Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, the co-hosts of Amazon Prime’s “The Grand Tour,” are calling it quits. At least that’s the rumor, as reported by the BBC. If the BBC’s sources are correct, although, that doesn’t essentially imply that “The Grand Tour” is useless. Instead, “options are being explored for a new incarnation of the show.”
At the very least, followers of “The Grand Tour” will get yet another particular out of Clarkson, Hammond and May. They not too long ago completed filming a brand new particular in Zimbabwe that can air someday subsequent 12 months.
This information comes on the heels of the BBC’s latest announcement that the filming of “Top Gear,” the present that was beforehand hosted by the trio, had been placed on an indefinite pause. One of the present hosts, Freddie Flintoff, was critically injured in a crash on the “Top Gear” take a look at monitor. That incident was removed from the primary time a “Top Gear” host was injured throughout filming. Perhaps most notably, Hammond was left in a coma and almost died following a 2006 crash.
While Clarkson, Hammond and May hosted “Top Gear” collectively for 12 years beginning in 2003, all of it got here to an finish in 2015 when Clarkson turned upset that sizzling meals wasn’t out there on the finish of a shoot and started verbally abusing a producer, finally punching him.
Clarkson’s choice to punch his coworker bought him fired as a result of, effectively, anybody who punches a coworker, particularly over one thing as trivial as meals, deserves to lose their job. Both Hammond and May determined to depart the present following Clarkson’s departure, and the trio have been rapidly picked up by Amazon Prime for “The Grand Tour.”
Clarkson, after all, couldn’t keep away from controversy going ahead. Most notably, a couple of 12 months in the past, he wrote a completely vile column about Meghan Markle within the British tabloid The Sun.
In the meantime, Amazon has renewed Clarkson’s present about his farm, named “Clarkson’s Farm,” for a fourth season, in accordance with Deadline. Fozia Khan, Amazon Studios’ head of unscripted within the UK, advised the leisure information publication that “The Grand Tour” would possibly make a come again, simply with out its present well-known leads:
The Clarkson’s Farm renewal got here as Khan confirmed that Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May have filmed their ultimate installments of The Grand Tour.
“It’s come to its natural end,” she stated, however admitted that the format might proceed with new presenters. Khan stated her group was “thinking about” how the present can dwell on.
Source: jalopnik.com