That's it, no more Top Gear for me

[DodgyAgent]

Tip:

Don't (note the apostrophe) go into proofreading.

[DimPrawn]

Amazed nobody is demanding more diversity to replace these three white males.

Update. Oh hang on, we will have a woman!

Chris Evans: Top Gear auditions to seek co-hosts - BBC News

Good start but we still need a black person, a gay person and somebody with a disability.

PS and a non-human. A snail would have a great appreciation of speed, show us things from a new perspective.

Superb idea.

BBC would love the inclusive nature. The black person could actually be white but claim constantly to be black. Maybe we could replace nasty cars with recycling bins and push them round a test track with an organic, free range, 100% certified cruelty free stick?

[pr1]

There's nothing stopping JC (or all three for that matter) forming his/their own production company, getting a team together and doing say six hour long episodes as a trial. It would need to be fairly big budget of course, but I'm sure collectively they're worth a few bob.

Then release some previews and see who bites. Top Gear (with those three) has huge global appeal so if it's a success in the UK (which it will be) they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

Hasn't JC done 22 seriesworth of 6x1hour previews? I'm sure those who care (sky, etc) are biting already

[VectraMan]

There's nothing stopping JC (or all three for that matter) forming his/their own production company, getting a team together and doing say six hour long episodes as a trial.

Six hours is a bit long...

They did their "Perfect Roadtrip" DVDs (without May) that are also on Netflix. I think that's what they'll do. No studio audience or regular show, just a couple of "we bought three cars" type films a year for Netflix and/or DVD.

Chris Evans this morning was inviting people to send in videos of themselves as a way of searching for new presenters. Anyone tempted?

[SunnyInHades]

There's nothing stopping JC (or all three for that matter) forming his/their own production company

He's been the MD of several production companies for quite a while, here's his current one (I suspect it's outside IR35 )..

NEWINCCO 1189 LIMITED
Age: 3 years (Incorporation date 14/05/2012)
Cash: £1,837,898
Assets: £1,837,899
Net Worth: £1,265,922
Liabilities: £571,977

Directors:
Mr Jeremy Clarkson
Year of Birth: 1960
Director ID: 917147900

Ms Frances Catherine Clarkson

He's far from a perm BBC employee who's been sacked.

[d000hg]

Another thing - the presenter needs to be able to power-slide a car round a bend at over 100 mph. Can CE do that ? It took JC many years to master, apparently.

That's because he knows nothing about cars and is a (self-confessed) terrible driver.

[SimonMac]

There's nothing stopping JC (or all three for that matter) forming his/their own production company, getting a team together and doing say six hour long episodes as a trial. It would need to be fairly big budget of course, but I'm sure collectively they're worth a few bob.

Then release some previews and see who bites. Top Gear (with those three) has huge global appeal so if it's a success in the UK (which it will be) they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

I would imagine the biggest issue would be IP not money, people would expect "Top Gear" from the team and it will be a bit of a minefield if Jezza is seen to do anything similar given he sold the rights for TG back to BBC Worldwide

[SimonMac]

Amazed nobody is demanding more diversity to replace these three white males.

Update. Oh hang on, we will have a woman!

Chris Evans: Top Gear auditions to seek co-hosts - BBC News

Good start but we still need a black person, a gay person and somebody with a disability.

PS and a non-human. A snail would have a great appreciation of speed, show us things from a new perspective.

How do you know the STIG is not a gay, trans gender, minority with a limp?

[GlenW]

How do you know the STIG is not a gay, trans gender, minority with a limp?

Because Paul O'Neil isn't any of them.
(That's who I reckon the current Stig is)

[rl4engc]

Netflix or Amazon will happily sign them up as they won't care what advertisers want....

Not very mass market though is it? it's only one step up from them having their own YouTube channel.

I think it would need to be terrestrial just to get the widest cross section of audience.