Jeremy Clarkson has accused the BBC of being "up itself" and claimed he would run it better by not being politically correct.
The Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? presenter said the corporation only caters for a narrow demographic as he criticised his former employer.
“If I ran the BBC, it would be better. I’d make programmes for everybody, not just seven people in Islington,” he told the Radio Times.
He was responding to a question about whether terrestrial TV was falling behind online streaming services such as Amazon.
Clarkson said: "It’s become so up itself, suffocating the life out of everything with its nonsense need to be politically correct.
"If they’d let everyone relax, and made a show that’s entertaining or interesting or informative or any of the things that the BBC is supposed to be, then we’d be having a different debate about the future of television."
He added: "I had a very happy time at the BBC and I care very much about it.
"I’d be sad if it got knackered by a few unwise Corbynites.”
Clarkson left the BBC in 2015 after he was axed as a presenter on motoring show Top Gear.
He is set to release the third series of his Prime Video show The Grand Tour on January 18.
