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Originally Posted by Osem
I too would like a more sensible car show dealing with the sorts of questions and issues ordinary people have when buying cars. Having said that there's a lot of info, reviews etc. on the web now so maybe TV just isn't the place for boring, practical stuff like that...  |
The problem is that the general public don't seem to want a serious programme about cars people can reasonably afford. They'd be reviewing Focuses, Astras, Civics and Yarises the whole time, which would bore most of the public. Clearly, it did. When Top Gear was a serious car programme, they got viewing figures so low that the programme was axed.
I like Top Gear, and I personally don't think of it as a car programme as such. For me, it's about watching three middle aged men making complete arses of themselves and taking the mickey out of each other.
Going back to Jeremy, I don't know what happened. I think what happened is that he got to the hotel, found no hot food and shouted at a producer. I say I think this is what happened as I find it odd that none of the papers have published a photo of the producer with any kind of injury. Even if the UK papers have not published a photo, Jeremy has been papped before, so I would have thought a foreign paper would have published them.
I also think there is a faction in the BBC trying to get him out. They can't easily remove him at the moment because he brings in a *lot* of money, but there have been things leaked that could only have come from within the BBC.
Don't get me wrong. I am not defending him. If he did hit the producer, he deserves whatever punishment the BBC rules, and the law require. There can be no excuse for violence in the workplace, and I speak as someone who was once hit round the head by their boss (thankfully one of our directors was standing behind her, called my boss to her office and offered two choices - resign or go through the company disciplinary procedure, then called me into her office and offered to help me if I wished to press charges, which I didn't).
If he did just shout at a producer, that, depending on what was said, may also require disciplinary action, but it may not.