Is HBO available in the UK? If not, that's one advantage Netflix would have.
If availability between the two is the same, I could see a bidding war between HBO and Netflix happening. Any network would be stupid to pass up a chance to sign the trio.
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The Top Gear Megathread! Mark II
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Is HBO available in the UK? If not, that's one advantage Netflix would have.
If availability between the two is the same, I could see a bidding war between HBO and Netflix happening. Any network would be stupid to pass up a chance to sign the trio.
Top Gear is a BBC brand, so the three of them, if they wanted to, would have to come up with some other name
Netflix Car Show
"C**king about in Cars you cannot afford", sponsored by Amazon Prime
or HBOs Motoriser
The BBC will do another Top Gear, but without those presenters, it will not have as much appeal, as it attracted both men and women.
Netflix Car Show
"C**king about in Cars you cannot afford", sponsored by Amazon Prime
or HBOs Motoriser
The BBC will do another Top Gear, but without those presenters, it will not have as much appeal, as it attracted both men and women.
0dev
macrumors 68040
Here are a few possible names 😉
House of Cars
Orange is the new SLS AMG Black Series
Marco VW Polo
Hemcock Grove
Liliy-Jeremy-will-fix-it-with-a-hammer
I think it's all on Sky Atlantic, which is a premium channel only available to Sky subscribers and isn't offered on Virgin Media or BT TV.
takao
macrumors 68040
HBO is entirly dependent on other networks they sell their shows to in europe.
Netflix is rolling out in more and more countries. As is AmazonPrime. Top Gear as show with world wide appeal is an obvious choice for both.
DAC47
macrumors 6502
Yeah the Beeb had no choice on this one even if he wasn't already on his last, last, last warning to behave.
Predictions
The BBC will probably keep co-producing the international versions of TG but give the UK version a rest for a few years.
Then maybe they might do a show about cars that can be afforded by more than 1% of the population.🙄
Clarkson, Hammond and May will probably go to ITV, thats usually where BBC talent goes to die.
Or maybe any new show could go straight to Dave in the UK (which basically wall to wall TG most days anyway) and then the international sales could pay for most of the budget.
Interesting to see what will happen.
Predictions
The BBC will probably keep co-producing the international versions of TG but give the UK version a rest for a few years.
Then maybe they might do a show about cars that can be afforded by more than 1% of the population.🙄
Clarkson, Hammond and May will probably go to ITV, thats usually where BBC talent goes to die.
Or maybe any new show could go straight to Dave in the UK (which basically wall to wall TG most days anyway) and then the international sales could pay for most of the budget.
Interesting to see what will happen.
AustinIllini
macrumors G5
IMHO, it would be a mistake to go to another UK outlet. Too much of their viewing audience is from elsewhere.
Watabou
macrumors 68040
Well I guess this is officially official. My favorite show....in the world, has come to an abrupt end. You know, personally, I think the BBC could have handled it better than this. They might have fined Clarkson, suspended him for a longer period of time, anything.
This is not to say I consider punching someone okay. What Clarkson did was terrible. Unacceptable. But by the sounds of it, he was drunk, and that can make people very stupid. He has apologized in person, even reported himself. I think that has got to count for something.
I think BBC should just end it. It's not Top Gear without the three, no matter what BBC thinks. I didn't watch it for the cars, I watch it because of Jeremy, James and Richard. It's the same reason why I don't watch US Top Gear.
Oh well, it's been a terrible past week. I'm pretty devastated. No more specials, no more epic races, no more cocking up. Top Gear is no more. I guess it's time to break out the beer and binge watch from the very beginning. I do believe this will be my 9th time doing this.
This is not to say I consider punching someone okay. What Clarkson did was terrible. Unacceptable. But by the sounds of it, he was drunk, and that can make people very stupid. He has apologized in person, even reported himself. I think that has got to count for something.
I think BBC should just end it. It's not Top Gear without the three, no matter what BBC thinks. I didn't watch it for the cars, I watch it because of Jeremy, James and Richard. It's the same reason why I don't watch US Top Gear.
Oh well, it's been a terrible past week. I'm pretty devastated. No more specials, no more epic races, no more cocking up. Top Gear is no more. I guess it's time to break out the beer and binge watch from the very beginning. I do believe this will be my 9th time doing this.
0dev
macrumors 68040
And it gained its massive international audience while being aired on the British Broadcasting Corporation.
AustinIllini
macrumors G5
0dev
macrumors 68040
This doesn't make much of a difference to be honest. If New Top Gear was produced by a British channel without an American version the US broadcasting rights would still be sold to an American network, it's not like it'd be produced by a British company therefore only ever aired in Britain. It'd also end up on all the torrent sites within 5 minutes of airing.
Fizzoid
macrumors 68020
He was beyond a final warning, having already made racist/derogatory remarks, used the ni**er word, which was covered up (and subsequently leaked) caused and international incident in Argentina, and then goes and has a scuffle with one of his work colleagues.
I'm not sure the BBC could have handled it any other way. How many other companies would have given their employees this many chances?
Initially it seems they want to stick together as a trio, so let's wait and see. Hope so, they make quite a team.
Edit: Here's James May saying as much
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=821877157865377
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You mean he mumbled something that didn't sound like any word in an outtake that was never meant to air, and when it leaked, no reasonable person thought he actually used the n-word. Listen to the audio. If no one told you he was saying it, you would have never heard it.
You mean a bunch of dumb Argentineans got pissed off over a random license plate number which, if you do some serious mental gymnastics, could be vaguely connected to the Falklands War.
Fizzoid
macrumors 68020
I've heard the audio thanks! I've also heard the rhyme before when I was a kid, he mumbles it but he knows what he's saying!
It still caused international friction, regardless of what you think of Argentinians.
Regardless, if you go around physically assaulting a work colleague, then it's a sackable offence, simple as!
If it was an investment banker that had punched 'Janice the tea lady' because his moccafrappacrappachino didn't have chocolate sprinkles on, and he'd gotten away with it, people would want him publicly executed, but somehow Clarkson is above all that?
Apple fanboy
macrumors Ivy Bridge
I liked the show, and I like Clarkson, but assult is assult. Apparently the police have asked the BBC for a copy of the report.
They could always bring back Noel Edmonds 😀
They could always bring back Noel Edmonds 😀
Tankmaze
macrumors 68000
Thanks for the video, Based on that I think the Top Gear trio would stay loyal to one another. But again if loyalty meant losing your high paying job, that would really cause a tremendous dilemma isn't it.
Or the trio could regroup at other TV channel and create similar auto show, but I wouldn't know how the legal standing about this if they are allowed to do that or not.
Obi Wan Kenobi
macrumors 6502a
I don't think any TV channels will be pursuing Clarkson or his co-hosts until Yorkshire Police and the CPS have decided whether there will be a criminal prosecution.
AppleMark
macrumors 6502a
Well, if they do another episode without Clarkson, I can see how the run up to the Stig testing a car on the Top Gear track should go.
"Some would say that if he returned late to a hotel to find no hot food available, he would have simply accepted a sandwich and gone to bed. All we know, he is called the Stig."😉
"Some would say that if he returned late to a hotel to find no hot food available, he would have simply accepted a sandwich and gone to bed. All we know, he is called the Stig."😉
Watabou
macrumors 68040
If you see the video, he clearly looks like he is trying pretty hard not to say it.
Based on the the evidence, this very clearly wasn't their fault at all. It's very silly to blame Jeremy for this. They said it was a coincidence, the license plate registration date says it was a coincidence, the fact that Jeremy wanted the manual 982 GT and the fact that only two were on sale at the time tells me that this was simply what they've been saying -- a coincidence.
No he isn't. In my eyes, he very partially redeemed himself by consistently apologizing in person the day after the fact, and that he reported himself to the BBC. Even today, he has been saying to people to let Oisin Tymon alone as it wasn't his fault at all.
Look, I'm not saying he should be let off for this, of course not, he punched a producer! What I'm saying is, BBC should have handled this better by fining Clarkson a huge amount, forcing him to go to rehab, even jail time, but he be allowed to host Top Gear. Top Gear would still exist and we wouldn't feel dead inside because our favorite show has come to an end!