Top Gear: Netflix could air new series in global battle with Amazon's
Clarkson
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/mar/03/top-gear-netflix-amazon-jeremy-clarkson-bbc
Netflix is in talks with the BBC to air the revamped Top Gear in a deal
that could see the show go head to head globally with Jeremy Clarkson’s new
Amazon Prime show. Driven by Chris Evans, with co-hosts including Matt Le Blanc
and Eddie Jordan,the BBC show is understood to have gone down well with
overseas buyers when a clip was aired at a showcase in Liverpool last
month. Netflix’s interest is likely to cause some concern at rival Amazon,
which spent a reported £160m hiring the original Top Gear trio of Clarkson,
Richard Hammond and James May and their executive producer Andy Wilman to make
a new car show. At the time Netflix’s chief product officer Neil Hunt
told Digital Spy that his rivals had paid too much: “We have past episodes
of Top Gear, so we have a pretty good gauge of what audiences like. Our buying
decisions tend to be somewhat data-driven. We have a lot of data to get the
deals we want, so there we go.
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