Jezza bell: Jeremy Clarkson suspended, no Top Gear this week! :(

[CubSmurf]

Jeremy Clarkson Suspended By BBC,*Top Gear*Won't Air Sunday (http://jalopnik.com/report-jeremy-clarkson-suspended-from-top-gear-show-w-1690546352)


I'll withhold judgement until more is known, but there is NO Top Gear without all 3 of them. :shots:

[Stangkiller]

Well we knew he was on super secret double probation....it's a shame he makes that show.

[CubSmurf]

Well we knew he was on super secret double probation....it's a shame he makes that show.

Agreed. Curious as to what happened as it seems the producers have been in his corner previously...

[ApexOversteer]

I bet he called someone a name... you watch, this will all be about Jezza calling someone's ancestry into question with a racist/offensive name/analogy...

[CubSmurf]

I bet he called someone a name... you watch, this will all be about Jezza calling someone's ancestry into question with a racist/offensive name/analogy...

Sadly, this would not surprise me at all.

[Grey Ghost]

BREAKING: Clarkson suspended from Top Gear (http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/news/a25232/breaking-clarkson-suspended-from-top-gear/)

[CubSmurf]

BREAKING: Clarkson suspended from Top Gear (http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/entertainment/news/a25232/breaking-clarkson-suspended-from-top-gear/)

I was hoping your link had updated from the once I posted. You got my hopes up. Ha :cert:

[Grey Ghost]

I was hoping your link had updated from the once I posted. You got my hopes up. Ha :cert:

I didn't realize both said the same thing lol

[Madmikeee]

My favorite car show of all time, I will say though that he (Clarkson) really needs to learn to keep his mouth shut in regards to certain topics. He is old enough to know better. I like his "not suffering bullshit" attitude but you still need to watch what you say in regards to certain topics.

But since we have no idea what actually happened with the "fracas with the producer" we will just have to wait and see what happens.

[CubSmurf]

Captain slow just posted this on twitter:

No Top Gear this weekend, apparently. How about 633 Squadron instead? JeremyClarkson @RichardHammond





Interesting...Not negative OR positive...what say Ye Apex?

Edit: They're bantering back on forth like it's the show. Seems they planned the exchange and showing 'solidarity'? Might not be the best word, but seems they aren't 'mad' at him.

[ApexOversteer]

Radio Times is reporting that Jezza tossed a punch, but also makes it sound like that punch did not land. They're also saying all three remaining shows for this series have been removed from the listings...

[99 pewtercoupe]

Doesn't Clarkson own the show? I thought I read that somewhere before

[ApexOversteer]

Doesn't Clarkson own the show? I thought I read that somewhere before

No. Clarkson and Andy Wilman own the Non-UK rights to the show. Clarkson/Wilman are who you go to if you want to make a version of the show for another country, and they get a big chunk of the UK show's revenue earned from overseas broadcast. The Beeb is still in the driver's seat in the UK.

[GreyGhost]

This sucks:shots:

[99 pewtercoupe]

Despite it's flaws it is still better than 95% of the dreck that American studios produce for TV

I have often thought that would be a dream job to become a fourth wheel on that show:seasix:

[ApexOversteer]

This sucks:shots:

Yes it does. They had just gotten McLaren, Ferrari and Porsche to agree to terms on the hypercar summit. It was likely to be the big finale for this season...

[Craig]

I'm going to try to use the word "fracas" tomorrow.

[Thunder22]

Report: Jeremy Clarkson Punched Producer, Rest of Season Cancelled ?*News ?*Car and Driver | Car and Driver Blog (http://blog.caranddriver.com/report-jeremy-clarkson-swung-at-producer-rest-of-season-cancelled/)

[CubSmurf]

Yes it does. They had just gotten McLaren, Ferrari and Porsche to agree to terms on the hypercar summit. It was likely to be the big finale for this season...

Did they??? damn...

The guys seem to be sticking together on twitter, which is interesting. Wonder why he threw the punch? Making him drive the Dacia Sandero again?

[ApexOversteer]

Did they??? damn...

The guys seem to be sticking together on twitter, which is interesting. Wonder why he threw the punch? Making him drive the Dacia Sandero again?

It's stupid.

His dinner was late.

Not kidding.

[CubSmurf]

It's stupid.

His dinner was late.

Not kidding.

Wait, seriously? He threw a punch because his dinner was late?!? There HAS to be more to the story.

[CubSmurf]

BBC producer hit in Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson 'fracas' identified | Daily Mail Online (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2988412/Top-Gear-s-Jeremy-Clarkson-suspended-BBC-fracas-producer.html)

After reading that article it sounds more and more like the BBC wanted to get rid of him and are using this incident to do so. I worked in TV news for 10 years and I'll tell you the bond you make with your coworkers is like nowhere else I've ever worked. My experience isn't quite the same but Clarkson and this producer have known each other for many years, and likely would have developed a good working relationship. There's even a photo of them in that article laughing and having a good time:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/11/2687153900000578-2988412-image-m-11_1426063660666.jpg

Smells like a screwjob to get rid of him. Maybe I'm wrong but it seems awfully convenient timing that his contract is up in a month.

[Cybercowboy]

Punched in the face, but who's to blame?

Jeremy gives Top Gear a bad name (bad name).

[ApexOversteer]

After reading that article it sounds more and more like the BBC wanted to get rid of him and are using this incident to do so. I worked in TV news for 10 years and I'll tell you the bond you make with your coworkers is like nowhere else I've ever worked. My experience isn't quite the same but Clarkson and this producer have known each other for many years, and likely would have developed a good working relationship. There's even a photo of them in that article laughing and having a good time:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/11/2687153900000578-2988412-image-m-11_1426063660666.jpg

Producer has been with the show for almost 80 episodes and that is like 10 years in Top Gear time. It wasn't actually reported to the BBC by anyone on the show, apparently. It was watercoolered for a week, until it got around to someone with an axe to grind and a tempestless teacup.

[CubSmurf]

Producer has been with the show for almost 80 episodes and that is like 10 years in Top Gear time. It wasn't actually reported to the BBC by anyone on the show, apparently. It was watercoolered for a week, until it got around to someone with an axe to grind and a tempestless teacup.

Exactly!

[Craig]

I'm going to try to use the word "fracas" tomorrow.

I was unable to use the word "fracas" today, but I did say "debacle".

[CubSmurf]

Jeremy Clarkson suspension leaves BBC facing multimillion-pound bill
Jeremy Clarkson suspension leaves BBC facing multimillion-pound bill | Media | The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/bbc-jeremy-clarkson-suspension-top-gear)

Cliffs: By cancelling Top Gear the BBC is in breach of contract with networks that have purchased the rights to air the show. And by all accounts all 3 presenters contracts are up in the next month or so....

[island14]

There's even a photo of them in that article laughing and having a good time:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/03/11/2687153900000578-2988412-image-m-11_1426063660666.jpg


Hard to tell from that photo, he has a shit eating grin on his face that looks like he just called him a corksugger.. and the guy at the left is surprised saying Woah.. you gonna take that Bitch? LOL

[ApexOversteer]

I hearing that the producer that was "punched" will be telling investigators that he was not in fact "punched"... because he wasn't...

Which makes sense. The three presenters are having a blast with this, and that tells me they know this is nothing and the truth will vindicate them.

[RedLS1GTO]

I was unable to use the word "fracas" today, but I did say "debacle".

I use the word FRACAS (almost) every day at work.

:leaving:

A failure reporting, analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS) is a system, sometimes carried out using software, that provides a process for reporting, classifying, analyzing failures, and planning corrective actions in response to those failures. It is typically used in an industrial environment to collect data, record and analyse system failures. A FRACAS system may attempt to manage multiple failure reports and produces a history of failure and corrective actions.

The FRACAS method was developed by the US Govt. and first introduced for use by the US Navy and all department of defense agencies in 1985. The process is a closed loop system. It records the problems related to a product or process and their associated root causes and failure analyses to assist in identifying and implementing corrective actions.

Common FRACAS outputs may include: Field MTBF, MTBR, MTTR, spares consumption, reliability growth, failure/incidents distribution by type, location, part no., serial no, symptom, etc.

Failure reporting, analysis, and corrective action system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure_reporting,_analysis,_and_corrective_action_system)

[ApexOversteer]

James May: I was blind drunk (warning: contains strong language) - YouTube

[island14]

Good answer.. :lol:

Imagine what a PIA it would be having reporters knocking on your door asking stupid questions that are none of their business.

[CubSmurf]

http://i.imgur.com/EQ1PT39.png

[C5SilverBullet]

http://i.imgur.com/EQ1PT39.png

:lol::lol::lol:

[CubSmurf]

:lol::lol::lol:

Not his real account, but still funny!

[Jobaka]

Is it possible this whole thing is made up just to get lots of free publicity? Doesn't seem likely, but it's not completely out of the question, is it?

[CubSmurf]

Is it possible this whole thing is made up just to get lots of free publicity? Doesn't seem likely, but it's not completely out of the question, is it?

I wouldn't be shocked if that were the case BUT I wouldn't imagine the BBC would break their contract with the networks that purchase the broadcast rights of the show. LOTS of money there.

[ApexOversteer]

Is it possible this whole thing is made up just to get lots of free publicity? Doesn't seem likely, but it's not completely out of the question, is it?

Yeah, no. They didn't need the publicity, they rule the world's television screens. More people watch Top Gear than any other television show. This is pissing people off, big time. The fans waited nine months for this series, they're really pissed off right now. This was also to be the first full series since 2007. Now it's been chopped off into yet another short series. The anger is running deep.

This is someone trying to get Jezza fired and failing, IMO... and I hope when they figure out who the little bitch is, they drag him behind a Maloo pickup at 150mph, by their testicles...

[lander]

I watched Ep. 7 last night...I pay $1.99/episode to Amazon Prime because I think it's worth it. The chemistry between these three is what makes the show, no doubt in my mind. I don't know how well he'd do on his own, but if the three of them were to go somewhere else and do a show like this, I'd follow. No doubt. They entertain me...that's worth the price of admission.

[Mike Mercury]

interesting tidbit

Clarkson's fondness for wearing jeans has been blamed by some for the decline in sales of denim in the mid-1990s, particularly Levi's, because of their being associated with middle-aged men, the so-called 'Jeremy Clarkson effect'.

After Trinny and Susannah labelled Clarkson's dress sense as that of a market trader, he was persuaded to appear on their fashion makeover show What Not to Wear to avoid being considered for their all-time worst dressed winner award. Their attempts at restyling Clarkson were rebuffed, and Clarkson stated he would rather eat his own hair than appear on the show again.

Clarkson is unsympathetic to the green movement and has little respect for groups such as Greenpeace—he believes that the "eco-mentalists" are a by-product of the "old trade unionists and CND lesbians" who had found a more relevant cause— but "loves the destination" of environmentalism and believes that people should quietly strive to be more eco-friendly.

Regarding windfarms, he says that in the future, they will be described as "a reminder of the time when mankind temporarily took leave of its senses and decided wind, waves and lashings of tofu could somehow generate enough electricity for the whole planet"

On his chat show, Clarkson, he caused upset to the Welsh by placing a 3D plastic map of Wales into a microwave oven and switching it on. He later defended this by saying, "I put Wales in there because Scotland wouldn't fit"

[Madmikeee]

and this just proves that the world has indeed taken leave of it's senses, specifically it's sense of fcukin humor.

[Mike Mercury]

more:

Activities on Top Gear:
In December 2006, the BBC complaints department upheld the complaint of four Top Gear viewers that Clarkson had used the phrase "ginger beer" (rhyming slang for "queer") in a derogatory manner, when Clarkson picked up on and agreed with an audience member's description of the Daihatsu Copen as being a bit "gay".

In a later incident during a Top Gear episode broadcast on 13 November 2005, Clarkson, while talking about a Mini design that might be "quintessentially German", made a mock Nazi salute, and made references to the Hitler regime and the German invasion of Poland by setting the GPS system to Poland.

In November 2008, Clarkson attracted over 500 complaints to the BBC when he joked about lorry drivers murdering prostitutes. The BBC stated the comment was a comic rebuttal of a common misconception about lorry drivers and was within the viewer's expectation of Clarkson's Top Gear persona. Chris Mole, the Member of Parliament for Ipswich, where five prostitutes were murdered in 2006, wrote a "strongly worded" letter to BBC Director-General Mark Thompson, demanding that Clarkson be sacked. Clarkson dismissed Mole's comments in his Sunday Times column the following weekend, writing, "There are more important things to worry about than what some balding and irrelevant middle-aged man might have said on a crappy BBC2 motoring show."


In an episode aired after the watershed on 1 August 2010, Clarkson described a Ferrari F430 as "speciale needs". He said the car owned by co-presenter James May looked "like a simpleton". Media regulator Ofcom investigated after receiving two complaints, and found that the comments "were capable of causing offence" but did not censure the BBC.

On 12 January 2012, the Indian High Commission lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over the "tasteless" antics of Clarkson's Top Gear Christmas special where he mocked India's culture and people. During the 90-minute special, which was aired twice over the Christmas break, Clarkson made a string of jokes about Indian food, clothes, toilets, trains and history.

On an episode of Top Gear broadcast on 5 February 2012, Clarkson compared a Japanese car/camper van to a person with a growth on their face. A major UK charity that supports people with facial disfigurements, Changing Faces, complained to the BBC and Ofcom after Clarkson's remarks.

In an unused take for a Top Gear feature recorded in early 2013, Clarkson is alleged to have mumbled the ethnic slur "n-gger" when repeating the children's rhyme Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. The clip later surfaced on the website of the Daily Mirror tabloid at the beginning of May 2014. In the take, Clarkson attempts to mumble the sentence so as to obscure the word, but admitted that upon a close listening, the word could still be heard. Clarkson apologised for his efforts not being "quite good enough" to ensure the footage was not used.

It was reported on 3 May, that the BBC had given Clarkson a final warning, with the presenter accepting that he will be sacked if he makes another offensive remark.

Near the end of the Top Gear: Burma Special, which aired March 2014, Clarkson and Hammond were seen admiring a wooden bridge, which they had built during the episode. Clarkson is quoted as saying "That is a proud moment, but there's a slope on it." as a native crosses the bridge, 'slope' being a pejorative for Asians. Top Gear Executive Producer Andy Wilman responded: "When we used the word slope in the recent Top Gear Burma Special it was a light-hearted word play joke referencing both the build quality of the bridge and the local Asian man who was crossing it. We were not aware at the time, and it has subsequently been brought to our attention, that the word slope is considered by some to be offensive"

In October 2014, Clarkson attracted controversy when filming the Top Gear: Patagonia Special after driving a Porsche 928 in Argentina with the licence plate H982 FKL, allegedly referring to the Falklands War. Also, during the broadcast itself, Clarkson was seen referring to the controversy that had risen after the Burma Special; when inspecting a bridge, which he and his colleagues had built during the episode, he was quoted as saying "That is a proud moment, Hammond, but… is it straight?"

[ApexOversteer]

Now they're saying it was CLARKSON that reported the incident... WTF... is this the apocalypse or something?

[ApexOversteer]

In related news, the Change.org petition to get Clarkson reinstated just passed 850,000 signatures...

[CubSmurf]

Now they're saying it was CLARKSON that reported the incident... WTF... is this the apocalypse or something?

What?? That doesn't even make sense...unless he was looking for a way to exit...:shots:

[ApexOversteer]

What?? That doesn't even make sense...unless he was looking for a way to exit...:shots:

Or he was trying to get out in front of a story.

I'm lost... the red tops and crap rags have the whole thing so twisted, you can't make heads nor tails of it anymore. There was one paper reporting that the BBC was going to apologize for pulling the show, but then they edited that bit out of their story online and issued a correction.

I just learned today that the whole thing happened in front of Hotel staff and guests! Where the f*ck are those accounts? What, the tabloids couldn't get "Hotel guest X and his wife Y" to spill the story for a few hundred quid?

None of it makes any sense anymore.

[ApexOversteer]

Of course, this whole thing could be....


http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb164/ApexOversteer/Funnystuff/jeremy-clarkson.gif

[CubSmurf]

I just learned today that the whole thing happened in front of Hotel staff and guests! Where the f*ck are those accounts? What, the tabloids couldn't get "Hotel guest X and his wife Y" to spill the story for a few hundred quid?


Watch: ‘Top Gear’ Host Jeremy Clarkson ‘Threaten to Sack’ Producer Whom He Allegedly Punched | Variety (http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-host-threatened-to-sack-producer-who-he-allegedly-punched-1201452242/)

It's an eye-witness account, not Clarkson himself.

[alfred1976]

Bring Back Clarkson petition delivered by Stig in a tank

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From the article:
Signed by almost one million supporters, the "Bring Back Clarkson" petition has arrived at the BBC headquarters with a tank.

8 pictures and video in the gallery (http://www.dpccars.com/gallery/index.php/Bring-Back-Clarkson-petition-delivered-by-Stig-in-a-tank)

[CubSmurf]

Bring Back Clarkson petition delivered by Stig in a tank

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From the article:
Signed by almost one million supporters, the "Bring Back Clarkson" petition has arrived at the BBC headquarters with a tank.

8 pictures and video in the gallery (http://www.dpccars.com/gallery/index.php/Bring-Back-Clarkson-petition-delivered-by-Stig-in-a-tank)

That is awesome. Clarkson recently spoke at a charity auction:

"There was an 18-year waiting list to be in the audience of Top Gear, but the BBC has f***** themselves. It was a great show and they've f***** it up"

[lander]

Well, looks like the BBC cut off it's nose to spite it's face:

BBC decides not to renew Jeremy Clarkson's contract | Fox News (http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2015/03/25/bbc-decides-not-to-renew-jeremy-clarkson-contract/?intcmp=features)

From the BBC:

Jeremy Clarkson dropped from Top Gear, BBC confirms - BBC News (http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-32052736)

[Datawiz]

Kiss that show goodbye.

[ApexOversteer]

Kiss that show goodbye.

I did when they suspended him.

[Stangkiller]

Any chances he and his two cohorts will come resuscitate the American Top Gear show?

[Cybercowboy]

Top Gear Presenter James May Reacts To Jeremy Clarkson Being Sacked By BBC - YouTube