It looks like Amazon didn't drop Jeremy Clarkson over his attack on Meghan Markle - his shows just weren't very popular.
The Clarkson’s Farm frontman, 62, was at the centre of intense backlash last month after stating that heAmid the backlash, which even saw his own daughter Emily Clarkson condemned him for his comments,While seasons of The Grand Tour and Clarkson’s Farm that have already been commissioned will go ahead, the publication said the platform will not continue their working relationship with the broadcaster once they are wrapped up.
Instead, it is thought The Rig streamer has decided to can Clarkson’s projects because they are costly to produce and aren’t securing high enough viewing figures.reports that a ‘senior figure connected to Amazon’ said: ‘Any speculation that this has anything to do with anything like that [Harry and Meghan] is nonsense.’
‘This is a company that sells Mein Kampf, the Communist Manifesto, the Big Book of Serial Killers and Prime Video has a documentary on Charles Manson’s final words. I don’t think Jeremy Clarkson is quite in that league.’The article went on to claim that Clarkson is ‘expensive’ and his shows don’t ‘rate well outside of the UK’, not making them cost-effective.to show that demand for Clarkson’s Farm is 30% lower than demand for the average show in the USA.
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