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Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Making Show For Amazon

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-drivers-seat dept.

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.'"

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  1. BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's time to call a spade, a spade

    The whole thing boils down to Political Correctness

    If it wasn't that BBC insisted that all its employees must accept their Political Correctness doctrine, Mr. Jeremy Clarkson would still be hosting the Top Gear program at BBC

    Before BBC fired Mr. Clarkson there already had been cases in which the BBC honcho was upset by what Mr. Clarkson had done, mostly due to Mr. Clarkson's refusal to toe the official Political Correctness line

    That 'punch a producer' incident in which BBC used to fire Mr. Clarkson was only an excuse for BBC had already wanting to get rid of that guy for a long time

    This goes to show how those Political Correctness creatures behave -

    Narrow Minded _ and _ Intolerant !!

    1. Re:BBC - hammered by its own Political Correctness by drinkypoo · · Score: 1, Troll

      Clarkson had to screw it up by being a dick

      Hahahaha you still think this was a screw-up? It cost Clarkson basically nothing and got him a bunch of free publicity, and he's getting precisely what he wanted. You ignorant tool. You think that because Clarkson's character is a buffoon that he's an idiot? You really think you're something special, don't you?

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      "You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"