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Jeremy Clarkson has just lopped off his privates in public. It wasn’t an edifying sight. I’m trying to think of an analogy that captures the enormity of what Clarkson has just done. In terms of sheer cringeworthiness, I suppose it would be

The BBC’s Head of Television, Danny Cohen, has complained that the corporation “just couldn’t compete” with the global financial might of Netflix, losing out on a pitch for what he says was “a classic BBC subject”. Cohen, speaking ahead of the Edinburgh

The Guardian‘s readership have been giving their views on whether they’d pay £79 a year – $99 in the US – for a subscription which gave them exclusive access to Amazon Prime Instant Video’s new £160 million recruits – former

Sacked BBC “Top Gear,” host Jeremy Clarkson has signed a deal with Amazon to present a new motoring show alongside his former co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May. Clarkson was fired from the BBC for physically attacking a member of

Jeremy Clarkson has slammed the brakes on his planned re-appearance on the BBC since he was fired for attacking a producer who worked on Top Gear. The controversial star was due to appear as a host on Have I Got

BBC bosses are determined to replace Jeremy Clarkson as presenter of Top Gear with a woman. Senior executives have already been accused of talking up Clarkson’s fracas with a producer because they wanted to dump him as he is “blokeish

This isn’t so much a piece about Jeremy Clarkson as about all the other celebrities the BBC employs who aren’t Jeremy Clarkson. I call them the “Wankerati.” Here are some examples: Ian Hislop; Dara O’Briaiaiaan; Brian “PermaSmile Astro Boy” Cox;

So farewell then Jeremy Clarkson. The Top Gear host and much-loved television presenter will not have his BBC contract renewed. The BBC’s director-general Tony Hall issued a statement to media Wednesday afternoon, saying it was “with great regret that I

He has a face like a dropped pie, infuriates the righteous political left, is followed by millions of people around the world and remains a constant cause of upset and rebuke at the BBC: what’s not to like about Jeremy

Suppose you were a shareholder in a leading international fast food chain – McDonalds, say – and the company’s new director of products announced that in the nutritional interests of the customers he’d now decided that, for their own good,

Media luvvies at the BBC look set to use his recent “fracas” with a producer boot out Jeremy Clarkson. The Top Gear presenter was described as having had a “child’s tantrum” after being unable to order steak at the hotel

Falkland Islanders have responded to threat of invasion from Argentina by plastering their cars with Top Gear themed stickers. The union flag sticker says “H982 FKL” and “British Forever”, a reference to the car number plate that landed Jeremy Clarkson in