In case you hadn’t heard*, Jeremy Clarkson got sacked by the BBC earlier this year. No more Top Gear for him. Or Richard Hammond. Or James May. They resigned in protest.
But they’re still together and coming to Amazon Prime… at some point. But here’s the first fruit of their partnership with Amazon – an advert by Jeremy Clarkson for the Amazon Fire Stick. It’s quite funny, but it’s entirely obvious the Fire Stick doesn’t have a lot of TV apps at the moments.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
