The Grand Tour - Final episode

BaronSmoggie said:
Majority of them will see him Monday to carry on with Clarksons Farm. Same crew.
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Yeah, true, probably a fair few of them. They're lucky.
If you have a regular gig in TV these days you are golden. 50% of my colleagues are unemployed.
That last day filming might be your last day's work.
 
Literally never seen a single episode but I’m guessing it involves going to far flung places in cars that cost £500 or some bizarre ask, one of them has a really stupid one, they break down, they radio each other, the use alternative travel etc …. Rinse and repeat
 
Johnnyweetabix said:
Literally never seen a single episode but I’m guessing it involves going to far flung places in cars that cost £500 or some bizarre ask, one of them has a really stupid one, they break down, they radio each other, the use alternative travel etc …. Rinse and repeat
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How do you know it so well?
 
They seemed to throw a lot of money at.. very little entertainment.

Mad how high profile the presenters they got in to try and recreated the Jeremy Clarkson show.

and on that bombshell..
 
I've never watched TGT and stopped watching TG after Clarkson, May and Hammond got binned.
It has been a mainstay on TV from right back when Quentin would be reviewing the latest model off the Leyland line all the way through to the more modern, entertainment incarnation.
TG without Clarkson was never going to work, just like the Nazis wouldn't have been the same without Hitler. Now I'm not saying they are comparable, but you can mention one without the other springing to mind. Clarkson was certainly polarising, but I often found myself able to excuse hiw more forthright views on things because he was able to entertain me.
 
dooderooni said:
I've never watched TGT and stopped watching TG after Clarkson, May and Hammond got binned.
It has been a mainstay on TV from right back when Quentin would be reviewing the latest model off the Leyland line all the way through to the more modern, entertainment incarnation.
TG without Clarkson was never going to work, just like the Nazis wouldn't have been the same without Hitler. Now I'm not saying they are comparable, but you can mention one without the other springing to mind. Clarkson was certainly polarising, but I often found myself able to excuse hiw more forthright views on things because he was able to entertain me.
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I made a film with clarkson for old Top Gear (Reanult Clio). It was the film that persuaded him to quit. He said to me "I have literally nothing interesting to say about this car. It might as well be a washing machine or some other white good". So that's what the film became, basically. He quit. And, not that many people remember this, James May took over his role for the following series. Before Jane Root (controller BBC2 at the time) decided that the BBC should stop making magazine shows. James was actually pretty good.
New Top Gear started out of BBC Britol about 3 years later. It was rubbish for a few years, pretty much until Willman got involved (he was on Top Gear with me in '98 .... was Clarkson's best mate from school). Willman actually did more on The Car's the Star back then if I remember rightly.
He didn't really fit in at Top Gear, and neither did I. The series editor (exec) was an odd fellow called John Bentley, who didn't seem to know much about telly. He's now on the Gadget Show with a fair few of those old Top Gear guys.

The old top gear team largely disliked each other. Clarkson and Quentin would gang up on Steve Berry (they were posh.... he wasn't). Tiff sort of joined in, but was at least personable. Clarkson was great to work with, as a professional .... as a human being, he was as insufferable as he is on the Grand Tour.... "then I had an amazing plan and won everything". "Anyway, that's enough of me talking about me.... someone else can talk about me now". Steve Berry was sound. Vicky was fine unless you were a passenger in her car.... drove like a lunatic.

Anyway, just some memories this dredged up...

 
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Train Man said:
As a proud Triumph Stag owner I thoroughly enjoyed our victory. The old TV8 never missed a beat
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The day after I watched the finale, I went to the Piece Hall, where there was a display of fab Stags by the owners' club. My Granddaughter wanted one (so did I.... especially the v late racing green one with spoked wheels).
 
borolad259 said:
The day after I watched the finale, I went to the Piece Hall, where there was a display of fab Stags by the owners' club. My Granddaughter wanted one (so did I.... especially the v late racing green one with spoked wheels).
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Didn’t go myself but friends in the Cleveland and Durham SOC did. Always wanted to go to The Piece Hall too. Mines a brighter Java Green 1978
 
Cant stand Clarkson but he is a gifted presenter, watched all of the previous Grand Tour and Top Gear specials - enjoyed some more than others, this one felt kinda flat - Clarkson seemed to be wheezing most of the time and for most of it it felt like they were going through the motions of the same tired jokes and pranks. It only got really interesting at the end, when they found their old cars and the actual ending with the intercut old footage was a bit of brilliance.

I will continue to follow the work of James May, the other two not.
 
Ironops said:
Cant stand Clarkson but he is a gifted presenter, watched all of the previous Grand Tour and Top Gear specials - enjoyed some more than others, this one felt kinda flat - Clarkson seemed to be wheezing most of the time and for most of it it felt like they were going through the motions of the same tired jokes and pranks. It only got really interesting at the end, when they found their old cars and the actual ending with the intercut old footage was a bit of brilliance.

I will continue to follow the work of James May, the other two not.
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I'm into Hammonds workshop show. I love classic car restoration.
 
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