Clarkson, Hammond and May sign with Amazon Prime for new car show

[cheesyboy]

Why, its standard stuff!

http://www.out-law.com/page-7086

Yes it's standard, but no it's not usually enforceable. And it certainly isn't something you can sack a member of staff for if they are under such an agreement with a previous employer, as per the post I quoted.

We got purchased by a very large German company last year who deals with testing and safety standards worldwide, we have all this sort of stuff written in our new contracts to avoid us A. leaving, and B. removing the staff and knowledge they have paid us multiple millions of pounds for and simply setting up another firm after running away with the money, the MDs contracts are even more restrictive, somehow id imagine a company who employs over 20k staff worldwide has rather good legal advice and knows what they can and can't enforce in a court of law.

It would be unusual for a company to pursue an injunction on the basis of one of these clauses, as they usually fall a long way short of being legally watertight - they're usually just in place as a deterrent. The link you provided gives plenty of detail to this, you should read it.

 

[The_Abyss]

Well, I have just bought an unlimited cineworld card for £130, which allows me to go as much as I want...

I would say it's certainly better value than the TV license. I have a Netflix sub and an Amazon prime one, I think the prime one is worth it for the next day guaranteed delivery bit alone considering how often I've made good use of that, not to mention the video service and the recently announced music service too.

Indeed Six of one and half a dozen of the other. Everything on Prime for £79 and everything at Cineworld for £130. Pity they don't bundle popcorn in with the latter - I can't resist it

 

[Firestar_3x]

Yep, Clarkson was even thinking about producing the show in America then selling it back to a UK broadcaster, it was seen as a way to get round his BBC contract.

 

[mccarf]

Hurrah! Finally they're going to be back

 

[ThePirateHulk]

At last a reason to use Prime.

I signed up for the free month trial, forgot to unsubscribe and got charged the $99 up front. Thought "oh well, might as well watch The Sopranos". Watched it and forgot to cancel again and got charged another $99 for the year.

And since I'm in Aus I don't even get to enjoy the next day delivery service.

 

[Lopéz]

I won't be paying for a Prime subscription to watch this. I don't think it's good enough value for me personally. I don't really watch very much television and I don't order from Amazon often. I tend to watch things like Roadkill or CarSOS if I want car based TV these days.

 

[oldbag]

Haha, I won't be paying Amazon prime either, the last time we had a free trial, the movies and TV selection they had available was pretty poor tbh. I will stick with Netflix.

 

[Psyoletic]

According to Financial Times, this deal is worth $250m for 3 series's of 36 episodes.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d56a21ac-36a7-11e5-bdbb-35e55cbae175.html#axzz3hQE4COld

 

[MadMouse101]

We sign up to prime last night, Prime got all the kids shows as netflix plus next day.

 

[~Mike~]

How long before they increase the price of prime?

 

[Skeeter]

Good question. I imagine the Stig will remain with BBC Top Gear and the new presenters.

The Stig was an invention of Clarksons and appears on his DVDs, so I imagine the Stig goes with Clarkson rather than stays with the BBC.

 

[mrk]

The reports say Stig will not be going with them, I imagine this is because the BBC paid some £££ for the rights to him.

 

[Cosimo]

Good question. I imagine the Stig will remain with BBC Top Gear and the new presenters.

Not too bothered about that. They'll probably stick a red helmet on someone and call him The Slug.

 

[chanjy]

How long before they increase the price of prime?

Maybe it will go up, depends how much of the Prime budget this deal actually represents. Remember Prime is a load of stuff, not just the streaming side.

Although Sky bid mega bucks for the footy then promptly raised subscriptions

 

[Burnsy2023]

The Stig was an invention of Clarksons and appears on his DVDs, so I imagine the Stig goes with Clarkson rather than stays with the BBC.

Didn't he do a deal with the BBC so that his DVDs were sold under the Top Gear brand which means that IP may be transferred to the BBC?

 

[alx]

The Stig was an invention of Clarksons and appears on his DVDs, so I imagine the Stig goes with Clarkson rather than stays with the BBC.

But didn't Clarkson sell the Top Gear rights or similar to the BBC a few years ago? I imagine The Stig was part of that, hence the BBC have the rights to him.

Edit: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-clarkson-sells-top-gear-1347649

 

[soundb0y]

Got a prime membership but never actually bothered watching anything on their video service.

Maybe this will be it.

 

[dannyjo22]

Not too bothered about that. They'll probably stick a red helmet on someone and call him The Slug.

They can't do that. Cowell stopped doing pop idol, rebranded his own as xfactor and ended up giving half to Fuller anyway. Especially using the three of them I bet lawyers are already waiting to go.

It needs to be different to the old format enough, which will be a good thing anyway. It needed a shake up.

 

[hyperseven]

just had this.

Dear hyperseven,

We're excited to announce that Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May will reunite to make a new car show available exclusively to Amazon Prime members. The show will be produced by the trio's long time executive producer Andy Wilman.

So they have one of the producers as well.

 

[Burnsy2023]

just had this.
So they have one of the producers as well.

Not just one of the producers but the executive producer that helped create the format.