Ex-BBC Director Admits He Screwed Up By Firing Clarkson
It seems that after the dust has settled over the latest new look Top Gear series, the BBC has admitted making an error. After a ‘fracas‘ that resulted in the sacking of Jeremy Clarkson - followed swiftly by the departure of co-stars Hammond and May - a completely new team was brought in to spearhead the BBC’s most successful show to date.
Despite the decent viewing numbers produced by the latest series, the ex-director general of the BBC has come out and admitted that getting rid of the brash presenter was a mistake. Mark Thompson has called Clarkson a “deeply objectionable character” but went on to say that JC was a “talent they (the BBC) could ill afford to lose”.
Thompson went on to say that Clarkson “spoke to people who didn’t find much else at the BBC”, meaning that he brought in a new audience with his wit, charisma and outspoken nature. With the old Top Gear trio’s new show - The Grand Tour - starting exclusively on Amazon Prime in the Autumn, it seems that Clarkson and co. have made the correct call and should provide an interesting comparison to the new Le Blanc-age Top Gear.
Despite the new BBC series showing promising aspects through Chris Harris and Rory Reid, it seems that it is still missing the controversial Englishman from its ranks.
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I knew that they knew this, but they just didn’t wanna say it. Guess they decided to say it after all.
But he screwed us too … We want the show back :(
But now we have Grand Tour.
Good job you idiot…
Due to the unique way the BBC is run, it took them this long to figure out what the public knew day one.
REAL BAD!
This just in from the chief director of the BBC:
‘’Where that irish spanner Oisin at? Where is he?! Im’ma punch him myself!’’
Well that took long too figure out!!!!
In the immortal words of Clarkson:
Rip this show
You assault a coworker, you should be fired. Fact.
Shouldn’t matter who you are. Employers should have a zero tolerance policy.
WRONG!!! In many jobs assault isn’t instant dismissal and in many cases employees have been kept on and worked through issues with the other employee involved.
No. A company is not a grade school. A company needs to make money and when dealing with employees it needs to act like a meritocracy. If you have an employee who’s making you a lot of money but they cause other problems you need to make a decision: will it cost you more to fire them or will it cost you more to continue covering for the problems they cause?
In this case the BBC happens to be a media company so they didn’t want to ruin their image - that’s understandable. However, Clarkson is certainly not the first celebrity to pull something like this. They could have found some way to keep him while diverting the blame.
I would say however that I think we will likely get a better result because of this. TGT doesn’t have to submit to the restrictions TG did/does, and we can finally get a full hour of show without a stupid celebrity interview segment or the “cool wall” or needless studio audience interaction. AND we still get a [slightly cucked] TG.
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