The Amazon Prime Not Topgear Show That From Now On Will Be Called "The Grand Tour"TV

[Robin]

Source required, sounds like nonsense to me.

EDIT: All those stories seem to come from a Clarkson tweet.

So three presenters leave the BBC, start a new car show for another channel, but can't use "Gear" in the name for legal reasons? I still say that's bollocks, it's already been done. The precedent is for blocking "Top Gear", not "* Gear *"

It can't be due to licensing, 5th Gear started way after Top Gear and even had half the TG presenters! The BBC did not allow them to use the Top Gear name so they just used something similar and it was fine.

At this point even C4's Driven and ITV's Pulling Power are better names...

They took 9 month to reverse TG into GT.

Yup

 

[TenEightyOne]

It can't be due to licensing, 5th Gear started way after Top Gear and even had half the TG presenters!

That's exactly what I was referring to, 3 presenters left Top Gear and started the show again on a new channel

 

[LeGeNd-1]

Not the greatest name ever, it's sounds too "safe" for those trio. Also they will probably run out of interesting locations eventually (if they don't get sick of travelling and retire first). Having to move a whole tent every episode will also stretch the budget. I know they've got money but it's such a waste Their long road trips have always been the best segments though so more of that is good. I'm gonna miss the power laps but we still got the original TG for that.

Incidentally, their name can also be a pun:
The Grand Tour = TGT = Top Gear Trio

 

[daan]

Three Great Tarts.

 

[JKgo]

...So like, I stumbled on to this little story.

http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/the-grand-tour-are-clarkson-hammond-and-may-in-sa-20160513





Could they be in good 'ol sunny R of SA to pitch The Grand Tent?

Better bring some large umbrellas as well, since it's raining cats and dogs here...

 

[LeGeNd-1]

Surely ticket sales to the tent will come up before the trio actually arrives on the spot? Otherwise how can spectators get to it in the first place? Unless it's free admission and first come first serve...

 

[The Stig Farmer]

The Grand Tour's first stop is Johannesburg.

 

[Cale]

I know I'm late but I think Garage à trois would have been a good name

 

[The Stig Farmer]

Obligatory travel & tickets competition...

The pre-recorded studio section of the programme will be filmed in front of a live audience, all housed within a giant tent.

To celebrate, Amazon is giving fans the opportunity to win one of three pairs of tickets, travel and accommodation to be part of the recording in Johannesburg. To enter for a chance to win, entrants should share, via Twitter, a photo or video of the most unusual place they’ve ever put up a tent

 

[JKgo]

The Grand Tour's first stop is Johannesburg.

...

Two posts above yours. Called it. PRAISE ME.

 

[UKMikey]

I know I'm late but I think Garage à trois would have been a good name

That and Gear Knobs are better suggestions than what they actually came up with.

 

[RACECAR]

...

Two posts above yours. Called it. PRAISE ME.

You aren't the sun though

 

[Robin]

I hope the fact that the format is in the style of a roadshow doesn't result in annoying audience participation like we are seeing on the new TG. Hopefully Clarkson will keep it a dictatorship rather than a democracy like he used to!

 

[Cale]

That and Gear Knobs are better suggestions than what they actually came up with.

Legally they couldn't use anything with the word "gear" in the title

 

[MatskiMonk]

That Twitpic reminds me of one of JC's catchphrases on Old New Top Gear.. "Ambitious but Rubbish"... I wonder if that's going to apply to TGT?

 

[daan]

That Twitpic reminds me of one of JC's catchphrases on Old New Top Gear.. "Ambitious but Rubbish"... I wonder if that's going to apply to TGT?

 

[DK]

It's so appropriate that Hammond's under the "Be rubbish" logo.

 

[AudiMan2011]

 

[RACECAR]

So far, a new name and new place but same shenanigans. This is going well already

 

[Mike Rotch]

There is a 5 min mobile phone clip on YT of Ep1 from TGT in South Africa.

My god it's awful.

 

[lxmmy]

There is a 5 min mobile phone clip on YT of Ep1 from TGT in South Africa.

My god it's awful.

Link?

 

[Mike Rotch]

 

[mustafur]

Everyone has seen that.

 

[NW48]

That is quite clearly taking the piss out of New Top Gear. It was more enjoyable than New Top Gear too. I thought it was decent for what wasn't even a proper segment.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Some people has said that that is from Clarkson, Hammond and May Live Show and not from the Grand Tour.

 

[mustafur]

Some people has said that that is from Clarkson, Hammond and May Live Show and not from the Grand Tour.

It's a teaser that they released in that live show.

 

[ProjectWHaT]

Hammond spotted recording at the Lamborghini Museum.

 

[sems4arsenal]

When should this be airing?

 

[JKgo]

When should this be airing?

...September, if I'm not mistaken. Exactly when, not 100% sure.

 

[CodeRedR51]