Clarkson gets the last laugh
White-Knight
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Looks like Clarkson's had the last laugh over the BBC.
According to this report, he's being paid $1.2 Million per EPISODE of his new show on Amazon - that's $14.7 Million per year with Hammond and May reportedly getting £11 Million per year.
http://www.odometer.com/pop-culture/29829/post-whoa-amazon-is-paying-jeremy-clarkson-15-million-a-year-for-his-new-show#page=1
Then you have to wonder how much the BBC will be losing in sales revenue with the new TG with Chris Evans as presenter....
What he did was wrong, but the BBC certainly did the wrong thing in sacking him. It's made him richer than ever and the BBC probably poorer.
According to this report, he's being paid $1.2 Million per EPISODE of his new show on Amazon - that's $14.7 Million per year with Hammond and May reportedly getting £11 Million per year.
http://www.odometer.com/pop-culture/29829/post-whoa-amazon-is-paying-jeremy-clarkson-15-million-a-year-for-his-new-show#page=1
Then you have to wonder how much the BBC will be losing in sales revenue with the new TG with Chris Evans as presenter....
What he did was wrong, but the BBC certainly did the wrong thing in sacking him. It's made him richer than ever and the BBC probably poorer.
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An oddly appropriate username for someone defending Clarkson.
Your reasoning and ethical logic is quite simply ridiculous and belongs in the dark ages. You are advocating that there should be blatant discrimination when it comes to employee misconduct cases at the BBC. So, if someone earns a lot of money and gives the corporation a good financial return then they can expect preferential treatment if they are violent and abusive to another employee, whereas if someone doesn't directly earn the corporation much money, then they can be dismissed much more easily and for less misconduct.
I find it incredible that anyone would advocate such a policy in 2015, and if the BBC did there would be outrage of Daily Mail proportions. Utterly mad.
Netflix: Top Gear trio 'not worth the money'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-34167864
Hang on!
Amazon aren't daft. They operate in the "real world," not the cosy confines of the BBC.
He's probably signed a contract with them, but you can bet that what he gets from it will be dependent on how much cash any programme in which he appears generates.
So he won't be laughing yet, If he has any chance of laughing at all.
Those who will be laughing, are people like me, who had no time for the arrogant slob. Glad to see the back of him.
As for the BBC's "loss," it was explained by a contributor to this board that the net income from Top Gear was about £5M. What's that, less than point two percent of their income?
There won't be much wringing of hands at the BBC.
Actually I know different but I don't want to post because of possible legal ramifications by firms trying to protect their reputations. Lets just say that at some Christmas parties, such incidents get ignored.
Having said that, no-one is saying that what he did was right. However, there were some extenuating circumstances such as the stress of his cancer scare and therefore whilst he should have been punished (no argument), there were ways this could have been handled short of dismissal such as suspension.
I personally feel this was just a part of a larger political agenda against Clarkson by those on the left wing who simply don't like what he was - a middle class presenter with politically incorrect views. Let's face it, everything he said led to calls for him to be sacked from the left for a long time before this incident.
For me, and many others, what he represented at the BBC was actually refreshing from the bored politically correct programming and presentation we otherwise have to put up with. (Well actually I don't I watch other channels).
I think he's had the last laugh by a long way. He sold the rights to TG to be the BBC for a reported £14M a few years ago and now he's signed a deal since leaving the BBC for $14.7 per year, a substantial rise on his BBC salary. That's a proper two fingered salute to the BBC to be fired and then hired for substantially more salary than before as a result.
As for the new show being a possible flop, do you really think he'd care if it was a flop and he never worked again? He's still going to walk away with $14.7M reported for the first series no matter how well it does.
Personally, I'd have left the BBC and television years ago the minute I sold TG for £14 M and retired somewhere nice. With that kind of money in the bank, employment becomes a hobby.
Then he got drunk and physically assaulted a work colleague. Oh well...
He made a fool of himself so no last laugh available, regardless of his future successes, that not being the point.
Probably on holiday?
Hasn't this been reported in other news sources some time ago but there were doubts about the accuracy of the figure. I don't think either party has actually announced the amount he is paid and it will be complicated by other factors - often the payment is to a production company which has to pay production costs.
If anything Clarkson is probably laughing at his fans for believing the reports of his new deal.
I suggest we change the law so that people are exempt from assault charges if they make more than £1m a year for their employer!
Money rules. Who cares about principles, common decency and other inconveniences when there's money to be made?
I want to see bad cars ridiculed and fast cars and fast driving worshipped. So what if people get hurt, especially those that stupidly get in the way of my babe magnet?
Clarkson is a legend in his own mind who should have been sacked long before he was.
Or, more politely, exactly the same voices putting forward exactly the same points as raised in a couple of other very lengthy threads.
Link?