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EXCLUSIVE: Top Gear and The Grand Tour star Richard Hammond has landed his first ever show on Channel 4, Deadline can reveal. Hammond is helming Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions from All3Media-backed UK indie Optomen, in which engineering enthusiasts from around the UK must battle to create the most ingenious…

Amazon has dropped the first full trailer for the latest The Grand Tour special, which features Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May adventuring around Scotland at the height of the coronavirus lockdown. During The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown the presenters will celebrate the great 70s American cars they…

Discovery+ has greenlit its first series with Richard Hammond, in which The Grand Tour star will set up a classic car restoration workshop near his home in Herefordshire, UK. Producer by Hammond’s Chimp Television and financier Krempelwood, Richard Hammond's Workshop (working title) will follow the motoring enthusiast…

Amazon has dropped the first look trailer for the new Richard Hammond and Tory Belleci adventure series The Great Escapists. The show will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on January 29. The Great Escapists follows the respective The Grand Tour and Mythbusters stars as they are shipwrecked together on a desert island…

Claire Hungate, the former CEO of Warner Bros Television Production UK, is going to help The Grand Tour star Richard Hammond get his production company motoring. Hungate has joined Chimp Productions as a part-time advisor, helping assist directors Hammond, and his wife Amanda, in growing the business. Chimp…

EXCLUSIVE: Science Channel has set the premiere date for Richard Hammond's Big and the Discovery-owned cable network revealed details of The Grand Tour host's global adventure. The network will premiere the nine-part series on February 12 at 10pm. This comes after the show's launch in the UK, where it will premiere on…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grand Tour presenter James May is plotting his next show for Amazon — and it could involve pitching a version of his BBC Two series James May’s Man Lab. May has filmed a three-month tour of Japan for his first solo Amazon project, James May: Our Man In Japan, and has been encouraged to think up new…

EXCLUSIVE: Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond’s motoring show The Grand Tour returns to Amazon on December 13, but it’s not exactly more of the same from the British trio. The presenters have ripped up the format that made the show one of Amazon’s biggest attractions. They have ditched the studio tent…

EXCLUSIVE: Andy Wilman, the showrunner on Amazon’s The Grand Tour, is planning to park his motoring show at some point next decade and move into scripted for the first time. Wilman is the unseen engine of The Grand Tour machine, making international stars out of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, and…

EXCLUSIVE: DriveTribe, the motoring social network founded by The Grand Tour team, is planning to turn its first profit in 2020 after growing the business and taking £2.5M ($3M) of investment from Elisabeth Murdoch. DriveTribe was launched by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and Andy Wilman in November 2016…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grand Tour showrunner Andy Wilman has revealed new details about the solo projects and specials he is working on with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May for Amazon, as well as the structure of their deal with the streamer. Wilman spoke to Deadline after we reported that he is shutting down W…

EXCLUSIVE: The team behind Amazon’s The Grand Tour is on the brink of striking a production deal that will see them tying up with Expectation, the BBC Studios-backed production company founded by former Endemol President Tim Hincks and ex-ITV content chief Peter Fincham. The deal is still being finalized, but Deadline…