Clarkson, Hammond And May Too Expensive For Netflix

If you thought the former Top Gear trio sold their services way too expensive, then you’re not the only one.

As you may recall, Clarkson and his comrades – including the former Top Gear producer Andy Wilman – signed an epic deal with Amazon. Epic as in expensive as it can get.

In fact, everybody knows the price was too ridiculous; even Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, was recently quoted saying that the deal was… substantial. And that comes from a man worth an estimated $48 billion.

Apparently, Netflix was one of the many companies known to have been in discussions with the presenters, but according to Digital Spy, Netflix’s Chief Product Officer – Neil Hunt – stated that a possible deal with the guys was not worth the money (to Netflix):

“We have past episodes of Top Gear, so we have a pretty good gauge of what audiences like,” Netflix’s Chief Product Officer Neil Hunt told us. Our buying decisions tend to be somewhat data-driven. We have a lot of data to get the deals we want, so there we go. Clearly it wasn’t worth the money to make the deal… I think they sold themselves for way more money [than they’re worth].”

Mind you, with a $250 million check signed by Amazon, the team has about $6.9 million to spend per episode. And yes, that huge amount of cash should make every show an epic petrolhead Nirvana.