It will be a “fantastic challenge”, says Richard Hammond, the co-host and one-third of the famous and BBC’s most lucrative auto programme, Top Gear. This famous trio has done unspeakable for the Top Gear and brought it back from the brink of irrelevance to one of the most watched and admired British programmes.
According to Hammond, Clarkson, May and himself, have already started working on making this new show for Amazon Prime, completely different from Top Gear, yet brilliantly entertaining.
“There’s a lot to be done because we will reinvent, do new stuff, and that’s as invigorating as it gets. So what a fantastic challenge,” said Hammond.
It feels more like having a publisher than a boss, Hammond said when asked about moving from terrestrial television to online streaming. Talking about Amazon, he further added that “they’re not going to interfere. They want us to do what we do.”
So how much exactly are you guys being paid? Over this question the 45-year-old presenter said that all that press speculation is nothing more than “coffee-machine chat”. When he was asked whether or not he is embarrassed of his new salary, he very politely replied “I’m at peace”.
Yes, we are. Being interested in nature and cars are basically quite similar, they both are expressions of something human. It’s the ability to move yourself efficiently across the ground, said Hammond.
It’s not just me, Clarkson he has a good eye for nature, he added: “Jeremy won’t mind me saying it, [but] actually he’s fanatically interested in birds and we regularly had to stop a whole convoy of vehicles because he’s seen a condor or something.”
Richard Hammond was expressing all this on the promotion of his Jungle Quest, a programme on Sky 1 HD, at 9pm on 16 and 23 September. Whereas the as-yet-untitled show on Clarkson, Hammond and May are expected to go streaming next year.
