The Grand Tour’s producer, Andy Wilman, recently opened up about Amazon’s new show and what Clarkson, Hammond and May will be up to once the series launches this fall.
First, we’ve learned from Digitalspy that the new Amazon Prime show will launch with a 70-minute episode. Second, it seems that we’ll get to see Jeremy Clarkson drive through an actual Game of Thrones set – though we can’t be sure which one.
While speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Wilman also revealed that 90% of the series has already been shot and that all of it will be rendered in excellent 4K quality.
The producer went on to say that he’d prefer the show to be a weekly occurrence on Amazon since it “doesn’t have a boxset/binge appeal” and that he still hopes they can get a secondary run on a traditional TV channel for it.
Furthermore, Wilman mentioned that working on The Grand Tour has been “fantastic but really demanding”, and that recent reports of the show actually costing around $4.5 million per episode are “bollocks.”
If you’re curious to know what he thought about the new Top Gear, the show’s former producer actually said he didn’t watch it, but that he “would not with them one second of ill.”