WhackyWill

Sorry Will, off topic; however, why do you always double space your lines of text? Does your computer do this automatically lol? Yep I think the computer is on auto double space, Can try and change it if you like,

What are they..???

What a co*k up..!!! :scare: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/31866549

:lol: http://newsthump.com/2015/03/12/jeremy-clarksons-wife-hospitalised-with-rsi-after-signing-petition-650000-times/

Have the Sauber Management been locked up yet...Sheriff was outside the gate at 11.00 am Aus time, to arrest the Management for contempt of Court..!! not heard anything since ..!

Lovely bit of kit.

Our local refused to serve some drunken nutter last weekend so he went outside and head butted the window, which his head went through, so the old bill followed the trail of blood to his house and nicked him for criminal damage after the hospital had stitched him up. Now that's an "fracas".

Happy Birthday all, Have a good one.

Before I tuck in for the night and dream of Top Gear..Have a read of this folks..!! http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/11/bbc-jeremy-clarkson-suspension-top-gear

So if Top Gear earns the BBC It's going to favoured over, say, a Jack Whitehall "sitcom" that aired twice on BBC Three at 3am on a Wednesday. Regardless of what the BBC Charter says. Any business is going to favour profitable products over less profitable products. Including the BBC. They're not just going to chuck away £160m (or whatever it actually is) for the sake of "appearing PC". OK whatever you say..Take it up with the DG that's (The Director General) . I'm going to bed..!!! :surrender:

Surely, until the facts are known who knows if it's an over reaction or not He shouted at a few people, because he had just done a 14 hour day in snow and slush which didn't go very well, got to the "boarding house" they had been booked into to be confronted by a few Mum's Dad's and kids wanting "selfies" with him, then discovered the producer had not bothered to arrange any hot food for them. I would also be pi55ed of with this..Nobody got hit..it was a shouting match and handbags at dawn..!! :surrender:

Quite. So it's going to favour those programmes which actually make money then isn't it?! No not at all, the BBC does not need to schedule its programes to attract advertising revenue like Commercial Channels have to. We pay for it, and the BBC has to make major cuts over the next 3 years, as any increase in the TV licence had been put back. Yes the revenue from TG goes back into the overall "pot"...

Surely, if anything, you'd end up with all 7 (?) channels showing the same one programme 24 hours a day. Overlooking budgets for a moment, if there's no favouring of programmes then they'd have to show the same programme at prime time as they would during the day. And they can't air that one programme on the more popular BBC1 whilst another gets shown on one of the less popular channels.... Everything the BBC does, everything, is based on favouring it's programmes. Everything the BBC does is done on COST..!!!! :scare:

And back in the real world... Come on Will, I know you're not that naive to believe that. Of course they're allowed to favour one program over another, else you'd end up with every programme having the same budget. Antiques Roadshow does not have to have as much priority as EastEnders, for example. Just saying how it works in 2015.. Say for example your Production budget for your programmer was £1 mill in 2014. New budget is set at £700k, so as producer you have a meeting with your production Team and you all agree it cannot be made for that, so you go back to the board cap in hand and after many many meetings with them they may at their discretion increase your budget or reduce the number of shows..Does that sound familiar..reduce the number of shows..!!

This is brilliant that the other TV networks are taking the pi55 out of the Clarkson suspended fiasco, Channel 4 news rocked up at his house with a steak sandwich. Fifth Gear posted a promo saying 'no producers were harmed in the making of this episode' it kinda puts the whole thing in to perspective, an over reaction by the Beeb

They cannot be seen under the new BBC charter to favor one program over another...! The only way around this is to use an outside Production Company which TG was doing until the BBC decided to take it back in house..!!

Plus all the merchandise: DVD's/books/board games etc and selling makers rights to other countries. Definitely the most profitable show on the BBC I'd wager. Its irrelevant, what the program makes in revenue, TG is estimated to make £160 mill PA for Auntie Beeb, so to be PC it cannot be treated any different to any other program produced by them..

Glad you got it all done and its back on the road.

Producers at the Beeb have been told to make savings across the board in 2015 of at least between 10% to 25% on production costs on ALL programs. Maybe Clarkson's dinner was one of those cuts. Not everything in TV is black and white now..

Numberplate recognition would have told them straight away if that car was originally driven by a banned driver. Sounds like they were taking a punt you had been drinking or something like that. They have gone a bit mad over the last week or so in London with their new drug detection kit, which I don't object to.

I borrowed my mates V8 while he was working overseas for 6 months, I didn't want to give it back, loved it, except hitting potholes..

I can only tell you what I know, and that is Clarkson is out of contract end of March don't know about the other two..

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Welcome to The Land of Zed.

Not seen any today, but yesterday there was at least one "live report" from the outside overlooking the track, through the fence, where specifically "The Stig and Jeremy Clarkson would normally be recording on a Wednesday" (according to the report) . There was no one in sight (barring the reporter of course). Well these contradict each other, and I know which one I'm believing They did a live report from the Sky Chopper and Dunsfold was empty..!!