The Grand Tour

Jeremy Clarkson’s Amazon show to be called ‘The Grand Tour’

Well they’ve finally got a name! Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May’s new Amazon motoring show will be called The Grand Tour. In a statement, the trio thanked fans for taking the time to send in their suggestions for the name, which they said were much appreciated.  “Thing is,” Clarkson said, “we’ll be travelling the world hosting each episode in a different country, from a giant tent. It’s a sort of ‘grand tour’, if you like. So we’ve decided to call it The Grand Tour.”

May said he was underwhelmed by the name. “I wanted to call it ‘Nigel’, or ‘Roger’,” he joked. “We needed a name, and they’re names.”

Hammond was more positive. “I already love camping,” he said. “But this is something else. We are like our pioneering and prospecting forebears, sallying forth into a new frontier of broadcasting, and making our home where…”

Clarkson tweeted just after the announcement:

The Grand Tour’s Facebook page features a video showing some of the spoof names that were under consideration, including “Automates”, “A Small Puddle of Excellence” and “The Ace Biscuit”.

It also features the video Clarkson released of the trio brainstorming the spoof names, plus photos of filming in Portugal, Barbados, north Africa and London.

Early reports had suggested the show might be called Gear Knobs, but in April Clarkson claimed the BBC had a legal right to stop the new show using the word “gear” in the title.

The name the trio chose fits with their ambition to do something different to the BBC series, moving further away from the traditional car show format with studio segments and big set-pieces.

The Grand Tour is set to debut this autumn on Amazon’s video service. It is not yet clear whether all the episodes will be released in one go, as Amazon and rival Netflix have done with many of their drama series, or follow a more traditional scheduled pattern, though May has previously said it is likely to be the latter.

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11 comments

that guy May 15, 2016 at 1:44 pm

Would have still went for: “The Slow, The Fat, The Tiny”

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Kim Versace May 16, 2016 at 3:08 pm

I would’ve love to see a show called that! I was thinking of Trinity productions. Clarkson is the father, Hammond the Son and May the Spirit. Doesn’t hurt that Jeremy’s initials are JC, lol.

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Scooby252 May 13, 2016 at 7:36 pm

What , a different country each time in a tent ! That’s been done , it’s called a CIRCUS .

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the guy with no name May 13, 2016 at 11:40 pm

Lol, maybe they should have called it ‘3 Clowns in a tend” xD

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the guy with no name May 13, 2016 at 11:40 pm

*tent

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the guy with no name May 13, 2016 at 2:37 am

But how did they not run into problems with ‘GT’? The first thing that comes to mind is the game.

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MrM3 May 12, 2016 at 11:49 pm

Another good reason is that all car lovers knows what GT stands for so it will be easy if you use hashtags like #GT etc to promote it. I like the new name, hope the new show will be good to.

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Defiantly May 12, 2016 at 8:27 am

…or the fact that The Grand Tour (TGT) translates nicely to Top Gear Two (TGT).
😉

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Gargie May 17, 2016 at 12:00 am

Damn,I thought that was a really lame name but it makes sencs now 0.0

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the guy with no name May 12, 2016 at 6:44 am

I still think Carmite was a better GT is ,as May said, underwhelming.

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Sean McKellar May 12, 2016 at 6:48 am

The fact they’ve gone from TG to GT is kind of clever though.

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