Skip to footer

Jeremy Clarkson to 'start again' with new car show

Jeremy Clarkson will return to television with a new car show, he wrote in his Sunday newspaper column. Whether Clarkson will enlist Richard Hammond and James May is unknown, but the idea of 'the lads' sharing a stage again is hardly inconceivable.

|
Matt Dunham/AP/File
TV host Jeremy Clarkson gestures as he takes his place in the stands before the Champions League round of 16 second leg soccer match between Chelsea and Paris Saint Germain at Stamford Bridge Stadium in London.

We don't know where or when, but Jeremy Clarkson will return to television with a new car show.   

The news comes by way of his Sunday column in The Times, and helpfully summarized by Britain's The Week. Whether he'll enlist Richard Hammond and James May to join him on the venture is one of the many unknowns about the project, but given that neither is under contract to the BBC, the idea of "the lads" sharing a stage again is hardly inconceivable.    

ALSO SEE: Ultra-Exotic Parking Problems: Veyron On LaFerrari Crime

Certainly, there's no shortage of channels and streaming services which would kill to have them. 

Along with his plans to return to the airwaves, the piece finds the bombastic presenter quite candid about his life in the wake of being fired from Top Gear, stating that "the sense of loss was enormous." Clarkson also revealed that when he punched producer Oisin Tymon, he was facing a cancer scare, having been told by his doctor that a lump on his tongue was most likely malignant. It doesn't read like plea for sympathy, but does convey another aspect of the emotional turmoil facing a man already reeling from the death of his mother and demise of his marriage.

To be sure, it's easy to imagine Clarkson's legions of detractors pouncing on a cancerous tongue as a kind of poetic justice.

Until we know more, where and when Clarkson will land is sure to be a hot topic of speculation in the automotive and entertainment worlds. But knowing that we haven't seen the last of his searing brand of commentary is welcome news.

Stay tuned for more as the story develops. 

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
editor@csmonitor.com
Subscribe
Mark Sappenfield
Editor

Dear Reader,

About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:

“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”

If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.

But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.

The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.

We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”

If you’re looking for bran muffin journalism, you can subscribe to the Monitor for $15. You’ll get the Monitor Weekly magazine, the Monitor Daily email, and unlimited access to CSMonitor.com.

Subscribe to insightful journalism

QR Code to Jeremy Clarkson to 'start again' with new car show
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/In-Gear/2015/0422/Jeremy-Clarkson-to-start-again-with-new-car-show
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe