Huh, might be a new tactic for aluminum siding salespeople? Never thought of that.
In the old days, the cable company wanted to charge for each TV hooked up to cable. Of course you would just take the cable resister device off the TV and hook it up to the incoming line that serves all of the TVs and you had whole house cable. The rumor was that the cable company had trucks going around trying to figure out how many TVs people had on at any time. I don’t know if its true or not, but now they did a paradigm shift with digital and you have to pay your $7 for every TV anyway.
Yeah maybe the guy is an alcoholic. Wouldn’t doubt it. Maybe he would welcome an intervention but it should be his choice. I remember a couple interventions our former pastor tried. The guy came home from work and there were 10-15 people ready to pounce on him and whisk him off to rehab whether he liked it or not. I was just involved in providing transport for visitors and can’t really say what the final long term results were.
Like the sheriff said once though after tracking down a guy that had gone missing for a month. The guy just wanted to disappear and not be found and the sheriff said “a guy has a right to just disappear if he wants in this country.”
It’s not like Clarkson is going to take a financial hit. I seem to remember that he sold the Top Gear brand to the BBC for something like 25 million or something like that.
What will be interesting to me is if Hammond and May opt out and the show tanks. If that happens I wonder if those three will get together and come up with a different show and format.
It seems to me that the audience size and money involved is too big to brush aside.
In the old days, the cable company wanted to charge for each TV hooked up to cable.
They lost that in court years ago. Actually AT&T lost that battle. The courts ruling stated that once the signal comes in your home you own in and can do what ever you want with it. Ever wonder why the cable companies switched to all digital? So they can charge you a monthly fee for the digital convertor boxes. Most TV’s can handle a digital signal directly…but they are incompatible with the cable companies signal.
@MikeInNH That makes me feel better. All these years I thought I was cheating but thought the requirement was stupid.
You’re right. Now I’ve got to have the boxes for $7 a month and I have 7 TVs. But I did finally activate my attic antenna which works quite well for some of them.
Evans is a car guy and owns a number of Ferraris. He’s been a guest on Top Gear several times in the past.
That being said, I consider him to be a bit bland and it’s going to take some real digging and a lot of luck to even come close to duplicating the chemistry of Clarkson, May, and Hammond.
Rumors are that the 3 of them are in talks with Netflix to do a Top Gear-style show for streaming, which is going to make life even harder for Evans since he’ll have to compete against them.
I guess we might find out as early as this coming autumn how the new host handles his new job. He does seem like an excellent choice, though. A pundit said this about Chris Evans:
“But he’s also a divisive figure, with many viewers put off by the unruly, egotistical behaviour of his tabloid years.”