The BBC can’t keep Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May apart. The Top Gear hosts are doing a new car show, exclusively for Amazon Prime.
Earlier this year, Jeremy Clarkson was fired from BBC’s Top Gear, after verbally and physically attacking a producer on the series.
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The broadcasting corporation stated that they would continue the series, but Clarkson’s co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May resisted the BBC’s attempts to lure them to stay.
Although the BBC was considering a new guest host format to fill the third presenter spot, Hammond and May would evidently rather stick with Clarkson than try to make Top Gear work without him — despite the massive pay raise the BBC was luring them in with.
The long-time trio has officially signed a deal with Amazon Prime, to create an “all-new car show” (read: Top Gear 2.0). It’ll be produced by Andy Wilman, who resigned as executive producer of Top Gear after Clarkson’s firing.
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In the press release announcing the new series, Jeremy Clarkson says, “I feel like I’ve climbed out of a bi-plane and into a spaceship.”
I'm very excited to announce that Hammond, May and I have signed a deal with .@AmazonVideo
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) July 30, 2015
.@AmazonVideoUK now saying I can't be their chief drone pilot. Apparently they want us to make a car show.
— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) July 30, 2015
It was previously reported that Hammond, May and Clarkson were in talks with both ITV and Netflix for a new car series, which would rival BBC’s Top Gear.
Production will begin shortly, and the brand new car show is scheduled to hit exclusively on Amazon Prime in 2016!
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