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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…

The Grand Tour's Richard Hammond and Mythbusters star Tory Belleci have scored an adventure series with Amazon. The SVOD service has commissioned a six-part series, currently untitled, from Chimp Productions, the production company co-run by the former Top Gear presenter. In the show, Hammond and Belleci find…

The Grand Tour host and former Top Gear star Richard Hammond is to explore the world's biggest structures and machines for Discovery and the Science Channel in the U.S. Hammond will go on the global adventure, from the UK to Germany and the U.S. in Richard Hammond's Big!, a ten-part series produced by Hammond's own…

"It's so good to be back," says Jeremy Clarkson in the trailer for the second season of big-budget motoring series The Grand Tour. The show is returning for its sophomore run on December 8 via Amazon Prime. The second season comes after Richard Hammond recovered from a serious accident while filming a stunt on a…

UPDATE, with Amazon statement: The Grand Tour co-host Jeremy Clarkson has been diagnosed with pneumonia, forcing a break from work for “quite some time.” The former Top Gear star was admitted to a hospital while on a family vacation in Mallorca on Friday. On Sunday, he posted a note on his Grand Tour DriveTribe…