JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Drastically under paid imho seeing as his Top Gear made the BBC c£150m last year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/9002449/Jeremy-Clarkson-pockets-2.14m-from-Top-Gear.html Good for him though, and the exchequer will see a cool £1m for that too. For those Clarkson knockers that jump on every Guardian report that he is an overpaid oaf I like this quote from a Spokesman for BBC Worldwide: Jeremy and Andy’s roles in the business represent excellent value for money and they are getting much less than many others comparatively. It’s entirely normal for creative talent to participate in the commercial global success of a show and format like Top Gear We should be encouraging JC to earn more and in turn pay more tax - long live Top Gear - one of the UK's top exports it seems! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpine_saint Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Agree. Was invited round a friends house over the holidays, and he had the Top Gear Challenges box set. Was crying and sides were aching by the end of the electric car challenge. Clarkson, May and Hammond are top blokes, great entertainment value. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trousers Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 But...but....but....according to some of my more rational 'friends' on the internet last month he's an overpaid drain on public money....getting paid less than 1% of Top Gear's revenue must surely be a typo or something. Innit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I used to watch Top Gear a bit until it occurred to me that all those stupid challenges are entirely scripted in advance. Now it's a bit Oh my God what's happened now Captain Slow has broken down almost on the finishing line for the 57th time and who's this coming round the corner - it's Clarkson! but oh no his engine has also overheated but wait what's this who's coming up backwards on three wheels - it's Hammond! - he's only gone and snatched it! Like if you're just going to make it up you could easily make up something more exciting like Hammond flipping out and shooting Clarkson in the head, or time travelling dinosaurs from the future arriving and finding out that in the future everyone has James May's haircut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Have seen Top Gear in other countries -and Clarkson seems much less important to the brand than he is in the UK. More emphasis is put on the show as a whole and if anyone person gets the attention its, surprisingly, James May. Quite a few of his spin-off shows are also aired in the US. ....btw I would have the Dalai Lama summoned in front of a Chinese firing squad for liking Top Gear. All in good humour of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trader Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 3 tiresome prats - it's all sooooooooooooo predictable. The only bit I liked was when Hammond nearly killed himself - pity he didn't break his wooden necklace though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I used to watch Top Gear a bit until it occurred to me that all those stupid challenges are entirely scripted in advance. Now it's a bit Oh my God what's happened now Captain Slow has broken down almost on the finishing line for the 57th time and who's this coming round the corner - it's Clarkson! but oh no his engine has also overheated but wait what's this who's coming up backwards on three wheels - it's Hammond! - he's only gone and snatched it! Like if you're just going to make it up you could easily make up something more exciting like Hammond flipping out and shooting Clarkson in the head, or time travelling dinosaurs from the future arriving and finding out that in the future everyone has James May's haircut. What are you expecting it to be? It's obviously some blokes just having a laugh, easy viewing on a Sunday night or whatever, it's never going to be ground-breakingly original, just a bit of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dibden Purlieu Saint Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I used to watch Top Gear a bit until it occurred to me that all those stupid challenges are entirely scripted in advance. Now it's a bit Oh my God what's happened now Captain Slow has broken down almost on the finishing line for the 57th time and who's this coming round the corner - it's Clarkson! but oh no his engine has also overheated but wait what's this who's coming up backwards on three wheels - it's Hammond! - he's only gone and snatched it! Like if you're just going to make it up you could easily make up something more exciting like Hammond flipping out and shooting Clarkson in the head, or time travelling dinosaurs from the future arriving and finding out that in the future everyone has James May's haircut. Christ, you sound like a bore some ****. Nearly everything you see on tv is scripted. Frankly I like to enjoy them all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 What are you expecting it to be? It's obviously some blokes just having a laugh, easy viewing on a Sunday night or whatever, it's never going to be ground-breakingly original, just a bit of fun. I think it's weak, inane, witless junk that is somehow tolerated or held to lower standards because it "appears" to be unscripted. Also there aren't enough time-travelling dinosaurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Christ, you sound like a bore some ****. Nearly everything you see on tv is scripted. Frankly I like to enjoy them all the same. Christ I'm not stopping you watching it, I just like my TV to be more pretentious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I love the BBC. Absolutely top notch broadcaster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I like Jeremy Clarkson. Right wing humour at it's best. The fact he gets under the skin of lefties is a credit to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I like Jeremy Clarkson. Right wing humour at it's best. The fact he gets under the skin of lefties is a credit to him. But the BBC is a left wing propaganda machine, right? Labour accused the BBC of Coalition bias a few weeks back actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 The Top Gear India special over Christmas - very obviously scripted but I still wet myself over the signs on the trains: 'SH I.T for your business' and 'Eat English Muff'. Banal humour that appeals to me! James May is my favourite presenter though. Hammond couldn't act his way out of a paper bag and Clarkson gets more juvenile as the years roll by. May is more real, and a decent chap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 don't like any of them, but the shows works brilliantly (the India one wasn't their best) and is one of the better things of telly. The Vietnam edition was outstanding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 You guys have NO idea. Clarkson and co are without a doubt THE best thing on our TV screens over here. Our Satellite provider picks up a random selection of US shows and maybe once in a blue moon actually starts from Series 1 episode 1. One channel just airs varying versions of Letterman The Tonight Show Ellen de Generes & that bloke with the big chin all day long. BBC Entertainment gives us Doctors and occassional random Holby City episodes and 5 year old Doctor Who. Don't like it? Well, you lot have a magic thing called a remote control so go watch something highbrow, nobody is forcing you to notice that Hammond couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, nobody forces you to watch such clearly scripted drivel... It makes money. It entertains millions around the planet. I laugh more at it in one episode than I have ever managed in Something about Jim and all that other US Sitcom garbage we get saddled with the other 6 nights a week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 You guys have NO idea. Clarkson and co are without a doubt THE best thing on our TV screens over here. Our Satellite provider picks up a random selection of US shows and maybe once in a blue moon actually starts from Series 1 episode 1. One channel just airs varying versions of Letterman The Tonight Show Ellen de Generes & that bloke with the big chin all day long. BBC Entertainment gives us Doctors and occassional random Holby City episodes and 5 year old Doctor Who. Don't like it? Well, you lot have a magic thing called a remote control so go watch something highbrow, nobody is forcing you to notice that Hammond couldn't act his way out of a paper bag, nobody forces you to watch such clearly scripted drivel... It makes money. It entertains millions around the planet. I laugh more at it in one episode than I have ever managed in Something about Jim and all that other US Sitcom garbage we get saddled with the other 6 nights a week I was actually looking at IT contracts in Dubai. Now that I know that Top Gear is the best thing on TV over there, I'll give it a miss. Why are you so miffed at people knocking the show? Top Gear is alright for what it is, which is WWE for car anoraks. It's not real, but I can watch it in that spirit and enjoy it (a bit). It's very much an "on if it's on show" in our gaff. The South American tour was bloody excellent, but the pretend romp-a-rounds and the fawning audience that looks like Top of the Pops, only populated with Young Conservatives, I can do without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Drastically under paid imho seeing as his Top Gear made the BBC c£150m last year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/9002449/Jeremy-Clarkson-pockets-2.14m-from-Top-Gear.html Good for him though, and the exchequer will see a cool £1m for that too. For those Clarkson knockers that jump on every Guardian report that he is an overpaid oaf I like this quote from a Spokesman for BBC Worldwide: We should be encouraging JC to earn more and in turn pay more tax - long live Top Gear - one of the UK's top exports it seems! Why doesnt he go work for SKy for big bucks? The fukin slimey commie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I love the Top Gear more than any grown man should care to admit. I'm very well aware it's often heavily scripted and that much of what you see on it should be taken with a pinch (sorry make that a bucket load) of salt. This programme is disgracefully irreverent and shamelessly un-PC in a world where these 'crimes' have very nearly disappeared from our screens. I'm more than happy to concede that it's probably far more juvenile at heart than almost anything you'll see on actual children's television. All these things are true. But if Jeremy Clarkson has made a packet out of it then I say good for him, because this terrible programme he devised is the best thing on British TV by a country mile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonraker Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Top Gear is exactly what it is designed to be great entertainment. The best for me was the Andes challenge. However I think it is getting a little tired and Clarkson is the weak link now where once he was the star. My son used to work in corporate events providing very high tech simulators, eg £150k F1 game, he says Clarkson was the most obnoxious arrogant celeb he ever met, completely ignored all of the "peasants" as if they didn't exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Clarkson is the weak link now. I wouldn't be surprised if you also thought Tony Blair was bad for the Labour Party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anothersaintinsouthsea Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Don't forget that Top Gear is brill advertising for Clarkson for all his spin-off DVDs, books etc. Think he does pretty well for himself. Used to enjoy it until I realisd it was the same episode over and over again. They should change it up a bit starting with getting rid of the goons who stand around in the background like fawning idiots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Middle-aged, balding fat bloke in 'stone wash' jeans earns a bit, but is a style icon for the Saintsweb's very own humour-free racist. Poor Clarkson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Middle-aged, balding fat bloke in 'stone wash' jeans earns a bit, but is a style icon for the Saintsweb's very own humour-free racist. Poor Clarkson. Are you calling me a f***ing racist? Give one f***ing example or apologise. If your suggesting someone else is racist name them and provide an example. Disgusting thing to accuse someone of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Why doesnt he go work for SKy for big bucks? The fukin slimey commie. BBC gave him his big break. Wouldn't leave them unless pushed. Same reason he still reviews cars fit the Sunday times, he gets bigger paying offers all the time but knows they stood by him for years. Soft if you ask me of course ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 BBC gave him his big break. Wouldn't leave them unless pushed. Same reason he still reviews cars fit the Sunday times, he gets bigger paying offers all the time but knows they stood by him for years. Soft if you ask me of course ;-) Plus he can get a far bigger audience on the Beeb and the BBC is the place to be just for its reputation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 BBC gave him his big break. Wouldn't leave them unless pushed. Same reason he still reviews cars fit the Sunday times, he gets bigger paying offers all the time but knows they stood by him for years. Soft if you ask me of course ;-) I expected he's getting a cushy, gold plated public sector pension too, the ***t! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Plus he can get a far bigger audience on the Beeb and the BBC is the place to be just for its reputation. Yep, like the NHS a true British institution to be proud of! I've travelled a bit and no one touches the BBC for broadcasting quality imho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 BBC gave him his big break. Wouldn't leave them unless pushed. Same reason he still reviews cars fit the Sunday times, he gets bigger paying offers all the time but knows they stood by him for years. Soft if you ask me of course ;-) Nothing of the sort - PWC, the accountants, have attempted to quantify the BBC effect - the added prestige and audience you get for working for the organisation which can be cashed in on in lots of different ways. They worked out the BBC can pay employees 30% less -and sometimes even less- than other media outfits simply because its good for the CV and career to be associated with the Beeb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I expected he's getting a cushy, gold plated public sector pension too, the ***t! Ha, not from news int he isn't ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Nothing of the sort - PWC, the accountants, have attempted to quantify the BBC effect - the added prestige and audience you get for working for the organisation which can be cashed in on in lots of different ways. They worked out the BBC can pay employees 30% less -and sometimes even less- than other media outfits simply because its good for the CV and career to be associated with the Beeb. Your probably right, can't compete with that! Only repeating what he told me many moons ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Are you calling me a f***ing racist? Give one f***ing example or apologise. If your suggesting someone else is racist name them and provide an example. Disgusting thing to accuse someone of. Not you, darling. Good explosion though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 You'd be amazed how popular it is here in the US. Now they have their own version, which the BBC will also be raking in money for. And no Dune, Clarkson does not **** of the lefties. Really, is the left/Right divide all you ever think about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Not you, darling. Good explosion though. Who then? Please name and shame and give some examples to back up what you're saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 You'd be amazed how popular it is here in the US. Now they have their own version, which the BBC will also be raking in money for. And no Dune, Clarkson does not **** of the lefties. Really, is the left/Right divide all you ever think about? Oh he does on here. He's considered on a par with a Daily Hate (ooops meant to say Daily Mail) reader. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Who then? Please name and shame and give some examples to back up what you're saying. Whatever the merits of Clarkson's humour, it's clear that to you it's his habit calling on ethnic stereotyping as a prop. I bet that has you falling off your chair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Drastically under paid imho seeing as his Top Gear made the BBC c£150m last year. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/top-gear/9002449/Jeremy-Clarkson-pockets-2.14m-from-Top-Gear.html Good for him though, and the exchequer will see a cool £1m for that too. For those Clarkson knockers that jump on every Guardian report that he is an overpaid oaf I like this quote from a Spokesman for BBC Worldwide: We should be encouraging JC to earn more and in turn pay more tax - long live Top Gear - one of the UK's top exports it seems! Well if the front man should be paid more what about the hundreds of people in the team that produce the programme? (ie probably write all the scenarios, jokes etc, as well as doing everything else for him) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Whatever the merits of Clarkson's humour, it's clear that to you it's his habit calling on ethnic stereotyping as a prop. I bet that has you falling off your chair. So you can't back up what you were saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 So you can't back up what you were saying. That you're a racist scumbag? Or that you're not remotely funny? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Oh he does on here. He's considered on a par with a Daily Hate (ooops meant to say Daily Mail) reader. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBpnEZyoQaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dune Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 That you're a racist scumbag? Or that you're not remotely funny? Still no examples then. Try phoning a friend (or a therapist). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 Well if the front man should be paid more what about the hundreds of people in the team that produce the programme? (ie probably write all the scenarios, jokes etc, as well as doing everything else for him) Did you not read the link? The producer is a major shareholder in the holding company so gets massive bunce too. Ha, sounds like your advocating communism! Sorry to burst the myth but he's a clever guy that has earnt his wedge, much like Chris Evans before him. We should be saluting successful entrepanuers like them, not sniping jealously from the sidelines, lifes too short to be bitter. I never earnt anywhere near JCs wages at NI, neither does the editor of Ingear (the motoring section of the ST) or any of the subs, printers, ad guys, security staff, canteen workers or office juniors. No one moans, he's the talent and people buy the paper to read him, or watch Top Gear because they like him and/ or the format he invented. No skin off my nose, any other Sunday times staffers or (I doubt) any of his production crew over at Top Gear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackanorySFC Posted 9 January, 2012 Author Share Posted 9 January, 2012 That you're a racist scumbag? Or that you're not remotely funny? Finding someone funny or not is subjective. Calling them racist is a serious allegation that I would personally (as you saw from my earlier post) find incredibly offensive. You've alluded to it many times in Dune's case, can I suggest you put up or shut up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 I like Jeremy Clarkson. Right wing humour at it's best. The fact he gets under the skin of lefties is a credit to him. The same humour generated by 'his' OTT opinions. That he has to a deadline every week. For money. Oh dear, false prophets and all that... Sincerely, A. N. Top Gear Fan P.S. Misleading thread title that - most of the money came from his own investment in the Top Gear brand, not the BBC. So I really can't imagine anybody getting up in arms about the figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SNSUN Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 You'd be amazed how popular it is here in the US. Now they have their own version, which the BBC will also be raking in money for. And no Dune, Clarkson does not **** of the lefties. Really, is the left/Right divide all you ever think about? We get the US version over here now on BBC Three, from the couple of episodes I've seen it's ok, but not a patch on ours. The American episode of the UK Top Gear wasn't just the funniest episode of Top Gear IMO, but of anything I've ever seen on TV. Honourable mention to the Vietnam episodes and the Artic expedition. I live for the challenges episodes, but the TG producers readily admit that it's too expensive to do more than one a series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonnyboy Posted 9 January, 2012 Share Posted 9 January, 2012 We get the US version over here now on BBC Three, from the couple of episodes I've seen it's ok, but not a patch on ours. The American episode of the UK Top Gear wasn't just the funniest episode of Top Gear IMO, but of anything I've ever seen on TV. Honourable mention to the Vietnam episodes and the Artic expedition. I live for the challenges episodes, but the TG producers readily admit that it's too expensive to do more than one a series. So iyo Clarkson brings nothing to the show, yet according to some he and he aalone should get a massive pay rise...hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio Saint Posted 10 January, 2012 Share Posted 10 January, 2012 We get the US version over here now on BBC Three, from the couple of episodes I've seen it's ok, but not a patch on ours. I've not even bothered to watch it. International translations of shows work extremely rarely......More so when it's an American translation of a foreign show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cestrian Saint Posted 10 January, 2012 Share Posted 10 January, 2012 Jeremy Clarkson is a ****ing ****! Top Gear is the most predictable pile of ****e on TV. Staged nonsense for 5 year olds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verbal Posted 10 January, 2012 Share Posted 10 January, 2012 Finding someone funny or not is subjective. Calling them racist is a serious allegation that I would personally (as you saw from my earlier post) find incredibly offensive. You've alluded to it many times in Dune's case, can I suggest you put up or shut up? Or what? I'd say dune's record of supporting the racist EDL, the racist BNP, his lauding of the viciously racist Ian Smith speaks for itself. On which point, back to the thread: it's a shame Clarkson needs to make increasingly desperate-sounding, attention-seeking ethnic slurs. He's clearly not the funniest of the three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 10 January, 2012 Share Posted 10 January, 2012 On the subject of the US version. (it is on here on a Sunday night - day after UK version (which is about 8 months behind UK) It has 3 Yanks on it. They are soooooooo annoying I'd rather watch poopey on TV than listen to them. However in their defence, they did an expedition across the Mojave desert to Vegas in beaten up old 4x4's and yes the driving scenes were as funny as f\/ck, another of their downsides is that they are also somewhat anal in their love of Redneck Pick Up Trucks. Oh and Verbal? yes it truly is that bad. TBF the movie channels have improved - we get 3 ppv & 1 now in 3D, and about 7 movie subscription channels. But the light entertainment? Apart from Top Gear the highlight this winter has been X Factor USA - it REALLY is that bad It has taken this place 19 years to reach THIS level of TV. Trust me when I first came here MOTD was on 10 days late and on Pakistani TV. On the upside, the TV stations in Oman do show the very latest movies - always hand held cameras in cinemas. It's sort of one of the reasons we have to play golf or drink Bullfrogs, or more usually, raid HMV/Virgin for every sale DVD they have each time we are back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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