Jeremy Clarkson has been sacked by the BBC, the status of James May and Richard Hammond is uncertain, but their pictures have been removed from the Top Gear home page. The BBC chief said Top Gear shall be renewed for another series, but that seems premature since they don't appear to have a replacement cast or format in the works.
Top gear is the most widely watched "factual" television program in the world, it has 350 million viewers in 170 different countries each week. It has been aired since 1977. It is an institution. To throw away such a successful program seems bizarre.
Does anybody have any good information on the whole affair?
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