Could Amazon’s blockbuster car programme The Grand Tour be coming to an end?
Fans have been waiting more than a year for today’s The Grand Tour: Eurocrash, which recounts a usually exciting 1,400-mile adventure through Eastern Europe including a kidnapped mannequin and arrow-wielding horse riders.
The show premiered in 2016 after the BBC refused to extend Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear contract in 2015 due to his attack on producer Oisin Tymon. His Top Gear co-hosts, James May and Richard Hammond, jumped ship and joined The Grand Tour.
However, following Clarkson’s disgusting comments about Meghan Markle in a newspaper column in January, in which the broadcaster stated he fantasised about the Duchess being paraded through the streets and publicly embarrassed, Amazon apparently ‘part ways’ with him.
So, what do we know about The Grand Tour’s future?
Has The Grand Tour been cancelled?
The good news for fans is that Clarkson has confirmed two more specials, according to The Sun, following the Eurocrash one-off.
Clarkson said: ‘For the next one – in fact, the next two – we’re back on slightly scary ground, doing things that we used to do when we were in our thirties and forties.
‘But now we’re in our fifties and sixties, so I’m slightly nervous about the next two.
‘Let’s just say we’re going back to Africa, and this one’s a hard one. It’s hard if you’re young and fit, but I’m really not fit. And I’m very fat. And I’m 63 now.’
According to Variety, Amazon will not collaborate with the TV personality beyond the season of The Grand Tour (and Clarkson’s Farm) that has already been commissioned. According to Variety, this would imply that the final episode of The Grand Tour may air in 2025.
Speaking to radiotimes.com, James May speculated over the show’s ‘natural end’.
He said: ‘I mean, some people have said we’ve been cancelled. But really we’re getting quite close to the end of our contract, but we didn’t really have any particular plans to keep going because we’re all really just getting a bit old.
‘It might be time to let someone else have a crack at it.’
So, while it does not appear like the programme has been cancelled, there is currently no mention of contract renewals.
Where can I watch The Grand Tour?
Eurocrash is a one-time event that is now available on Amazon Prime Video.
All four seasons of The Grand Tour are available, as well as their most recent one-off before Eurocrash, A Scandi Flick 2022.
Source My Celebrity Life.
