The Grand Tour

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I think one of the reasons for the original TG success, what the fact that it was available free via the beeb pretty much world wide. If the standards drop as they had done towards the last few series of the old show, then fewer people will pay for the new show via amazon. The only way the show will spread to far flung parts of the world, will be via illegal methods.

The annoying thing now with the streaming services is that you need to sign up to both Netflix and Amazon, where as before it was just one sub to sky and jobs a good un. I still think the license is good value for money, its £100 or so a year, the radio is excellent (R4&5) and theres some cracking stuff on Iplayer, HIGNFY is worth the license fee alone, but as most on this forum (ocuk in general) are rabid DM readers, i'd expect them to be anti beeb in any case.
 
izzop said:
Agree with this, especially when you consider the budgets that these programs now get.

A rumored budget of £160 million for the 36 episodes, then there's others such as The Crown with its £100 million.

Really not sure what the Beeb can possibly do to compete with netcasters :confused: There must be some rather puzzled and worried management at Broadcasting House.
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The beeb ARE netcasters. They compete by making good programming. I watch prime and Netflix but still continue to hold the BBC in high esteem. I for one will continue paying the licence fee while cbeebies keeps my kids from jumping on my balls at 6am every morning anyway,
 
As others have said, it's effectively TG with a bigger budget and 4K. I thought it was excellent. Very funny in places and extremely well filmed.

My only complaint was all of the sound effects and ridiculous post-processing during the Portimao segment, making it sound like NFS: Underground. Unless that was the intention :confused:
 
Rainagul said:
When they reached the stage in the opening intro with the crowd like they were rockstars, and the "bants" with the american crowd. American talking stig?

Made me cringe a little. But minor in the grand scheme of things
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"Made me cringe a little. But minor in the grand scheme of things."

Agreed there.
Andi.
 
Enjoyable, but cringe worthy at times.

Shame that the format of the show has not really changed, nor the idea's, given that the show has a far better budget and (I imagine) creative freedom.

Same, juvenile sense of humour from grown up men, though I did enjoy the segment about the three eco-super cars, felt like watching a good episode of Top Gear.
 
Tinders said:
I think one of the reasons for the original TG success, what the fact that it was available free via the beeb pretty much world wide. If the standards drop as they had done towards the last few series of the old show, then fewer people will pay for the new show via amazon. The only way the show will spread to far flung parts of the world, will be via illegal methods.

The annoying thing now with the streaming services is that you need to sign up to both Netflix and Amazon, where as before it was just one sub to sky and jobs a good un. I still think the license is good value for money, its £100 or so a year, the radio is excellent (R4&5) and theres some cracking stuff on Iplayer, HIGNFY is worth the license fee alone, but as most on this forum (ocuk in general) are rabid DM readers, i'd expect them to be anti beeb in any case.
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I largely agree with this; and echo the sentiment in regards to the BBC. I think the BBC is absolutely excellent value, (my Sky bill in two months is more or less the license fee for the year), the radio coverage is excellent (and huge when you consider this), and the television and iPlayer service is excellent. I do feel the 'news' and website have absolutely fallen of a cliff in terms of quality, however, the other aspects are still good (again, despite some questionable radio presenters who fail to ask basic questions).

I have no idea why this forum is so consistently anti BBC and license fee; especially when I imagine huge swathes of the forum use the services.

The Grand Tour is not doing anything remarkable, it is just the same 'stuff' with a better budget. Though, I imagine from Amazon's point of view; if it is not broken do not fix it.
 
I loved it overall, but I found the gentle sidestepping around certain words or ways of speaking a bit annoying, especially when they did the news section. I'm hoping the celebrity guest game was either a joke or is something which won't stay because it sounds crap, and that American driver who took the BMW around the track needs to either get lost or shut up, his inane rambling was insanely annoying!

I couldn't stop grinning in places though, it was so good. Even though I couldn't get it to play in 4K... (any ideas?)
 
Acme said:
I loved it overall, but I found the gentle sidestepping around certain words or ways of speaking a bit annoying, especially when they did the news section. I'm hoping the celebrity guest game was either a joke or is something which won't stay because it sounds crap, and that American driver who took the BMW around the track needs to either get lost or shut up, his inane rambling was insanely annoying!

I couldn't stop grinning in places though, it was so good. Even though I couldn't get it to play in 4K... (any ideas?)
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I thought "The American" was headed straight for the electrical sub station but sadly he made it around safely :o

Very enjoyable episode and I'm sure as things move forward they will tweak bits that don't quite work. Expected it to be the same as old Top Gear and tbh it is but with a bit more polish (Hammond seemed to have his own wind swept look machine in the tent :D )

Watched an interesting interview with Andy Wilman on YouTube and he explains the multiple conversations withe Amazon lawyers and "terms" best avoided, "The News" being a key one.
 
I watched that same interview, it was very interesting, and actually quite entertaining. I'd never seen Andy speak before. Didn't realise how much of a down to earth guy he is.
 
Some of the humour was aimed at families / children (notably the overly obviously scripted parts) but generally I thought it was excellent. I was a bit frustrated they didn't give us the actual subtitled opinion - would have been really interesting.

Deffo watching the next one :)
 
Got round to watching it. Better than the old Top Gear was at the end of its run but not as good as it was at its best. Generally the track/feature stuff was better then the tent stuff. In the tent, I don't mind that it's heavily scripted, but if you're going to script it you need to make it funny (it was mostly pretty cringe worthy). The trinity feature was good and I really enjoyed it (I wouldn't compare it to the Chris Harris video as it just isn't the same thing). The M2 on track would have been fine if they had gagged The American.

Watchable, enjoyable but so far nothing special. Something I'll watch when I've run out of other stuff to watch and want something lighthearted and fun.
 
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