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Jeremy Clarkson has written about his experience of battling coronavirus in typically direct prose. The Grand Tour star and presenter of the UK version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? revealed in his Sunday Times column that he contracted Covid-19 in the run-up to Christmas. “Four days before Christmas, I woke in…

EXCLUSIVE: The Grand Tour showrunner Andy Wilman has revealed how Amazon’s motoring show stayed on the road during the coronavirus pandemic — despite having to cancel a major shoot in Russia and falling ill with the disease himself. The executive producer was speaking to Deadline as Amazon Prime gears up to launch the…

Amazon has announced that the latest The Grand Tour special will premiere on December 18. Produced by Expectation, The Massive Hunt will feature Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May journeying through Madagascar in search of buried treasure. After their last watery outing, Seamen, the trio are back in cars…

The Grand Tour executive producer Andy Wilman has revealed how the coronavirus pandemic slowed the progress of their Madagascar special and completely derailed plans to film in Russia. In a live YouTube discussion with The Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson, Wilman said he contracted COVID-19, putting him out of…

EXCLUSIVE: The BBC has achieved something few could have predicted a couple of years ago: it has revved new life into the faltering global brand that was Top Gear — and in doing so, proved that there is enough room on the road for more than one big car show. The chemistry between new hosts Andrew Flintoff, Chris…

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: After Amazon launched the first in a series of special episodes from The Grand Tour team, the streamer is preparing to send out Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May on solo missions. May will be the first out the traps with his travel show, James May: Our Man In Japan, in which he spends three…

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…

Amazon has dropped the trailer for a special episode of The Grand Tour, featuring Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond in a boat-based challenge. The trio of presenters have vacated their cars for the first time and embark on a 500-mile river trip across Vietnam and Cambodia, in an episode titled The Grand To…

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…