Truly end of an era, the three knuckleheads provided tons of laughs in the lives of my wife and I. Hope they enjoy retirement or whatever they do next.
Worth mentioning that both Clarkskon’s Farm and My man in Japan/Italy are hilarious.
‘The Grand Tour’ Not Moving Forward at Amazon Prime Video With Hosts Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond
Submitted 11 months ago by neme@lemm.ee to moviesandtv@lemm.ee
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JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
True, but I can’t say I’m sad to see them go. With all respect to the Trio, it was clear that their passion for the program ended after the tent went away. IIRC, in a recent video on DriveTribe James May said he didn’t even own a car anymore. Wishing them all the best for their future endeavors!
Bears_Koolaid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love the grand tour, but especially in the last few specials you can tell they’re getting pretty old to be doing the kind of the traveling and shenanigans that is expected of them. With clarksons farm, our man in x and the few youtube channels they have I’m ready for them to move on and embrace new avenues of creativity.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As fun as they are to watch, I would fully support them retiring if they wanted. I imagine retirement for them just means doing whatever little side projects they think will be fun.
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oddly I liked their normal track and news segments talking about all different types of cars and then handing them over to Abby/Stig to test. It seemed everyone else wanted them in an exotic locale doing stupid things.
Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Jeremy Clarkson is a racist, abusive piece of shit. It infuriates me how much Reddit and Lemmy circle jerk about that vile old bastard. Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s another Savile. He’s a disgusting human and I refuse to watch anything with him in it
kattenluik@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It doesn’t help that you’re just saying this here without any proof or reason in most people’s views, making me want to just ignore this comment because I’ve enjoyed things he’s involved in and it doesn’t seem true at face value. You need to provide proof because that is what actually helps.
Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Oh no! Anyway…
lobut@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Reminds me of this Stewart Lee bit about Top Gear: youtu.be/xgABbHPdwH4?si=9tJm_MBRe-rM7dN5
cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I got a lot enjoyment watching those knuckleheads have a swan song after Top Gear, the Mongolian Special in particular was a high watermark. Still sad to see the era finally end
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
I remember crying along with Clarkson when they said they weren’t doing the tent anymore.
RonnieB@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Did Clarkson assault another person for not getting him food fast enough?
Endorkend@kbin.social 11 months ago
Nah, Jeremy and James have both expressed they are feeling a to old for the shenanigans.
muse@kbin.social 11 months ago
Shame, was hoping to witness Clarkson pancake himself against a wall in my lifetime
twinnie@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I still don’t understand why they spent so much time scripting everything when the improvised stuff was so much better. I’d love it if they just came back with some low budget special where they try to drive some £50 car from Glasgow to Basingstoke.
netburnr@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hate to break it to you, all those Top Gear episodes were scripted.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
“In the next scene, the rocket car explodes and drags Hammond on his head for hundreds of yards.”
“Hang on a minute!”
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Well it speaks to the flaws in TGT that it “feels” more scripted.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 11 months ago
Thwy made a episode about it. Because they have no idea where to go, and it would be boring as hell.
Dkarma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Maybe they can find non shitheads to host the next one.
dmtalon@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Wonder how many hours I have spent watching these three and their antics :)
Flyberius@hexbear.net 11 months ago
It was a shit show anyway
Skuldug@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As another fan of top gear and the grand tour I’m sad to see them go. In any show where we grow to love the hosts as much as the material/subjects it’s hard to replace them, and it will just never be quite the same. I do however believe there is a great solution to ease the pain.
Fasten your seatbelts folks and get ready to help the trio select the new hosts. A competition type show where the potential new grand tour hosts have to complete challenges . Things like driving miss daisy, contestants are given a buy and build budget for a 4 door vehicle that must make it through an off-road course. Here’s the kicker, “miss daisy” will be one of the trio in the back seat with a tray of tea and cookies. The object is to reach the end of the course while spilling the least of the tea on our backseat host. Easy shenanigans setup, good fun, just one example.
Now let’s make this even better, viewers get to vote on the contestants they would like to see on the next hosts. These aren’t pass/ fail elimination challenges, they all stay beginning to end. We get to have a chance to see who these people are and in the end decide in a top 3 vote who will be the next top gear hosts.
Ideally in this new version of grand tour the original trio becomes the dictators of subjects and missions for the new. It gets them out of the action while still keeping them in play. A passing of the baton.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The end of an era. The Grand Tour never quite captured the magic of the old Top Gear series when it was hosted by these three. That was some of the best television of all time.
e_mc2@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Even the best jokes run old over time. In their haydays these guys were absolutely hilarious and indeed some of the best television. But the last couple years they started more and more to became caricatures of themselves. Oh well, it was great fun while it lasted. Thanks for further fuelling my petrolheadness guys.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
I feel like cars aren’t nearly as cool as they were when they started doing car journalism.