Clarkson Suspended...

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Turbo Rider said:
A northern English Wolverine lookalike who echo's when he talks...likes to try his hand at engineering...think he used to ride motorbikes for a living, or something.
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He has never ridden motorbikes for a living, he works for it.
 
Hip Priest

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[QUOTE 3614056, member: 45"]Oh, so he's not sponsored then?[/QUOTE]

I'm sure he's had sponsors. But they probably just fund his racing, rather than pay him a living. His day job is as a truck mechanic, and he is a daily cycle commuter!
 
Piemaster

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James May wasn't in the first series of TG with Clarkson/Hammond. The co-presenter was Jason Dawe who did bits about car prices in a Quentin Wilson type role. I have a very vague memory that it didn't work too well and only did the first series before moving onto something else.

Don't see Guy Martin in the role, though I do like him. There has been plenty of stupid engineering stuff without him and May has/had been doing a decent job as the geeky bloke.
 
swee'pea99

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[QUOTE 3614050, member: 45"]Let's be honest, the "chemistry" was a form of slapstick which ran out of steam a few years ago for them. When the new format started most of their trials were funny and entertaining most of the way through. For a while now it's been more of a case of watching it and waiting for the odd bit that made you smile.

There wasn't any particular chemistry between them, and they weren't particularly funny. It was the production and editing that made it, and this could happen without the trio.[/QUOTE]
There's a lot of truth in that - particularly the fact that it had all been getting very thin and more than a bit tired for a long time before this all blew up. Indeed, I think the underlying cause of the entire fiasco is that Clarkson had become terminally bored with the whole affair, and was on a sort of death wish mission to bring it to an end, one way or another. It's not like he didn't keep trying to push it too far.

I guess the challenge for the BBC is to try to revive the feel of TG before it all started going flat. I suspect they won't manage it, whoever they try to bring in. TV shows, like anything else, have a lifespan. TG, I fear, is dead. At least for the moment. All the talk of JC going off and 'doing it somewhere else' is, I suspect, wishful thinking among fans too deluded to have recognised its extended demise. It won't happen. Not least because 'the production and editing' you refer to, quite rightly, is not half as easy to replicate as fans might imagine. What might happen, I suspect, is a long, long holiday, followed by an eventual revival, recognisable, but much changed. Think Doctor Who.
 
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