The streaming service has confirmed that the next special in the Amazon Prime motoring series – filmed in Scotland in late 2020 – will release later in 2021. The Grand Tour Presents’ next episode has had an update. The Grand Tour’s next episode is coming in 2021 – but you might have to wait. Third place: Literally anything worn by anyone onscreen, even momentarily, throughout the entire series.You might be interested: Quick Answer: When is the powerball drawing on tv? When’s the next Grand Tour special? Runner-up: Jeremy Clarkson’s gap year bangles. There is a vague possibility that the blazer would have looked good on someone else, but May’s decision to pair it with some similarly coloured stonewash jeans ended up making him look like a version of Justin Timberlake from an alternate universe where, on the way back from the 2001 American Music awards, he was mugged, force-fed cakes, thrown in a river and discovered three months later by a petrified child. This is perhaps the toughest category of all, but it’s just snatched by James May’s sky blue patchwork linen blazer from last week’s episode. Most spectacularly harrowing sartorial misstep Either find a new and interesting way of doing them, or bin them completely. In every possible way – content, photography, execution – The Grand Tour’s car reviews are stuck in a creative rut, and it seems terminal. Then they’ll take off traction control, look into the camera, growl “but take a look at this”, and then we all have to sit through five minutes of them skidding around a track while making low-frequency noises of self-gratification. With the exception of the travelogues and today’s final episode, there’s a bit at the start of every show where one of the hosts will review a car that nobody can afford. It’s telling that the worst aspect of The Grand Tour is the most Top Gearish one. Photograph: Roderick Fountain/Amazon/PA Most wrongly retained Top Gear segment Stonewash denim required … the trio at the racetrack with more alienatingly expensive cars. If there’s a way for this programme to incorporate the occasional guest next time around, it absolutely should. Not because I enjoy watching famous people drive around a racetrack – because that will forever be about as entertaining as slow-motion grout inspection – but because it was a moment in the show where we got to hear a different voice. And yet, after 13 episodes of The Grand Tour, I find myself missing it ever so slightly. I’ve probably written more words than anyone else alive about the show-killing tedium of Top Gear’s Star in a Reasonably Priced Car. He’s a one-joke character without a joke, and I’ll be amazed if he’s back next series.
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That replacement was The American an American racing driver who does lap times in high-performance cars while burping out faux-Clarkson anti-witticisms about how bad non-American cars are. With the Stig now shackled to the sinking sailboat that is the BBC’s half-dead Top Gear, The Grand Tour needed a replacement driver. Also, he presents The Reassembler, which is a trillion times better than The Grand Tour, so that helps. When he does pipe up – to mock Brexit, to admit that he doesn’t eat red meat, to call cars stupid – it’s usually pin-sharp and contrary. It feels like he’s reached the point in his life where, instead of trying to keep up with the try-hard death-by-banter opinion-spew of Clarkson and Hammond, he’s happy to stay back and bide his time until he’s worked out the perfect interjection. James May seems to have a slightly reduced role on The Grand Tour. Photograph: Ellis O'Brien/Publicity image Most valuable player Richard Hammond with something probably about to go wrong. The low point of the series was probably episode 10, which contained another hammily overworked film where Nothing Went Right Again, another road test of an alienatingly expensive car, and another sludgy morass of sub-pub blokey banter.
Worst episodeĪgain, as with Top Gear, The Grand Tour has shown a disappointing willingness to fall back on formula and churn out less-than-great copies of itself again and again. This is exactly what every episode of The Grand Tour should be. Racing across Africa in beach buggies gave Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May space to breathe and allowed some of their most naturalistic interplay for years. As a result, the high point of the series was undoubtedly the two-part Namibian travelogue. Best episodeĪs with Top Gear, the best Grand Tour episodes have been the ones where the hosts stop clinging to the magazine format for dear life and cut loose a little. And while it might seem needless to hold an awards ceremony for a little show that struggles to be part of any meaningful conversation any more, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. S eries one of The Grand Tour has now come to an end.