In a - moderately - surprising move, the Director General of the BBC announced today that Jeremy Clarkson, the controversial senior presenter on their immensely popular car show Top Gear is off the show. Permanently, as a result (well, a "last straw", really) of his having punched out one of the show's producers over a catering issue on location (Seriously, Clarkson got into a altercation with, and then clocked the producer because he couldn't get a hot steak dinner).
It's not as if Jeremy hadn't gotten in trouble embarrassing himself and the BBC before: what's interesting here is that BBC management has actually Done The Right Thing for the right reasons. Unlike what has happened in some other recent media-figure-gaffe flaps, the Beeb seems to have put principle before profit (Top Gear is famously a cash cow for them); and sacked Clarkson even in the face of a HUGE swell of support from TG fandom - a petition calling for Clarkson's reinstatement got over a million sigs.
Maybe Fox can take a hint?