I bloody knew it

[brionon]

This morn on BBC, the idiot asks-''Does the public demand too much from their presenters ?'' So we are to blame because that bloke from Top Gear has an accident. Well ,I've got news for the Beeb---I demand Nothing--Got it ?

[bustergutt]

I agree, I never asked him to get in a rocket car and test drive it, also who would have benefited from this stunt? Further more I don`t mean this disrespectfully but a lot of fuss is being made over him!

[admarlow]

Hamster knew the risks better than any of us, and I am sure no one forced him, i bet he was having th etime of his life! Get well soon mate.

[matt66]

Blowing up caravans, taking an AK47 into a caravan, setting fire to a car wash...endless rubbish

Gullible people fall for these stunts. They think it really happened. There are many viewers who believe that the stig was racing from London to scotland when at the same time the trio were putting together a car to see who made it first past an imaginary line. Come on wise up, its worse than Derren Brown. they are having you on. the 2 events (stig and the building of a car) were shot on different months.

So great opportunity for thye BBC to raise license fee. They will say it needs it to pay for hospital bills for stunt presenters who are being forced to do unimaginable things beacuse of the viewers.

[claireyfairy]

matt66 - it's called a TV program, it's for entertainment.

For entertainment last night I watched Emmerdale I don't really think Jeff Hordley kidnapped an old millionaire and pretended to shoot his posh bit of fluff before flying off into thesunset alone with �2.5 million!!!!

[admarlow]

matt66 - doesn't this accident prove the stunts are real !??!!??!?!?

[matt66]

They use fake bullets in soaps
they use real cars on Top Gear
there are many who believe that the caravan caught fire accidentally and it was not staged.
as a viewer did you work out why stig did not make it to scotland and was stopped by the police. It is entertaining but they are fooling gullible people by setting up a scenario that never happened.
We know soaps are not real life.many think Top gear is.

[matt66]

stunts could be faked and in top gear they usually are

but when you are hoping to break a record then you cannot use jiggery pokery

thats when your lack of ability is displayed for the world to see.

Fighter pilots drive cars with jet engines. Not top gear presenters.

[admarlow]

what a vile, almost gloating post.

[teag1rl]

matt66. I was thinking of sensible argument against what you have said til I came to your last post and now all I want to say is "you are a tw@t"

[matt66]

which bit of my post is incorrect. The holder of a world record for these types of cars (with jet engines) stated that fighter pilots usually drive these cars. get your facts and your reading of current affairs correct before you call me a name.

as for you admarlow..you can call me anything but i am still better than you

[teag1rl]

Anyone with half a brain knows Top Gear set stuff up.
It's Angry day. Your insinuation that Richard Hammond is not capable riled me beyond and that is why I reacted with an insult. No-one made him do it. He is a racing driver, he had the opportunity to go ridiculously fast, he took it.
Good for him and I hope he makes a speedy and full recovery.

[admarlow]

matt66 quote - ''I am still better than you''

Thats a classic, I love it! whats next - ''my dad is a police man and he is going to arrest your dad''

Well Matt66 my dad is BAbaracas and he has nunchuckers.

[Siamsal]

I don't much care whether the stunts are rigged or not. I just enjoy the program. It's so unPC.

I believe Richard has a racing licence, and has extensive experience of fast cars, so a/ he would hardly be ignorant of the risks he was taking b/ probably enjoyed it immensely, up to the last few seconds.

[jno]

to get back to your question, brionon... well, it's an open question what viewers demand; TV people desperately read the viewing figures every day to see if they've got it right. For you the questions might be: Do I watch Top Gear? Do I enjoy the more hair-raising stunts? Would I enjoy it as much if they just drove saloon cars? Or would I switch to another channel?

I'm not presuming the answers to any of those; but they do their best to figure out what you want and give it to you. That doesn't mean they get it right all the time, but it's a multi-million pound business and they need to get it right a lot of the time. So - would you have watched it if the Hammond story had gone ok?

[brionon]

I don't own a car and ,from what little I've seen of Top Gear-I hate it. BUT I don't deny that it gives pleasure to others, each to his own.

[jno]

then you're not the one demanding anything of Top Gear. But do you demand anything of other programmes, in the widest sense? Are you a totally 'undemanding' viewer who'll watch anything that's on, or do you have preferences or interests that send you to particular programmes? I'm pretty confident I don't demand that anyone risk his life for me, but I couldn't go so far as to say 'I demand nothing' of TV, as you did. I'm not accusing you of anything but I think most of us do have views on what we 'expect' in return for our time and our licence fee/subscription.

[brionon]

No, I watch what I like but I don't Demand anything. You, I understand, think that choosing is demanding. This is semantics. We'll just have to disagree, on my part without rancour.

[jno]

thank you, nice to have a polite disagreement

[Gef]

Excellent question brionon. No idea what matt is talking about. People take risks everyday but I'm sure that the BBC and the production company did every risk assessment possible. Unfortunately accidents happen. Best wishes to Richard Hammond and his family.