Top Gear headed to Netflix - report

[bsnub]

Is Netflix set to launch a rebooted version of Top Gear – with Jeremy Clarkson on board?If an inside source quoted by the UK's Mirror newspaper is to be believed, that is the most likely outcome for the popular car-centric show.
According to the source, the three Top Gear hosts – Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – are "very close" to signing a deal with the US streaming service. Executive producer Andy Wilman is also close to signing.


If true, it would mean Hammond and May are moving away from a two-year deal with the BBC said to be worth £4.6 million each. That deal, it is understood, would have seen May and Hammond remaining with the show and working alongside a weekly guest presenter.
According to the Mirror's source, the three hosts are "all very excited at the prospect of having total editorial control over their new show, to make it and get it distributed"
"It would be groundbreaking and also incredible [sic] lucrative. They would stand to earn much, much more than they would with the BBC."
The BBC announced in March that it would not be renewing Clarkson's contract after 12 years with Top Gear following the presenter's attack on producer Oisin Tymon.
In April, Clarkson wrote in the Sunday Times: "I have lost my baby but I shall create another. I don't know who the other parent will be or what the baby will look like, but I cannot sit around any more organising my photograph albums."
To extend Clarkson's metaphor, it appears the Top Gear team may have found their new parents in Netflix. Now to see what that offspring will look like…


Top Gear headed to Netflix - report | Stuff.co.nz

[harrybarracuda]

I'm trying to think if there is a less significant story in the news today.

But I doubt there is.

[bsnub]

Not a fan of Top Gear eh? Well it I am and I am glad the three will be back together.

[Ozcol]

I'm with Harry , Thought we had seen the last of them , OK good for a while but enough is enough.

[harrybarracuda]

Not a fan of Top Gear eh? Well it I am and I am glad the three will be back together.

This program excites me about as much as listening to three wankers in a pub talking shit, which is effectively what it is anyway.

[taxexile]

Top Gear had become tired, predictable and rather boring.

Clarkson needs neither cars nor the other two geezers to promote his talents. His skills as a print journalist far outweighs his rather dated and boorish Top Gear screen persona.

May was beginning to look like a lost soul on Top Gear and is more than capable of surviving as a producer and presenter of documentaries for thoughtful blokes and hairy women.

The other one, the horrible little midget, could at a pinch make a go of it selling anti freeze on the shopping channel, but in all honesty, he is as much use as the popes balls and to euthanase him would be doing the viewing public a great service.

P.S. what is netflix?

[chassamui]

Would it be better or worse with fewer PC boundaries for them to cross? Being controversial almost became the default position in recent series.

[Passing Through]

This program excites me about as much as listening to three wankers in a pub talking shit, which is effectively what it is anyway.

I've only ever seen little snippets of it but they always seemed to involve those three turds droning on in a studio whilst a group of fat, sniggering, middle-aged men stood around gawping at them. It looked like the annual Christmas party at a provincial accountancy firm so its being restricted to Netflix can only be good news.

[bsnub]

Interesting to hear your opinions because I always thought the show had top billing in the UK.

[Passing Through]

^ It has always been enormously popular. That's a fairly reliable measure of shitness.

[harrybarracuda]

Interesting to hear your opinions because I always thought the show had top billing in the UK.

Only amongst chavs and white van men.