it's over three years, but it isn't just him, it's his production company - in other words, they have to use the money to make the shows (and employ tea ladies, develop the scripts, pay the gas bills, whatever). So it's not 6 mill vanishing into his pockets either. My guess would be it doesn't make him a whole lot more profit than the Daily Mail editor gets.
None of which means I like either of them much, or think that this has anything to do with Cameron or Brown. I also don't like Max Clifford or the Mail. When I hear a Satanic **** has hired Clifford to represent her in her one-night affair with a foul mouthed comedian, I do wonder if I'm living on the wrong planet.
I do like the beeb, though, but they need to stop hiring idiots.