Richard Hammond and James May, are together being offered a combined package of £4.6 million to continue to host Top Gear for two or three more series, as it is being claimed. As Jeremy Clarkson is no longer on a contract with BBC and he is looking at starting a new show with the two on a new channel (mostly Netflix).

This report comes after of a statement by Danny Cohen, BBC’s director of television, that too much of financial pressure will lessen the content and reduce the number of shows.

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Julian Knight, who is the Conservative MP for Solihull, said: “This is deeply disturbing and shows flagrant disregard for licence-fee payers and many BBC staffers who have to make do on a lot less.”

He further added, “I thought after the Jonathan Ross affair the BBC was moving away from paying huge sums to what they call talent. This seems a very strange decision considering that only the other day Danny Cohen was pleading poverty.”

It was rumoured that Richard and James had plans to move out with Jeremy and executive producer Andy Williams to start a new show and BBC had already finalized a new team to restart a brand new series of Top Gear. BBC is looking at saving £1.5 billion every year from the 2016-17 financial year and it is already making cuts.

 

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