Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by OJFord 390 days ago
You're just moving the goalposts now; it didn't end until 2022, and what I was responding to was the suggestion that there's no inherent problem with British content, it just needs to be on modern streaming platforms: yes, and the BBC has also participated in that.

Top Gear with that trio ending wasn't a content problem, Clarkson punched a producer and was fired. You can say well that was a bad decision they should have valued keeping him at all costs etc., but there was no good solution there really, he was divisive well before that issue, if they kept him they'd have pleased fans and upset others. The show wasn't (immediately) axed; that probably quite reasonably seemed like the best compromise.