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I liked it. Genuinely happy it featured a lot of electric vehicles and not just supercars doing 5mpg around a track. For me that is progress.
It's the bits with regular cars that have always worked best for me. Seeing a McLaren P1 or the latest 911 being thrashed round a track is all fine but there's much more enjoyment to be had out of cars that I can relate to. The cheap car challenges were great as any one of us could easily do the same thing. The current 3 tried that with the hire cars but didn't quite nail it as they contrived the issues whereas it's much better when things genuinely go wrong like Clarkson's Merak slowly destroying itself before grenading at 30 mph. It's the same with the big trips, who would have thought that the star of the Africa road trip would be a decrepit old Opel called Oliver!
Hopefully they've found their feet now and with more scope to film and explore without lockdowns etc over 2021 and beyond they can put their own stamp on the show.
I thought the whole series was a bit pants but with the odd good bit in it. Can forgive them though given the Covid restrictions obviously being a factor - even with Clarkson et al it was mostly the trips abroad that were the highlight
It’s the same with the big trips, who would have thought that the star of the Africa road trip would be a decrepit old Opel called Oliver!
The script writer?
Someone was asking a couple of pages back if the Wall of Death belonged to Ken Fox, setup for a show that they could conveniently use. Well....
#thatsalotoflicencefeepayerscash
How much does top gear put back into the coffers, once it’s been sold around the world?
A lot.
Someone was asking a couple of pages back if the Wall of Death belonged to Ken Fox, setup for a show that they could conveniently use. Well….
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The answer is?
How much does top gear put back into the coffers, once it’s been sold around the world
IIRC, it's around a third of all BBC Worldwide revenue.
How much does top gear put back into the coffers, once it’s been sold around the world?
Old Top Gear used to make a fortune, many times the production cost for TG. It was one of the things Clarkson used to get the hump about, not getting the 'recognition' for that, money I think he meant.
Ultimately he and the producer bought the rights to TG about 10 years ago, and then a few years later sold them back. Who had the best deal out of those two sales at the time, I don't know, mayeb it wasn't a profitable as he thought. Either I'm sure he regretted it when he was sacked by the BBC, he seemed pretty bitter about the fact he wasn't allowed to keep the intellectual property he created whilst under their employ, that he bought and then sold back to them.
I'm not sure they're selling much of 'New' Top Gear yet, the early Chris Evans series weren't very popular and the current lineup is a bit too new to sell into syndication yet, put it this way. Netflix have 7 years with of Topgear at the moment, which cuts off with Clarkson still in charge.
Netflix have 7 years with of Topgear at the moment, which cuts off with Clarkson still in charge.
That be a rights issue they may not be able to broadcast the other series just yet.
The answer is?
In the link right below the text 😁
TLDR, no it doesn't was built at a cost of 1.3 million quid and used for 16 minutes.
That’s my point. They can spend pretty much what they like of ‘taxpayers money’, they’ll get it back in droves.
That article is just trying to stir up the anti BBC mob.