It’s Official: Clarkson, Hammond And May’s New Show Will Be Called 'The Grand Tour'
Cue the drumroll, the much-anticipated new Amazon Prime show from Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May at last has a name: The Grand Tour. The trio each commented about the new name on Twitter, with Hammond and May linking to the show’s new Facebook page.
The news comes just over two weeks after Clarkson claimed thousands had been spent on lawyer fees trying to find a name for the show, and while Gear Knobs was a very real possibility at one point, it was thrown out due to potential issues caused by having a name even remotely similar to Top Gear; the BBC still holds the rights to that name, of course.
The BBC also holds the rights to The Stig, the Cool Wall and the term ‘Star in the Reasonably Priced Car’, which is perhaps why the old studio format has been ditched. Instead, the show will broadcast from a tent which will be set up in a different location every week - hence the ‘Tour’ bit of the name.
So, what do you think of the name, and the new travelling setup of the show?
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To BBC
this is “10 best comments of the week” material right here
I liked the part where it spun
Yup gg Quack
R8/8 m8, love not H8 ;)
I guess the BBC thinks they’re the devil… (Look at the number of up votes)
Grand Tour, Top Gear. Top Gear = TG, Grand Tour = GT. Think about it.
My thoughts exactly
O.o
Lol this was my first thought 😂
How about TG vs TGT?
The first few episode are going to be a p*ss take of the BBC and Top Gear.
Sounds great, although I’m confused as to why they couldn’t have gear knows because of the word gear, but they can shorten this to GT when top gear was shortened to TG.
Sounds promising! I am really looking forward to watching it! Besides the fact everyone will refer to GT instead of TG as their favourite car show 😂
I would have suggested Sixth Gear.
What about high gear?
They couldn’t have anything with ‘top’ or ‘gear’ in it
“Oh c*ck” is also a nice name if you ask me…
6th change 😂
I just can’t wait to see this. Its going to be spectacular.
And TG vs GT is going to be the most epic TV show competition ever
Competition? More like decimation
Everyone is gonna watch both i think
Brilliant! Can’t wait :D I hope they Will set up the tent in locations outside the UK in countries they haven’t visited before.
Why was this downvoted? XD
Drop the “the”. It´s cleaner.
OK there Justin timberlake
I bet tenting was hammond’s idea
Haha, this deserves to be comment of the week 😂
Probably was xD
Hehe good old Hammond!😂
Haha best comment I’ve seen in a while
Was still holding out for my suggestion of torque show
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