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Old 17-05-2016, 00:57
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I certainly won't be.

If you could purchase individual episodes for a small fee, then I'd sample the show for a couple of episodes.
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Old 17-05-2016, 10:09
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Amazon UK's streaming service doesn't have that much content on it and it's highly debatable how many folk will be willing to pay £5.99 a month just for TGT.
Sure, but then Amazon will sell the show on, quite quickly after the first broadcast I imagine, just as the BBC did. Thus will many more people will see it than would be the case for Amazon streaming alone.

I also suspect that it will be heavily torrented, and leaving aside any arguments as to legalities, etc, that would give a massive assist to publicizing the show. How so? Well, Game of Thrones is the most torrented show ever, with files flying around into the millions, and yet the show is still the highest rated in the world today, merchandising is making a fortune, and the cast are all globally famous.
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Old 17-05-2016, 11:41
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I've never found LeBlanc funny. Even in his Friends heyday, he came across as the one who was closest to his character. Since then, not much.

I never watched 'Friends', but I think Matt LeBlanc was brilliant in 'Episodes'.
I know humour is a very personal thing, but I find it hard to imagine anyone not finding him very funny in that show.

(I wish he would stop f*rting around in cars with the ginger t*t and get on with making another series!)
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Old 17-05-2016, 11:44
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(I wish he would stop f*rting around in cars with the ginger t*t and get on with making another series!)
If Evans was Black would you call him the black t*T?
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Old 17-05-2016, 16:52
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Its a boring name but I have some faith in Amazon as they are having a good run at making programmes lately e.g. Man in the High Castle and Transparent.

I think it will be great, better than TG likely but will watch both anyway. In fact I feel a bit spoiled knowing there will be two crazy car antic shows to watch and the competition between them will keep quality high hopefully
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Old 17-05-2016, 17:38
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Shame they didn't take up a suggestion on Twitter:

"Wacky Racists".

Genius

Drat. I wanted it to be Gear Knobs
Me too. Double drat.
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Old 17-05-2016, 18:41
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Sure, but then Amazon will sell the show on, quite quickly after the first broadcast I imagine, just as the BBC did. Thus will many more people will see it than would be the case for Amazon streaming alone.

I also suspect that it will be heavily torrented, and leaving aside any arguments as to legalities, etc, that would give a massive assist to publicizing the show. How so? Well, Game of Thrones is the most torrented show ever, with files flying around into the millions, and yet the show is still the highest rated in the world today, merchandising is making a fortune, and the cast are all globally famous.
Game of Thrones is on Sky and other networks that people are happy to pay for because they have lots more content that people watch.


Amazon selling on the show doesn't really help the UK viewers.

Torrenting the show has different circumstances to GoT.
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Old 20-05-2016, 17:03
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Drat. I wanted it to be Gear Knobs
Me too. It worked on so many levels.
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Old 27-05-2016, 15:54
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Wasn't keen on the name at first but it has grown on me quickly, can't wait for this

And they have a fb page https://www.facebook.com/thegrandtour/?fref=ts
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Old 02-06-2016, 13:30
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The Grand Tour will begin in Johannesburg - recording on July 17th.

Amazon are running a competition offering three pairs of tickets to travel to the recording:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=10314456031
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Old 02-06-2016, 15:13
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The Grand Tour will begin in Johannesburg - recording on July 17th.

Amazon are running a competition offering three pairs of tickets to travel to the recording:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=10314456031
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Old 02-06-2016, 15:16
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I think if I wanted to win a trip to Jo'burg to see this, I'd be quite happy to sign up to Twitter with a noddy email a/c.
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Old 03-06-2016, 10:51
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I'm really looking forward to seeing the show when it launches and as much as I loved it, I actually don't think it will be like old TG at all

Because of circumstance CHM have found themselves with a blank sheet of paper and a huge budget and I think with that and Andy Wilman it will have got their creativity working again and they could be about to reinvent the car show all over again.
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Old 03-06-2016, 13:28
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Old 07-06-2016, 05:49
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I'm really looking forward to seeing the show when it launches and as much as I loved it, I actually don't think it will be like old TG at all

Because of circumstance CHM have found themselves with a blank sheet of paper and a huge budget and I think with that and Andy Wilman it will have got their creativity working again and they could be about to reinvent the car show all over again.
They still need to come up with original ideas that work. They had years and years to develop their version of Top Gear to what it became, and it was a slow burner at first.

I hadn't given this much thought until I saw how the new Chris Evans Top Gear has started, (and seeing the Top Gear thread on here) and only then realised that The Grand Tour must be starting with a blank sheet of paper. On the one hand this allows them maximum creativity. On the other hand, it requires maximum creativity. A blank sheet of paper requires a lot of filling. Good luck to them, but I doubt it is easy.

I have images of an Alan Partridge figure trying to invent brand new vehicles for himself to pitch to executives. The Grand Tour team will have to invent ideas that don't look like something they have already done before. They were finding this hard on the later Top Gears, where many of the tours went over old ground (metaphorically if not physically), with the same sort of jokes repeated.
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Old 07-06-2016, 17:17
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It may have got stale because the format was set in stone as it appears to be. A new show may see them rejuvenated.
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Old 07-06-2016, 20:48
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They still need to come up with original ideas that work. They had years and years to develop their version of Top Gear to what it became, and it was a slow burner at first.

I hadn't given this much thought until I saw how the new Chris Evans Top Gear has started, (and seeing the Top Gear thread on here) and only then realised that The Grand Tour must be starting with a blank sheet of paper. On the one hand this allows them maximum creativity. On the other hand, it requires maximum creativity. A blank sheet of paper requires a lot of filling. Good luck to them, but I doubt it is easy.

I have images of an Alan Partridge figure trying to invent brand new vehicles for himself to pitch to executives. The Grand Tour team will have to invent ideas that don't look like something they have already done before. They were finding this hard on the later Top Gears, where many of the tours went over old ground (metaphorically if not physically), with the same sort of jokes repeated.
Naturally they need to come up with new and original material. We don't know how hamstrung they were by the BBC wanting the format to remain the same or what constraints they had with budgets.None of that will apply now.

They must have made a pitch of their new show ideas to Amazon and they found it strong enough to invest a huge amount of money in so I'm optimistic it will be something new and original rather than just TG2.

Not that I would be too bothered with that as I really love watching the daftness and chemistry between CH and M

Here they are just horsing around in their office making a contest to put a box together and filmed on a phone entertaining. Yes daft but entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbkDiuz9fw
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Old 07-06-2016, 21:35
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Amazon UK's streaming service doesn't have that much content on it and it's highly debatable how many folk will be willing to pay £5.99 a month just for TGT.
Not a bloody chance. I don't have enough time for all the sky channels.
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Old 07-06-2016, 21:57
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Amazon UK's streaming service doesn't have that much content on it and it's highly debatable how many folk will be willing to pay £5.99 a month just for TGT.
If you sign up you get 1 month free, so you could just sign up for 1 month watch all the episode then cancel without paying a thing.

I recently got Amazon Video, not just for this show, but because there's a few shows I wanted to see like Mr Robot (which is brilliant btw).
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Old 28-06-2016, 17:46
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the logo is revealed and I love it, simple and awesome

https://www.facebook.com/thegrandtou...type=3&theater
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Old 29-06-2016, 03:11
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Here they are just horsing around in their office making a contest to put a box
together and filmed on a phone entertaining. Yes daft but entertaining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbbkDiuz9fw
That video might have been watchable if wasn't wobbly and vertical. I HATE vertical videos.

Especially wobbly ones!
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Old 29-06-2016, 17:05
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If they wre filming the first show on 17th July i hope that means we get to see some trailers of the new show to get an idea of what direction they have taken it in
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Old 30-06-2016, 12:24
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I’d still guess at a September launch date, and I expect Amazon will promote the hell out of it in advance. So given the studio (tent) bits start filming in mid-July I think we’ll see a lot of promos from about a month or so time from now...
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Old 30-06-2016, 13:59
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Clarkson and Hammond promotion tickets for the J'berg show.

1.6m views and 82k likes in a day


https://www.facebook.com/JeremyClark...5337008782385/
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Old 30-06-2016, 17:52
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Clarkson and Hammond promotion tickets for the J'berg show.

1.6m views and 82k likes in a day


https://www.facebook.com/JeremyClark...5337008782385/
It says it all they have a huge following
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