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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/may/08/top-gear-jeremy-clarkson-james-may-richard-hammond-itv-bbc


YEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D  ;D

After losing the soccer :P championship show ITV definitely needed to pick up another major show and apparently the former Top Gear dudes are next up. I never watched many of the TG shows on BBC, exclusively Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares for the most part.

Having Netflix as a home would make for a much more interesting show. No advertisers or stuffy committees to please and a much bigger budget to play with.

I like Top Gear but will it be the same on ITV?


I dunno. I just think the name and production values that the BBC offered were a big part of it, though sure obviously the presenters are what made it great but I get the feeling it's just going to be a pale imitation or knock off of Top Gear.

lolwut I think you have it the other way round and production values? The BBC lets be honest gave them fuck all, what the presenters did was organise things with the car manufacturers and so on.

Time to move on to a fresh format.
I hated top gear in the early days when they just stood around talking cars.
Trips they did and the places they went and all the other things they did WOW loved it and they work so well together.

If they go to a private channel I think they're going to do a much better job than before because they aren't going to have to worry about toeing the political line with the BBC, it should be very interesting to see what happens, you would've thought though that Netflix would be a more logical choice because they don't have to worry about ads.

oh god this was so predictable haha, the clarkson thing was just a publicity stunt for the ITV move.

Don't like Clarkson, don't care. Top Gear was one of the best car show but then they decided to do a show with cars, instead of doing reviews of cars they started to make some goofy things. And all those supposedly funny things where directed and awkward.

But did you ever watch the original Top Gear? That went into loving detail about spare wheels and positioning your choke. The current Top Gear has jumped the shark but the original makes you want to kill yourself.

Move on to self drive cars imo keep the death traps for race circuits only ;D

It's fair enough you don't like the current Top Gear or Jeremy Clarkson, just don't ruin it for the rest of us like the assholes in the BBC attempted to, for instance, there's this fucking horrible radio program called The Archers and when I say radio program it's more like a propaganda radio drama of a fictional world created by World War 2 politicians that has carried on to this day because politicians in the UK still have that mentality.

In case you couldn't tell, it's one of the few things in the world that can make me irrationally angry, but I don't go complaining constantly about it and trying to get staff from the show sacked, I just make sure I keep it out of my life completely.

I once had dealings with Radio 4 regarding writing for them. I went to a workshop type thing where one of the higher ups told us their core listener was a 58yr old lady doing the dishes in rural Cheshire.

Anything we came up with that was likely to blow her pussy apart was not permitted. That's why the Archers still plods on. It's an instant off for me as well.

But that's why this "new" incarnation of Top Gear is so popular because it's just so damn entertaining. I don't really give a shit about cars but always loved watching their road trips around the world and the banter that followed. Those three do have great chemistry whether you like em or not.

Jesus, I was about ready to completely give up on believing I'd still see these guys working together. This is great!  :D

I've watched the original, the newer(older) where they didn't talk about "spare wheels and positioning" but did solid reviews about enjoying cars, and I've watched newest ones where they tested "granny car" (fixed Renault with old people), the one with the old hot hatch and decided to spice it up with turning over one of the cars and pretending they actually crashed. Don't get me wrong, I liked many of the new episodes (especially Vietnam special) but they where doing more and more ridicules, directed stuff. Cars became tools instead of main dish.

Well this was bound to happen, I just hope its not a knock off of Top gear,i mean travelling around the world driving amazing cars are great, but netflix would be better with no ads stuff,but it's the quality of presenters that count and this trio of Jeremy Clarkson,James May and Richard Hammond are the best bet to turnaround any show based on their organizing skills

Thought I'd bump this thread rather than creating another to avoid spamming but guys, big news!

http://www.skynews.com.au/culture/showbiz/tv/2015/06/08/top-gear-reinvented-for-netflix-.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/top-gear-return-james-may-and-richard-hammond-expected-to-turn-down-multimillion-bbc-offer-and-join-jeremy-clarkson-on-netflix-10302835.html

please please please, let this be true lol!

All the major outlets are starting to report it now, so hopefully, hopefully something will be happening in a few months, need to wait and see for some actual confirmation of this though, too much bullshit out there at the moment.

What are they going to call it? I read Chris Evans (the British ginger not the American actor) was filming a pilot to be the new host of Top Gear on the BBC or something. If Hammond May and Clarkson all go to Netflix BBC might as well cancel Top Gear because nobody will watch it.

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/jun/07/chris-evans-making-top-gear-film-replace-jeremy-clarkson

amazing trio, imho after this steak scandal with Jeremy, it will become popular even more..

I'm convinced that the BBC are coming up with all sorts of bullshit to try and get Jeremy Clarkson out of the way including bribing Hammond and May lol :P

What's great is seeing all the extremely smug and arrogant guardian commenters etc. going on about how Top Gear is finally doomed, boy are they going to be angry if the Netflix deal happens :D

Kinda late to the news but what is actually happens to Jeremy Clarkson? I heard he got removed and back again :-\

Stiggy is the best till now imo :D

The BBC are getting desperate and spreading misinformation about him and the whole deal now they've seen the viewing figures of the channel they had Top Gear on. The consensus seems to be so far that they're planning their own original show but we don't know which one yet, evidence points towards Netflix.

"Although the three would not be able to bring with them the Top Gear name, which belongs to the BBC"...



Call the new show "raeG poT"


 8)

Well if any of you are keeping an eye on things, it's been spammed around House Of Cars is the name of the show, not holding my breath until I see an actual announcement from Netflix though. Regardless of what it's called, it will still be a million times better than the 'new' Top Gear the BBC will be planning.

Oddly enough, this reminds me very much of when the original developers of Operation Flashpoint left Codemasters, changed the name, but kept the gameplay and Codemasters failed miserably in producing anything as good.

Just to clarify some things, Netflix or ITV candidates to get the trio hosts to their for auto motive show, cannot bring Top gear as the show is a BBC property, but I'm pretty sure that where ever you put that trio and their producer Andy and give them the means they can make a fantastic show, heck each of them made shows about science or engineering and all of them are amazing.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/report-top-gear-trio-headed-to-netflix-2015-6

Thanks to the media practically stalking the Top Gear presenters it looks like we'll be getting some real confirmation of whether they're going to Netflix or not in awhile, probably going to be sorted after they've done the live shows and such like I suspected.

Now that's something I'd like to see! To be honest, Clarkson is arrogant and sometimes does step over the line, but his behavior and caracter is what drew us to the show in the first place! His reviews of the car are of a true car lover, he speaks about the car in a proper way, and treats them like they have a soul - which they do if we're honest - and that's what petrolheads want to hear!

No, he got sacked from BBC's Top Gear. He along with Hammond and May are likely going to present another similar show for a different Network.

And you mean The Stig.


I don't really like the title. I'm sure that's just a rumor someone started any way. For some reason I just can't see it being as good. It'll end up likely being like Fifth Gear on Channel 5.

I'll change it lol but honestly if they went to Netflix it would be amazing, the thing is, if you guys are outside the UK you don't realise just how much censorship and manipulation the BBC get up to, Clarkson was even in an interview fairly recently saying how nice it was to be able to say the word "shit" again.

Things will get very interesting next year I suspect with those presenters, but for now they're a bit stuck because of their contracts.

That's an interesting point about censorship. Maybe the show will get better without the restraints the presenters are put under due to the BBC. I can't imagine May or Hammond changing much but I'm sure we'd see a change in Clarkson and maybe for the better. I always thought he was at his funniest with his more controversial jokes and I'm sure they cut many more out of the final broadcast so maybe giving them free reign on Netflix would be great for the show.

Never heard Top gear before, anyone know what kind of show is it?
the first thing that popped into my mind when hearing 'Top gear" is some kind of car shows?

Have you heard of this new website called google? Basically you type in keywords such as 'top gear' and it finds what you're looking for. Maybe try that. I heard there's free porn on there too but haven't been able to find any myself.

I don't really like Clarkson. Do enjoy Top Gear at times, like the silly races and diy car mods. They have been on BBC from god knows when and moving to ITV is going to be good for them. They might have more freedom to do want they want (punching producers excluded), but on tighter budgets.  :D

I don't think them going to ITV would be good. The show would really suffer from smaller budget and they need to make sure they can keep up with the production values of Top Gear. I think Netflix would be best as they can provide the big budget and it will eventually be syndicated to TV channels like ITV. Maybe even the beeb would show it haha.

Netflix is definitely the most logical option as they don't rely on advertising for their revenue, it's basically like the BBC would be if they were privatised, I hope the BBC go bankrupt and finally die or go private, they're a bunch of corrupt assholes regardless of what Jeremy has done.

BBC won't ever go bankrupt as long as people keep paying their license fee. People need to ditch it en masse but that likely wont happen. Maybe there could be some sort of referendum on whether it should go private or not but I think the fee should be scrapped and it should be funded via adverts like all the other channels.

They're desperately clinging on to it, I also think it should be privatised, at least the Royal Mail was providing a genuine service but the BBC is nothing more than if Fox News were left and funded by the state. Top Gear leaving will certainly put a dent in their reputation as well as their finances.

That being said, even peadophilia wasn't enough to get people angry at the BBC, another reason why I hate this country so much, they'll put up with anything if they're told it's good for them.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3118710/Back-business-Clarkson-Hammond-pictured-working-ahead-live-shows-South-Africa-new-Stig.html

More news cropping up from the media stalking, it looks like they're filming different stuff and they seem to be under going a re-branding or rather have no branding at all, so I wonder if they've already made a deal with somebody? Oh how I hope this is true :P

Indeed, the comment DailyMail at the end of the article is so true: "have to consider the risk to its advertising income if car manufacturers took offence at remarks the three men made about their vehicles". We so often hear "X is a piece of crap"  :D


TV Licences funds the BBC over 3 billion every year. No chance of bankruptcy, they are big fat pigs >:(


They are rebranding themselves to "CH&M". I will not be surprised if they become bosses of their own production and sell the rights themselves! They are worth 40 million a year!

3 billion? I don't think so. Where are you getting that figure from? According to the following it's 25 million for 2013/14: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_United_Kingdom#Total_licence_sales

i like top gear
very nice car documentation.
btw i have 2 Premium Netflix Accounts for sale.
pm me if interested 8)

25 million times £145 or so is over £3 billion smackers.

The licence fee is becoming a dinosaur quicker than anyone expected. I can't see how it could still be around in a decade unless they extend it to offline watching via phones etc. That really wouldn't go down too well and would be a monster to enforce.

At some point they're going to have to address it. I wonder what their answer will be.

I had that figure off the top of my head, I read it somewhere before. I checked on BBC's site just now and it seems I have under-estimated their revenue from tv licences:


Sources:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/2014/executive/finances/licence_fee.html
http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/cs/media-centre.app

It's also taken a huge plunge since they stopped showing Top Gear and they're begging for Hammond and May to come back, they tried bribing them and everything, I suspect the BBC will get pretty desperate once they see the viewing figures after the Top Gear presenters have left for good.

My friend showed my a 9GAG post or from some humor related site that they might go to netflix. What about all the international viewers that can't use netflix?

He didn't mean 3 billion people pay the licence fee!  That would be half of the world!  The total amount raised by the licence fee is over 3billion pounds though.

I will watch Top Gear if it goes to Netflix, but I don't disagree with him being fired.  He sounds like he was in the wrong and would have been fired from any other job for doing that.
Top Gear is past its best now anyway.  It might not be a bad idea for them go out on a high, otherwise it might really get stale.

I don't know where the BBC got the idea that the show is somehow bigger than the hosts. The show is Jeremy, Richard and James.

Just download it off bittorrent, someone will upload it I'm sure :D

That's definitely an option, but it's going to be a shame not seeing them on TV anymore.

Fuck television networks, they had their chance, especially the BBC.

You know we're going to be the same repeats on Dave for the next bloody 20 years.

I love  them guys though, used to watch all the reruns every morning before we started getting the Horror Channel. Got extremely bored with it after a while though mind you, to the point it was getting annoying.  :P

It just goes to show you that even though the fuckers hated them they had nothing better to replace them with, it's going to be fun to watch them next year.

C'mon, who actually watches TV or pays for Netflix? As soon as a program has finished airing either on TV or Netflix it is ripped an uploaded on torrents and warez sites and Top Gear will be no different. I never watched Top Gear when it was on TV but downloaded them after so I could watch them any time. I actually have all 22 seasons downloaded but haven't watched the earlier ones.

Neither did I. I misread it as 25 million pounds is how much they received from TV license sails :D.


He pushed his luck far too many times and that was what pushed them over the edge to sacking him. Had it been anyone else they would have sacked him long ago. You can't go around hitting people and acting like a diva.

The interesting thing is it was Clarkson himself who reported it and apologised, yeah, he should get a punishment for hitting somebody, what I find ridiculous though is how people just can't let it fucking go. The difference is while he did punch somebody he clearly regretted it afterwards and it wasn't as if he tried to beat the living shit out of him.

Frankly I think this is going to be better for everybody, including him, he clearly was not happy at the BBC and I suspect this was a build up after having to deal with lots and lots of shit over the years, nobody loses their temper over food unless they've had shit happen to them beforehand.

Source: In school I had a really bad day and ended up telling a teacher to fuck off and slammed the door on him and got suspended for it, ever since I left school I've never been happier in comparison lol.

This is why I do find myself sympathising with him regardless because the BBC must be the biggest bunch of pretentious and petty assholes to ever work with never mind talk to.



fyi you know the BBC suck when even John Cleese is getting tired of them.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/john-cleese-the-bbc-makes-crap-comedy-and-would-never-commission-monty-python-now-9542942.html

http://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/583541/Clarkson-Hammond-May-final-Top-Gear-episode-record-breaking-figures

That's not surprising with the amount of press that they got with it being cancelled and with the whole Argentina affair.
I would guess that they had a spike after Hammond had his crash and nearly died too.

It doesn't make it acceptable for the hosts to assault people though.  We'll see if it is as popular in the future as a 45min show with adverts, or when you can binge them all together on netflix.  I am not so sure.

I love that line people always use, of course it doesn't make it acceptable, nobody is actually saying that if you noticed, but yet, people insist on making more out of it than what actually happened, they had a scuffle they got pissed off, things have calmed down, life goes on.

I think some people must be living in a fucking bubble because where I've grown up that kind of shit happens constantly, I expect Clarkson will be a lot calmer now though once he's gotten some distance from the BBC because he's already looking happier now he's out of there.

Now that makes for interesting rumor. Hard to fathom, but if it's true, it would be something pretty interesting.
Let's see how it goes

The BBC has boasted before about how many illegal downloads the show gets from torrent sites etc. I think I read iot is one of the most pirated TV shows ever.


It hasn't even been aired yet so this is just hype. Besides, viewing figures are bullshit based on guestimations. The only fairly accurate figures are from the Iplayer and even that can be manipulated.

Did Netflix really change a lot ?  I watch all my shows through torrents.

sounds cool, those dudes are   buzzing with energy, whatever they are planning to do together is most likely to be a hit and be fun to watch :)

Yeah, that's true, we'll know for sure how things go when the BBC report their earnings from that particular day, it's going to be funny seeing the massive drop when the presenters go off to do their own thing.

Exactly. Bigger stage and a better show. No more ass kissing. More ass kicking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33158464

Chris Evans has been announced as the new Clarkson with as yet unnamed co-presenters. Wonder what the viewing figures will be like without the old team.

I guess it's official now, but If i recall correctly, he denied in the begin that he'll host top gear and there was no discussion with the BCC. Probably the best choice at the moment, and with the production team and budgets the show will remain a standard but of course without the trio it's not the same, Now what I'm waiting for to know where they'll land, isn't iTV or Netflex

I certainly think it'd be the best option for the series to continue, even if it's in a different form.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jun/19/jeremy-clarkson-set-to-unveil-new-motoring-show-within-weeks

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This year is going to be fucking awesome, all I need is for the Bitcoin price to go up to $500 and then everything will be amazing.