This week Evolution takes a look at the show that made Clarkson & Co.
As we all know at this stage the Top Gear format that we came to know and love as fans of the show has come and gone and has since been replaced with the trio of Chris Harris, Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff previously Chris Harris, Rory Reid and Matt Leblanc were the main presenters.
The Top Gear that we came to know and love ran on the BBC from 2002 until 2015 with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond presenting the show in its first year up until 2003 with the arrival of new presenter James May replacing Jason Dawe and since then they are who we now know them as presenters of the widely successful Prime series The Grand Tour.
The change in format and presenting team(s) came about back in 2015 when Clarkson was let go by the BBC after having an altercation with a BBC producer at the time and was then suspended following the few days of ongoing internal investigation, which prompted the move from the BBC to Amazon along with James May and Richard Hammond following Jeremy Clarkson swiftly out of the BBC’s doors.
When I heard that Jeremy was let go by the BBC i was shocked and saddened by the whole thing becuase Top Gear was a show that I watched a lot of before the incident happened and I still do although not as much as i used to.
The birth of The Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was hinted at during a Top Gear Live performance in Belfast in 2015 when the trio did their last round of Live shows together before moving to Amazon. It was then officially announced later that same year that Clarkson and Co. would be producing a new show with Amazon and the internet went crazy.
A teaser trailer was released for the first series of The Grand Tour on the 16th of November 2016 announcing the launch date for Season One.
And The Grand Tour was born.
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