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Jeremy Clarkson's Amazon Show To Be Called The Grand Tour (theguardian.com)
Jasper Jackson and Dugald Baird, writing for The Guardian: Amazon's new motoring show starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May will be called The Grand Tour. In a statement, the former Top Gear trio thanked fans for taking the time to send in their suggestions for the name, which they said were "much appreciated". "Thing is," said Clarkson, "we'll be travelling the world hosting each episode in a different country, from a giant tent. It's a sort of 'grand tour', if you like. So we've decided to call it The Grand Tour." May said he was underwhelmed by the name. "I wanted to call it 'Nigel', or 'Roger'," he said. "We needed a name, and they're names." Hammond was more positive. "I already love camping," he said. "But this is something else. We are like our pioneering and prospecting forebears, sallying forth into a new frontier of broadcasting, and making our home where."
Wait, the BBC decided to continue Top Gear with new hosts? Why?!
Because Top Gear was their most successful program by a wide margin, even given the success of Downton Abbey. If they can recapture even a quarter of their original viewership, it will still be one of their most successful programs.
I think they completely failed at choosing their hosts, though. Like, across the board failed. They made zero good decisions.
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Not to get in the way of your anti-US rant, but ... as *if* Top Gear was ever about the cars ... *that's funny*
Bashing the yanks like this just isn't on, old boy. There's so many other things you can legitimately bash them for because, well, they're human (like everyone else). The thing is, they really do know their shit about cars, they just have a different style over here - witness the Top Gear episode where all three of "the boys" enjoyed the road trip across the US in their muscle cars.
Source: Am Brit.
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Downton Abbey was ITV.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
The best suggestion for a name that I saw was "The Whacky Racists". Top marks to the person that came up with that.
Nah, he's just a troll, always looking to push the limits. Either that or he's a complete idiot or he knew that using racist slurs on TV would land him in hot water and intended to do it. It's in the Ofcom guidelines, and I would assume the BBC contract and manuals. It's his job to know that stuff.
Are streaming services covered by Ofcom? Maybe he figures that he can get away with it now, which is a shame because it kinda screws things up for other British people going abroad.
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