The Grand Tour

This article is about the British motoring programme. For other uses, see Grand Tour (disambiguation).
The Grand Tour
An image of the programme's logo, consisting of the letters GT inside of which is the text Amazon Original surmounting the words The Grand Tour. The letters GT are in the form of five horizontal red bars. Amazon Original is also red, and all uppercase letters. "The Grand Tour" is in black, title case lettering.
Genre
Created by
Written by
  • Jeremy Clarkson
  • Richard Hammond
  • James May
  • Richard Porter
Directed by
  • Phil Churchward
  • Brian Klein
  • Kit Lynch-Robinson
  • Gavin Whitehead
Presented by
  • Jeremy Clarkson
  • Richard Hammond
  • James May
Starring
ComposerPaul Leonard-Morgan
Country of originUnited Kingdom[2][3]
Original languageEnglish
No. of series5
No. of episodes43 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time44–71 minutes[4]
Original release
Network
Release18 November 2016 (2016-11-18) –
present

The Grand Tour is a British motor television series for Amazon Video. It is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It is produced by Andy Wilman. They agreed to make it after leaving the BBC. They also agreed to make 36 episodes over three years. One episode is released every week. The program can be watched in 200 countries. The first episode was the most popular first episode on Amazon ever.

Each episode has several parts made in a studio. This studio is normally a big tent that is moved around the world.[5] The show has it's own test track.[6] There is always a feature where Clarkson, Hammond and May discuss car related topics which is called "conversation street".

Season 1 started on 18 November 2016 and had 13 episodes. Season 2 was filmed a year later, but due to injuries to Richard Hammond, the release was delayed until 8 December 2017. In season 2 the tent stayed in the Cotswolds for all the episodes.

Episodes

Season 1

No. Title Tent Location Original Release Date
1 The Holy Trinity Los Angeles, California, United States 18 November 2016
2 Operation Desert Stumble Johannesburg, South Africa 25 November 2016
3 Opera, Art and Donuts Whitby, England, United Kingdom 2 December 2016
4 Enviro-Metal Whitby, England, United Kingdom 9 December 2016
5 Moroccan Roll Rotterdam, Netherlands 16 December 2016
6 Happy Finnish Christmas Saariselkä, Finland 23 December 2016
7 The Beach (Buggy) Boys – Part 1 Namibia (No Audience) 30 December 2016
8 The Beach (Buggy) Boys – Part 2 Namibia (No Audience) 31 December 2016
9 Berks to the Future Stuttgart, Germany 6 January 2017
10 Dumb Fight at the O.K. Coral Nashville, Tennessee, United States 13 January 2017
11 Italian Lessons Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom 20 January 2017
12 [censored] to [censored] Loch Ness, Scotland, United Kingdom 27 January 2017
13 Past v Future Dubai, United Arab Emirates 3 February 2017

Season 2

No. Title Original Release Date
1 Past, Present, or Future 8 December 2017
2 The Falls Guys 15 December 2017
3 Bah Humbug-atti 22 December 2017
4 Unscripted 29 December 2017
5 Up, Down and Round the Farm 5 January 2018
6 Jaaaaaaaags 12 January 2018
7 It's a Gas, Gas, Gas 19 January 2018
8 Blasts from the Past 26 January 2018
9 Breaking, Badly 2 February 2018
10 Oh, Canada 9 February 2018
11 Feed the World 16 February 2018

References

  1. ↑ From episode 15[broken anchor] credits
  2. ↑ Barraclough, Leo (31 July 2015). "Why Jeremy Clarkson's 'Top Gear' Team Went to Amazon". Variety. Retrieved 31 May 2016. The program will be U.K. based
  3. ↑ @@thegrandtour (16 November 2016). "GMT, it's a British show" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ↑ Wilman, Andy (25 August 2016). "The Grand Tour Masterclass" (Interview). Interviewed by Elaine Bedell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh International Television Festival. Retrieved 7 November 2016 – via YouTube. (2:01) ...they want everything in 4k, they want a specific framerate, they want it in HDR ... (17:35) ...built a new server to deal with the 4k framerate, the 23.98... (22:18) first show ...comes out at 70-odd minutes. ... we're trying to discipline ourselves to 60 minutes
  5. ↑ "Mirror - Grand Tour".
  6. ↑ "Radio Times - Grand Tour Test Track".

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