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kleinbl00  ·  3463 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Jeremy Clarkson ‘not worth the money’ Amazon spent, says Netflix executive

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.