Jeremy Clarkson likes the GTS…well almost
03-12-2015, 07:58 PM
#76
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03-12-2015, 08:55 PM
#77
Race Director
Have a read of this, it counters your opinion. http://www.forbes.com/sites/ianmorri...rtner=yahootix .
So Jeremy shoves or roughs up some guy and all hell breaks loose, but there's people being beheaded and women attacked in other parts of the world and there is little concern for that.
Makes you wonder .....
03-13-2015, 08:03 AM
#78
Drifting
I'm just shaking my head also. First, I never watch the show (or anything on TV for that matter -- yes, I actually AM superior to all of you) but I'm familiar enough with the schtick from all the youtube postings I've encountered over the years. Seems entertaining enough.
Second: The history of entertainment is one long episode of spoiled prima donnas getting increasingly demanding as their stock goes up, while secretly everybody from the owner of the studio down to the key grip hates and even pities them, and most of the catering staff soak their dicks in his/her drink before serving. When they don't get their way, if they're big enough, they take a swing or a shove at somebody who's incompetence, real or imagined, is ruining their day. A small brouhaha ensues, feathers are ruffled then soothed, and the world goes on. If it's bad enough some money changes hands under a table and the offended party goes away much happier than before, never to work on that set again but a year's wages better off and happy to be rid of the lot of them.
Seems the reasonable solution to me, rather than "making a stand" that "******** won't be allowed to conduct their jackassery around here!" Pragmatism is often the best solution. As STG991 points out above, there are far bigger problems to get wadded up over.
Second: The history of entertainment is one long episode of spoiled prima donnas getting increasingly demanding as their stock goes up, while secretly everybody from the owner of the studio down to the key grip hates and even pities them, and most of the catering staff soak their dicks in his/her drink before serving. When they don't get their way, if they're big enough, they take a swing or a shove at somebody who's incompetence, real or imagined, is ruining their day. A small brouhaha ensues, feathers are ruffled then soothed, and the world goes on. If it's bad enough some money changes hands under a table and the offended party goes away much happier than before, never to work on that set again but a year's wages better off and happy to be rid of the lot of them.
Seems the reasonable solution to me, rather than "making a stand" that "******** won't be allowed to conduct their jackassery around here!" Pragmatism is often the best solution. As STG991 points out above, there are far bigger problems to get wadded up over.
03-13-2015, 05:23 PM
#79
Rennlist Member
I'm just shaking my head also. First, I never watch the show (or anything on TV for that matter -- yes, I actually AM superior to all of you) but I'm familiar enough with the schtick from all the youtube postings I've encountered over the years. Seems entertaining enough.
Second: The history of entertainment is one long episode of spoiled prima donnas getting increasingly demanding as their stock goes up, while secretly everybody from the owner of the studio down to the key grip hates and even pities them, and most of the catering staff soak their dicks in his/her drink before serving. When they don't get their way, if they're big enough, they take a swing or a shove at somebody who's incompetence, real or imagined, is ruining their day. A small brouhaha ensues, feathers are ruffled then soothed, and the world goes on. If it's bad enough some money changes hands under a table and the offended party goes away much happier than before, never to work on that set again but a year's wages better off and happy to be rid of the lot of them.
Seems the reasonable solution to me, rather than "making a stand" that "******** won't be allowed to conduct their jackassery around here!" Pragmatism is often the best solution. As STG991 points out above, there are far bigger problems to get wadded up over.
Second: The history of entertainment is one long episode of spoiled prima donnas getting increasingly demanding as their stock goes up, while secretly everybody from the owner of the studio down to the key grip hates and even pities them, and most of the catering staff soak their dicks in his/her drink before serving. When they don't get their way, if they're big enough, they take a swing or a shove at somebody who's incompetence, real or imagined, is ruining their day. A small brouhaha ensues, feathers are ruffled then soothed, and the world goes on. If it's bad enough some money changes hands under a table and the offended party goes away much happier than before, never to work on that set again but a year's wages better off and happy to be rid of the lot of them.
Seems the reasonable solution to me, rather than "making a stand" that "******** won't be allowed to conduct their jackassery around here!" Pragmatism is often the best solution. As STG991 points out above, there are far bigger problems to get wadded up over.
03-15-2015, 03:17 PM
#80
03-15-2015, 07:49 PM
#81
I read somewhere that clarkson is getting 4 million pounds per season. Given that the show has a global audience of 350 million, he is massively underpaid. Weren't the Seinfeld guys getting 1 million an episode back in the 90s?
03-15-2015, 09:19 PM
#82
Drifting
The number I've seen mentioned often is roughly $20m USD per season which is more in-line with the audience for TG... actually at that number he is still underpaid.
03-25-2015, 01:48 PM
#83
Race Director
03-25-2015, 01:52 PM
#84
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03-25-2015, 01:54 PM
#85
Instructor
well that sucks....
My UK car buddy says: 'Well, what normally happens is the format will be picked up by one of the other channels and Clarkson makes even more money, i will be watching this space (that link). big bags of gold will be handed out to entice the whole team, all of their contracts were up for renewal end of march'
so let's just hope the US gets to see the new show.
My UK car buddy says: 'Well, what normally happens is the format will be picked up by one of the other channels and Clarkson makes even more money, i will be watching this space (that link). big bags of gold will be handed out to entice the whole team, all of their contracts were up for renewal end of march'
so let's just hope the US gets to see the new show.
03-25-2015, 02:29 PM
#87
Race Director
The BBC guys are the idiots. They're the ones who need a good slapping around and a dose of some verbal abuse. Might help wake them up. Ha ha.
03-25-2015, 04:13 PM
#88
Drifting
If they begin running out of taxpayer-provided money, simple; Run the presses a couple extra shifts every week and there ya go.
03-25-2015, 04:35 PM
#89
Rennlist Member
Nonsense. They work for a government. Government "programs" cannot fail, thus Top Gear cannot fail. If fewer people watch it, the gov't simply directs more pounds of taxpayer-provided money towards it and, as if by magic, TG can stay afloat! Proving that the producers were not wrong about sacking Clarkson.
If they begin running out of taxpayer-provided money, simple; Run the presses a couple extra shifts every week and there ya go.
If they begin running out of taxpayer-provided money, simple; Run the presses a couple extra shifts every week and there ya go.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/governance
03-25-2015, 04:37 PM
#90
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given the comments of James May when asked this morning, I would expect to see Hammond and May join Clarkson somewhere else to reinvent the program