Top Gear

what the betting that Clarkson's Amazon series will get more viewers than Top Gear and the new ITV series Drive put together?

(01-03-2016 18:27 )kelly1066 Wrote:  ill bet clarkson and his cronies are laughing themselves to death over all this....?

I doubt if they are laughing. More likely they are wondering how the new series has managed to get so much publicity.

Didn't Richard Hammond say something about the Top Gear publicity machine roaring into action.

This entire reincarnation of 'TG' is simply an ego feast for Evans. The new format will be similar to other shows he has fronted. Why have 7 presenters? I appreciate that not all presenters will present every show - but still 7 is far too many. Also, I get the distinct impression that the recruitment process has been one enormous tick-box exercise orchestrated under the banner of 'diversity'.

Quite a slow day for TG stories.

Netflix may pick up streaming rights (possibly for head-to-head autumn clash with the Clarkson-May-Hammond Ammazon series): http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/ma...arkson-bbc

And a complete non-story from the Daily Fail: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...-fail.html Posting just to say:

10 x 450,000 = £4.5mil budget for previous series.
6 x 650,000 = £3.9mil budget for this series.

So by their figures the beeb have saved more than half a mil on TG this year; but according to the Mail budgets have "balloned".

(04-03-2016 22:54 )ShandyHand Wrote:  10 x 450,000 = £4.5mil budget for previous series.
6 x 650,000 = £3.9mil budget for this series.

So by their figures the beeb have saved more than half a mil on TG this year; but according to the Mail budgets have "balloned".

Well, yes. I would say it's fair to describe a 44% increase in budget per episode as 'ballooned'.

They may have saved over 1/2m in total, but they have 4 less episodes to show for it.

(05-03-2016 01:33 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  They may have saved over 1/2m in total, but they have 4 less episodes to show for it.

Unless the episodes are 5/3 longer (100 minutes? Not likely, is it?)

Apparently, the rival show with the old guys have been filming in the Caribbean.

(05-03-2016 01:33 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  Well, yes. I would say it's fair to describe a 44% increase in budget per episode as 'ballooned'.

They may have saved over 1/2m in total, but they have 4 less episodes to show for it.

But one of the things that invariably happens when TV producers cut episodes from a series is that the budget gets redistributed across the remaining eps. The show is budgeted for less than previous seasons. The Mail is yet again just indulging in one of it's favourite sports of looking for any angle with which to knock the BBC.

The beeb will have less shows yes; but they will be better looking ones as a result. That's presumably one of the motivating factors here. The competing Clarkson shows are hardly going to look cash strapped.

(05-03-2016 11:49 )ShandyHand Wrote:  But one of the things that invariably happens when TV producers cut episodes from a series is that the budget gets redistributed across the remaining eps. The show is budgeted for less than previous seasons.

Or....... the shows were running massively over budget, so they had to cut from 8 down to 6 to stay within the overall budget.

Take your pick....

^ The context of the making of this series has been one of the production running out of time with their transmission dates confined by the Olympics. The postponment of the series launch date is another indicator of similar pressures. If it was just a matter of costs why not run the six shows from the original May 8th date?
I still think my scenario is the more likely one given all that we've heard on this and taking the source of each info into considetation.

Back from South Africa to film on Tower Bridge and at St. Pauls:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/matt-...ar-7543343
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/art...-jams.html

I wonder if Monster paid for the serious product placement.

Also, more images of Le Blanc's TG overseas excursions here:

http://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebr...01466.html