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Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Making Show For Amazon
mrspoonsi writes: Amazon has announced that former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will be reuniting to create “an all-new car show” that will be exclusively on Amazon Prime. The first season will be made available worldwide in 2016 and will be produced executive producer Andy Wilman. The BBC reports: "The move follows their departure from the hit BBC Two show earlier this year. Clarkson's contract was not renewed following an 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer. His co-hosts then followed him in leaving the show. They will now make the unnamed new programme with former Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman, who also quit the BBC following the 'fracas.' In a statement from Amazon, Clarkson said: 'I feel like I've climbed out of a biplane and into a spaceship.'"
Clarkson has been at odds with the BBC's director of TV, Danny Cohen since he became Director of TV.
There is somebody that Clarkson has met that he didn't end up being at odds with?
That's a cop out. The BBC is not above applying double standards and if this happened at a lower rank, you can bet your arse the person involved would be sent off for "anger management" and that would be the end of it... But as I said, the BBC is not above applying double standards.
I don't think that this hullabaloo about the firing of Jeremy Clarkson (aka. the unjustified politically motivated attack PC attack on Clarkson) is entirely about him punching that producer. It is also about other incidents of him punching people and just generally being a pain-in-the-ass arrogant diva who has gone out of his way to make enemies. He had it made, all he had to do was think before he talked and not punch people over food deliveries or because they published photos of him snogging a woman who isn't his wife but Clarkson being Clarkson had to screw it up by being a dick. It's nobody's fault but his own.