...what I'm suggesting for Top Gear is that, as with Doctor Who, the lead character doesn't ever leave - rather he simply "regenerates". My proposal is that for the start of the next series they simply take some of the footage that's already been shot with Jeremy, possibly from that fateful day in Yorkshire, but after a couple of minutes his image suddenly goes all weird and via the use of computer trickery and possibly a swooshing noise I would appear in his place - except I would not be known as Alexei Sayle, I would be called "Jeremy Clarkson", and forever more whoever plays the role will be known as "Jeremy Clarkson", even if they are hopefully one day non-white or a woman.