the new "Top Gear"
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I'm not sure I understand your point...I don't see the correlation between CL's posting guidelines and the comedy presented on a TV show.
CL has the right to limit the content of what gets expressed on their forum. The BBC has the right to limit the content of what he's expressed on its airwaves. The point here is that for years they allowed this content to be expressed, then cried foul when it was brought to their attention by critics and blamed Clarkson, then continued to allow it to be scripted and expressed.
If the BBC had simply not allowed that content originally that would have been a different matter.
CL has the right to limit the content of what gets expressed on their forum. The BBC has the right to limit the content of what he's expressed on its airwaves. The point here is that for years they allowed this content to be expressed, then cried foul when it was brought to their attention by critics and blamed Clarkson, then continued to allow it to be scripted and expressed.
If the BBC had simply not allowed that content originally that would have been a different matter.
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Hopefully it comes down to cars and adventures rather than whose fault it was to get ratings from a git-yob who has been made a rich man with his occasional lunacy.
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Yes. It's the BBC's fault for enabling a white nationalist and part time racist. Hopefully Amazon learned something from this.
Hopefully it comes down to cars and adventures rather than whose fault it was to get ratings from a git-yob who has been made a rich man with his occasional lunacy.
Hopefully it comes down to cars and adventures rather than whose fault it was to get ratings from a git-yob who has been made a rich man with his occasional lunacy.
Old habits are hard to break. Just ask any octogenarian.
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Yes. It's the BBC's fault for enabling a white nationalist and part time racist. Hopefully Amazon learned something from this.
Hopefully it comes down to cars and adventures rather than whose fault it was to get ratings from a git-yob who has been made a rich man with his occasional lunacy.
Hopefully it comes down to cars and adventures rather than whose fault it was to get ratings from a git-yob who has been made a rich man with his occasional lunacy.
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Now don't get excited old Top Gear fans. I take this with a grain of salt because the BBC is doing some damage control after Evans' controversial departure.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...y-clarkson-bbc
http://jalopnik.com/new-top-gear-did...ear-1783513618
https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...y-clarkson-bbc
Chris Evans’ Top Gear may have been a ratings flop in the UK, but abroad it is proving to be a bigger hit than Jeremy Clarkson’s version of the show.
Top Gear is considered to be the BBC’s biggest global brand with sales of the TV show, DVDs, books, live shows and other merchandise thought to be worth more than £50m a year.
The head of the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, has said Top Gear remains on track as an international brand.
“I am very happy with programme sales,” said the BBC Worldwide chief executive, Tim Davie. “[Chris Evans’s Top Gear] has sold into over 130 territories which is very strong and marginal growth versus the previous season [Clarkson’s last].”
Davie said that although there had been “ups and downs” with Top Gear’s ratings, the show remains a financial cash cow....
Top Gear is considered to be the BBC’s biggest global brand with sales of the TV show, DVDs, books, live shows and other merchandise thought to be worth more than £50m a year.
The head of the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, has said Top Gear remains on track as an international brand.
“I am very happy with programme sales,” said the BBC Worldwide chief executive, Tim Davie. “[Chris Evans’s Top Gear] has sold into over 130 territories which is very strong and marginal growth versus the previous season [Clarkson’s last].”
Davie said that although there had been “ups and downs” with Top Gear’s ratings, the show remains a financial cash cow....
Well, here’s some surprising news: the BBC’s commercial arm reports that, despite the revamped Top Gear’s very negative ratings in the UK, the show was quite well-received internationally.
And by “quite well” I mean that newfangled season 23 actually did better than season 22. “I am very happy with program sales,” said Tim Davie, CEO of the BBC. “[Chris Evans’s Top Gear] has sold into over 130 territories which is very strong and marginal growth versus the previous season [Clarkson’s last].”
Historically, not every single season of Top Gear has been a hit. And even though there have been ups and downs, the BBC insists that the international brand is still “a financial cash cow,” reports The Guardian.
“It is absolutely the case I think that Top Gear remains in very good health,” Davie continued. “It is a work in progress and we will have to see how it goes. I remain optimistic about Top Gear and its growth potential over the coming years.”
And by “quite well” I mean that newfangled season 23 actually did better than season 22. “I am very happy with program sales,” said Tim Davie, CEO of the BBC. “[Chris Evans’s Top Gear] has sold into over 130 territories which is very strong and marginal growth versus the previous season [Clarkson’s last].”
Historically, not every single season of Top Gear has been a hit. And even though there have been ups and downs, the BBC insists that the international brand is still “a financial cash cow,” reports The Guardian.
“It is absolutely the case I think that Top Gear remains in very good health,” Davie continued. “It is a work in progress and we will have to see how it goes. I remain optimistic about Top Gear and its growth potential over the coming years.”
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