I nuovi ospiti del Grand Tour sono stati annunciati dopo l’uscita di Clarkson, Hammond e May
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/the-grand-tour-jeremy-clarkson-francis-bourgeois-thomas-holland-james-engelsman-b2914392.html
di tylerthe-theatre
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For those who don’t want to click the article they’ve been replaced with Stewart Lee, Meghan Markle and Lena Headey
Francis Bourgeois being given this opportunity gives me hope that the world is healing; I think he’s fab and I hope he smashes it!
Clarkson, Hammond and May were the program. Top Gear couldn’t just replace them and nor can The Grand Tour.
Heres the salient bit of the article
>YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, best known for their motoring content, as well as social media star and train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois, will front the revamped version of the Prime Video series.
Have no clue who any of these people are
>YouTubers Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, best known for their motoring content, as well as social media star and train enthusiast Francis Bourgeois, will front the revamped version of the Prime Video series.
Can’t say I’ve heard of any of them, but that’s not really a surprise. I can’t see it lasting, though. The relaunched Top Gear and The Grand Tour became global phenomenon because of the excellent chemistry between Clarkson, Hammond and May; that’s almost impossible to replicate, particularly by studio executives actively trying to manufacture it. You could absolutely tell that the trio were actually good friends who enjoyed winding each other up, and that’s not something that you can just reproduce artificially. The BBC found this out when they had to relaunch Top Gear.
Besides, The Grand Tour was always the inferior version of their antics anyway. You could tell by the end that they were simply running out of ideas. Plus, they were always more entertaining when they had a miniscule budget rather than unlimited cash; it was always better to see what old banger they bought for £500 when they were on the BBC, than the £100k vehicles they had on Amazon.
Best of luck to them, but I won’t be watching.
CLARKSON!!!!
James
Richard
The GOATS can never be replaced. When they leave the show dies. It was fun while it lasted
They’re all relatively popular on YouTube so there’s a good chance the show will at least pick up a solid audience from the first episode.
I can imagine the Clarkson/Hammond/May fans probably won’t have ever heard of anyone except the train spotting guy, but times change and the show is probably aiming itself at a younger demographic.
Hopefully it’s decent and they don’t try to just replicate the original trio.
Better off just making a new show for the guys and a train show for Francis.
You can’t just force them to be people they aren’t.
It won’t work and people will see right through it.
I love James and Thomas’s motoring stuff, think they will do a great job with this show.
For those who don’t know these guys, I think you’re all in for a surprise. No, no one can ever truly replace the original trio. But I’d argue that James and Thomas in particular have come closer than anyone else in terms of their content to what the original top gear gave us. Specifically in terms of striking a balance between technical knowledge, production value and presenter chemistry. I’m excited.
The problem is that TG and TGT were Clarkson, Hammond, May – The titles of the programmes are essentially irrelevant.
Regardless of how well these three do, there’s going tp be backlash as they are not Clarkson, Hammond, May.
In any event I do wish them well, and hope that social media is kind to them.
Tom and James already have the top gear energy and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed their content. I honestly don’t know about Francis. I’ve only ever known him as his persona
Amazon not learning from the mistakes the BBC made, clearly.
The show was Clarkson, Hammond, and May – in both cases.
This will draw a tiny percentage of the viewers Clarkson’s Farm gets.
Know the train bloke, no clue who the other two are. Can’t see this being a success.
A trio like this are the best hope of this show continuing and succeeding. Just casting celebrities as hosts doesn’t work. Jeremy said himself if you want to continue a show like this you cast unknowns that just have a massive interest in cars. And that’s what they’ve done here.
I wonder if the duo did chemistry tests with Francis.
No hate on the throttle guys but they don’t seem like a good fit.
Trouble is with these things it reminds me of when I used to hang out with bands, they’d be great live and the “magic” was there but the moment they got in the studio and were able to put their full vision in, what would come out would always seem dramatically worse.
The best thing they could do is a ground up replacement of production, this is what happened at the bbc, top gear would have died like every other show if it wasn’t for the audience actually watching it. It was in a way luck. You can’t force that kind of engagement.
Well this is going to be a huge waste of money. When are studious going to realise we tune in for Clarkson, Hammond & May.
I reckon they should have got;
1) Matt Armstrong
2) Guy Martin
3) Mick Schumacher
Oh the throttle house guys. They aren’t bad actually.
I like these guys, they are more or less fun to watch, but replacing Clarkson little more than impossible.