The Grand Tour [Amazon]

Tefral

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have been signed up by Amazon for a new motoring show to rival the BBC’s Top Gear.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jul/30/top-gear-clarkson-hammond-may-amazon-deal-bbc

Larbre34

In fairness it wont rival Diet Top Gear, as its a world wide online broadcast on a different plain of existence to BBC UK.

Its exciting stuff though, potentially limitless budgets. They could literally end up racing space ships. It will need many new dimensions to have worldwide appeal though, no more British carvanning p1ss takes and Vauxhall lap times. Probably a lot more of the multi episode adventures.

Chris Evans has begun hiring some of the Big Breakfast / TFIF producers for Diet Top Gear, that should make for some very switch-offable telly.

whomitconcerns

great news

AMKC

Not great news. Top Gear ended when the last episode of the last season ended. The one with May and Hammond as far as I am concerned. I will not watch either of these new shows live. Will not watch the one thats going be online at all as have no interest in watching programs or films online. Its a horrible way to watch something.

_Kaiser_

AMKC wrote: »

Not great news. Top Gear ended when the last episode of the last season ended. The one with May and Hammond as far as I am concerned. I will not watch either of these new shows live. Will not watch the one thats going be online at all as have no interest in watching programs or films online. Its a horrible way to watch something.

Ah you can watch most stuff through streaming or media boxes directly to your TV so that wouldn't bother me so much.

Amazon Prime though doesn't have the same universal reach as Netflix so it'll be interesting to see how it plays out.

lertsnim

Amazon Instant Video is available in 5 countries.

smellslikeshoes

Would have to assume this will coincide with a big rollout to other countries

lertsnim

Unless of course Amazon have plans on selling it to broadcasters around the world.

icdg

That may well be the case. But the BBC have a massive overseas distribution network and 50 or so years experience of overseas sales. Now arguably Clarkson, Hammond, and May sell themselves, but Amazon have no experience in wholesale television distribution. The most I think they've done so far is sell back to the BBC rights to a show the BBC had originally commissioned.

Harry Palmr

Amazon have huge plans afoot - signing up the likes of Woody Allen and Ridley Scott to direct drama series tells us they are not messing about, I imagine they'll be a few more prestige signings in the next 6 months and Amazon prime will be rolled out across all major markets.

Anjobe

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Amazon have huge plans afoot - signing up the likes of Woody Allen and Ridley Scott to direct drama series tells us they are not messing about, I imagine they'll be a few more prestige signings in the next 6 months and Amazon prime will be rolled out across all major markets.

Perhaps, but will Ireland count as a major market?

lertsnim

We were one of the first to get Netflix in Europe so hopefully.

icdg

Netflix however buy UK & Ireland rights together, a la most satellite stations and Channel 4 - Netflix Ireland is Netflix UK, for most intents and purposes. Amazon seem to be taking the Channel 5/ITV approach and not buying Irish rights (or worse still, are buying Irish rights but not broadcasting the shows in Ireland).

MillField

£160 million budget for the new series apparently. That's quite a lot of caravans.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-richard-hammond-and-james-mays-new-amazon-prime-show-has-an-absolutely-insane-budget-10444856.html

jamo2oo9

colmulhall wrote: »

£160 million budget for the new series apparently. That's quite a lot of caravans.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/jeremy-clarkson-richard-hammond-and-james-mays-new-amazon-prime-show-has-an-absolutely-insane-budget-10444856.html

What do they usually get when they were with BBC?

Harry Palmr

They'd have been lucky to have 5-6m for a series of 8 hours including a special I'd say.

mike2084

Here is a first look at the new Amazon Prime show............

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s265/top-gear/news/a672529/ex-top-gear-trio-jeremy-clarkson-richard-hammond-and-james-may-are-back-in-first-look-at-their-amazon-series.html#~pqtuM9LBPGniEj

inforfun

The race is on....?

_Tombstone_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGEd6ZmwZ7Q

mike2084

Meanwhile the Argentina saga will not go away...

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2114424

The Black Oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p-K34m6vuY

_Kaiser_

^^^ That was still far better than the "new" Top Gear trailer.

Atlantic Dawn

So it's going to be called "The Grand Tour", a poor name it sounds like a christmas special dvd...

Alanstrainor

Yeah, not a good name at all. It probably lines up with the format of the show in that they tour around the world or something.

Shannon757

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Yeah, not a good name at all. It probably lines up with the format of the show in that they tour around the world or something.

A different country per episode sort of thing?

cdeb

Looks that way alright.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36267294

So presumably no power laps, for starters, which I think may even be a BBC copyright (or similar)

So this may well be quite a big departure from Top Gear, while Top Gear looks like continuing with the old format.

Interesting times.

Harry Palmr

The Grand Tour is going to be like a series of TG specials essentially as far as I can see, with some "local colour" features probably before and after the main dish.

They better have a FTA deal so those of us with low-fi broadband can watch at some point later.

cdeb

Few more details here - the first episode will have the Ferrari v McLaren v Porsche line-up they tried to get for Top Gear, but failed.

A decent coup to start off with.

paul68

I'm looking forward to seeing the 3 lads back, i'd imagine its pretty much going to be more or less the same to top gear with a different name of course still should be worth a watch when it airs.

cdeb

paul68 wrote: »

i'd imagine its pretty much going to be more or less the same to top gear with a different name

Not so sure it will be. Similar, for sure, but not the same.

No STIG. No SIARPC. Maybe no power laps or celebrity laps. No cool wall (wasn't used the last few series anyway - but just gives an idea of what the BBC have copyright over).

SIARPC was a way of bringing the show back to the studio and the audience in between films (as was the news) - presumably something will have to take its place. Maybe more audience interaction like at the live shows? More presenter chat?

Myrddin

I'd be happy with a season of what we used to call 'specials'. The studio thing became so very stale & overtly scripted. The SIARPC segment was nearly always awful, & I won't miss that at all. Just get them out across different countries, on some great roads, in some great cars, & let the adventuring begin.

tomred1

Will people in Ireland be able to view his show on Amazon Prime?

inforfun

Well, I have seen Narcos, Mr Robot and a few other Amazon Prime series.
And i am in Ireland.

Lets say i am pretty confident i will see them 1 way oor the other...

bnt

The more I think about the Grand Tour name, the more I like it. It's a twist on the historical Grand Tour: these are not young men any more, and their progress may involve even more smoke, but as you get older you don't necessarily want to be in "top gear" all the time. Jeremy in particular knows his history. I think it will be a good thing if the name shapes the tone of the series.

cdeb

bnt wrote: »

Jeremy in particular knows his history.

For someone often dismissed as racist, he also knows and enjoys his travel.

I agree with Myrddin in a way - a series of specials would be interesting. But how do you fit the audience participation into that? (And we know it'll still be studio-based to an extent)

Will it be lots of stuff like the excellent Japan race, for example? The news segment always broke the show nicely, and was good for a bit of craic - but didn't the Australia special have just the one break in it to go back to studio? I thought that didn't really work - you need the balance of films and studio. But then time in the studio takes away from the specials and means you can't really draw out enough of a story, I would have thought.

But time will tell.

ScumLord

Harry Palmr wrote: »

The Grand Tour is going to be like a series of TG specials essentially as far as I can see, with some "local colour" features probably before and after the main dish.

Sounds like the US top gear. They just do "specials" there's no studio stuff at all. I've grown to like the US version. It's turned into it's own thing.

cdeb wrote: »

Few more details here - the first episode will have the Ferrari v McLaren v Porsche line-up they tried to get for Top Gear, but failed.

A decent coup to start off with.

It's not a coup though. Chris Harris (new TG presenter) did a special on the 3 cars on his own youtube channel. Clarkson, Hammond and May were there on the day filming their special at the same time.

So technically it could be said that TG beat them to it. the thing is at this stage all the youtube car guys have done loads of videos on these cars. But it will be a nice sort of getting back to where they left off for the "grand tour".

Venom

bnt wrote: »

The more I think about the Grand Tour name, the more I like it. It's a twist on the historical Grand Tour: these are not young men any more, and their progress may involve even more smoke, but as you get older you don't necessarily want to be in "top gear" all the time. Jeremy in particular knows his history. I think it will be a good thing if the name shapes the tone of the series.

They might not be young men anymore but they still are cheeky piss takers

The Grand Tour

T.G.T.

Top Gear Two :cool:

Brian Scan

Venom wrote: »

They might not be young men anymore but they still are cheeky piss takers

The Grand Tour

T.G.T.

Top Gear Two :cool:

Wow.

dublinman1990

Amazon have a competition to win one of three pairs of tickets, travel & accomodation to the new shows first screening of The Grand Tour to be filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa which is being filmed on the 17th of July.

Entrants need to show via a video or photo via Twitter the most unusual place in where they set up a tent using the hashtag #TheGrandTourJoburg.

Irish residents can enter for this competition. T&C's for this prize are available in the below link.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=10314456031&tag=bluraycom-21

Entries close @ 23:59 BST on the 8th of June 2016.

dublinman1990

New logo is out for The Grand Tour. Looks very 80's IMO.



https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/015557481

Dravokivich

Might be setting a tone of nostalgia.

ScumLord

dublinman1990 wrote: »

New logo is out for The Grand Tour. Looks very 80's IMO.



https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/015557481

Looks like something Clarkson made himself.

_Kaiser_

I'd say it's probably a GT logo from a 70s/80s classic but a quick Google isn't throwing anything specific up.

dublinman1990

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

I'd say it's probably a GT logo from a 70s/80s classic but a quick Google isn't throwing anything specific up.

I found the logo off a thread from a site named TV Forum which is from the UK if you knew where it came from.

Duggy747

dublinman1990 wrote: »

New logo is out for The Grand Tour. Looks very 80's IMO.



https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/015557481

Looks like it should be the banner for an 90's arcade racer.

ScumLord

Duggy747 wrote: »

Looks like it should be the banner for an 90's arcade racer.

It's the "grand tour" bit in the middle that just rubs me the wrong way. It's just plonked there, the font is horrible, it's like a modern font and doesn't match with the rest of the image. It really does look like something thrown together in MS paint. Which wouldn't surprise me. God knows what the production values of this new show are going to be like without the BBC.

dublinman1990

Their twitter account has been updated with the tweaked logo seen above.

https://twitter.com/thegrandtour

OldMrBrennan83

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mike2084

Wonder if we'll be able to get Amazon Prime in Ireland when this starts?

_Tombstone_

mike2084 wrote: »

Wonder if we'll be able to get Amazon Prime in Ireland when this starts?

You won't need it.

jamo2oo9

_Tombstone_ wrote: »

You won't need it.

Explain?