Top Gear: Who should the new presenters be?

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

With Clarkson gone and no news on yet on Hammond and May, a new era of Top Gear will begin.

Who would you like to see presenting the world's most widely watched factual TV programme?

I'd like to see May and Hammond stay with Rowan Atkinson and Vickie Butler-Henderson being added to the team.

 

[TomandJerry]

Boris Johnson would add so much entertainment

 

[blockhseagull]

Don't believe it will continue, BBC obviously giving the impression it will but without Clarkson, Hammond and May there is no show.

However a similar show with those 3 will probably appear on another channel in the not too distant future.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

Jimmy Carr, Rachel Riley and Sean Lock

8 out of 10 cats does Top Gear.

 

[TomandJerry]

Poyet is looking for a job..

 

[JOLovegrove]

What's happened to Clarkson then...

 

[KZNSeagull]

Don't believe it will continue, BBC obviously giving the impression it will but without Clarkson, Hammond and May there is no show.

However a similar show with those 3 will probably appear on another channel in the not too distant future.

Gop Tear coming to Sky One by the end of the summer. They have to pay for the football somehow.

 

[Icy Gull]

Let it die, it had passed it's sell by date anyway. Clarkson is what sold it to the rest of the world. No doubt the BBC will try and recoup the hundreds of millions they will lose by producing some edgy watered down trendy version though.

Will be interesting to see if Clarkson wants to continue with someone like Sky and compete with the BBCs new version.

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

Gus, Tano, Charlie

 

[Marshy]

Let it die, it had passed it's sell by date anyway. Clarkson is what sold it to the rest of the world. No doubt the BBC will try and recoup the hundreds of millions they will lose by producing some edgy watered down trendy version though.

Will be interesting to see if Clarkson wants to continue with someone like Sky and compete with the BBCs new version.

Of course he will, nothing will give him more pleasure than getting one up on the BBC now

 

[gregbrighton]

Boris Johnson would add so much entertainment

If Bozo gets the job the first feature should be about testing cars resilience to being driven off Beachy Head.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Personally, I think too much credit for Top Gear is given to JC, RH and JM. I think they have been good for the show, but behind them is a great team of writers and producers who've come up with many of the features and on location adventures that have made the show so appealing.

Like Doctor Who, I think Top Gear can survive a regeneration, and with a new cast of presenters would still be a much loved show.

The easiest 'quick fix' would be to stick a female presenter in with Hammond and May and make a whole series of jokes about them being female and not Jeremy Clarkson. Zoe Ball / Gabby Logan / F1 presenter Suzi Perry / Vicki Butler Henderson is already a pro racing driver and presenter - could all do a job filling the female void in the format.

Plenty of male possibilities to step in, Eddie Jordan, Omid Djalili, Idris Elba, Justin Moorhouse...

Can't see it working on any other channel. ITV / Sky will cut the budget and within a series it will be unwatchable (see Karl Pilkington...).

 

[happypig]

If Hammond & May remain, then the BBC are almost certain to bring in a female presenter, probably from an ethnic minority background. My money's on Diane Abbot

 

[Silverhatch]

It CAN'T work on any other channel. The Beeb/BBC Worldwide own the format and trademarks 100%. If Clarkson tries to pitch anything to anyone with even the slightest hint of plagiarism - then they'll be the mother of all court cases.

 

[spring hall convert]

George Osbourne's the expert isn't he?

 

[gregbrighton]

If Hammond & May remain, then the BBC are almost certain to bring in a female presenter, probably from an ethnic minority background. My money's on Diane Abbot

Nah, it will be a Beeb luvvy - James Cordon or Benedict Cucumbersnatch....

 

[Titanic]

It CAN'T work on any other channel. The Beeb/BBC Worldwide own the format and trademarks 100%. If Clarkson tries to pitch anything to anyone with even the slightest hint of plagiarism - then they'll be the mother of all court cases.

Fifth Gear cum Scrapheap Challenge cum Three Men in a Boat etc...

 

[gregbrighton]

It CAN'T work on any other channel. The Beeb/BBC Worldwide own the format and trademarks 100%. If Clarkson tries to pitch anything to anyone with even the slightest hint of plagiarism - then they'll be the mother of all court cases.

There are programme clones everywhere on all networks. They could call it Top Steer.

 

[Miximate]

Vicki B.H for me all day long, loving the little squeaks she makes when excited!

 

[gregbrighton]

The new incarnation of the show could be soft porn. Sexy bevvy totty all over the hoods and inside stroking the gearstick....