The Grand Tour. (Top Gear is dead).

[Colly]

I think I'd enjoy it a lot more if they killed off the studio stuff entirely, largely because every single person in a Top Gear audience is a complete cunt, and they pander to them with horrendous political jokes rather than the daft 'look at the silly middle class men doing silly things' that you get from the challenge stuff.

[EddieG]

Preview of season 22, which starts this Sunday, simulcast around the world (except the US, they get it the next day)

[MDK]

I tend to think Top Gear's been on a bit of a slope for while now but that's quite possibly the best adventure they've ever done. I wouldn't mind them doing more two parters in future.

Can't say slope

[thatshortguy]

That Patagonia Special left me with a very similar taste to the SE US trip. Very disappointed in the people there.

[EddieG]

So.. Clarkson has been suspended.. and there's no new episode this Sunday.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Not as big of a shame as it would have been a couple of years ago. This last series has been pretty rubbish really. The only features that come to mind as having been any good are the James May Rallycross feature last week and the trip across Australia earlier in the series.

The second half of the ambulance challenge and the Peugeot feature were terrible. All the reviews just blend into one these days too, more so than ever.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Apparently it's the BBC that's been reining them in and restricting them a bit after they fled Argentina, but eh. Can't blame them for wanting a tighter leash when you've got a massive tit like Clarkson running around being a racist idiot.

[FestiveJack]

I'm annoyed that the BBC news article on it is making a big thing about Clarkson tweeting that a new presenter was wanted... it was a joke tweet because May was late. The tweet literally before that was asking people in Guildford to report sightings of May.

[GA!]

[GhostMachine]

What exactly happened? All I've read is that something happened between Clarkson and a producer, but that's it. No details.

[FestiveJack]

That's all anyone knows at this point.

[Colly]

I'm annoyed that the BBC news article on it is making a big thing about Clarkson tweeting that a new presenter was wanted... it was a joke tweet because May was late. The tweet literally before that was asking people in Guildford to report sightings of May.

That article also states that he only started on Top Gear in 2002 and someone is quoted as saying 'before him it wasn't as popular', which has made me really confused about who that bloke who looked exactly like Jeremy Clarkson was on Top Gear throughout the 90s.

[ZJ Penn]

What exactly happened? All I've read is that something happened between Clarkson and a producer, but that's it. No details.

He punched a producer and, being on a final warning is probably going to be sacked. Although maybe not, seeing as he'll only appear on ITV/Sky/Channel 5 by summer in a carbon copy show.

I'm glad though. To paraphrase Stewart Lee, I hate Top Gear and everything it stands for

[EddieG]

the Peugeot feature were terrible.

You used to be my favorite mod.

[FestiveJack]

I'm glad though. To paraphrase Stewart Lee, I hate Top Gear and everything it stands for

That £300 million a year Top Gear generates for the BBC will be hard to replace. Cue more cuts to programming, local radio and everything else.

[ZJ Penn]

They can keep Top Gear. Just get rid of the right wing bullies with their offensive opinions they hold for money.

[FestiveJack]

And who do you get to replace them? There is no Top Gear without the current crop of presenters.

[Benji]

Nigel Farage.

[lanky316]

Steve Coogan, in his Alan Partridge role, nobody would notice the difference. Actually, without the Partridge bit that wouldn't be a bad shout. It sounds like the sort of thing he'd consider doing.

[ZJ Penn]

With Jim Davidson and Chubby Brown as his wingmen.

Actually no, wait. Just leave Clarkson in charge. Better that than disrupt the BBC cash cow.