The Grand Tour
Love him or hate him, Clarkson will soon back on our screens - or the screens of people with Amazon Prime to be more accurate.
At £4.5 million per hour long show, Top Gear, reincarnated as The Grand Tour, will broadcast its first episode via Amazon Prime on 18 November. Its trusted trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May will of course be at the helm.
And if its official trailer on YouTube gives any indication of its popularity, it’s still got the same old magic – within three weeks of going online it had nearly 6 million views, with just 906 dislikes amongst them. Looks like it’s going to top the almost too embarrassing to mention Chris Evans iteration of Top Gear.
At the moment though, the viewing figures might not get near to matching the money spent on each episode. It costs £79 a year to access Amazon Prime so viewing figures clearly won’t immediately match the six million viewers that watched Top Gear on the BBC.
Unsurprisingly, some thought is already going into how this could change. Despite Amazon having said that the show is exclusive to them and they have no plans to sell it to another broadcaster, ITV’s Kevin Lyon has said he will be watching the popularity of the show closely with an interest to secondary rights. Maybe there could be a deal in there somewhere and the BBC is unlikely to be interested.
With each episode costing £4.5 million and the trip have signed up to a three series’ of 12 episode shows (that’s a total of £160 million!), the books will need to balance somehow.
Especially if a special trick floating on the internet is taken up. Someone has clocked onto the fact that you can sign up to get a month of Amazon Prime for free and that previous episodes of The Grand Tour will be available on catch up. So you sign up for that free month after the first eight episodes have broadcast, you’ll be able to see them all for free.
I find that a bit mean personally. Fortunately I already have Amazon Prime as I’m a movie buff so I will be watching that first episode set in California – I want to see how you spend £4.5 million in an hour! Even I’m not that impressive.
At £4.5 million per hour long show, Top Gear, reincarnated as The Grand Tour, will broadcast its first episode via Amazon Prime on 18 November. Its trusted trio of Clarkson, Hammond and May will of course be at the helm.
And if its official trailer on YouTube gives any indication of its popularity, it’s still got the same old magic – within three weeks of going online it had nearly 6 million views, with just 906 dislikes amongst them. Looks like it’s going to top the almost too embarrassing to mention Chris Evans iteration of Top Gear.
At the moment though, the viewing figures might not get near to matching the money spent on each episode. It costs £79 a year to access Amazon Prime so viewing figures clearly won’t immediately match the six million viewers that watched Top Gear on the BBC.
Unsurprisingly, some thought is already going into how this could change. Despite Amazon having said that the show is exclusive to them and they have no plans to sell it to another broadcaster, ITV’s Kevin Lyon has said he will be watching the popularity of the show closely with an interest to secondary rights. Maybe there could be a deal in there somewhere and the BBC is unlikely to be interested.
With each episode costing £4.5 million and the trip have signed up to a three series’ of 12 episode shows (that’s a total of £160 million!), the books will need to balance somehow.
Especially if a special trick floating on the internet is taken up. Someone has clocked onto the fact that you can sign up to get a month of Amazon Prime for free and that previous episodes of The Grand Tour will be available on catch up. So you sign up for that free month after the first eight episodes have broadcast, you’ll be able to see them all for free.
I find that a bit mean personally. Fortunately I already have Amazon Prime as I’m a movie buff so I will be watching that first episode set in California – I want to see how you spend £4.5 million in an hour! Even I’m not that impressive.
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