article_snippet: However the future of the shows, which have sold 200,000 tickets, has been cast into doubt after Jeremy Clarkson was dismissed from BBC BBC last week for an 'unprovoked' attack on a Top Gear producer.
article_snippet: Clarkson, 54, was dismissed from BBC last month for an unprovoked attack on a Top Gear producer . '
article_snippet: Tony Hall, the Director-General of BBC, has had to employ round-the-clock bodyguards after he received a death threat for refusing to reinstate Clarkson.
article_snippet: he became a target after taking the final decision to axe Clarkson, BBC's biggest star, from he £1 million-a-year role presenting the Corporation's biggest global money-spinner.
article_snippet: Clarkson's contract was not renewed after an internal investigation found that he had punched producer Oisin Tymon in a 30-second physical assault, following a prolonged verbal tirade in a row over a hot meal.