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Clarkson had to go i agree, however i dont like the BBC will never like the BBC. I just hope that they end up losing a shed full of money over this. :D

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+1

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Probably warranted a sacking but it's hardly the end for him is it? If Matthew Broderick can kill two people and continue to have a movie career then I'm sure Clarkson will manage.

Now all we need is a black hole to swallow up the BBC.

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May has already said they are a package its all or none :)

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Sky have ruled out employing Clarkson.

ITV or Netflix?

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I think Itv

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Maybe but the issue is always the dependency on advertisers. I don't see ITV turning down a Ford advert, or even sponsorship, on the condition that their cars aren't slagged off. It's why Netflix might be worth a shout.

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There goes the price hike on my tv licence to recover lost costs the show brought in

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Turns out the police are investigating:

http://www.theguardian.com/media/liv...b0e465816dae5d

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ITV won't do it, as any criticism of any car or product will lead to a loss in advertising revenue from the company concerned.

Netflix is a strong possibility.

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Indeed :)

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If that is the case then Netflix will be getting a new subscription from me :)

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Now a painful thorn has been removed from their side, I dare say a good few bottles of fizz will be popped amongst the great and the good at the Beeb. Wonder if any of it will find it's way onto expenses...

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It's ironic that JC was so instrumental in his own downfall but it certainly appears there was little room for manoeuvre.

I dare say the choice of his successor, if indeed there is one, will reveal a lot about the BBC hierarchy's feeling's about JC's outlook and humour. Are we going to get an equally irreverent personality or someone whose face fits? If there is a new series it'll be interesting to see how the viewing figures compare.

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Doubt they will have a series if May and Hammond carry out their threat and walk from the BBC. I will not be watching Top Gear at all on BBC now without Clarkson. Bloody fools.

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Again. Not really anything they could do.

Top Gear will continue but how is the question. I think May and Hammond will leave but they might wait to see what offers come in for them as a trio. No point leaving the BBC until they have an offer unless they simply don't want to do the show either way.

I think the series might do ok if they managed to keep the other two and got it right on the host. The Top Gear production team and writers also don't get enough credit for the show. The stunts, the races, the locations and the concepts are ultimately organised by them. I think they could continue to make a success with the show if they got the right host for that format.

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Maybe they'll all bugger off from the Beeb... :D

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I started watching The Classic Car Show and quickly realised what a plank she is and promptly deleted the series link.

Top Gear is in enough, probably terminal, trouble without inflicting her upon it.

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There is not much time for a decision as there contracts run out next week. As for keeping the other two i think you will see the devil ice-skating to work before that.

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The problem is which broadcaster has the money to bankroll the show, and the creative freedom (Read: Not dependant on keeping advertisers happy) to stage it?

Netflix?

Discovery?

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Considering the money it can make it could end up bank rolling it's self. I believe that's how it was on the BBC.

Would love to see how much this will end up costing the BBC in the long run. :LOL:

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I heard a rumour that Jenny Jones* is in the running to replace Clarkson in a revamped show devoid of testosterone and internal combustion engines. In a thinly disguised reference to Clarkson, the new show is to be called 'On Yer Bike'... :D

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_J...een_politician)

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Claire Balding surely.:D

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Now, now... :nono:

:D

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Hurray!

Now we just need the arrogant Dave to get the sack and we'll all be happy.

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No, we won't "all" be happy - you would be, and others of your ilk....

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Hammond & May will follow Clarkson.

The Stig, is a different kettle of fish.

I Clarkson own the rights (like Noel Edmonds own Mr Blobby), then the Stig will follow.

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You will be.

trust me.

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The stig is always the mystery man so is replaceable as is already done.
The BBC might think they "own" Top Gear but the real franchise is JC and mates.

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:tu:

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A) no, I won't

B) I'd trust Ed Balls before I'd trust you, and I will never trust Ed Ballss

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I for one am gutted and even if the other two stay would not watch anymore.

No matter what folk say Clarkson was Top Gear.

Without him it would be the three stooges without Larry.

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I cannot wait to see who they pick to replace Clarkson, May and Hammond, lets face it the three of them will not be in the new BBC approved top gear.

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Who ever they get it will fail.

Those three made the show. That's the reason there was such a waiting list for tickets for the studio.

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So glad i have all the episodes on my PC so i can carry on getting my fix until they hopefully start a new program with another provider. :D

There is now nothing at all on the BBC for me to watch.

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Clarkson can't be replaced, there's nobody good enough, Clarkson, Hammond and May are / were Top Gear.

You'll still have to pay them the license fee. :p: :D

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They are a massive loss but it will now be interesting to see what they do. I still think people underestimate the role of the background team that put Top Gear together. They won't have the same show anymore, they'll have to change it.

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And that's the biggest **** take of it all :mad:

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They were not the people that the viewers saw each week however, any new team will fall flat on there face's no matter how good the people in the back ground are. It was the interaction of three middle aged men who still thought the were teenagers that attracted viewers.

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The show was popular because of the chemistry of the trio. There is no denying that. However every show has the people in front of the camera being supported by the people at the back of it. Just because they're not seen doesn't mean they were not influential and the Top Gear production staff are obviously very good. Outside of the chemistry the show also did well because of the outlandish nature of their reviews, races and stunts. They needed creative writers and talented people to put those together.

I don't think Top Gear will do as well anymore but I am not sure it will fail.

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Whoever they get to replace him will have to be black, female and gay, with a disability. :D

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Add Ecomentilist to that list :LOL:

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I was about 10 years waiting with another 8 years to go.:mad:

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Oh yeah, can't leave that one out. :D

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It may well carry on, but I won't watch it.

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It would be like replacing Laurel and Hardy with Little and Large.

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Can you imagine it "Star in an electric car" instead of lap times it will be how many laps can you make before you need a recharge. :D

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Yeah, probably a Sinclair C5.

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No way it will be to fast. :D

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Peter Docherty was over Top Gear, but cancelled when he discovered it was a car program. :D

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More like this then... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuPJoA9gIro

Or even better still... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGGlODF7_RY

Pimp my Farthing! :D

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To be honest they well just be happy with someone who doesn't hit the other members of staff...

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1) I believe you

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My vote's for Vic and Bob with Charlie Chuck as Captain Slow

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And if it doesn't run out of juice and they all get bored they could push it of and make out it had

http://www.theguardian.com/media/200...a-electric-car

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Yeah, good old BBC, rape all the children you want, just don't punch the staff

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Glad he is gone up himself **** and as for throwing his toys out the pram because there is no hot food what a knob, I am sure with his millions he could have got one of his lackys to get him a maccies.

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It's a good line going around but I don't think the BBC should be consistent with their mistakes from decades ago. They can't fix the mistakes from the past but they can ensure they operate correctly now and in this incidence they did what they were obliged to do.

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To true.

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What I can't understand is why so many people are supportive of someone who verbally and physically abuses a work colleague?

Having said that, if he had punched the vertically-challenged one and wrapped that hideous orange Zonda around his head, it would have made me smile :D

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Indeed how some can support him beggars belief as there are simply no excuses for what he did.

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But, but, but.....


BBC, PC, Left-wing namby-pamby tree-huggers, etc. etc.

Also, Nazis.....;)

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i feel like lamping someone at work at least once per week ;)

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I read somewhere today that the Director General of the BBC bit someone on the ear years ago. The truth is clear, without the work Clarkson put in building the brand of Top Gear up then the BBC would have £65 million less a year.

Regardless of this incident, you cannot deny he is pretty much Top Gear to a lot of fans, fans who will not watch it with anyone other than Clarkson in. Including me.

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You usualy find that they say one thing but do another.

it happens with Big Brother all the time.
they say "The show's ruined for me... I'm off. not watching it no more!"

but they still are.

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True. Be interesting to see what viewing figures are for the new look Top Gear without Clarkson.

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I personally never supported or defended him but like millions of others love Top Gear and it was Clarkson, Hammond and May that made the program what it is. Without one or all of them it simply won't be as entertaining or a good IMO.

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I nearly did a Clarkson at work today.

I was off for 2 days after a gout attack, and the manager we have to see to get a sick for from wanted to see me, but he didn't. After the current situation I'm in I will lose it with him, exRAF or not.

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Personally l think its finished now Stephen as yes JC is entertaining at times but like most long running shows its well past its sell by date now.

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Viewing figures and global earnings say you're wrong about that.

Make no mistake, the BBC will try very hard indeed to keep it going with new presenters.

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Yes, it'll be interesting to see the direction they choose - male or female for example? There'll be plenty of pressure from within (and without) the Beeb to mollify all the testosterone with a dose of oestrogen.

Then there'll be personality - will JC's replacement have one or will they opt for yet another bland, inoffensive, left leaning, 'face which fits'? I dare say that female German Nurburgring specialist Sabine Schmitz would tick a number of boxes, including diplomatic ones, but would have the downside of inducing within the male viewers and presenters certain traits the Beeb might deem unsuitable for a family show... :)

Anyway, it'll be a hard act to follow for whoever they choose. JC's humour was a big part of the show - anyone who tries to copy it will be accused of just that and if they don't, the show will have lost a key element of its appeal.

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Yes they do make a lot from sales of the show world wide but actual viewing figures in this country were in a six year decline until 2014 as its peak audience was in 2008.

l have no doubt they will keep it going but its going to be very hard for them to get someone with a certain aura and gravitas in my opinion.

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The thing is Den as there are more channels with more choice, viewing figures are likely to suffer across the board. Also people have the ability to watch shows on catchup etc. so live viewing figures, if that's what you're referring to, might not tell the whole story.

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Have Boris Johnson and Prince Philip as hosts.

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As Osem says, you're ignoring issues like audience share and catchup.

Absolute figures have been dropping for all terrestrial channels for decades. Doctor Who was cancelled at the end of the 1980s for "low" viewing figures which many episodes of the new series have achieved, and are now considered average-to-good.

Even in the last 6-7 years there has been a marked decline, but the BBC has access to iPlayer stats that BARB does not.

Top Gear is immensely popular. It is shown in goodness knows how many countries worldwide and the format has been franchised and remade in others. It really is not past its sell by date and the BBC is going to try extremely hard to re-cast, re-invent and re-start it as soon as possible.

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I'd love to be in on the internal discussions going on about this.

Some say the new presenter won't have testicles but will have a hairy face. Jo Brand comes to mind and 'on that bombshell...' :D

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That set me thinking - with The Sun dropping page three there'll be plenty of now underemployed female 'talent' out there so the BBC could do a quick revamp and relaunch the show as Topless Gear :shocked:.

Cheers

Grimmy

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Yes l did forget about that so perhaps l have over estimated its demise a bit.:)

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If they re-cast and reinvent Top Gear then it's worth remembering that it won't be the new presenter thrown into the current format trying to replace Clarkson. It will be a new show and they'll decide on the presenter on how they fit that new format rather than Clarkson 2.

It will be interesting to see what happens. I think this iteration of Top Gear is finished but that isn't to say the new version of it won't also be good in a different way.

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:D Well I remember Topless Darts on Live TV...

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And lunchbox volleyball.:p:

They had a young blond Yorkshire lass who presented the banger racing. She'd do.

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Yay! I found out who she is:

Louise Brady

Seems to have the right credentials. :D

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This gives the BBC the opportunity to revamp and re-invent the show. After all the basics haven't really evolved since 2002. Many parts of the show still worked, but some of it may have become a bit stale at least to UK audiences who have been watching since 2002, even if it remains fresh to the more recently franchised countries.

The presenters are just a part of the package. I suspect they were struggling sometimes to come up with new ideas of how to put three idiots in beaten up cars and somehow make those stunts seem fresh when inevitably the challenges became repetitive.

Yes they were amusing but even so the presenters as a team were starting to show their age - Clarkson has previously complained about all sorts of back troubles - and one wonder's how long they could keep up the physical punishment of bounding around in rutted unmade tracks.

What parts of the show really work, but should others get dropped? For example inevitably I'd record and fast forward the star in a reasonably priced car as I wasn't really interested in another chat show promotion thing, even if it had a slant to it.

Is even the studio and track location at Dunsfold still right?

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The problem for the terrestrial channels is that way back in the 80s and early nineties, we had 4 channels to watch. Sky added (IIRC) another 15, and Cable added some of those 15 channels, and others. However, due to the cost of installation, neither Sky nor cable were serious competitors at the time. As such, the big shows were getting 10 - 12 million viewers, and (in the case of Eastenders) went up to about 30.

Now, the population hasn't increased that much, but the average viewer has access to over 300 channels. Even Freeview owners have access to 50. Most viewers also have access (show they be willing to pay) to online video services such as Netflix, Lovefilm (whatever they call it now), blinkbox and Sky Now, as well as the various catchup services and sources of illegal streams/downloads.

Regarding Dr Who, I saw Micheal Grade being interviewed and the interview asked about Dr Who. MG did admit that the viewing figures for it were actually good at the time (bearing in mind it was up against Coronation Street a lot of the time), and the real reason he axed it was simply that he didn't like it.

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Well, if it's true, it's refreshing to know that he cared so much about the people who paid his wages. :rolleyes:

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:drool:

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Oooo every cloud has a silver lining. Despite what I've said before if the Clarkson incident is going to lead to his sacking and replacement by this dolly bird I have only one thing to say: "where is that Irish bloke, I'll punch him myself?!" :D

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Now now we will have less of that old boy.:nono::naughty:

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If they do re-invent the show then I wonder if they'll go more like the US version which is just a new challenge every week. The rest of the segments usually seem like filler anyway, especially when they review a car now that they only drive it round the track.

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So we've got Louise as anchor, Clair Balding to do the bike slot. I wonder who the third Cabinero could be.:scratch::D

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:LOL:

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I wonder if the BBC try what they did with Have I got News For You: Rotating presenters.

I can't believe that there would be a shortage of talent the BBC could access who would love to have a go, even on a one off basis.

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Bike slot??! No, don't need those death traps on other than to show four wheels are better.

Neither should it become a "car" show rather that light entertainment around cars.

And there is a lot of skill in what the three of them did/do. Driving is just one part of it, driving while being entertaining and "informative" takes a lot of skill.

Could use The Stig to interview "the star".

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Apparently Clarkson has a job offer from Russia:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/32070910

:D

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Michael Grade didn't axe Doctor Who. He put it on an 18-month hiatus in 1985. Although it was never formally cancelled, it was BBC1 controller Jonathan Powell who was most directly responsible, as he failed either to shift the show out of a slot where it was competing with Coronation Street, or indeed to commission any new seasons after the 26th. The writing on the wall was clear to the production team - Nathan-Turner and the rest were pretty sure Survival was going to be the last-ever episode.

By the time all this happened, Michael Grade, whose personal hatred for Doctor Who was well known, was in no position to have influenced the decision, as he was running Channel 4. Indeed, Powell was reputed to have hated his guts, so certainly wouldn't have been likely to take Grade's advice over anything.

Incidentally, while Who was more successful against Corrie than just about anything else the BBC had ever put up against it, it still fared very poorly by its own standards. Its final season more than once failed to attract more than 3 million. For a prime property in prime time, that wasn't good at all.

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Nigel Farage? Fag, pint, irreverent loose cannon...:p:

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and might need a new job soon. Everyone is a winner. ;)

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I think it had gone stale and despite their buffoonery I thought the three stars were starting to take themselves a bit to seriously and believe the hype around them as this latest sorry saga highlights, won't be sorry to see it go, stopped watching it years ago and getting rid of those three probably wont entice me back.

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Breaking news: Dermot O'Leary leaves X Factor and may be in line for Top Gear job.

What a nail biting saga this is becoming...

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today the Guardian was suggesting Guy Martin would be a good host.

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Sooner watch paint dry than watch him ..

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I agree.

And I know I'll be in a minority of one here, but I would just like a basic "review the car" show without all the "entertainment".

It doesn't interest me whether a car can do 180mph, but it does interest me to know how many suitcases or bags of shopping I can get in the boot.

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he will need to get a wash then ;)

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Non discriminatory joke alert...

Shouldn't that be dyke slot?

Perhaps him as the 3rd Cabinero?