Show 1: the details

I’ve suffered depression and it has been a long, long time since I’ve been doubled up on the sofa, laughing so hard with tears streaming down my face watching Jeremy rolling that Reliant, TG does absurdity so well;
May it never end.

bloody BBC give the lads more dosh tae make more episodes, TV license cost enough,Bloody Nazi`s

the show just gets better and better. love the shirts james.and when are we gonna see you three guys put a time on the star in a reasonably priced car board?

when are we gonna see the cs400 go round the track?

The down side of living in Australia – we wont get to see the latest series for about 5 years !!

hey u tg fan downunder ……..its called the internet and downloading derrr lol

This show is the pits. Grow up.

TG Bosses… is there anyway you can stop Channel 9 from cocking around with the format of the series??? On Tuesday we saw 3/4′s of the episode with Tom and Cameron, I was waiting for the Senna Special and nothing……. They wonder why we download off the internet when they can’t give us the correct format!!

For goodness sake…please just buy a RED suit & Helmet…& get another below par racing driver to be the new Stig

I am truly disguisted by the way “The Stig” has decided to cash in like this. This is what I feel the Top Gear management should do.

1) Out The Stig – The book is being published off the back of the fact that this book will reveal who The Stig is. If the BBC tell the world, who’s going to purchase it?

2) Sack the current Stig for breach of contract. I am pretty sure that it is written in that he cannot reveal himself.

3) Hire a new “Stig” as someone mentioned earlier, Plenty more colours to go through for helmets and suits.

why dont the idiots at harper collins jsut enjoy the craic re: stig? they have totally spoiled the whole fun bit. what a bunch of killjoys. i think its time to blacklist harper collins and not buy any of their products. we love you stig. whoever you are!!

I think for the next Stig, to avoid this happening again you should beat them at their own game by telling us right at the beginning who he/she is then get them to don the outfit and forever more they become The Stig, bit like the audience knowing from the start that Bruce Wayne is Batman

Okay, I am confused.

The identity of the Stig has been a well known “open secret” for years.

The media has known it and it has been no trouble to find out on the internet.

I can imagine that many, many fans of the show have looked this up – probably a top ten search item.

So exactly what do the BBC think they are protecting by spending my licence fee at the High Court?

PS: Pity that Andy Wilman decided to close commenting on his blog about this. Very grown up.

Bruce Wayne is Batman?! I really need to pay more attention…but seriously, set aside the Stig business, I think the last series was a load of crap. TopGear likes the idea that its a great ‘car’ show. Its not. Sure, Clarkson crashing a Robin can be funny, but it needs to be balnced out with more serious stuff. I mean 1 serious feature in a whole series? If TGTV were a ‘car’ show, thay would at least mention it TATA NANO, possably the most important internal combustion car of the 21st century. I believe this was requested by ‘zackhuzain’ on another Transmission…

There are so many other problems with TGTV, for example the fact that the Star In A Reasonably Fast Car takes up a quater of the episode; its all fake, and The News is too short and just more Clarkson falling over.

Oh, and on more thing, stop calling it a ‘pokey motering show’. It really isn’t. Everyone loves TGTV..well except car fans, obviously..

I comment on your post – BBC Worldwide has contributed to the funding of the court case – uhhh, who owns bbc worldwide then if it ain’t us and who do the dividends go to????. Your programme is in my humble opinion, frankly rubbish – hosted by people that cannot even read an autocue, who have the comic timing of a dead cat and who are so full of DJ talk it is almost impossible not to laugh at their 3 adjectives per second out bursts and their tone of voice changes when the want to get a point across – stunted performances by stunted people – who cares who the THE STIIGGG (said in a very deep manly fashion – PUKE!)is – I don’t! Yeah I know – an average audience of 6m – so what!all sun readers no doubt.

When will the next episode of TopGear air?

hopefully never…

I am a little hurt and also confused. Mr APalmer suggests I and all other TG fans are Sun readers, no, no, dear Sir not true at all. Also why, if you detest TG, do you go to the trouble of loging in to your Apple MAC, going on to the TG web site just to furnish people who dont care about your “Humble opinions” with those opinions? That is not the behaviour of a sane or rational human being is it? A Guardian reader if ever I saw one methinks!

Dear Top Gear,

Subject: Stig – Please fix it and handle the situation nicely, we love the Stig(s) and the show.

After all the controversy and court case about the Stig revealing their identity, I hope that tempers have cooled.

The reaction to the revelation, from BBC and the stars, has been very disappointing. We, the audience, love the cast, INCLUDING the Stig. Yes, the mystery is of course important, but it does NOT have to be forever. As things are now, we all feel that the over-reaction is petty, and you need to fix that FAST.

What you should have is a secret Stig, but NOT FOREVER. You need to roll with things, not resist them, and actually make the revelation(s) a part of the show.

That way every 2 or 3 years you can make a big song and dance about the Stig revelation, and then have a new one.

You could also bring back ex Stigs as guests for various things, eg a Stig lap shootout, or whatever.

You are missing a golden opportunity to enhance the show, to be magnanimous, and to do ‘the right thing’.

Everyone out here in audience land is upset that you have apparently not treated the Stig well. It really rankles in fact, and I think the right thing to do now is:

- A public reconciliation on the show – very light weight – but put it all behind you, say it was a bit of an over reaction, and announce a future episode where you will have ex Stigs doing something
- Give the Stig some royalties from the various DVDs and re-runs, at a suitable rate
- Recognise previous Stigs and use them in the show
- Write into the contract to allow Stigs to leave, after a minimum period of say 1 or 2 years, and let them make the most of their memoirs etc

Thanks,
Jeremy Kenyon

One more thing – all those celebrities, just about all who have really got on well with the Stig – imagine what they will think when they hear about the way you are treating him.

The last thing you want is to appear small-minded – its important for the show, and the shows stars, that you fix this, very fast.

Abso – bloomin – spot on Jeremy Kenyon and WELL SAID. At last an intelligent post on The Stig and the way he was treated by the BBC. I sometimes despair of the little boy syndrome at the BBC and the way that management team treat Ben Collins is appalling. he gave SEVEN years worth of service and his image is just as iconic as the OTHER THREE presenter of Top Gear.

In fact, if you look at the cover of every TG magazine and even this website what do you see? THE STIG alongside the other three HUMAN BEINGS. I have been a huge huge fan of TG and have followed the show since the days with Tiff Needell.

But I along with a good many other folk have been very angry with the way TG over reacted to a fella who simply wanted a bit of recognition. After such a long stint in a costume – why were the BBC so stupid over this? Listen to Jeremy – some wise suggestions and a way to repair the damage and move on. Please don’t continue with the petty stuff…

lol THAT bit WHEN clarkson rolled the robin in frontof the bbc crew lol

For those of you who don’t like TG, well you don’t HAVE to watch it. There’s a little button on your remote for channel up and down and it enables you to change your channel on your TV. You could watch a DVD or listen to your ipod. One way of getting a ‘STIG’ to not reveal his/her identity is to pay him/her the same annual salary the JC gets. Then if he/she decides to reveal his identity at a later time he/she has to pay all of that nett salary back. If he/she decides to leave the show quietly he/she gets to keep the money. So simple.
Also when are you going to do an Australian Special?, after all we speak the same language, eat the same food and it would give the presenters a chance to drive some Australian made cars. You could quite easily pick up some cars for $500.00 each.