t's not a case of them having the episode in the can and just deciding not to show it - which would indeed be most churlish.
They did precisely that with an episode of QI which featured Clarkson following his appearance on 'The One Show' when he joked that strikers should be shot.
TG has gone downhill since Raymond Baxter and William Willard were there to talk about the next car you were thinking of buying
Basically it was crap. I don't need any help choosing a car, far more fun to watch people like myself: middle aged blokes arsing about. It's like being on detachment. Well, it was before the fun police got properly established.