Trivial Grumblings

[Gandalf the Red]

Clarkson's gone.

I know he's a knobhead but I quite like him and his programmes.

Rumour now is that Chris Evans is going to take over Top Gear.

[thehairyone]

Evans said absolutely no on that. It will be... interesting... to see if the program can continue.

[JamieH]

Eh, other channels will be throwing money at Clarkson and the other two to get them. Or the BBC will give in after a while and bring him back.

[Danroush]

No idea if this ever got confirmed, but there was a thing knocking around a while ago about how ipods batteries were guaranteed to start dying after 12 months to make you buy another one.

Probably the same sort of time people started saying Apple purposely put bugs in the Windows versions of iTunes.

I wouldn't put either past Apple to be fair, although I would've thought they would have been less likely to opt for those tactics when they still had Jobs because at least then they had a direction, whereas now the company seems useless and lost, so just brings out more of the same whilst suing anything from Samsung to a local technology college to a fucking bakery for having a similar logo.




Imagine if say, ITV had paid Clarkson a bunch of money to get himself fired then switch over to their channel, BBC has to deal with the shitstorm and looks bad, loses money off losing top gear and Clarkson, and all the attention means the new program with Clarkson on another channel gets loads of publicity. Would be quite genius actually.

[Jim]

Imagine if say, ITV had paid Clarkson a bunch of money to get himself fired then switch over to their channel, BBC has to deal with the shitstorm and looks bad, loses money off losing top gear and Clarkson, and all the attention means the new program with Clarkson on another channel gets loads of publicity. Would be quite genius actually.

[kanet666]

Clarkson's gone.

I know he's a knobhead but I quite like him and his programmes.

Rumour now is that Chris Evans is going to take over Top Gear.

The other name I heard banded about earlier was Piers Morgan.

Can't see either May or Hammond staying unless Clarkson decides to retire. I imagine Sky will pick them up and throw money at them and the viewers will follow. At this point those three ARE Top Gear, and whilst I agree he probably overstepped the mark somewhat, the BBC have shot themselves in the foot.

[Jim]

They'll reformat Top Gear like they did in 2003, probably with new presenters. It'll go back to being about normal cars, those generally less than £30k. Bit like Fifth Gear.

[JamieH]

It's all a lie. Clarkson left Top Gear to join One Direction.

[Matty_the_Emo_Slayer]

They'll reformat Top Gear like they did in 2003, probably with new presenters. It'll go back to being about normal cars, those generally less than £30k. Bit like Fifth Gear.

It'll also get moved to Sunday afternoon and get about 50 viewers

[Gandalf the Red]

They might bring back Angela Rippon. Or even Noel Edmonds.

[Tet]

It's all about William Woolard!

[Moonburp]

No idea if this ever got confirmed, but there was a thing knocking around a while ago about how ipods batteries were guaranteed to start dying after 12 months to make you buy another one.

I've had my iPod for two years and the battery life still holds up pretty well. The iPhone on the other hand...

[keera_envenomed]

Fabric shop didn't have the right black fabric. The fabric they had wasn't black enough dammit

[someone else]

James May was a bit cryptic when door stepped earlier, saying the three come as a package. Whether Sky would be interested in his Airfix documentaries tho'.....

[MetalBeast]

I reckon Johnny Vaughn is in with a shout of replacing Clarkson. He's just about Roger-Mellie-Out-Of-Viz-ish for the job.

...or Ross noble - he's on the leader-board for Star in a Reasonably Priced Car and, IMHO, Top Gear focusses far too much on cars and should dedicate more time to chimps on unicycles.