The Guardian reports: Top Gear has been rapped by the BBC Trust's editorial standards committee for showing presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May drinking while driving during the show's hit Polar Special. In its monthly publication of rulings, the ESC criticised the Top Gear: Polar Special, broadcast last summer at 8pm on BBC2. It showed Clarkson and May race fellow presenter Richard Hammond to the Magnetic North Pole.
Clarkson and May drove, while Hammond used a sled and dogs.
In its findings, released today, the BBC Trust's complaints committee said that it was "not editorially justified" to show Clarkson and May sipping gin and tonics during their drive.
And my favourite part?
At one point, May asked Clarkson to, "slow down while I cut the lemon".
Friday, 4 July 2008
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who will protect us from these fanatics? I sometimes wonder if these angels in human form, wake up in the morning LOOKING for something to complain about! I've been drinking and driving for years, and never once ended up at the north pole!
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