Noel On The BBC, Top Gear And Jeremy Clarkson
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It was just yet another example of extraordinarily bad management that wouldn’t be tolerated in a private company.
It is difficult to think of a better way of handling something more badly.
You’ve got the big wigs saying no one is bigger than the BBC and they pull the show, denying the viewers the chance to see whatever they’d shot.
Then they cobbled it together into a final episode that didn’t really work as it didn’t have the elements people love.
The good news for Top Gear fans, of which I am one, is now we’ll have two shows in place of one. But as management, it was right up there with running a cruise liner on to a heap of rocks.
Again, this is actually kind of sensible, but I suppose you would expect Noel to have some valid opinions on running a TV show as he’s been doing it for pretty much his entire life. Or at least mine.
