGeo compilation of stupid -- amazingly enough call The Science of Stupid.

stay safe.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #19 on:** April 28, 2015, 03:37:19 AM »

Quote from: Balog on April 27, 2015, 04:00:01 PM

PBS doesn't need people to like its programming for the most part. Donating to it is more of status symbol or at best a love of one or two shows. And I would bet the majority of those would be things like Mystery or Masterpiece Theater.

I get a kick out the PBS comments that the shows are funded by "viewers like you" . The hell they are, because if they were funded by viewers like me it'd be very different programing.

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Author Topic: Jeremy Clarkson to 'start again' with new car show (Read 2308 times)