“So the ITV thing was never really going to happen, but there has been lots of interest. commercial broadcaster ITV out of the bidding process. broadcaster until 2017, which knocked U.K. Wilman confirmed that a “non-compete” clause in his and Clarkson’s BBC contracts prevented them from working for another free-to-view U.K. Hopefully filming will start in the New Year,” Wilman told RadioTimes.
“We want to be on air next autumn (2016), so we’ll come back from our break and get cracking on it. Work on the show will start after the team’s summer holiday. There will be 12 episodes in each of the three seasons, and each episode will run for around an hour. based, and will include both studio sequences as well as on-location shoots around the world. Bird said: “It would be crazy for us to interfere with a creative process that has been so successful in the past.”Ī new production company set up by Wilman, Clarkson, Hammond and May called W Chump & Sons will produce the Amazon show. film and TV strategy director Chris Bird and Conrad Riggs, the U.S. That’s a big one for us - we don’t like interference, we don’t need to be policed.” “Everyone we have talked to has said to us: ‘They leave you alone to make your show’. Speaking to Broadcast magazine, Wilman reiterated the point. No one telling us what we can and can’t do, just us hopefully producing great programs.
So it’s exhilarating to be part of that future,” Wilman told RadioTimes Friday.Īsked about the new show’s format, Wilman said they had a free rein, with no interference from Amazon, and would be starting “from scratch.” “I can’t tell you how good it feels to get the chance to produce something from scratch. “They’ll give us the freedom to make the programs we want - and you know how we love that freedom - there’s a budget to produce programs of the quality we want, and this is the future.
LONDON - Why Amazon? That’s the question fans of hit BBC motoring-show “ Top Gear” have been asking, after its former presenting team - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May - and Andy Wilman, the show’s former executive producer, said on Thursday they would produce their new motoring show for Amazon’s streaming service, Amazon Prime.
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