article_snippet.sent: Hammond has launched a scathing attack on the 'meddling' BBC just a day after Hammond quit show .
article_snippet.sent: Top Gear Magazine, which is owned by BBC Worldwide, today published an editorial by Mr Wilman, in which the producer branded the decision to sack Clarkson a 'tragedy'.
article_snippet.sent: Hammond said: ‘[The BBC] hasn’t just lost a man who can hold viewers’ attention in front of a camera, it’s lost a journalist who could use the discipline of print training to focus on what mattered and what did
article_snippet.sent: Now, I'm a big, big fan of the Beeb, but, my God, do they stretch your patience when they start “applying they marketing logic”, or to use another word, meddling.
article_snippet.sent: Mr Wilmanpictured with Hammond and May yesterday), also branded the BBC’s decision to sack the presenter a ‘tragedy’ Mr Wilman said BBC BBC originally vetoed having Clarkson, Hammond (pictured shaking hands yesterday) and
article_snippet.sent: The problem was that most of the grown-ups in the BBC management didn't care about the car world, and basically there's this weird logic whereby the less most of the grown-ups in the BBC management didn't care about the car world, and basically there's this weird logic whereby the less their interest is in the subject interest is in the subject, the greater most of the grown-ups in the BBC management didn't care about the car world, and
article_snippet.sent: The producer said: ‘[We] had already started to realise that bloke banter was going to become an important part of the show’.
article_snippet.sent: The 52-year-old said BBC BBC would be ‘stupid’ to try a version of the programme with 'a surrogate Jeremy',
article_snippet.sent: A tongue-in-cheek petition signed by more than 34,000 people is calling on BBC to hire fictional broadcaster Alan Partridge - played by 49-year-old Coogan - as the new presenter.