Clarkson earns £2.13m from the BBC

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Saints Web Forum in 'not everybody likes the same TV programmes discovery' shocker

[pap]

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

 

Just get yourself the biggest broadband pipe you can and learn how to torrent, phil. Your TV woes will be over.

[dubai_phil]

Just get yourself the biggest broadband pipe you can and learn how to torrent, phil. Your TV woes will be over.

 

Hahahahahahahahaha

 

Oh that REALLY is the funniest post ever.

 

Classic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I applied for Fibre Optic service 3 years ago. It will take 7-10 days they said....

Everytime I chase them up. Hell the fibre would SAVE me 20 quid a month for 500Mps compared to around 6 at the moment

 

OK so I have no limit on downloads, but then one movie takes 3 days to torrent.

 

Mate just landed in Uk for work and collapsed in shock at the things he can now do on his Iphone,

 

Dude, this place simply doesn't do technology like you lot get

[LVSaint]

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.

 

Can't say that I've ever watched it either. I've only ever found people here, when mentioning Top Gear, referring to the British version.

 

I'm happy it's a big success for the BBC. Although I must say I have enjoyed it less in the last season or two. 'Specials' and James May make it still worthy viewing though.

[pap]

Hahahahahahahahaha

 

Oh that REALLY is the funniest post ever.

 

Classic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I applied for Fibre Optic service 3 years ago. It will take 7-10 days they said....

Everytime I chase them up. Hell the fibre would SAVE me 20 quid a month for 500Mps compared to around 6 at the moment

 

OK so I have no limit on downloads, but then one movie takes 3 days to torrent.

 

Mate just landed in Uk for work and collapsed in shock at the things he can now do on his Iphone,

 

Dude, this place simply doesn't do technology like you lot get

 

Blimey, didn't realise it was that bad. Sounds like a decent business opportunity for someone.

[dubai_phil]

Blimey, didn't realise it was that bad. Sounds like a decent business opportunity for someone.

 

Yeah, if it wasn't for the effective ISP monopoly, the hacking of anyone who tries to use a proxy buster IP hiding software...

 

There IS the alternative of using a Satellite system, we're looking into that for work, but wow it is expensive.

 

Oh and besides the locals we also have the deep joy of the Yanks (allegedly) cutting our sub-sea cables every month or three - about two years back they cut 3 in different locations and all within a couple of minutes of each other.

 

Meanwhile back on track. Clarkson (about 17 years ago) once featured a set of wheels as "the coolest car you could have in Dubai" it was co-incidentally parked in a car park where he was summarising one of his trips down here.

It was my 1st wheels here - a beaten up old LR SW Defender (pile of krap it was too, always breaking down and an a/c that pushed out air you could boil an egg in)

 

That was back in the day the Beeb made him sit in cattle class - that was a fun & boozy flight

[Frank's cousin]

er....

 

Do I like top Gear? used to watch it... become repetitive

Do I Like Clarkson's right wong ranting? Given that he is paid to be controversial, it can actually be quite funny. If he truey believed all that ****e he spouts though, would not make him that pleasent an individual.

Is is worth 2. whatever mil? Well if his programms bring in huge revenues to fund the BBC then undoubtedly - just because I dont watch it anymore, BBC remit is to appeal to all tastes so those taht love it and watch it should have it...

 

so not sure what the issue is really

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16599834

 

A special edition of the BBC show Top Gear in India which led to a complaint by the Indian High Commission was not insulting, the programme has said.

December's programme featured jokes about food and trains, and a Jaguar car fitted with a toilet seat in its boot.

Last week, the Indian High Commission in London complained that the show was "offensive" and had "toilet humour".

 

Top Gear said the show was a "warts and all" portrayal of India, and the jokes were at the expense of the presenters.

The High Commission of India wrote a letter to the BBC, published in the Daily Telegraph, criticising a lack of cultural sensitivity and called on the corporation to take action to pacify those offended.

 

Raja Sekhar, from the commission, said the letter was sent to show "strong disappointment" after he claimed the show "ran down the whole society, culture and people".

 

One Indian diplomat criticised a scene in the 90-minute show which showed presenter Jeremy Clarkson taking off his trousers at a party to demonstrate how to use a trouser press.

Showing off the customised Jaguar, complete with toilet roll on its aerial, Clarkson said: "This is perfect for India because everyone who comes here gets the trots."

 

In its first full response to the criticism, Top Gear said the programme was "filled with incidents but none of them were an insult to the Indian people or the culture of the country".

 

In a statement on the BBC's complaints website, it said: "Our film showed the charm, the beauty, the wealth, the poverty and the idiosyncrasies of India, but there's a vast difference between showing a country, warts and all, and insulting it.

"It's simply not the case that we displayed a hostile or superior attitude to our hosts and that's very clear from the way the presenters can be seen to interact with them along the way."

 

The statement added: "We genuinely loved our time in India and if there were any jokes to be had they were, as ever, reflected back on the presenters rather than the Indian people."

 

Last April, a Top Gear episode which caused controversy with jokes branding Mexicans lazy and feckless and describing Mexican food as "like sick with cheese on it" was cleared by broadcasting watchdog Ofcom.

 

The show attracted 157 complaints but Ofcom said Top Gear was well known for its "irreverent style and sometimes outspoken humour".

[Chez]

the India episode was perhaps one of the worst they have done. Not because it took the **** out of India, because it didn't, but because everything was so much more obviously staged than normal and the show came across as false and badly acted rather than natural.

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the India episode was perhaps one of the worst they have done. Not because it took the **** out of India, because it didn't, but because everything was so much more obviously staged than normal and the show came across as false and badly acted rather than natural.

 

Agree with that. Didn't stop my 11 year old son howling with laughter all the way through it though.

[Jonnyboy]

Agree with that. Didn't stop my 11 year old son howling with laughter all the way through it though.

 

Looks like clarkson's found his level.

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Looks like clarkson's found his level.

 

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