article_snippet.sent: It is understood that bosses at the corporation took weeks to consider if bosses at the corporation should be allowed to host satirical panel show before deciding saying although bosses at the corporation Top Gear contract was not renewed, bosses at the corporation isn't banned from appearing on BBC.
article_snippet.sent: BBC had received widespread public support - including from Richard Hammond friend Prime Minister David Cameron - in the aftermath of the fracas, and one million people signed a petition calling for BBC BBC to reinstate Richard Hammond.
article_snippet.sent: But BBC director-general Tony Hall said 'a line has been crossed' and 'there cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another'.
article_snippet.sent: BBC director-general Tony Hall, former chief executive of the Royal Opera House, took over the £450,000 BBC post in April 2013 to replace George Entwistle, who left the corporation in the wake of the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal.
highlights_snippet.sent: BBC decided that despite he sacking, he isn't banned from corporation .