Report Claims Amazon Won't Sign The Grand Tour For A Fourth Series
With the most recent episodes of Top Gear and The Grand Tour being generally very good, we’ve all been enjoying having two top-drawer car shows to enjoy. But could that be about to change?
A new report suggests that Amazon Prime won’t sign the latter show beyond series three. That report is in…Mail Online, meaning it should be taken with a pinch of salt. But it’s certainly an interesting claim, and worth keeping an eye on to see how it might develop.
“There is nothing to suggest they are going to do another one. No one has signed anything and employees are wondering where everyone will go once filming wraps,” the Mail’s insider source claimed.
If true, it wouldn’t necessarily mean the show would be over - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May reportedly had multiple suitors following their BBC departure, after all. On the other hand, Grand Tour is notoriously expensive to make - shortly after the ex-Top Gear presenters signed their three-series deal with Amazon, Netflix’s Chief Product Officer claimed that based on the firm’s data, the trio were not worth the money they were demanding.
Host Jeremy Clarkson meanwhile has a new job on a re-jigged version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, and on Twitter a few days ago, he denied that this meant TGT was over. Producer Andy Wilman told the Mail Online: “We are focusing on series three at the moment.”
A spokesperson for The Grand Tour has since told The Mirror: “The team have only just finished series two and have not begun filming series three yet - so it’s too soon for any decisions to have been made.” Responding to someone on Twitter about the original article, Clarkson replied: “Hilarious you believe Mail Online.”
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Don’t do it.
Away
Television radio industries club, has given the grand tour it second straight best UK streaming show award nomination it up against The Crown and Black Mirror.
with a British GQ award win for best tv personality in the bag, it been a fun three year for the Guys did the right thing staying together.
Well, it’s back to TOP GEAR then
This wouldn’t surprise me tbh. It didn’t quite ‘pop’ for me.
They’ll sign. Makes way to much money
Honestly wouldn’t believe it, it’s only concerned with selling pappers
Well they could be right. Not much in the way of denial apart from a very ambiguous tweet. It wouldn’t surprise me. The money is insane. Amazon will have to evaluate if it was worth it as a hook for attracting new subscribers and I doubt it was. Besides, the trio are getting old. Opinions are fairly polarised at this point. It’s not got the reach TG did back in the day and
Clarksons ill. It won’t be long before he starts having more serious smoking related problems. How long can the show really go on?
Pretty much confirms this is fake