The Grand Tour star James May is heading to Japan for a travelogue for Amazon. The British TV star is fronting Our Man In… Japan with James May for the SVOD service. Amazon Studios has ordered the six-part unscripted series from Plum Pictures, which has produced a slew of May-fronted series including James May's Toy St…

"What was the budget for our show?" asks Jeremy Clarkson. "Smaller than it was," replies James May with Richard Hammond adding "not big enough" as the trio stand in front of a burnt out helicopter. This is the first trailer for season three of The Grand Tour, which launches on Amazon Prime Video on January 18. The…

"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…

Update, With Hammond Message Richard Hammond posted a brief video message today on his Drivetribe channel from his hospital bed in Switzerland, cheerfully thanking the emergency workers who rescued him and apologizing to his wife and daughters for being a “colossal” idiot. He says he’ll need surgery to get a “Swiss…

It's been a good year for Amazon Studios. The company has proved its worth as a major player in the independent film market thanks to the critical and box office success of Manchester by the Sea, which it picked up in Sundance last year for $10 million before steering it to Oscar success in the Best Actor and…

Amazon Studios' Roy Price sat down for a keynote discussion at MIPTV in Cannes this evening and provided insight into how the streaming service bridges the divide between TV and cinema. "A new day has dawned," said Price, "where when you’re in this hyper-competitive world of hundreds of thousands of shows and you…

The Grand Tour host Richard Hammond has been criticized for making a joke on the Amazon Prime flagship motoring show that suggested eating ice cream is gay. Hammond, who made the comment on the sixth episode of the new show in front of a live audience, was responding to a comment made by co-host Jeremy Clarkson who…

As Deadline reported last month, Amazon Prime Video has gone global. The company confirmed the news on Wednesday, saying that the service is now available in more than 200 countries and territories. The expansion will enable Amazon Prime members in Canada, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain and India to tap into its…

Offering a post-Thanksgiving feast of its own, the November 25-launching Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is all about giving the people what they want. With each of the four 90-minute episodes covering a season, the Netflix revival of the WB/CW series starring Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel is, as I say in my video…

The Grand Tour has overtaken The Man In The High Castle as Amazon’s most-streamed original show ever. As per usual, Amazon would not release specific audience numbers, but notes that viewership was in the millions in the U.S., UK, Germany, Austria and Japan over the opening weekend, which began at 00.01 GMT on Friday…

It's been suspected for months, but now it's official: Amazon Prime is going global. The service will begin rolling out its new motoring show, The Grand Tour, internationally in December following its initial launch to current subscribers this week. That means viewers in more than 200 countries will be able to access…