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Clarkson, May and Hammond finds new home in Amazon

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Because Amazon is a US-owned internet brand, the deal gets round a ban on Clarkson, 55, doing a car show with another UK broadcaster until 2017.

Jeremy Clarkson and his Top Gear co-stars were 'very, very, very expensive' admits Amazon boss Jeff Bezos Amazon founder admitted Top Gear trio were 'very, very, very expensive'
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond to front new show
First of 3 series to air on video streaming service Amazon Prime in 2016
Jeff Bezos, the Amazon CEO, said he was 'very excited' by the acquisition
By Sam Tonkin For Mailonline
Published: 06:38 EST, 16 August 2015 | Updated: 08:23 EST, 16 August 2015

The founder and CEO of Amazon has admitted that signing up Top Gear trio Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond for a new online motoring show was 'very, very, very expensive'.
Jeff Bezos declined to say how much the three presenters were being paid but the deal is said to be worth around £160million over three years.


When asked whether the new programme will come to define Prime by growing the service's popularity in the UK, he said: 'It can't just be one show, it has to be a number of things.
'We have a lot of things in the pipeline, which I think viewers in the UK and around the world are going to love. And I think Clarkson's new show is going to be one of those.
'I think we're in a golden age of television, so if you go back in time even just five years, you couldn't get A-list talent to do TV serials, or, if you could, it was a rare thing. But that's flipped completely.

Because Amazon is a US-owned internet brand, the deal gets round a ban on Clarkson, 55, doing a car show with another UK broadcaster until 2017.
When the new show does launch, it could go head to head with the BBC’s own Top Gear revamp headed by Chris Evans.
The Amazon programme will be overseen by the trio’s longstanding executive producer, Andy Wilman, a schoolfriend of Clarkson who was widely acknowledged as the brains behind Top Gear and the inspiration for some of its more controversial moments.
Mr Wilman previously told Broadcast, the TV industry magazine, that the budget for the series was so good, its production manager would be able to ‘run ****ing riot with money’.
However, fans will have to sign up to Amazon’s £79-a-year Prime service before they can watch Clarkson, May and Hammond – and many will have to pay even more to rig their televisions up to the internet.
Mr Bezos also spoke about another business line his company is currently pursuing - the use of drones to deliver packages.
Prime Air drones are currently being worked on at a number of research centres, including in Cambridge in the UK, and Mr Bezos believes one day 'Prime Air deliveries will be as common as seeing a mail truck'.
He wouldn't say in which country the service would launch but suggested the UK would likely be one of the first in line to receive the service.


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The Ape, Hamster and Cpt Slow will be in Amazon this fall and they have a new name for the show.


After months of deliberation and lots of useful suggestions from the public, for which the guys are very grateful, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have decided that, because they are taking their new Amazon Prime Show around the world, it will be called The Grand Tour.

Not only will the guys travel to different locations, but for the first time ever the studio audience recordings will travel every week, all housed within a giant tent. Amazon customers will have the chance to be in the audience when tickets are released through prize draws this summer.
 
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Nice name. I was wondering what they were going to come up with. And it's very clever because once it's abbreviated, it becomes TG Tour. :D
 

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I thought that too, nice pun and so... in-your-face !
 

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Should have called it "Overdrive."
 
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