this forum is kinda showing its slightly out of touch if it thinks a£160million 3 year deal is for glorified home video.
Brekkie does NOT speak for the forum.
Brekkie certainly does not.
Seriously guys when did this place lose it's sense of humour. Many posters seem to take things far too seriously nowadays.
You've managed to annoy a certain former member so I'd say job well done
Of course we won't ever actually know how popular it is, on its own or in comparison to Top Gear, because of the lack of proper BARB ratings. Instead we'll just get whatever number looks nicest at Amazon.
The 2nd episode of "The Grand Tour" is now available on Amazon (and various certain less reputable sources) since last Friday and I am a bit surprised no-one has added to the existing thread since the series officially launched on Amazon Prime over a week ago!
The opening titles debuted on episode 2, and it looks they change every week based on the location the show is in, and Clarkson still does the deliberately inane (if that's the right word) intros like he used to do on Top Gear, but after the opening title sequence.
"And in this week programme ... I drive a saloon car - James drives a catering lorry - and Richard has a knife fight!"
Since the show is apparently not legally allowed to do celeb interviews, there's a running joke where a big-name celeb is introduced, and celeb suffers a comedy death instead of being interviewed ... a running joke that might quickly become predictable!
First episode was very exciting and hyped up but second episode was incredibly dull. Felt like a chore trying to get through it to be honest. Reminded me why I stopped watching Top Gear in the first place, it really is the same old each week. Thought at the very least that the dead celebrity joke would be dropped after the first week.
The less said about the SAS challenge the better… are they just trying to do straight up slapstick now? No notion of pretending that this stuff wasn't scripted?
I think the lack of chatter around episode 2 says everything you need to know about the on-demand model. Amazon really would have been better off releasing them all in one go, or at least a block before Christmas and one soon after.
First episode was very exciting and hyped up but second episode was incredibly dull. Felt like a chore trying to get through it to be honest. Reminded me why I stopped watching Top Gear in the first place, it really is the same old each week. Thought at the very least that the dead celebrity joke would be dropped after the first week.
The less said about the SAS challenge the better… are they just trying to do straight up slapstick now? No notion of pretending that this stuff wasn't scripted?
You mirror my thoughts about the first two shows 100%.
Still, it's now the third TV show to employ a tent as a studio !!!