'The Grand Tour'..

[Sitec]

Well someone was going to start it soon enough! 😆🍻... From what Ive seen, I say Clarkson, Hammond and May - 1 point, BBC - Nill points!

YouTube (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tMLegGWVoAQ)



Can't wait!

[Sitec]

And a little more......

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kLtpcxtk4HI

[LandyAndy]

Looks great.
Seen the "new" Top Gear,its so lame.
As you say,CANT WAIT!!!!!!!!:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
Andrew

[rangieman]

And the BBC gets:2up::tease::BigCry:

[DiscoMick]

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-18/clarkson-grand-tour-could-be-the-next-illegal-download-victim/8032948

Piracy problems predicted.

Sent from my SM-G900I using AULRO mobile app

[incisor]

Ain't no could be involved me thinks

[Slunnie]

What an awesome show! Loved it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQjg27dfxkQ

[s7000]

They picked up right where they left off on their last season of TG. The Grand Tour was exactly as I expected it to be and then some... Plus they cut some fat!

It was good to see them back! :)



Piracy problems predicted.


These companies do it to themselves. I'm not going to say they deserve it, but they make it near impossible for people to legally watch with ease. They need to take a page out of Louis CK's book... While you might not like the guy, he's made all his content super easy to pay for and download. It won't stop all the pirating, but it will lessen the impact overall.

[Homestar]

Sorry for being thick, and apart from illegally downloading it (which I won't do) - how do I watch it?

[s7000]

Sorry for being thick, and apart from illegally downloading it (which I won't do) - how do I watch it?

Wait until it's available on one of the subscription services in Aus, I guess...

[TimNZ]

You can watch it now legally by getting an Amazon Prime subscription, just be aware most of their other programs are geoblocked, even their own ones :mad:

[BMKal]

Sorry for being thick, and apart from illegally downloading it (which I won't do) - how do I watch it?

Just go to Youtube Gav and type in the name of the show. There are plenty of "versions" of episode 1 on there - others will follow as they are released.

They are not full screen / HD and the sound quality is modified (reduced) apparently so that the posters can get around copyright issues. Must be legal to watch them though, otherwise Youtube would not allow them to be posted.

One example is in Slunnie's post a couple above yours.

[AllTerr]

I heard

[Toxic_Avenger]

Just go to Youtube Gav and type in the name of the show. There are plenty of "versions" of episode 1 on there - others will follow as they are released.

They are not full screen / HD and the sound quality is modified (reduced) apparently so that the posters can get around copyright issues. Must be legal to watch them though, otherwise Youtube would not allow them to be posted.

One example is in Slunnie's post a couple above yours.

...Slunnie's versuion has been taken down from Youtube.

So... It begins...

[Slunnie]

...Slunnie's versuion has been taken down from Youtube.

So... It begins...

Oooh, got to be quick. I'm sure, like the hitler parodies, it'll be back.

[bob10]

How to watch it. Legally.

https://youtu.be/wRkNMvK8UEE

[DiscoMick]

And here's the search for the new Stog!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vngLQ1Vbh4I

[Toxic_Avenger]

Oooh, got to be quick. I'm sure, like the hitler parodies, it'll be back.

I love the hitler reacts memes.

[AllTerr]

I'll just wait till Dec. I guess. Thanks Bob

[Homestar]

How to watch it. Legally.

https://youtu.be/wRkNMvK8UEE

Thanks - I'll wait until it is released properly. :)

[loanrangie]

I'll just wait till Dec. I guess. Thanks Bob

I have ep 1 ready to watch :cool:.

[Sitec]

Anyone tried to play the video I first posted in post 1... You no longer can.. Amazon got a hold of it and removed it!!! :(

[BMKal]

Anyone tried to play the video I first posted in post 1... You no longer can.. Amazon got a hold of it and removed it!!! :(

It would appear that they've got rid of all of the other full clips of Episode 1 that were on Youtube as well. There was at least a dozen or so yesterday - none this morning.

From what I've read, Amazon is shooting itself in the foot at least as far as a potential Australian audience is concerned. We will be able to sign up for an Amazon Prime account in December and can watch The Grand Tour legally. What they don't tell you is that many (some reports say "most") of their other shows are geoblocked and cannot be viewed in Australia. So - my understanding is that you can fork out their subscription cost - to effectively watch one program a week for as long as the season lasts. If you want to watch other programs on Amazon that your subscription would normally cover, and those programs are geoblocked - stiff ****.

Hopefully what I've read is wrong (or my understanding of it is incorrect) - but if not, they won't be getting my money. There are other ways to watch a program if you really want to see it. :D

[Toxic_Avenger]

What they don't tell you is that many (some reports say "most") of their other shows are geoblocked and cannot be viewed in Australia. So - my understanding is that you can fork out their subscription cost - to effectively watch one program a week for as long as the season lasts. If you want to watch other programs on Amazon that your subscription would normally cover, and those programs are geoblocked - stiff ****.


This is the issue I face with Motor Trend On Demand- likened to the 'netflix' for car guys. Something I'd definitely consider in addition to the netflix subscription I have.
The MTOD content is great, covering all motorsport and heaps of original series, but most live stuff is blocked to licensing restrictions due to deals with AU based media.

I'd jump at watching Grand tour on a pay per view arrangement, but it doesn't take long for a few '$13 per month' subscriptions to be underutilized or get out of hand.

[DiscoMick]

Sounds like another example of the reasons why so many Australians are into piracy of shows they are blocked from getting legally.

[Toxic_Avenger]

Sounds like another example of the reasons why so many Australians are into piracy of shows they are blocked from getting legally.

That's exactly what i was getting at!

[trog]

Or couldn't be bothered trying to watch ?

[Debacle]

It's on usenet. 4.5gb so need decent connection to download.

[Landy Smurf]

Just watched it. I thought it was pretty good and I will continue to watch it. I have watched 2 episodes of the new top gear and will not continue to watch that :)

[BMKal]

Just watched it. I thought it was pretty good and I will continue to watch it. I have watched 2 episodes of the new top gear and will not continue to watch that :)

Yep - I thought the same. The Grand Tour came across as the three of them taking up where they left off ............... except that they had a bit of difficulty in getting their celebrity guests onto the stage. :o

Top Gear with that idiot Evans hosting it was a dead loss - some say it may improve with him gone and Matt LeBlanc taking over the reins, but I'm not holding my breath. ;)

[Landy Smurf]

Yeah Evans is annoying. LeBlanc is ok but I find him a bit dry and monotone.

[bob10]

What they don't tell you is that many (some reports say "most") of their other shows are geoblocked and cannot be viewed in Australia. So - my understanding is that you can fork out their subscription cost - to effectively watch one program a week for as long as the season lasts. If you want to watch other programs on Amazon that your subscription would normally cover, and those programs are geoblocked - stiff ****.

:D

Could you please post where you saw that information.

[solmanic]

Yep - I thought the same. The Grand Tour came across as the three of them taking up where they left off ............... except that they had a bit of difficulty in getting their celebrity guests onto the stage. :o

Clarkson & Andy Wilman sold the right to most of the Top Gear format to the BBC back in 2012 (for more money than the GDP of some countries it is rumoured), so a lot of the Top Gear features & format are off limits to them now. This was because Clarkson & Wilman were making mad stacks of money from licensing and May & Hammond were being left out as they were not part of the production company. The BBC already owned 50% of their company, Bedder6, so when all the hosts' contracts were renewed the remaining 50% of that company was sold to the beeb putting all presenters on roughly similar contracts.

Some of the things that have been reported to be protected parts of the Top Gear format include:
- Having the show in a static location (hence the Grand Tour's mobile tent format)
- The Stig (we will probably be stuck with the overly talkative American for some time)
- Star in a reasonably priced car (it is possible that the whole celebrity interview segment is also protected so now the Grand Tour has fun just killing them off before they get into the studio).
- The cool wall (although this was quietly dropped several series ago)

It is likely as time goes on we will learn what else they have been legally prevented from doing. Probably by omission or just through obviously careful wording -and on that "major disappointment" (bombshell) it's time to end, for example.

The loss of most of the format is not actually a real loss since it has freed them up to fully refresh the show, and they now have more money than God so I don't feel sorry for them.

But I am not sure why Ben Collins was not chosen as their new Stig, since he doesn't have any love for the BBC. They have also used him for one of their Top Gear Live segments (see below).

https://youtu.be/rvt_4Uii5AU

[DiscoMick]

Ben Collins appeared in a Grand Tour segment I saw on Youtube last week.

[Ranga]

Episode 2 was pretty ordinary IMHO. Too much time spent on that SWAT thingy, and not enough on cars.

[incisor]

as an aside the boys from the Grand Tour have setup DriveTribe

sort of like twitter for automotive people..

i have setup a AULRO.com tribe

you can visit it here...

AULRO.com DriveTribe (https://www.drivetribe.com/t/BKKEgSD3S_aNX8vbKzM5BQ/Hzm5O03bTte5kazRR6FMcQ)

sign up as i think it would be a handy thing if your out and about and need a hand or are just looking for more stuff to browse...

[solmanic]

Ben Collins appeared in a Grand Tour segment I saw on Youtube last week.

If it's the clip I linked above, that was done for one of the Clarkson, Hammond & May live shows but it has been posted on their Grand Tour Youtube channel. No Ben Collins involvement in TGT as far as I know.

[DiscoMick]

as an aside the boys from the Grand Tour have setup DriveTribe

sort of like twitter for automotive people..

i have setup a AULRO.com tribe

you can visit it here...

AULRO.com DriveTribe (https://www.drivetribe.com/t/BKKEgSD3S_aNX8vbKzM5BQ/Hzm5O03bTte5kazRR6FMcQ)

sign up as i think it would be a handy thing if your out and about and need a hand or are just looking for more stuff to browse...

Signed up to AULRO and there is a LR one further down, also an Overland touring one.

[Slunnie]

Episode 2 was pretty ordinary IMHO. Too much time spent on that SWAT thingy, and not enough on cars.
Certainly a different episode, but I did like it - although apart from that awesome Aston Martin there wasn't much on the cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXeDeUjqPmo

[incisor]

Episode 2 was pretty ordinary IMHO. Too much time spent on that SWAT thingy, and not enough on cars.

to quote mr clarkson


Hello everyone
Show two of the Grand Tour is very car light. And that happens again in the Barbados film later in the series.We do this on purpose to entertain the countless people who invariably say, when I sit next to them at a party, "I like your show but why do you put cars on it?"

[RANDLOVER]

Hide you eyes LR fans as in the afore-metioned Barbados episode they sink a Series Landy as an artificial reef! EDIT Also disturbing is in yesterday's replay they took the bodies off 3 D-3's and turned the chassis into "Eco" cars made of meat, mud and a hedge, in another show Clarkson uses a D-1 chassis to mount a MG sports car body on and then later changes that to a Mercedes sports car as the wheelbase is a better match.

[Tins]

In the very latest, S02, Ep 04, they have the end of year awards: There was the Nigel ( their name ) for the "Hard Ass to Follow" award for the worst looking rear end. Nominated were the Civic Type R, the Toyota CH-R ( don't think we get that one ), but the winner was the Land Rover Discovery. They go on to poke fun at Gerry McGovern.

They do have a point.

[DiscoMick]

I think I have that recorded so look forward to seeing it.

[Tins]

I think I have that recorded so look forward to seeing it.

Who is showing it here, Mick? I watch it on Prime with a foreign account[bigwhistle]

[DiscoMick]

Channel 10. I just set the recorder to grab it whenever it comes on.

[Tins]

Channel 10. I just set the recorder to grab it whenever it comes on.

That would be season 1 then?

[rangieman]

Hide you eyes LR fans as in the afore-metioned Barbados episode they sink a Series Landy as an artificial reef! EDIT Also disturbing is in yesterday's replay they took the bodies off 3 D-3's and turned the chassis into "Eco" cars made of meat, mud and a hedge, in another show Clarkson uses a D-1 chassis to mount a MG sports car body on and then later changes that to a Mercedes sports car as the wheelbase is a better match.
I think you will find all the eco car`s were D 1`s not D 3 `s
The Grand Tour: Episode 4 Trailer - YouTube (https://youtu.be/jCMcfsDymtc)

[DiscoMick]

That would be season 1 then?
They're advertising season 2, but I'm away and haven't seen any of the episodes which should be recorded at home.

[DiscoMick]

I was wrong - it's on 7, not 10. Sorry.
My excuse is I've been away from home for most of the last month and had forgotten which channel it was set to record.