Jeremy Clarkson suspended by BBC...
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JagLover said:
Welshbeef said:
£5m for 3 years or £160m for 3 years....
No wonder JC and his crew simply couldn't give a toss when contracts not renewed.
You are comparing salaries with total production costs.No wonder JC and his crew simply couldn't give a toss when contracts not renewed.
I imagine they will take home more money but a very big chunk of it will go on the show. Lets hope they produce something special.
Funk said:
The issue with making the FTA subs-only is that the BBC deliberately removed the functionality to do so when they rolled out Freeview (no encryption on the box or a way to insert a card etc like Sky).
Yes, I recall reading that, the BBC deliberately did so,putting deliberate hurdles in the way, to help deter a move away from their current funding model.Edited by Cheese Mechanic on Friday 31st July 14:26
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k the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.
audi321 said:
Well my simple maths say that they need 3.5m viewers at £1.89 per view to recoup the £160m over 3 years (assuming 8 episodes per series). That's easily doable. Then there's the merchandise on top of that.
Smart move from Amazon me thinks.
And they can sell the programme onto other international broadcasters after it has premiered on Prime.Smart move from Amazon me thinks.
Vincefox said:
fk the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
Get it out of your system. k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.
A decent rant.
audi321 said:
Well my simple maths say that they need 3.5m viewers at £1.89 per view to recoup the £160m over 3 years (assuming 8 episodes per series). That's easily doable. Then there's the merchandise on top of that.
Smart move from Amazon me thinks.
less than that, as they are contracted for 36 shows in 3 years, so 12 a year.Smart move from Amazon me thinks.
Also, this is not being done to get money from subscriptions so much as to get more people signed up to Amazon prime, ie, onto their selling platform.
I would have preferred it if they had gone to Netflix, but it was pretty much inevitable it would go to an IPTV provider.
Vincefox said:
fk the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
It's worse than that Vince....they want to ban bacon!k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.johnxjsc1985 said:
"Shafted" or was that Kilroy's.
In 2001, Kilroy-Silk hosted a television programme on ITV1 called Shafted. It was a quiz-show and at the end of the show, Kilroy-Silk would ask players whether they wished to "share" or to "shaft", with accompanying hand gestures. Kilroy-Silk's appearance on the show is frequently lampooned by panellists on Have I Got News for You, particularly his delivery of the tagline.
The show was cancelled after four episodes. The Penguin TV Companion (2006) ranked it as the worst British television show of the 2000s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk#S...
soad said:
In 2001, Kilroy-Silk hosted a television programme on ITV1 called Shafted. It was a quiz-show and at the end of the show, Kilroy-Silk would ask players whether they wished to "share" or to "shaft", with accompanying hand gestures. Kilroy-Silk's appearance on the show is frequently lampooned by panellists on Have I Got News for You, particularly his delivery of the tagline.
The show was cancelled after four episodes. The Penguin TV Companion (2006) ranked it as the worst British television show of the 2000s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kilroy-Silk#S...
Halb said:
Vincefox said:
fk the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
It's worse than that Vince....they want to ban bacon!k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.
Scuffers said:
audi321 said:
Well my simple maths say that they need 3.5m viewers at £1.89 per view to recoup the £160m over 3 years (assuming 8 episodes per series). That's easily doable. Then there's the merchandise on top of that.
Smart move from Amazon me thinks.
less than that, as they are contracted for 36 shows in 3 years, so 12 a year.Smart move from Amazon me thinks.
Also, this is not being done to get money from subscriptions so much as to get more people signed up to Amazon prime, ie, onto their selling platform.
I would have preferred it if they had gone to Netflix, but it was pretty much inevitable it would go to an IPTV provider.
illmonkey said:
Welshbeef said:
Randy Winkman said:
And I thought it was only on the BBC that people were "overpaid". 
Well one is 63m population the other is up to 7 billion... What's to stop them now, for example, combining something like the Top Gear tours with making the show - the 'studio' section from a different city every episode - with the film shot on the journey to the next show. You could easily get a 6 episode sequence from a US tour.
audi321 said:
So only 2.35m viewers a week to break even then. Worldwide. That's an extremely wise move by Amazon.
quite...quoting BBC figures:
Top Gear plays in 214 territories worldwide and has an estimated global audience of 350 million
so, based on that, they only need to recover <1% of the existing audience...
Vincefox said:
fk the bbc.
fk their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.
They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both fking hands.
fk them and fk paying for them. fking s.
And despite all those faults, the BBC is still better than ITV!k the bbc.f
k their cakey wakey old programmes, their nicey softy middle class y dance frufru bks, their race to the bottom painfully correct not comedy comedies and most of all, fk them for A buggering top gear up, B cancelling mongrels and C putting an ugly bird on breakfast telly.They do NOT represent me in any way. Their supposedly intellectually, artistically and morally superior benevolent dictator act is compulsory. It's ended up the way all benevolent dictatorships do, unchecked and with policy drift so far i suspect they could no longer find their arses with both f
king hands.f
k them and fk paying for them. fking s.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff