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but chris harris can now write off all those tires he's going to burn up on the BBC expense account... win!
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__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
Now he'll have access to a proper budget and better accessibility.
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all under control of bbc though, I wonder how much they'll water him down?
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oh boy, i wonder if it'll turn out into a "too many cooks in the kitchen" situation
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all under control of bbc though, I wonder how much they'll water him down?
They really didn't seem to water down TG much did they? Maybe I'm being optimistic but if they just give him a crew/budget/bbc press pass, we could see amazing content from him.
To be honest, I had never heard of Rory Reid before yesterday. However, after going through some of the reviews he's done online, I'm pleasantly optimistic. They're definitely raw and very low budget, but you can see the enthusiasm hiding behind it all. He reminds me a little bit of Chris Harris, just with a slightly more focus on entertainment rather than pure facts and adrenaline.
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
And how is this different from TG USA or TG Australia or any other international version of TG? Even with TG branding all these international shows failed because the original members weren't in the shows. I bet anything this show and cast won't last for long.
And how is this different from TG USA or TG Australia or any other international version of TG? Even with TG branding all these international shows failed because the original members weren't in the shows. I bet anything this show and cast won't last for long.
Exactly.
TG USA and Australia were definite proof that the original had something that simply couldn't be replicated, and that something was to do with the three chaps presenting the show.
BBC fucked up, and now they get to learn a valuable lesson.
I just hope once TG dies JC/Amazon does something or manages to buy the rights or whatever in order to get the stig somehow back with the trio.
To be fair, the BBC didn't fuck up. Clarkson was given multiple warnings over the past years and, considering it's a publicly funded system, I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did. If it was privately funded like HBO, there might have been more leeway.
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Jeremy Clarkson has apologised to the Top Gear producer he punched after settling a £100,000 racial discrimination and injury claim.
Oisin Tymon launched the action against the presenter and the BBC after a "fracas" last March that left Mr Tymon with a bloody lip.
"I would like to say sorry, once again, to Oisin Tymon for the incident and its regrettable aftermath," Clarkson said.
"I want to reiterate that none of this was in any way his fault.
"I would also like to make it clear that the abuse he has suffered since the incident is unwarranted and I am sorry too that he has had to go through that.
"I am pleased that this matter is now resolved. Oisin was always a creatively exciting part of Top Gear and I wish him every success with his future projects."
Mr Tymon's lawyers said the case had been settled but did not give details of the settlement.
It is understood to be in excess of £100,000, an amount to which both Clarkson and the BBC contributed.
The "fracas" took place at a North Yorkshire hotel after Clarkson was told there was no hot food available at the end of a day's shooting on location.
An internal BBC inquiry found Mr Tymon was subjected to an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack" by Clarkson, who called the producer "lazy" and "Irish" and used a four-letter expletive in the exchange.
At the time of the attack, Mr Tymon told police he did not wish to press charges. In the days following he was the subject of sustained abuse on social media for his involvement in the dispute.
Clarkson, 55, was dropped by the BBC after the incident, with his Top Gear co-presenters James May and Richard Hammond also leaving the corporation.
"The action involving Mr Tymon has been concluded," said Mr Tymon's lawyer, Paul Daniels.
"Oisin is keen to put the matter behind him now that it has been brought to a close. Oisin greatly appreciates all of the support he has received, including from the BBC."
"We are pleased that matters have now been resolved," said the BBC in a statement.
"Oisin is a valued member of the BBC who behaved with huge integrity in dealing with the very difficult circumstances last year - a situation in which, as Tony Hall has stated, he was completely blameless.
"Oisin has made an important contribution to the BBC in his 12 years with us, and we hope to see him continue to realise his potential in his role as a development executive.
"We believe Oisin has a very exciting future at the BBC."
Clarkson, May and Hammond have since signed up to launch a rival motoring show on Amazon's streaming TV service.
Chris Evans is currently filming a new series of Top Gear with a new line-up of presenters that includes Matt LeBlanc and Eddie Jordan.
Racial Discrimination lol, people need to grow up these days.
My feeling about the new program is that it is going to have amazing car footage but it's going to loose the comedy factor that made the last era of Top Gear so good.
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
It feels appropriate that James May’s new BBC4 show should be about putting things back together after they have been taken apart. The BBC is doing something similar with Top Gear after Jeremy Clarkson’s axing last year, while May, Clarkson and co-presenter Richard Hammond will front a new motoring show on Amazon Prime.
May’s BBC4 show, The Reassembler, in which he puts back together a lawn mower, an electric guitar and a telephone, is likely to be his last hurrah for the BBC given the scale of his commitment to Amazon.
“The Amazon thing is going to be very complicated and it takes up a huge amount of time,” says May. The trio and executive producer Andy Wilman signed a three-year deal with the on-demand broadcaster last year worth a reputed £160m, with Clarkson on £10m a series, Hammond and May on £7m each. May says the numbers are “all bollocks. The figures aren’t right and anyway they don’t give us a great big bag of money and say, ‘here’s your money go off and spend it’. They give it to us bits at a time.
“It is massively expensive what we are doing, for reasons that I hope will become apparent when you see it. We are doing it over three years and there are going to be 30-plus long episodes. So no, we haven’t all been out and bought a yacht. I’ve got a new pair of trainers, that’s the only difference in my life since I started working for Amazon.”
That and the tan, thanks to May and his fellow presenters filming in the Caribbean and north Africa for the as yet untitled Amazon show. May confirms it will begin in the autumn, with each run likely to be 11 episodes, possibly more. It will be scheduled – albeit not in the traditional sense – so won’t be immediately available to binge-watch.
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It will also leave the TV studio behind, disappointing devotees of the “cool wall” but an exciting prospect for fans of Top Gear’s sumptuously filmed location shoots.
May says they are making more episodes than they did in the latter days of Top Gear and it is “logistically more complicated ... We are making a series of TV films and we don’t have a base”.
“Top Gear used to take up pretty much all our time and that is true now, worse actually,” he adds. “And by the end of the three years I’ll be dead anyway.”
May first discussed the idea for The Reassembler several years ago and had all but agreed to do it before signing up with Amazon, along with another series of BBC2’s Cars of the People. “I couldn’t say, ‘oh I’m not going to do it now because I’ve gone off to make myself rich with Amazon’. That would have been appalling,” he says. “I like putting things together and I find it very difficult to believe that other people wouldn’t be utterly fascinated. A more rational part of me accepts that a lot of people are going to think it’s utterly dreary.”
Each episode features May in a workshop, faced in the first instalment with 331 parts of a petrol-engine lawn mower. Ten hours later – 30 minutes of TV, including interspersed archive clips – it is rebuilt. It’s not quite “slow TV” – the phenomenon which won BBC4 two of its three Royal Television Society awards last week – but it has an old-fashioned, meditative feel about it, an arty side project before his Amazon blockbuster. May is “Captain Slow”, after all.
“I don’t actually know what the budget was but speaking from a purely selfish point of view it wasn’t a very well paid gig,” he says. “It was the TV equivalent of the contents of your 2p and 1p jar shaken out and used to buy something nice. What’s the rule, if it’s not successful it’s art? This is definitely art.”
We meet a few days short of a year since Clarkson was dropped from Top Gear after a damning internal report into his “fracas” with producer Oisin Tymon. He was followed out the door by Wilman, Hammond and May who said it would be “lame” to do Top Gear with a “surrogate Jeremy”.
“I remember thinking at the end of 2015 on New Year’s Eve, I’m actually quite glad to see the back of that one,” says May. “2015 was a bit complicated and had some very traumatic bits in it.”
It also, he says, had some “rather deserty bits in it” when he ended up “cooking shepherd’s pie on YouTube. It wasn’t as traumatic as having to go to war in Afghanistan, it was just a bit trying. I didn’t want to throw my life and career away”.
May briefly considered “taking a few years out or knocking it on the head” and becoming a teacher, but reality intervened in the form of a global bidding war for the services of the three presenters who turned Top Gear into a £50m BBC brand.
“People still wanted us to keep doing it so we had a duty to,” he says. “And you didn’t want to be the one who didn’t keep doing it, it would have looked churlish and mean spirited.”
“There’s a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff but in the end we are purveyors of entertainment,” he adds. “Viewers are not really bogged down in who’s doing what and who hates who and who’s doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.”
The rebooted Top Gear returns to BBC2 in May, with Chris Evans presenting it with Matt LeBlanc. It has already proved controversial, culminating in the “doughnut” episode near the Cenotaph which had Evans apologising “unreservedly”.
“That was probably a little bit ill-judged,” says May. Has he ever doughnuted around the Cenotaph? “I have driven up and down that road yes but no, I don’t do doughnuts. It’s inappropriate wherever you do it in my view.
“It was possibly a little unwise, ill-advised,” he adds. “Once they got to the point where they had to reinvent it, they had to have the balls to reinvent it totally, which is what they have done.”
He missed Evans comparing the former Top Gear trio to Zippy, George and Bungle from the children’s show Rainbow. “That’s quite good actually. Zippy? That’s Hammond. Is Bungle nice? I’ll be Bungle. Jeremy is George. A bit of good-natured sparring is great for everybody.” But he plays down the fact that Evans will be on air before them. “We are doing it carefully, it will be ready when it’s ready. For once, we are not in a race.”
May is a firm supporter of the BBC. “It would be a shame if the BBC didn’t exist, once it disappears you will never have it back,” he says. “Some people have got it in for the BBC for no apparently good reason. The Amazon lot are perfectly reasonable, level-headed people who just want to make TV programmes, I don’t think they are the enemy of the BBC or the other way round.
“It’s not a war, these things can coexist. We can have Amazon and Netflix and the BBC and BT Sport and people can make choices, that’s what modern life is all about,” he adds. “We are in the middle of a massive experiment, there will be a shakedown and we will see what comes out. I wouldn’t be surprised if the BBC was still in it, but they won’t be alone.”
Just before Christmas May broke his arm when he slipped leaving a restaurant and, unable to do much with it in a sling, spent six weeks making an Airfix model, a 1/48th scale Grumman F4F Wildcat. “I wasn’t really significantly drunk,” he remembers. “I went down with a massive wham. People always say if you’ve been drinking you just bounce. Well I didn’t, I went down with a loud cracking noise and that was that.”
The Reassembler will air on BBC4 at 9pm on 4, 5 and 6 April
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
In the latest blow to hit the new look Top Gear show, Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc’s relationship has reportedly broken down.
The hosts are said to have fallen out following last month's Cenotaph stunt which was heavily criticised at the time for being disrespectful.
According to a report, the radio host - who apologised on air following the backlash - blames the former Friends actor for it turning into a PR disaster.
A source told The Sun: "Matt was never Chris’s choice - it was a decision forced upon him to attract the US market.
“He accepted it and was desperate to strike up a bond when they were filming, but the spark just wasn’t there.
"Since the Cenotaph, their relationship’s deteriorated. Chris thinks Matt severely damaged the brand. Behind the scenes it’s very frosty between them."
It’s just the latest blow to hit the revamped show which is due to air next month.
Fans recently slated the new trailer which showed Chris in his new role for the first time.
Reacting to the footage on Facebook, fan Ethan Wright fumed: "Looks like it will conform to the politically correct agenda the BBC wanted real Top Gear to always be. This show will be apocalyptically boring without the humor or Clarkson, May and Hammond.”
Mick Brawn then added: "The BBC made a choice to pitch this new line up against the original casts new show on Amazon. What they overlooked is Clarkson and co have a huge budget and a free hand on the content, no more political correctness of the BBC holding them back.
"I think the BBC will regret this decision as an unfettered Clarkson will be unstoppable lol.. The BBC should have completely revamped Topgear rather than trying to compete."
Meanwhile, Netflix has confirmed that it will stream the show internationally meaning it will be in direct competition with the old Top Gear hosts’ new show on Amazon.
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
__________________ "The guy in the CR-V meanwhile, he'll give you a haughty glare. He's responsibly trying to lessen his impact, but there you go lumbering past him with your loud V8, flouting the new reality. You may as well go do some donuts in a strawberry patch and slalom through a litter of kittens." Dan Frio, Automotive Editor, Edmunds
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