The Grand Tour

[wolfracesonic]

Crossflow Kid said:

I love the way people are vigorously pointing out that three series is all they were contracted to do how it doesn't mean "the end" and the papers are just printing what everyone knew already.

What's that big river through Egypt again?

Amazon?

[mattyn1]

I think it will finish on Amazon and move somewhere else - Netflix maybe?

[Driver101]

I'll still be sad to see it go. It's been mostly poor, but It is still an hour on tv I won't have to watch.

Understandable decision.

[LuS1fer]

I think Clarkson was getting bored of TG. THAT was his saving face to show the BBC what they could do with TG. Having proved his point (or not), I suspect he is happy to let it go.

[bodhi]

Clarkson has been in Twitter for most of the day suggesting you shouldn't believe the story (or any story for that matter) in The Daily Mail.

Sounds to me there will be more after Season 3, which will keep the "I watch it but I hate it" crowd happy I guess.

[DanielSan]

hyphen said:

Yes, that is how it works at Amazon. The bloke with 17% of shareholding of a listed company is asked to open his own personal cheque each time the company wished to do anything...



Amazon knowingly overpaid for TGT but now will play hardball. TGT will no doubt get an offer, just depends on how competitive it is to other.

I would imagine Clarkson and co may miss the 'national treasue' type attention of being in terrestrial TV, and with Clarkson making his debut on ITV it may well move there.

Edited by hyphen on Sunday 11th March 17:56

ITV wouldn’t be a bad place for it to go, but it depends if they’d be willing to stump up the money.

I’d happily just have Clarkson doing things like his world war documentaries on ITV though, make a nice to change to Keith Lemon doing yet another show...

[devnull]

The star in a reasonably priced car equivalent on TGT is quite literally the reason I cannot get motivated to watch anymore of Series 2.

[suffolk009]

hyphen said:

suffolk009 said:

Will the richest man in the world (reportedly $130billion dollars) be troubled much by spending £33m pounds on another series? Probably no more than you or I deciding whether to buy another book.

Yes, that is how it works at Amazon. The bloke with 17% of shareholding of a listed company is asked to open his own personal cheque each time the company wished to do anything...



Amazon knowingly overpaid for TGT but now will play hardball. TGT will no doubt get an offer, just depends on how competitive it is to other.

I would imagine Clarkson and co may miss the 'national treasue' type attention of being in terrestrial TV, and with Clarkson making his debut on ITV it may well move there.

Edited by hyphen on Sunday 11th March 17:56

Oh, okay. Thanks. I'd assumed Jeff went to the cashpoint and took it all out in twenties like the rest of us.

[Leptons]

wolfracesonic said:

Crossflow Kid said:

I love the way people are vigorously pointing out that three series is all they were contracted to do how it doesn't mean "the end" and the papers are just printing what everyone knew already.

What's that big river through Egypt again?

Amazon?

The Nile?

[r11co]

Rich_W said:

Rico

Is this your world famous "tv insider" knowledge again

Woah, Guess you've got me there. The Mail and The Sun have it bang on, no new The Grand Tour. It has been cancelled and the third series isn't going to happen. In fact, Amazon are going to delete the whole back catalogue in capitulation.

[Rich_W]

r11co said:

Rich_W said:

Rico

Is this your world famous "tv insider" knowledge again

Woah, Guess you've got me there. The Mail and The Sun have it bang on, no new The Grand Tour. It has been cancelled and the third series isn't going to happen. In fact, Amazon are going to delete the whole back catalogue in capitulation.

That's not what they said. You're, as usual, being wilfully ignorant. And of course you don't answer the question about why you feel so personally invested in a TV series made by people who seemingly aren't you and don't even know who you are

The story implies that Amazon will not be renewing it after S03 airs. Now its quite likely that's the case. We'll never know viewing figures. But we can read online forums. And its not been a universal success. 3 series' and out would not be a surprise. And whilst I assume you sat through TG tonight and hated all 3600 seconds of it, that show has finally hit its stride in a way the TGT has yet to.

Musk (or more accurately his TV people) are hard nosed business types. The money they are paying is relatively incidental. If they think TGT is not any good, not fulfilling their requirements. Or worse, they feel like CHMW are just taking the money and going through the motions, they will dump it without blinking.

If TGT want to ever get to S04 they'll need to produce some fking gold standard TV pretty damn quickly!

[Clockwork Cupcake]

FFS, will you two give it a rest? You're ruining the thread.

(And I don't want to hear "well he started it" either)

[anonymous-user]

I wonder if Bezos has anything much to do with amazon TV or prime video selection of shows?

Presumably he’s focusing now on legacy big picture stuff like Musk is and building spaceships and taking over the world with echo devices in every house.

I know it’s off topic and outside the normal TGT bickering, but it’s pretty amazing how amazon have progressed from an e commerce website into what it is today. Looks to me like their overpaying for TGT was mainly about getting some more people of a different demographic into the amazon universe.

[NDA]

Rich_W said:

Musk (or more accurately his TV people) are hard nosed business types.

Musk?

[Durzel]

NDA said:

Rich_W said:

Musk (or more accurately his TV people) are hard nosed business types.

Musk?

Is there nothing the man won't stick his nose in?? Stick to your X-Space rockets and Virgin trains Musk!

[Pesty]

anonymous said:

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[anonymous-user]

So fans are saying amazon actually wanted some more series but it was the trio that said no?

Three blokes that have churned out the same content for decades for increasing amounts of money have finally decided to call it a day?

Seems unlikely, wouldn’t we have had tweets etc from clarkson saying this long ago and certainly before announcements that the show was cancelled/not renewed appeared in the newspapers.

I know the initial deal was just for the three seasons but normally with amazon, you get information about series being renewed early on but not often before the last season has been made. Perhaps there will be another season. Seems like amazon haven’t confirmed it either way.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 12th March 11:12

[Rawwr]

El stovey said:

Seems unlikely, wouldn’t we have had tweets etc from clarkson saying this long ago and certainly before announcements that the show was cancelled/not renewed appeared in the newspapers.

On the contrary, I think if they were going to announce they were stopping, they'd do it post season 3. I suspect what's come out in the press over the last few days was just to force their hand.

[PhantomPH]

I notice even TG last night didn't bother with the 'Star' segment. Wasn't missed in our household.

Good episode of TG I thought (if you ignore them wrecking an RX7 that looked to be in bloody good nick) - MLB is carrying that show. His chemistry with is improving all the time as well and as I like CH and consider him to be a fantastic driver, I am glad that is the case.

RR - well for me, he could go the way of the (thankfully nowhere to be seen on the main TG these days) incredibly annoying Sabine. Just something about the lad feels like he is trying a little too hard to be..I dunno...er...cool??

[p1stonhead]

No loss if it is gone.

Last nights Top Gear was 100 times better than any episode of TGT.

I havent watched any grand tour episode more than once.