Former Top Gear Presenter Jeremy Clarkson will be Britain’s highest-paid TV host after signing a £10 million (over $15 million) per year deal with Amazon.
After putting pen to paper, Clarkson basically improved on his former salary at the BBC by 10 times!
Of course, Amazon had to be “equally” generous with Richard Hammond, James May and producer Andy Wilman, with each of them allegedly earning £7.2 million ($11.1 million) per year.
With Amazon Prime spending £160 million on 36 episodes over three years, each individual episode will have a massive budget of £4.5 million ($7.0 million).
What this means is that the gang can basically do just about anything they set their minds to and be as creative as possible with their content, locations and so on.
Heck, now they can actually buy the Porsche 918, McLaren P1 and LaFerrari and conduct any sort of tests they please – since we’re still waiting for an official comparison test between the three.
If you’re having trouble picturing the difference between what the budget was for a Top Gear episode and what they’ll have with Amazon Prime, just know that the BBC only spared £500,000 ($770,000) per show, with the occasional £1 million ($1.5 million) episode.
The reason why Amazon is spending all this money is because they need to catch up to Netflix in terms of subscribers. Having Clarkson, Hammond and May on board will definitely help them close the gap, and at the same time, will give fans the chance to see what a car show looks like when no expense is being spared.
In fact, car enthusiasts from all over the world are going to win big since they’ll get not just one amazing TV show, but they’ll also be able to keep watching Top Gear (which should still be pretty interesting), with Chris Evans at the helm.
Story references: Mirror
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