Top Gear Shouldn’t Go on Without Jeremy Clarkson
Found on Wired on Thursday, 26 March 2015
After 22 seasons at the helm of Top Gear, the BBC has decided not to renew Jeremy Clarkson’s contract. Effectively fired because of a “fracas” between himself and a producer.
It’s not clear if Clarkson’s co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, who weren’t involved in the melee, will be back next season.
Richard Hammond and James May, the other two Top Gear presenters, are wonderful entertainers. But, like all great ensemble casts, the three of them are immeasurably better together. Take any one of them away and the whole will be worse.
With Clarkson gone, and Hammond and May hinting that they too will leave, Top Gear is dead. Even if the BBC comes up with a replacement team, it will be a politically-correct, but because of that also a bland show. Yes, he can be an idiot and yes, he should not have done that. They could have sorted this out in a different way however. Somehow it fits though that it ended with a food-fight.