Matt Le Blanc for top gear

[Levo-Lon]

Apparently Chris Evans is a bully control freak...who knew..lol

 

[Inertia]

Doesn't take away from the BBC pushing it though, saw another story about Top Gear being outside St Paul's

Well it's in the papers this morning so surely they should cover it?

 

[fossyant]

Whoops !!!

 

[martint235]

Well it's in the papers this morning so surely they should cover it?

It's self-generated news though otherwise known as advertising:

Matt le Blanc injured in crash on M5 last night = news. It's something of interest.

Matt le Blanc turns up in a rally car outside St Paul's during a wedding to film a piece for Top Gear = advertising.

 

[Globalti]

It's funny that, how off camera quotes and bits from the cutting room floor made their way with some regularity to the media. Almost as if someone on the "team" didn't like him, can't think why.

I'm not surpised. Clarkson is a neanderthal where women and just about any modern social, moral or political concept is concerned whereas the BBC is a hotbed of wincid political correctness.

 

[Inertia]

It's self-generated news though otherwise known as advertising:

Matt le Blanc injured in crash on M5 last night = news. It's something of interest.

Matt le Blanc turns up in a rally car outside St Paul's during a wedding to film a piece for Top Gear = advertising.

Ah then sorry, I thought you were agreeing that the BBC news website was at fault for running 'news' stories as adverts when it was also covered by other new agencies in this case. I do agree that shows do stunts to gain publicity though I dont think the BBC is unique in this. The cenotaph one falls under the 'people will get offended over anything' category for me, I mean its in the middle of the road.

 

[fossyant]

Well, it's all over ITV this morning too.

 

[Globalti]

So, Top Gear producers' objective achieved, then.

 

[martint235]

So, Top Gear producers' objective achieved, then.

Pretty much.

 

[swee'pea99]

Um, at the risk of being nerdy, it's not advertising, it's PR. And pretty good PR, by the sounds of things.

 

[Inertia]

Um, at the risk of being nerdy, it's not advertising, it's PR. And pretty good PR, by the sounds of things.

Colonel Richard Kemp was outraged, he added: "Jeremy Clarkson was certainly no saint but I don't believe he would have ever performed a stunt in such bad taste."

*snork*

 

[swee'pea99]

Jeremy Clarkson...bad taste. Shome mishtake shurely.

 

[mustang1]

The three presenters were excellent, sad to see them go but time moves on. I loved their "specials" where they would fly to another place and tackle some obstacles such as three scotters in vietnam, drive and husky trip to the north pole, drive thru the Amazon etc.

The new bunch will never replicate that and neither do i expect them to but am looking forward to watching the odd episode of the new format.

I stopped watching TG not because I disliked it, but because I had less time to, and the same will apply to the new show.

 

[sheddy]

Hopefully the new TG will show some road safety items

 

[raleighnut]

Hopefully the new TG will show some road safety items

Like the 'stunt' near the Cenotaph maybe.