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  1. Take notes, Top Gear. Grand Tour's recent season is exactly how you replace Clarkson, Hammond, and May: whopotterviansmediamayhem.word #TheGrandTour

  2. I've tried the new Grand Tour (3 episodes), but it just feels too forced. I mean, there was a lot of forced moments with Clarkson, Hammond and May, but it felt natural. This feels different and not good different.

    Probably won't watch the other episodes.

    #TV #TheGrandTour

  3. #TheGrandTour looks OK, despite the lack of established chemistry, which I hope will come eventually.
    That said, Francis annoyingly sounds as if a bowling ball was stuck up in his nose.

  4. Movie TV Tech Geeks #TV #TheGrandTour #MyLadyJane #PrimeVideo 3 Greatest Series to Binge on Prime Video This Weekend (September 5-6) dlvr.it/TVKwSj

  5. The Grand Tour review – a deeply strange rejection of Jeremy Clarkson and the gang
    By Stuart Heritage

    The petrol hijinks show is getting a total reset – with a relatively unknown new set of presenters. Still, there are signs this trio might turn out to be revolutionarily provocative

    theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2

    #Television #Televisionradio #Culture #TheGrandTour #JeremyClarkson #Motoring #Motoring #AmazonPrimeVideo #TheGuardian #StuartHeritage

  6. Jeremy Clarkson: The Gearhead turned farmer

    The Man who that neither the culture vultures nor cancer could kill, the man who captivated generations of people!

    When we think of great men and women, we tend to think of prophets, kings, statesmen, warriors, and the mythological figures who gave civilizations a language for understanding their world—and the courage to conquer it. Rarely, however, do we place pop-culture icons in that same category. They are often dismissed as temporary celebrities: products of their moment, destined to be reduced to nostalgia once their era has passed.

    But every so often, an exception emerges that challenges the rule and gives rise to a generation voice.

    On July 27, 1988, pop culture created one of those exceptions. Though like the rule itself, this moment was almost reduced to one failed season not fit for nostalgia.

    What appeared at first to be another character, another story, another piece of entertainment became something far more enduring: a generational icon whose archetypal message survived the cultural shifts that sought to redefine, dismantle, and ultimately forget the ideals he represented.

    Raising the question of whether we should mistake pop culture icon’s or heroes as mere entertainment for that moment when civilization need them most.

    Jeremy Clarkson didn’t simply host a car show—he helped transform the way the world thought about cars. When Top Gear first appeared on April 22, 1977, its purpose was relatively straightforward: showcase automobiles and reflect Britain’s automotive industry. Decades later, Clarkson would help turn that modest concept into a global pop-culture phenomenon, transforming Top Gear from an automotive program into entertainment, comedy, travel, competition, and personality-driven television.

    But no revolution happens alone.

    Richard Hammond and James May were essential to the formula. Their contrasting personalities, competing perspectives, and unmistakable chemistry transformed three presenters into something far greater: a trio that became synonymous with an era of television and almost as iconic as the cars they drove.

    They reinvented the car show—and proved that sometimes the greatest television isn’t about the subject at all. It’s about the people who make you care about it. And that they did because we all had tears in our eyes when they signed off The Grand Tour for the last time in Africa.

    When The Grand Tour aired its final episode in 2024, it wasn’t simply the end of a television show—it felt like the closing chapter of a relationship millions of us had grown up with. For nearly three decades, Clarkson, Hammond, and May took us across the world, through impossible roads, remote landscapes, ridiculous challenges, and some of the greatest cars ever built. When it finally ended, the questions were inevitable: Would we ever see the three of them together again? What comes next? And can the automotive world ever feel quite the same without them?

    For an entire generation, these three weren’t just presenters. They were the friends who introduced us to cars. They made us care about machines we could never afford, dream about roads we’d never drive, and, for many of us, buy the project car that would sit unfinished in the driveway for the next decade. Their adventures turned an interest in automobiles into something much bigger—a shared passion, a culture, and a community.

    And when the journey ended, millions of us were left asking the same question:

    What do you do when the people who taught you to love something finally say goodbye?

    For Jeremy Clarkson, the voice that had transformed automotive television wasn’t finished—it had simply found a new field to conquer. Literally. When Clarkson’s Farm premiered in 2021, the premise seemed almost absurd: take one of Britain’s most famous car presenters, give him a farm, and somehow turn agriculture into television. Even the producers seemed skeptical that Clarkson would survive the experience. Yet what began as a potential disaster quickly became one of Amazon’s most unexpected successes.

    The question was whether fans who had followed Clarkson from Top Gear to The Grand Tour would care about farming. The answer came quickly: absolutely. The show proved that Clarkson’s appeal was never really about cars—it was about his personality, his curiosity, his spectacular ability to turn ordinary problems into extraordinary disasters, and the people around him. Add a cast of unforgettable farmhands, particularly Kaleb Cooper, and suddenly tractors, crops, bureaucracy, weather, and livestock became every bit as entertaining as supercars and exotic road trips.

    What made Clarkson’s Farm remarkable wasn’t simply that Jeremy Clarkson made farming entertaining—it was that he turned a traditionally overlooked industry into a national conversation. What began as television quickly became a platform for farmers and rural communities facing rising costs, regulation, economic uncertainty, and an increasingly complicated relationship with government. Clarkson brought those struggles into living rooms that might otherwise never have considered them, showing audiences just how difficult—and expensive—it can be to produce the food we take for granted. When he took farmers to London to protest policies affecting their livelihoods, he wasn’t simply creating another television moment; he was giving visibility to people who often felt invisible. Whatever one’s politics, the cultural impact was difficult to ignore: Clarkson helped millions of viewers understand that farming isn’t merely an occupation—it is the foundation of food security, rural communities, and a degree of independence that modern society can easily take for granted.

    He didn’t just make farming entertaining. He made people pay attention.

    Just as Clarkson seemed to be entering another successful chapter, audiences were reminded that even the larger-than-life figures who have entertained us for decades are still human. Near the end of Clarkson’s Farm Season Five, Clarkson revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would require surgery and treatment. Thankfully, it was reportedly caught early, giving him a much stronger chance of recovery. For fans who had followed him from Top Gear to The Grand Tour and now into the fields of Diddly Squat, the news carried a different weight: the man who had spent decades making us laugh suddenly gave us a reason to worry.

    If you haven’t watched Clarkson’s Farm, you’re missing far more than another Clarkson comedy. It delivers the same irreverent entertainment that made Top Gear and The Grand Tour cultural phenomena, but it also pulls back the curtain on an industry most of us rarely see. From farm-to-table production and spiraling costs to livestock, crops, and the realities of running a brewery, the series turns agriculture into something surprisingly personal and accessible.

    As it turns out, Clarkson didn’t leave the world of entertainment behind when he left the driver’s seat. He simply discovered that the next great adventure was waiting in a field.

    Jeremy we are praying for you!

    #agriculturalindustry #agriculture #agricultureindustry #automotive #automotiveindustry #books #clarksonSfarm #clarksonsfarm #didlysquatfarm #englishparliament #farm #farmer #farmers #farming #history #jamesmay #jeremyClarkson #jeremyclarkson #london #parliament #richardhammond #thegrandtour #topgear #topgearuk #travel #writing
  7. The Grand Tour regresa el 4 de septiembre con un relevo audaz: Throttle House y Francis Bourgeois toman el volante. ¿Están listos para esta nueva era? 🚗📺 #TheGrandTour #NoticiasMotor

    universomotor.com/the-grand-to

  8. Jeremy Clarkson in tears as he announces ‘difficult news’ from Diddly Squat | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV

    Jeremy Clarkson had to blink away tears in a new social media video as he made an announcement…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #clarkson #Clarkson’sFarm #diddlysquat #DiddlySquatFarm #jamesmay #JeremyClarkson #KalebCooper #lisahogan #PrimeVideo #richardhammond #thegrandtour #TopGear #UK #UnitedKingdom
    newsbeep.com/596501/

  9. Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem "One man has all the answers" Sale: $42.99 to $1.99 by Andy Wilman Rating: 4.8/5 (1,272 Reviews) #TopGear #TheGrandTour #Motoring #Memoir #TV #Books #Entertainment #Autobiography #BookSky

    Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure...

  10. I'm not getting the result that I'm looking for for the phrase "the Grand Tour" ... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    #DrStrangeloveBlahBlahBoom #Russia #TheGrandTour

  11. @BigTittyBimbo

    The old term used "in the West" before the c19th was "the Holy Land" and then specifically "the Levant" was used by all those victorian era people going on Grand Tours. #TheGrandTour

    (I just name where I'm talking about.)

  12. Book review: Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour and Twenty Years of Magic and Mayhem - Andy Wilman

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    goodreads.com/review/show/8262

    #bookreview #bookstodon #topgear #thegrandtour

  13. Angola, Malasia, California. 6 episodios. 3 nuevos presentadores. The Grand Tour renace en 2026 con Throttle House y Francis Bourgeois al volante 🚗💨 #TheGrandTour #PrimeVideo

    universomotor.com/the-grand-to

  14. The Grand Tour hat die drei neuen Hosts bestätigt: James Engelsman, Thomas Holland (Beide Throttle House) und Francis Bourgeois (Trainspotter).

    Ich bin ja trotz allem großer Fan von Top Gear und The Grand Tour gewesen. Ich schaue aber auch sehr sehr gerne Throttle House und traue den beiden das voll zu! Es schadet auch nicht mal jüngere Leute zu haben, die auch Elektroautos verstehen und akzeptieren können. Bourgeois kenne ich nicht, aber mal eine Chance geben!

    #TheGrandTour #ThrottleHouse

  15. ‘The Grand Tour’ Revs Up With New Hosts Francis Bourgeois, Thomas Holland and James Engelsman: ‘In No Way Cardboard Cutouts of the Old Three’
    #Variety #Global #News #PrimeVideo #TheGrandTour

    variety.com/2026/tv/news/the-g

  16. ‘The Grand Tour’ Revs Up With New Hosts Francis Bourgeois, Thomas Holland and James Engelsman: ‘In No Way Cardboard Cutouts of the Old Three’

    fed.brid.gy/r/https://variety.

  17. Took a Grand Tour of Diddly Squat and The Farmers Dog today and met Gerald. He's a legend, so friendly...
    #clarksonfarm #thegrandtour #diddlysquat #boost

  18. Hammond bought an auto repair shop, Clarkson bought a farm, May created a gin company and makes weird sandwiches while 2 women record him in a small dark room. (bob) #TopGear #TheGrandTour

  19. Second version of #TheGrandTour of #teskooano - More lighting and shader improvements, logarithmic camera - the celestials are in the accurate positions and all it working well - and with that I go on holiday now so there won't be more updates for a couple of weeks

    #devDiary #space #gameEngine #gameDev #simulation #threeJS #webGL #astronomy

  20. I still haven't watched the final episode of #TheGrandTour since I wasn't ready to let go of the trio. They've been such a integral part of my life throughout the years and helped me cope with many bad things that happened. So, seeing this just now made me almost want to cry.

    This is already on #IMDB so I don't think I'll need to take this with a #GrainOfSalt

    imdb.com/title/tt36166928/

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