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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.'"
Well, I would have personally chosen a different streaming service, but Amazon is certainly better than nothing! I eagerly await the show!
I wonder how many parts of the show they are not allowed to copy.
I think of David Letterman and how he had to change the name of his top ten list.
I come here for the love
I have to say, I keep stumbling across new reasons that I like Prime. Had a gig this evening, and needed some spendy batteries. A couple of clicks this morning, and they were on my doorstep in the afternoon. It only takes a few events like that in a year to make Prime worth the modest cost. But so many other little goodies that Bezos keeps tossing in to remind me why it's good to stick around. I have enough parts and pieces shipped in that it pays for itself in time and shipping costs regardless. The rest is frosting on that cake. It will be interesting to see how much of a production budget Amazon gives these guys to make their particular form of entertainment. I anticipate lots of drone footage of cars doing entertaining things.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Mr. Clarkson prefers WARM STEAKS.
My Other Computer Is A Data General Nova III.
I figured I would try it. I signed up for it, Amazon happily took my credit card details and, after they were potentially billing me (yeah I know first month is free), they tell me I can't watch it from my location. Now, I know they have my address on file. I know they can figure out what country my visa card was issued. You would think they would warn me that I cannot view their apparently 'world wide' service from Australia.
...
Perhaps this is stuff that fucking matters.
unprovoked physical attack? by all accounts it wasn't entirely unprovoked, certainly over the top and excess but not unprovoked, I would be pretty pissed too in clarksons situation, not to the extent of hitting someone but still not being fed properly after a long hard day is provocation, especially as Clarksons demands are well known.. Clarkson is a dick, but he is an entertaining one, this is certainly BBC's loss and I am sure the loss of all 3 will be hundreds of millions wiped out of the BBC's income over the coming years.
I heard they're still allowed to fake rock-throwing attacks, but they have to use CGI instead of cutting to a black screen.
>> 'unprovoked physical attack' on a Top Gear producer
Let's see...driving around in awesome cars and smacking around random people. Isn't that already called "Grand Theft Auto?"
Make car vroom fast go go!
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 !!
It's always been a bit of a PITA to even consume Amazon content; I've got a fairly poor network connection and they're nowhere near as good at throttling as Youtube, let alone Netflix. When you compound that with their long-standing and only relatively recently-relaxed attitude towards permitting Android devices to consume Amazon Instant Video, my desire to have Amazon Prime has been extremely limited... until now.
Assuming this is true, this might be what finally lures me into Prime membership.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What can they call the show that's both amusing and punitive?
B.B.C - British Blokes Cars (just use and promote the acronym, ought to be no end of merry japes)
Synopsis - several Middle Aged and Unexpectedly Wealthy dufus's from the crumbling British Empire lark and prank about in cars, without the hindrances of a Politically Correct overseer, making enough poo poo and boom boom jokes to keep a newly minted prince Harry soiling his duds in merriment. Long live the Queen.
Featuring segments including 'Who Can We Offend This Week' and 'you'll never afford one of these', mixed with the humor and empathy of a UFC cage grudge match between a roid raging korean ex swimmer who's 'transitioning' and Lord Myrtlefardby, Baron of Upwardly Bumly, presenting a lecture on 'why things were better under Thatcher and get orf moi lawn'
Amazon Drones will bring you each weeks loving hand crafted edition on USB, painstakingly pin striped in a Trans Pacific Partnership sweatshop in Rarotonga. Please ensure you have a valid credit card as the drones are also authoried to apply 'credit inducements' via Taser for late payment or turning the PC off.
Is it OK to repeatedly punch people where you work?
You do realize that the only reason Clarkson was not fed is because he went drinking at a local pub after shooting was completed for the day. He arrived at his hotel after the restaurant was closed (but some people were still there chatting) and then blew up because there was no hot food for him.
Clarkson went on a 40 minute rant blaming a producer named Oisin Tymon. Clarkson called the producer lazy, told him he would make certain he lost his job, and used a racial slur describing him as a "lazy Irish cunt". All this in public in front of many people. Eventually he punched the producer, who was taken to the local hospital for treatment of facial injuries.
Clarkson's show also claimed a Tesla ran out of electric power after 55 miles when the claimed range was 200 miles. Tesla sued for libel but the lawsuit was dismissed because "rectification of inaccuracies is not a function of the courts"! However, the BBC admitted in court that the scene where the car ran out of power was faked. I hope Clarkson and friends don't have the same leeway with the truth under Amazon.
Clarkson might be sexist and racist and a bully but the truth be that many guys think like him and love how Clarkson can get away with it and make a fortune at the same time. No surprise the others followed him and that Amazon wanted him. Money money money!
Darn. The lads find the one service I don't subscribe to. I guess I'll have to find a stream like I did for the last season on the BBC. TG is special because you get to see them beat up the cars,not just give puff pieces on them. You know the X3 is wack...you know that lots of cars suck even tho they are expensive. There is a boor at every party. JC is that person. I'm sure If I understood the class system of Britain this would be even more interesting, but I live in the colonies.
And this is the reason why systemd is soo bloated
And I have been for a few years.
I've been tired of Wired being papered over with Top Gear since before my first cup of coffee today.
I'm tired of Top Gear everywhere.
Please make it stop.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
all this fuss over one bellicose, egocentric, prima donna and a couple of sidekicks - it's sad. hopefully they'll quietly fade away buried along with all the other over and done with celebs on some cable / net channel...
Only if you want to get anything done.
Only if you are a boxer :)
turning a Reliant Robin into a fucking space shuttle. And actually launching it.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
1. Start production company Bedder 6
2. Get bbc to fund and broadcast a show to develop three tv personalities
3. Sell production company to the bbc. (Clarkson received £8.4million for his 30 per cent stake in Bedder 6). The main asset of the production company are the tv personalities who remain under contract at the discretion of the bbc.
4. Profit
5. Engineer a fracas to cause the bbc to not renew the contracts thus killing the top gear franchise.
6. Parachute the production team into a new show with the same assets you've already sold once.
7. Profit again.
Smooth operator. I wonder how much you get for getting punched in the face but refuse to take legal action.
At least now it may be in the fiction category where even they (when defending hack jobs) say it should be, rather than a factual programme as it was listed under the BBC (hah! FACTUAL? TG wouldn't know a fact if it got its tits out and shoved them in Clarkson's face).
Oh, and retards, it isn't "political correctness" to fire someone for abusing their power over others and being violent.
If the shitstain had been a CEO of HP or some shite, you'd not be whining about his being canned, you'd be whining about him NOT being canned, and rightly so.
We can pass this on to your boss so he knows what sort of person he's hired and how suitable for any form of responsibility you are.
Oh, what? You're not going to? Then you're an internet hard man and worthless.
I know you American cretins have a phobia of pronouns, but this is just ridiculous.
Or REDiculous, as you American cretins so often say... LOL.
Three grandparents died of cancer. NONE OF THEM smacked someone in the face EVER because of it.
Clarkson is a fucking disgrace. And you cocksuckers are worse.
Amazon Prime isn't regulated under any TV broadcasting standards in the US since it doesn't use any public airwaves. (Technically pure
cable channels aren't either, but they tend to pretend they are, which is why BBC America censors BBC shows. For example, when Clarkson called TTs "titties" that got bleeped.) No clue about the UK or anywhere else. Another article suggested Amazon plans on licensing the new show for broadcast so there's a good chance they may limit what they do even though they don't have to.
Honestly the best part about this new Amazon show is that they no longer will be limited by BS BBC political correctness. Not having to tiptoe around offending anyone should make the new show quite a bit more fun.
Seems nearly everyone of them feels they can peddle anywhere despite local laws. My city has sacrificed car lanes to make bike lines and bikers still ride the wrong way on one way streets, let alone to mention sidewalks. What is needed is a biker's license equal to a driver's license and equivalent penalties for violating the rules of the road. Breeze by a stop sign? Be subject to strip search just as everyone else is.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
If you are into watching a bunch group of washed-up,old, failed BBC "presenters" then this is the show for you. If not---then so what. You are free to watch something else. I don't watch every show that is streamed. Do you?
I totally get that Clarkson was in the wrong for punching a Top Gear producer over a scheduling issues with dinner.Apparently on a on location filming Clarkson became upset over the fact that at the end of shooting day the restaurant at the hotel already had closed and Clarkson was upset about this. Frankly, I would have been too. In reality, I think the BBC over corrected and this issues should have been handled as a suspension, lost pay, some other means other then totally dropping Clarkson and basically the BBC hurt themselves much more then Clarkson. They should have known the three (Clarkson,Hammond,May) would quickly bounce back from this. The public out rage over Clarkson's removal should have been a clue. Oh well, Amazon most certainly has a hit on their hands, with the long time former producer of Top Gear coming over to produce the new series.
And has been for a few years.
I'm tired of whining.
I'm tired of whining everywhere.
Stop.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
(Technically pure
cable channels aren't either, but they tend to pretend they are, which is why BBC America censors BBC shows. For example, when Clarkson called TTs "titties" that got bleeped.)
Ah yes, the BBC, where you can show titties but you can't say titties. And then talk about how superior you are because your media is more sane.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Are they going to ship it to me for free within two days? No, it is Amazon Prime's streaming service. I can't figure why those are bundled together. I'm sure it's great for people who subscribe. But I am not going to subscribe just for Top Gear, and I don't buy enough online to justify the monthly fees. I don't like streaming content. I'd rather have a DVD.
If you are not allowed to question your government then the government has answered your question.
"What could possibly go wrong?"
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
Of course you can, I bet it only got censored in the US.
...Frankly, part of the charm of the show was the sort of kludgy, clumsily-produced, backyard-BBC feel to it.
As much as I look forward to the show, it's not likely to succeed.
1) there's no flipping way any American audience will stand around. Holy shit, I've always been amazed at how desperate one would have to be to be on TV to stand in a crowd of people, mostly in the dark, for the hours and hours it would take them to shoot that show.*
* unless you're a hottie, in which case you'd clearly have been escorted to the front of the pack to stand innocuously in the background behind Clarkson & crew as they monologue. Usually, I can't be the only one to notice that?
2) I cannot *conceive* of them being able to do most of the stuff they did on location. The legal climate in the US simply won't allow half the crap they do as too dangerous to the stars, or the other half as too dangerous corporate exposure to outside lawsuits. Notice it's called Top Gear, not Safety Gear. Hell, I doubt US lawyers would allow them to put a star in a reasonably-priced car without wrapping them in bubble wrap, much less make the astonishingly-politically-incorrect comments for which Clarkson is famous.
-Styopa
if i hire steve-o from jackass for a cooking show i know its gonna have ball sac's in it
if i hire clarkson for a tv show hes gonna be a brash asshole and talk out his arse
these are facts BBC knew the man and how he acted before they issued him 10 contacts
As a Netflix user - I was hoping that rumor to be true.
I've been purchasing TopGear through iTunes for years because my local cable didn't carry TopGear UK (or it was in a package I didn't want to fork over an extra ++ $50 / month). I did the math. TopGear was $44 / year. Cable wanted an extra $52 Per Month.
Now I have a reason to buy Prime - faster shipping by itself wasn't worth it previously.
Amazon made a good move. They know this show will drive demand - and if the show lives up to expectations - Amazon stands to make money, and expand Prime. Which makes more money.
Now the USA needs a Federal Tax code :-P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
I got Amazon Prime. Although I like the free shipping (on the 15-20 odd items I buy per year from Amazon), their video service sucks. I can watch Breaking Bad on Netflix for whatever it is I pay for Netflix ($8/month I think). I pay roughly the same amount per month for Amazon Prime ($100/year), but I also have to pay for individual episodes. What's the attraction, really?
Might as well start reporting on lion hunting.