Stupid Legal Reasons Mean That Clarkson & Co Are Banned From Saying These Things On The Grand Tour
It seems the BBC are looking for any opportunity to sue The Grand Tour if Clarkson takes the slightest morsel from his previous Top Gear adventures. Andy Wilman - the producer of the new Amazon car show - has revealed that the rules the old Top Gear trio are subjected to are unbelievably tough and fully protect the Top Gear BBC show from any form of copyright.
As if there wasn’t enough drama surrounding the break-up with the BBC, The Grand Tour cannot feature a written lap time board, a Stig or even refer to the motor news section as ‘The News’. There can be no Top Gear test track and there has even been a debate over whether James May can use his ‘cock’ catchphrase.
The legal scenario was made even more ridiculous when the trio went on a shoot to Namibia. As they had described the African scenery as ‘beautiful’ in past Top Gear episodes, Clarkson has had to resort to saying “For legal reasons, this scenery is shit”.
Despite the frankly ridiculous legal restrictions forced upon the new show, we’re all looking forward to seeing what The Grand Tour has to offer.
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“Bad news everyone, it is definitely not the new Dacia Sandero!” -James May
they aren’t allowed to have a written lap time board but what about a written lap time wheel
Oh my god i could see Jeremy Clarkson spinning a big ass wheel with a bunch of lap times while giving the camera a smug look lol
“bollocks”-James May
for legal reasons the grand tour is not allowed to have any form of transport in their show
What about the term Captain Slow?
I was planning on giving Top Gear another chance once Evans was gone, but thanks to the BBC being all salty, imma just done with the network as a whole.
Because of this i say we all boycott the bbc’s new top gear
So basically the BBC is terrified of this show coming out because it WILL draw the vast majority of thier audience away from their show.
I am surprised and thankful that power wasn’t on the list. I just want to hear Jeremy say it one more time.
This is riddiculous. I expected less stupidity from BBC.
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