Studio segments are mostly filmed within a large studio tent that can house an audience of around 300, with the presenters sat around a trestle table and the audience seated in front of them. After the first series, Skinner was dropped due to poor reception from viewers on his appearance on the programme, leading him to be replaced by British racing driver Abbie Eaton for the second series. In the first series, the cars were driven by former NASCAR driver Mike Skinner, who was contracted to operate under the name 'The American' and portray a stereotypical redneck accent and viewpoints, and making tangential speech and calling several things communist. Timed laps of the reviewed car remain a part of the programme, though are driven by a specially trained driver who functions in a similar manner to Top Gear 's 'The Stig'. performance), with reviews filmed either around the United Kingdom or abroad, or took place upon a specially designed racetrack that was created for The Grand Tour, much like the Top Gear Test Track.
Like the specials of Top Gear, The Grand Tour also features unique specials focused on a singular type of vehicle or class that the hosts use to travel along a route in a foreign locale.Ĭar reviews, which remain a prominent part of the programme, are mainly done on a similar format to Top Gear, in that one or more cars are reviewed by a single or multiple presenters, put through various tests to check out aspects of the car (i.e. Examples of these challenges include building their own eco-friendly car chassis atop a Land Rover, and racing through different forms of transportation. Challenges function in a similar format to those of Top Gear challenges - special races, building and testing out a unique vehicle based on a car, or buying cheap cars and determining which is the best, with challenges denoted to the presenters by Wilman through text messages. Pre-recorded films consist mainly of car reviews and motoring challenges, and episodes will either use a mix of one or both, with the latter either consisting of single or multi-parts. These episodes mainly consist of a mix of pre-recorded television films and live-audience segments. Through the first three series, the programme operates on a similar format that Wilman, the show's producer, Clarkson, Hammond and May, the show's presenters, all used during their tenure on Top Gear, though with significant differences to avoid clashing with their former motoring programme.
įormat Series 1–3 (2016–2019) Timed Lap Board Car (track condition) Overall, the show has received positive reviews from critics. As of December 2016 the show was made available to 195 more countries and various territories, and has attracted favourable viewing figures after 'The Holy Trinity' became Amazon Video's most watched premiere episode.
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