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Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May during a press event on July 17, 2015 in Perth, Australia.Matt Jelonek—2015 Matt Jelonek by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson Sep 7, 2015 12:56 PM UTC Some people might think the former hosts of Top Gear are worth top dollar, but not Netflix. An executive at the streaming service has said that Netflix didn’t believe Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May – who all left the BBC car show after Clarkson assaulted a producer earlier in 2015 — were worth the money they were asking for to present a new show. (The trio has [signed a deal with Amazon Prime](http://time.com/3978259/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-amazon/).) “We have past episodes of _Top Gear_, so we have a pretty good gauge of what audiences like,” Neil Hunt, Netflix’s Chief Product Officer, told the [U.K. site _Digital Spy_](http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s265/top-gear/news/a666922/netflix-top-gear-trio-clarkson-hammond-and-may-werent-worth-all-that-money.html#~pnB0X4hVeyB9Rp). “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 \[than they’re worth\].” However, Hunt did follow up the interview with a statement, noting that “\[t\]here is an audience for everything and it is not up to us to judge if Amazon has paid too much or not.” Netflix Didn't Think Top Gear Stars Were Worth Paying For ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4024280/netflix-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4024280/netflix-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/"},"headline":"Netflix Didn't Think Top Gear Stars Were Worth Paying For","datePublished":"2015-09-07T12:56:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:48:09.959Z","description":"Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May recently inked a deal with Amazon","url":"https://time.com/4024280/netflix-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e4a625921892bf3/6988627bcd1bbad3406fd0d2/top-gear-hosts.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0e4a625921892bf3/6988627bcd1bbad3406fd0d2/top-gear-hosts.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"top-gear-hosts","caption":"Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May during a press event on July 17, 2015 in Perth, Australia.","creditText":"Matt Jelonek—2015 Matt Jelonek","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4024280/netflix-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/","name":"Netflix Didn't Think Top Gear Stars Were Worth Paying For"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Reasons TV's Top Shows Are So Addictive","description":"Here's a look at how our favorite TV shows—from \"Game of Thrones\" to \"Scandal\" and \"Breaking Bad\"—keep us coming back for more.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/2RqNgPrk/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-01-16T20:47:22.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/2RqNgPrk.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4024280/netflix-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/","duration":"PT2M16S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4024280/netflix-top-gear-jeremy-clarkson/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```