Richard Hammond sticks with mates Clarkson, May.
No surprises here as the Hamster confirms, "Not about to quit my mates."
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In the final confirmation ending Top Gear’s era, Richard Hammond has confirmed he is sticking with Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
“To be clear amidst all this talk of us ‘quitting’ or not: there’s nothing for me to ‘quit’. Not about to quit my mates anyway,” he tweeted.
The three were also spotted leaving Clarkson’s London home, not at all bothered by the amount of camera crews waiting for them.
Hammond’s contract – along with those of his co-hosts Clarkson and May – expired at the end of March.
It means Top Gear will need an all-new team, leaving BBC2 controller Kim Shillinglaw to address questions of whether a new version might include a female presenter.
“I am not really thinking about it in terms of gender,” she said. ”I have done a lot with female presenters when I used to work in science. That was something across the piece that I really wanted to tackle. It’s a really open book on that.
“We will definitely look at women but it is not the driving priority. I have never approached an individual show thinking that is the way you cast it.”
Source: Radio Times
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Just like Spicks and Specks 2.0 I see this having 1 more season but the lowered ratings will kill it.
I hope the Top Gear team realize that if they go to a commercial network, they will not have the freedom they had at the BBC. They will have to tow the line as to not upset the sponsors. If there were ” heated debates” with producers before, wait till they want to “express their artistic flare” with these networks.
its the uk, not aus where they work, Sky while it does have advertisers, it also has a strong subscription base and these blokes may well boost those numbers….or they may fail….who knows
For most manufactures just being on TG is good news, even if the car isn’t to their liking. There are not many cars the guys hate. It also works in the US on the History channel so I can see it working on Sky with not many turning down the opportunity for the guys to drive their cars.
The only losers out of this entire fracas will be the BBC themselves.
Yes, so what a shame their hand was forced.
The BBCs hand was not forced, they had options and chose their path….and they are losers
I beg to differ. Heaven help you if you are ever responsible for a production crew.
What I hate is that some people have been sending death threats to anyone rumored to be in the running for a host gig on the next version of Top Gear.
Really hope the guys can put together a new show that has that Top Gear feeling without being too different or handicapped by any legal hold the BBC might have on the format.
And Wilman (producer) who denied he was quitting, then did, announcing support for Clarkson and attacking BBC management.
So a multimillion pound deal with Sky after they have had a holiday?