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Updated: 15/05/2012 09:17 | By motoringresearch.com
New Top Gear series in doubt
Jeremy Clarkson has cast doubt on whether Top Gear will return to TV screens this autumn.
Speaking via his Twitter account, @jcrclarksonesq, Clarkson revealed this morning that “There’s a rumour in internet land that there will be no more Top Gear this year. I’m afraid that apart from an Xmas Special, it’s true.”
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The outspoken lead presenter of the popular motoring show went on to say, “Would love to be back in the Autumn but Sunday nights will be full of fat people singing” – a reference to Simon Cowell’s X Factor show.
The BBC and ITV have been embroiled in squabbles recently over scheduling of programs in a ratings battle between The Voice and Britain’s Got Talent TV shows.
The move by the BBC to delay the new series of Top Gear until January could be a ploy to keep viewers glued to the motoring program when it eventually returns.
Clarkson confirmed the show would be back in January, adding in the BBC2 show presenters usual pithy style, “Top Gear is a medium sized van. Cowell is a juggernaut. When he has finished his singing competition, our new series will start.”
Clarkson has made outspoken remarks in the past, including insulting lorry drivers, Mexicans and striking public sector workers.
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The BBC has not confirmed when Top Gear will return to the nation’s TV screens. However, the comments by Clarkson indicate strongly the traditional autumn slot for the programme may be axed in favour of a January airing to help keep ratings up.
There’s always that Christmas Special to look forward to, though.
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18Comments
09/05/2012 14:47
Another reason to hate Simon Cowell and his x factor crap
09/05/2012 12:51
i cant believe they would can Top Gear, as its the most popular show on BBC2.
09/05/2012 17:27
must ... kill .... Simon Cowell .....
14/05/2012 21:08
Clarkson may be a bit of a **** sometimes with the stuff he comes out with, but come on the show is far too entertaining to axe!! Cowell should go and kill himself as far as I'm concerned; he just damages people psychologically raising them up just to drop them down again! It's painful to watch people making a prat out of themselves on the XF, and I feel they target vulnerable people on that show.
Id much rather see Clarkson blowing up a caravan or May and Hamster trying to launch a Robin-Rocket! :D
Id much rather see Clarkson blowing up a caravan or May and Hamster trying to launch a Robin-Rocket! :D
12/05/2012 09:04
TOP GEAR is the only reason i pay my TV licence and is leaps and bounds ahead of the x factor, there is far to much of these type of programs on the TV now BUT both BBC and ITV are coining it in from mugs wasting there hard earned AND THIS IS THE REASON THEY ARE ON THE TV IN THE FIRST PLACE so STOP voting and they will all disappear, then and only then can we get back to fun nights with TOP GEAR
12/05/2012 12:56
Top Gear may not be quite the programme it once was, but there really is no way I could bring myself to watch the preening, coiffured, self-loving moron that is Cowell, doing his best to raise the hopes of people who really shouldn't be on TV making fools of themselves.
What Top Gear do is entertaining. What Cowell does is painful.
13/05/2012 21:07
I cant wait for the new top gear to be made its what sunday night was made for.
Clarkson may be a motor mouth but i enjoy the controversy he creates not many people speak their mind these days so it is a change when someone does
COME BACK SOON TOP GEAR
14/05/2012 13:14
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TOP GEAR
12/05/2012 01:29
The BBC cannot do this, Top Gear is the best programme they make, simon cowell sucks and so does his no hit wonders talentless shows.As for M McIntosh you spek a load of tosh mate, Top Gear tests a car and tells it as it is crap or good just as it should be and as for the specials and funny bits keep them coming it is all part of a terrific show and top gear would not be the same without them or the presenters or their acastic humour.
12/05/2012 23:52
Something's not quite right ! Clarkson has made a few excuses for delaying the next Top Gear . The Olympics , t.v. schedules , an extended holiday [for him ] , all three presenters doing different things etc. etc. . More like the B.B.C. want all the furore to die down over J.C. s comments & the India special problems . If they do move, a lot will miss them on weekends when only Mr. Cowell"s retro shows will be on offer , and I will not get Sky just to watch Top Gear . And I would have all my teeth pulled before I watch the snooty sourfaced bunch on 5 th. Gear .
12/05/2012 23:14
if the bbc lets top gear go bye bye .clarkson will just move to sky .same tv program elsewhere
13/05/2012 11:05
no way we look forward to Top Gear all time its the best car show on tv Hamster,May and Clarkson rule, the BBC get all that tv licence money and still they decide who when where instead of listening to people, they always think they know best but it is not the case
05/01/2013 13:19
There back again after a long 2012 summer and autumn of sports and talent shows.
Good Luck on your return Top Gear.
06/10/2012 12:54
I can not believe no better program than the top gear. times change, and people are without taste. One can not speak. How do you feel, or like being male or female, with several rare forms of humans, natural does not count anymore.
06/10/2012 12:54
I can not believe no better program than the top gear. times change, and people are without taste. One can not speak. How do you feel? Or like being male or female? with several rare forms of humans, natural does not count anymore.
10/07/2012 14:02
face lifted or an updated format for top gear wouldnt go a mis.... used to watch the old TG years ago, when they reviewed cars the average Joe could affoard to buy..never missed it....new top gear was good for the first few seasons untill it became very much more of the same old thing season after season... bit of a revamp would help....how many of you adding comments on here could actually affoard any of the cars on the show.... Yes the show is entertaining at times, but how much of this entertainment actually comes from the cars in the program and how much comes from the contraversial things they come out with - contraversial just to be contraversial....just to get people talking about the show.... All the shows do it in their own way to boost ratings and publicity...
11/05/2012 16:29
Having watched 'Top Gear' gradually morph from a motoring programme into a limp comedy show featuring three overpaid, self-indulgent kidults who laugh at their own jokes (and pretend not to take themselves seriously when actually they really, really do), the news that this televisual equivalent of being forced to sit on a sharp spike is coming to an end can only be seen as a blessed relief to anyone over five years old with more than two brain cells.
09/05/2012 23:11
About time Top Gear was axed.
It used to be a great programme but now the presenters are so far up their own a**** and there are too many ' let's all go on a jolly abroad and waste money ' aspects it will be a relief to see it end "
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