Top Gear - Have the BBC gone mad...?

I have just read THIS today.   I really do think the BBC have lost the plot.  Do they not realise that Top Gear's popularity was more about the banter and relationship between James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson than just motoring???    I think Jeremy Clarkson was more than a bit of a prat to do many of the things he did.  But, on the other hand so much of what the trio did was very amusing indeed.

It looks like Top Gear is reverting to the old boring Quentin Wilson days.....?