It's regrettable it ended this way.
I think there is a parallel to another event, albeit different circumstances, when the star left the show. First the parallel, and comes from the world of cars. In 2006, Michael Schumacher was pushed out from Ferrari by Luca de Montezemolo. He wasn't sacked for misbehaving but he was pushed out. Ferrari went on to win the driver's title in 2007 with Raikonen and then became solid also-rans to this day. Formula One kept going forward. Ferrari hired a replacement star (Alonso) who eventually left. An old driver (Raikonen) came back. The old boss Montezemolo, got himself the axe, his successor lasted a few months. Schumacher himself came back a few years later with another team and was never quite the 7 x world champion larger than life sharper than a scalpel driver. He went back into retirement, did something stupid, and for all we know he is now a vegetable.
This happens in every business sadly, heck it's happened to me a couple of times, you see it coming and deal with it, i'm guessing Jezza knew his time was limited, but not this limited, it's nicer to go out in the way you want....A lot nicer.
What if... competent producers and management had actually laid on catering/food as they should have and this had never happened?
I mentioned this a few pages back, I talked to a family friend (who happens to run a rather large network over here in the states) and his point was "WTF were they thinking leaving the catering to a pub?"
In the end, it doesn't matter, Jezza may be a dick, but he is a dick who happened to be the face of a show that was watched by 350 million people a week, if he want's a steak, get him a f****** steak.
Just one note - obviously, this is the UKanian justice system which is different from the US one that many posters here are familiar with. In the US unless an officer directly witnesses a crime, generally the other party must press charges before they can do something (with obvious exceptions like murder). So a lot of posters may be shocked to find out that in the UK the police *don't* need someone to file/press assault charges in order to proceed.
Semi correct, you don't in the US either, there are a whole group of things that the DA (the police do not prosecute here, they investigate) can charge someone with, google Slava Voynov.
If he's found guilty that could scupper him from working stateside in the future.
Not really, but Canada becomes an issue.
If you wan't to know what will happen with Top Gear, look at Two and a half men.
That is a an excellent analogy, both shows worldwide had about the same audience numbers, the big difference was how much Charlie Sheen was getting paid, he was actually making more for one episode than JC was making per year, which should put this whole mess into perspective for everyone, CMH will, if they choose, make more money in one year than they did in their whole time at the BBC.
Erm, yeah, actually it *is* a sackable offense on productions I've worked on. The key here is in how it was evidently handled. Okay, fine, hotel kitchen is closing. Principals of the film still aren't there, but your job is to make sure they have food, at least on that day. Apparently he did not attempt to arrange for an alternative or contact the principals to explain the developing problem ahead of time, either of which would have been professionally acceptable. Nope, the first notice that anyone else had that he'd failed was when they walked in expecting food that they had had no reason to believe wouldn't be there - with no alternative laid on. On many productions that I've worked on or around, that right there is grounds for sanction or termination depending on how badly the person screwed up and/or didn't immediately notify higher that there was a problem they couldn't deal with. Handing the production a nasty surprise that got worse because you didn't want to report it and eventually someone else found out about it the hard way is a big no no.
Now, I'm not blaming him for ruining Top Gear or anything like that because that's silly. I *am* holding him to the same standard of professionalism that Jeremy was held to, failed to meet and was terminated for so doing.
To use the "ooops, took the key" thing - there's a difference between an honest mistake that you try to rectify as soon as you discover it and intentionally or negligently burying a problem that you can't solve until someone else finds out about it and you are *forced* to own up to it. The latter will, correctly, get you disciplined or fired.
Exactly.
Makes me wonder how long Clarkson would have to stay away, for all we know he comes back in 2016 having taken the rest of the year and a bit of next off and they continue on with Top Gear, I know it's probably not very likely.
Doubtful, but I am wondering, if the show goes on, do we get to see Jezza do SIARPC
Netflix would take him. One of their biggest hits - Orange is the New Black - is based on a woman who spent a year in prison for felony money-laundering.
The list of networks that would take him (along with the other two) is pretty much...All of them, the idea that commercial channels can't do a Top Gear type program because of the chance that the boys will rip into say, BMW's latest and greatest is BS,, the networks care about one thing, the number of viewers, specifically the key demographic, males aged 18-54......If BMW doesn't want to advertise on a network that produces and carries whatever (should they even decide to do it) the next version of TG, there will be other companies falling over themselves to throw money at the network.
At work yesterday, the next step for CMH was being discussed (yes, in a management meeting of a multi billion dollar company this subject was the lead discussion, in the US, which should tell you how far reaching TG really is) the HBO/Netflix idea seemed to be the way our guys would go...Why means NBC should probably grab it.
Hmm, maybe this will finally convince me to subscribe to netflix
/penny pincher
LOL, and there is the reason why, heck they get 1% of the audience world wide and Netflix is laughing.
Depending on when Clarkson's contract expires [to avoid conflict], and when the current season of Fifth Gear ends, I wouldn't surprised if Jezza does a cameo on the show.
Hmmm, taking that in a slightly different direction..
"Tonight, on the all new Fifth Gear, I ride a bike, James wears a hat and Richard says nothing"....
One other thing that comes to mind, my wife has zero interest in cars, but she loved the travel part of it, seeing places that she has never seen before and then putting them on the bucket list, I mean, is there anyone here who didn't watch the Vietnam special and think that there were parts of that country that were stunning ?