It's a top end programme that will probably at least break even when they sell it around the world and also sell the books and DVDs of it.
It will cost the BBC far less to send one bloke around the world with a couple of camera/sound men and buy in some fancy graphics than it costs to hire a dozen camera men, a dozen make-up artists, a big venue and the costs that come with that etc to film something like Strictly Come Dancing over a couple of months.
It will cost the BBC far less to send one bloke around the world with a couple of camera/sound men and buy in some fancy graphics than it costs to hire a dozen camera men, a dozen make-up artists, a big venue and the costs that come with that etc to film something like Strictly Come Dancing over a couple of months.