Quote:
Originally Posted by jannes_z-28
BBC gets more money for selling Top Gear abroad than from their own government budget. Top Gear is one of BBC's great incomes. In todays TV-world all big companies sell "formats" so if some company in the States is going to make a US-version of Top Gear they will have to pay BBC royalty. The market for TV-show formats is huge. Survivor was a Swedish format and that production company has made huge money on royalties over the years.
|
What a load of bollox !!!
You are sooooooo far wrong its insane !!!
Top Gears entire turnover for a year is less than £10million including all merchandising !!
The BBC's TOTAL commercial sector comes to about £1 Billion
And the Licence fee from all us lucky brits who get to pay £140 a year to watch TV comes in at over £3 BILLION !!!
The whole point of Top Gear is Clarkson, you either love him or hate him, but it seems he's more liked than loathed !! And the BBC isnt totally impartial, they dont just "tell it like its is" in fact they often pick out the silliest little thing and blow them out of proportion for humour value.
All that said and done I think Jeremy's great, I have followed him from long before he did any of the TV stuff and he was just a motoring journo over 20 years ago. A couple of people I know know him quite well and say he can be extremely funny but also extremely arrogant if its not something thats benefitting him personally.
In all the times I have worked at the BBC he's the guy I would have most liked to bump into but I never have, ironically Im better friends with Dale Winton than I am with and "car" type people, although I have been on Fifth Gear a few times if any of you guys know what that is, Tom Ford and Tiff Needell are a really good laugh !!
J.