The Grand Tour: Amazon reveal Clarkson, May and Hammond show name
05-11-16, 10:31 AM
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The Grand Tour: Amazon reveal Clarkson, May and Hammond show name
Former Top Gear hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May's new show on Amazon's streaming video service will be called The Grand Tour.
Unveiling the name, Clarkson said the new show would see them "hosting each episode in a different country".
The trio, who will front three series on Amazon Prime, said name suggestions from fans had been "much appreciated".
Meanwhile, the BBC revealed the new Top Gear series, fronted by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc, will debut on 29 May.
The BBC Two show announced its return on Twitter, shortly after The Grand Tour was introduced.
Evans was named as Top Gear's new host last year after the BBC opted not to renew Clarkson's contract in the wake of his much-publicised "fracas" with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
Clarkson later apologised and settled a £100,000 racial discrimination and injury claim from Tymon.
'A new frontier'
The Grand Tour will launch this autumn and will be available to watch exclusively by Amazon Prime members.
The "round-the-world" format will allow customers of different nations to be in the audience as tickets are to be released through prize draws this summer.
The name befits the presenters' wish to make a new show noticeably different from what they had presented before, which was mainly studio-based with pre-recorded segments and big set pieces.
Top Gear's long-time producer Andy Wilman also left the BBC last year to join the presenters and work with them on the Amazon show.
In a tongue-in-cheek statement, Clarkson said: "We'll be travelling the world hosting each episode in a different country. It's sort of a 'grand tour', if you like. So we've decided to call it 'The Grand Tour'."
In response, May remarked that he was underwhelmed by the name and had "wanted to call it 'Nigel', or 'Roger'".
"We needed a name, and they're names," he said.
Hammond on the other hand, was more positive, saying: "I already love camping, but this is something else".
"We are like our pioneering and prospecting forebears, sallying forth into a new frontier of broadcasting."
Unveiling the name, Clarkson said the new show would see them "hosting each episode in a different country".
The trio, who will front three series on Amazon Prime, said name suggestions from fans had been "much appreciated".
Meanwhile, the BBC revealed the new Top Gear series, fronted by Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc, will debut on 29 May.
The BBC Two show announced its return on Twitter, shortly after The Grand Tour was introduced.
Evans was named as Top Gear's new host last year after the BBC opted not to renew Clarkson's contract in the wake of his much-publicised "fracas" with Top Gear producer Oisin Tymon.
Clarkson later apologised and settled a £100,000 racial discrimination and injury claim from Tymon.
'A new frontier'
The Grand Tour will launch this autumn and will be available to watch exclusively by Amazon Prime members.
The "round-the-world" format will allow customers of different nations to be in the audience as tickets are to be released through prize draws this summer.
The name befits the presenters' wish to make a new show noticeably different from what they had presented before, which was mainly studio-based with pre-recorded segments and big set pieces.
Top Gear's long-time producer Andy Wilman also left the BBC last year to join the presenters and work with them on the Amazon show.
In a tongue-in-cheek statement, Clarkson said: "We'll be travelling the world hosting each episode in a different country. It's sort of a 'grand tour', if you like. So we've decided to call it 'The Grand Tour'."
In response, May remarked that he was underwhelmed by the name and had "wanted to call it 'Nigel', or 'Roger'".
"We needed a name, and they're names," he said.
Hammond on the other hand, was more positive, saying: "I already love camping, but this is something else".
"We are like our pioneering and prospecting forebears, sallying forth into a new frontier of broadcasting."
05-12-16, 08:41 AM
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^^^ lol
they're funny **** heads though.
they're funny **** heads though.
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05-15-16, 08:16 PM
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Disappointing. The "Grand Tour" sounds like a winery tour in Cali NAPA Valley country for ole fogies. This is what the big build-up is about? I would feel like I'm on Big Bang Theory on one of the Sheldon character's railroad excursions.
So many other choices: Fast Laps. Next Lap. Clarkson's World. Faster Than You, or Faster U. Etc.
So many other choices: Fast Laps. Next Lap. Clarkson's World. Faster Than You, or Faster U. Etc.
05-15-16, 09:55 PM
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^^ You are right that the name doesn't really go with your current vision of Top Gear. However, I think Amazon is making it a point to not make it just like Top Gear shown on Amazon, so they are adding their spin about it being shot in different countries, hence a tour around the world
05-15-16, 10:05 PM
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^^ You are right that the name doesn't really go with your current vision of Top Gear. However, I think Amazon is making it a point to not make it just like Top Gear shown on Amazon, so they are adding their spin about it being shot in different countries, hence a tour around the world
05-16-16, 05:35 PM
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It will be a successful show if they stick to their obnoxious pandering, rich-tourists-in-Botswana bits that please their fans. Just seemed like they could have come up with a more vivid engaging show title.
These days you don't need to watch these guys just to find out about the world on your TV or tablet. You've got all sorts of reality TV tourists doing their own shows. There's the guy who catches monster fish and hunts down local lore all over the world. Jumps into piranha infested rivers and all that.
There's the "Survivor" types who either get naked and go in the jungle ala Adam and Eve style or they're on some sort of "research mission" to study something - sharks and crocs do well here. Then there are the foodies who do their thing and run all over Europe and eat pizza and goat cheese.
Seems like the original formula on a wet Briddish airfield with an old 747 being scrapped in the backdrop was more interesting.
These days you don't need to watch these guys just to find out about the world on your TV or tablet. You've got all sorts of reality TV tourists doing their own shows. There's the guy who catches monster fish and hunts down local lore all over the world. Jumps into piranha infested rivers and all that.
There's the "Survivor" types who either get naked and go in the jungle ala Adam and Eve style or they're on some sort of "research mission" to study something - sharks and crocs do well here. Then there are the foodies who do their thing and run all over Europe and eat pizza and goat cheese.
Seems like the original formula on a wet Briddish airfield with an old 747 being scrapped in the backdrop was more interesting.
05-16-16, 06:27 PM
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We get it...you hate Clarkson and the show lol
05-16-16, 08:26 PM
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^^ You are right that the name doesn't really go with your current vision of Top Gear. However, I think Amazon is making it a point to not make it just like Top Gear shown on Amazon, so they are adding their spin about it being shot in different countries, hence a tour around the world
At least the stuffy BBC got some younger folks for the Top Gear 2 version. I don't want to watch a bunch of aging drunken Briddish yahoos doing the tourist nonsense just because it's now on Amazon. Let's see what the audience demo turns out to be. BBC debuts at the end of the month and the Three Tourists in Various Countries With British Influence will do their thing.