Hmmm. You're right. Those are big numbers. That said, the MASH finale had 121m viewers, beating out "Who Shot JR" and the Superbowl... but AfterMash lasted 31 episodes and finished Season 1 tenth overall. It's a stupid amount of money for a media company that barely knows how to sell things to Americans, let alone a worldwide market. They have zero variety programming. And this is just the above-the-line charge - they still have to build a show. NBC's The Voice opened with $750k in above-the-line charges per episode. Hell's Kitchen pays $350k. Whatever this new Top Gear Thing is gonna be, they're paying $8m before they shoot a frame of footage. And I'll admit it - I hate fucking Jeremy Clarkson. One Simon Cowell is enough, thanks.