Stupid Legal Reasons Mean That Clarkson & Co Are Banned From Saying These Things On The Grand Tour
It seems the BBC are looking for any opportunity to sue The Grand Tour if Clarkson takes the slightest morsel from his previous Top Gear adventures. Andy Wilman - the producer of the new Amazon car show - has revealed that the rules the old Top Gear trio are subjected to are unbelievably tough and fully protect the Top Gear BBC show from any form of copyright.
As if there wasn’t enough drama surrounding the break-up with the BBC, The Grand Tour cannot feature a written lap time board, a Stig or even refer to the motor news section as ‘The News’. There can be no Top Gear test track and there has even been a debate over whether James May can use his ‘cock’ catchphrase.
The legal scenario was made even more ridiculous when the trio went on a shoot to Namibia. As they had described the African scenery as ‘beautiful’ in past Top Gear episodes, Clarkson has had to resort to saying “For legal reasons, this scenery is shit”.
Despite the frankly ridiculous legal restrictions forced upon the new show, we’re all looking forward to seeing what The Grand Tour has to offer.
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“A written lap time board” - have a digital one that can be edited via a tablet.
“A Stig” - They can call it whatever they want. “A professional racing driver in a neutral racing suit”
“the news” - Current events, upcoming automotive news, etc.
“No TG test track” - well it’s not on TG so it can’t be a TG test track, it’ll be a Grand Tour test track.
I haven’t seen either Top Gear much anymore on BBC(A) either, not even their new one.
so how many episodes before the BBC buy them out and put top gear back to normal ?! =P
If James can’t say “ Oh,cock “ I will set fire to the BBC’s HQ.
I think the grand tour will be the Victor out the two as it has the Topgear presenters on it the bbc just has copycats reading scripted lines trying to be the old presenters. And it’s doesn’t work very well
“Oh Rooster!”
Am i The only one, who reads every article with Alex’s voice in my head? Same accent, and The same speed as he talks?
“For legal reasons, this scenery is sh!t” LOL made my day
IMO, this is just going to make the show better because of their personalities and how they use humour in that situation, sure, if the scenery is beatiful, that’s what it is, but now we got an internal joke from this mess, haha damn i love those guys
Can’t even say African scenery is beautiful? That’s like not allowing to people to say “A Ford Focus has 4 wheels”
You know you’re not in the free world when it’s illegal to say “the news”. This is stupid.