After months of waiting, the Amazon "Top Gear" show finally gets a name -- "The Grand Tour" or simply "GT." The title encapsulates what hosts Richard Hammond, Jeremy Clarkson and James May will be doing on the show.
"The Grand Tour" will see the original "Top Gear" hosts on a sweeping expedition that takes them to various parts of the globe. The show will feature a different location for each episode.
"Not only will the guys travel to different locations, but for the first time ever, the studio audience recordings will travel every week, all housed within a giant tent," an official description from Amazon read.
This tent will be brought to each and every place the guys go to in "The Grand Tour," and fans have started suggesting various places where they want to see this tent put up.
The sites that "The Grand Tour" will make a pit stop to will come from fan requests. However, Hammond would like for viewers to "make a case" as to why the big tent should find itself in these suggested locations.
Many, many suggestions for where we can bring The Grand Tour tent. But you do have to make a case for it. #GT
— Richard Hammond (@RichardHammond) May 11, 2016 " data-caption="null" data-credit="null">As described by Hammond, this "The Grand Tour" concept, which is definitely a departure from the old "Top Gear" format, allows them to enjoy a "different view [and] different crowd every week" on the same tent.
...Best of all, we've got a MASSIVE tent as our studio. Same tent, different view, different crowd every week on our Grand Tour.
— Richard Hammond (@RichardHammond) May 11, 2016 " data-caption="null" data-credit="null">There's no clear indication on whether all episodes of "The Grand Tour" will be streamed by Amazon in one fell swoop or will be broadcasted every week. May, however, implied back in March that it will be traditionally aired.
This means that fans won't be able to watch the whole thing in one sitting and will have to tune in every week to watch an episode. As for the number of installments of the series, it is said that each run of "The Grand Tour" will have 11 episodes or more.
So as to attract bigger viewership for "The Grand Tour," Amazon is now offering a £20 discount on one-year subscription to Amazon Prime. Instead of £79, customers will only have to pay £59. The promo runs until May 16.
