The BBC didn’t must sack Jeremy Clarkson from its hit automotive present Top Gear, says his former co-presenter James Might.
Clarkson and Might, along with Richard Hammond, have been the celebrities of the present in its hottest period when the sequence drew thousands and thousands of viewers within the UK and abroad, audiences drawn as a lot to the camaraderie between the three males as to the dialogue of various autos.
That every one got here to an abrupt finish in 2015 when Clarkson was fired by the BBC for assaulting a producer when his meal didn’t arrive after a day’s filming. Might and Hammond give up in solidarity, and the trio have been swiftly scooped up by Amazon to seem in The Grand Tour, which ran for eight years and have become one of many platform’s largest exhibits.
Reflecting on the crew’s departure from the BBC, May told The Times of London this weekend that he believes Clarkson’s firing needn’t have happened. He mentioned of the incident:
“I don’t truly suppose our Prime Gear needed to finish due to it. I believe it may have been patched up and put all the way down to a little bit of excessive stress and flightiness, to be trustworthy. It occurred. It’s regrettable and it’s unlucky, but it surely didn’t must result in the collapse of one thing very profitable…
“I imply, with out being big-headed about it, we have been Prime Gear and we have been one of many largest TV exhibits on the planet on the time. It was fairly an intense atmosphere and it’s not solely shocking that it often went off the rails. If we’d been AC/DC or Skinny Lizzy, no one would have been the slightest bit stunned.”
All three have gone on to entrance their very own exhibits, with Clarkson’s Farm changing into a contemporary Prime Video hit for Clarkson, however Might – who has a brand new sequence about explorers starting on the UK’s Channel 5 – says his time with Amazon has come to an finish:
“At one level, Amazon instructed me they wished to do both actually massive stuff like their James Bond sequence or Lord of the Rings, or very small issues like (Might’s present) Oh Cook dinner!, which for them was a tiny finances programme. However then they modified once more and simply wished to do actually massive issues. So, that wasn’t me. I’m not large enough or I don’t have sufficient viewers. Channel 5 is a pleasant dwelling.”
