Amazon sign Clarkson, Hammond and James for new 'Top Gear' show

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

In groundbreaking news, the people who dont like Top Gear won't watch this new programme.

I'm Just grateful they feel obliged to tell us otherwise we wouldn't have known.

I don't like celery, by the way.

 

[Gwylan]

Here in the sticks of Worthing our BT broadband is very slow by modern standards - probably about 1/10th of your 50Mbps. We can always watch Netflix et al in a very high quality without interruption.

The cricket is on here right now - we have a Mac Mini connected to the TV - and it's been ticking along happily since 11am.

I've got about a 27Mbps connection and I don't have any problems at all watching Amazon or Netflix on tablets or using them and various On Demand services through my blu-ray player/sky box. Was the Cricket via Sky Go app or were you using a stream from a website like front row sports or Wiziwig or whatever the sites are now?

It's a paid-for subscription.

I think the fact that people have better service than me on lower bandwidth shows how hit-and-miss it is. Speed is almost irrelevant if the contention ratio is high. Which is going back to what I said: if someone get TV on 27Mbps and someone else can't on 50Mbps, there's a bit of a reliability problem

 

[Doc Lynam]

yeah, 'cos those Amazon business people are really STOOPID, aren't they?

Their tax people are stupid!

 

[Wozza]

Deal worth $250m over three years, apparently. Very North Norfolk Digital...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d56a21ac-36a7-11e5-bdbb-35e55cbae175.html#axzz3hOfNW8v1

 

[Wrong-Direction]

So what channels it gonna be on?

 

[Doc Lynam]

So what channels it gonna be on?

Channel 5 in five years time.

 

[Felpham Seagull]

great news

 

[Felpham Seagull]

Even old man Steptoe's hat was less of an old hat than that.

ha ha knob

 

[Wozza]

£4.5 million budget, apparently.

That's per episode...

 

[surrey jim]

£4.5 million budget, apparently.

That's per episode...

that sounds a massive amount, but to give comparison what was the budget for a BBC episode.

 

[Wozza]

Including salaries?

 

[Luke93]

that sounds a massive amount, but to give comparison what was the budget for a BBC episode.

Around £500,000 per episode. £4.5M is a ridiculous amount and I fail to believe it. Sounds like Amazon are purposly throwing numbers around to generate hype.

 

[clapham_gull]

Including salaries?

I doubt they are employees of Amazon. I would presume they are equal shareholders in a new production company.

Their company will pay them out of the production fee.

The previous originally was a joint venture between BBC Worldwide / Bedder 6 (owned by Clarkson and the producer) before selling their shares to BBC Worldwide.

I'd imagine Hammond and May are very happy with the new deal. Probably now getting a cut of the profits. They've received a bit of criticism going with Amazon but I'd imagine financially for the 4 of them it's a no brainer.