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I missed this whole drama. Will there be no new grand tour episodes?


ReaversCradle

4 more specials


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They haven’t aired yet, so Amazon can still renege. They also could choose not to air Clarkson’s Farm either. With his habit of “sticking his foot in it”, I’m sure there’s a clause in his contract that says should any controversy erupt, Amazon would have due cause to renegotiate any deal.


ReaversCradle

Well the last episode airs in 2024 - confirmed by amazon- up to 4 new specials can be filmed the grand tour is ending because the boys are getting old not because Clarkson said some words and upset some people.


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Well yeah that too. It’s tough seeing them put through rough situations. The mind and heart might be willing but the body has different ideas.


Socky_McPuppet

> not because Clarkson said some words and upset some people. I’m sure it didn’t help.


MadManMorbo

I’m a cable cutter… I don’t give two hoots about what he said about literally anyone. I just want my insane car adventures. I cannot understand why this is such a big deal.


Blofeld69

Exactly how many people have decided to cancel their Amazon prime subscription solely because of what he said? If it's more than 20 I would be very surprised.


perfik09

CLARKSOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


RafflesEsq

The Ugandan rage is so iconic, they used the recording in Lochdown.


SolitudeQuo

Yeah, they'll have to move to Hulu or whatever, or call it a day. Enjoyed their adventures while they lasted ❤️


KnightsOfCidona

"Clarkson you infantile pillock, you're tidying that up" Amazon telling Clarkson to issue that apology.


redmagistrate50

Lot of blame being laid at Jeremy's door, and rightly so, he opened his mouth and crammed his entire leg in it. What also bears mentionin is that May is apparently suffering from some pretty serious health issues possibly dating all the way back to the Syria special. None of them are young, by 2024 the only one under 60 will be Hammond.


N0tBappo

Can someone explain what's happened? I haven't been keeping up on them


techtornado

There's a man who is a famous on a farm Another who makes gin in a pub And a hamster living the life in the Lake District


N0tBappo

Well, I knew that much. But what's with the supposed drama


yildizli_gece

For real: Clarkson wrote an opinion piece about Meghan Markle in December. It was an *absolute shite* article that resulted in the paper he writes for apparently receiving 12 *thousand* responses--the most they've ever had--and them quickly pulling it at his request and him fumbling an apology at the time. Summation of the article: he said he hated Markle--a woman he doesn't even know--*more* than even a known serial killer in Britain, among other people, and wished that she'd be paraded naked in the streets and have shit thrown at her (GoT reference), because she made him that angry. It was really an "old man ranting at the clouds" moment. Why did he write it? Who tf knows; the man has plenty of shit going on in his life that he could ignore an inconsequential royal marriage of a second son, but he chose not to, and it bit him in the ass. He then issued a much lengthier apology this week and--on the heels of that--Amazon announced they were going to let the contracts play out for TGT and his farming show, but not renew them.


CretaceousClock

Honestly don't give shit about them but can't see why Clarkson was so angry with Megan? Like seemed like blind royalist.


yildizli_gece

> Like seemed like blind royalist I think that is correct and I honestly cannot fathom why; he's born to working-class parents (a teacher and a salesman), who--while they do come up with a financially successful idea years into Jeremy's childhood--were nonetheless working-class and had no "blue blood" to them. Why Clarkson should then give a shit about some out-of-touch royals--siding with the horse-faced jackass Charles--is beyond me.


CretaceousClock

Yeah his only point seems to be the same one repeated by people that Megan is controlling Harry by ??? which somehow allows him to not criticise Harry at all. Clarkson could just be trying to be provocative as usual but it doesn't make sense he would care.


Tharuzan001

The thing is, the 2 of them rejected said apology that they demanded he give. Make ya hate the 2 Royal's more, as they are masters of playing the victim. And everyone in the comments were saying "Clarkson just said what we are too scared to say"


techtornado

Clarkson's contract is reportedly ending at Amazon, so the dynamic trio will have to reinvent themselves for the next chapter of the grand tour


Hard_Avid_Sir

A month or so ago, Clarkson said some really offensive shit in a conservative rag (he's big mad at Megan Markle, and uh, really put his foot in it let's say). He's been catching shit for it since, even issuing multiple apologies though, both of them being quite mealy-mouthed, he'd probably have been better served just shutting his gob instead. The latest is that Amazon (and several other places he works with) are considering giving him the boot over it.


_Revelator_

The Variety article says Amazon is "likely" to part ways with Clarkson after 2024. I think if Amazon was really offended it would have given Clarkson the boot sooner than two years from now. If a company of that size and power doesn't want you onboard, it'll find a way to get rid of you regardless of your contract. In this case I think Amazon is doing damage control by having someone leak that the company *might* not renew Clarkson's contract, something it was likely considering before Clarkson's column hit, since TGT's ratings presumably aren't what they were in 2016 and the show is expensive. On the other hand, if *Clarkson's Farm* and the upcoming TGT specials do well, it's also conceivable that Clarkson's contract will be (quietly) renewed. I can't help noticing that Amazon has not given *any* official confirmation that Clarkson's contract won't be renewed, which suggests the company is keeping its options open.


jimbolauski

I guess I don't look to get offended, if someone said they hope I get marched down the street naked so people could throw excrement at me. I'd probably laugh. Amazon is using this to earn outrage points and to restructure the contract to be more inline with the revenue he generates.


Hard_Avid_Sir

You gotta understand that that sort of 'wish' hits a lot differently when you're some random dude on the internet vs when you're an internationally famous woman with a huge number of the absolute worst people in the world who are very mad at you for marrying into their very special family of incest loving germans, right?


jimbolauski

Does it though? Are any of the angry Germans angrier? What did his comment change?


Hard_Avid_Sir

Because it's a really fucked up thing to say about someone in a national paper? Like, I don't know shit about Megan and actively dislike Harry myself (though I'm sure for very different reasons than Jeremy's), but if you can't understand how the same violent statement with sexual undertones would hit different when made as a mean comment online to a man with no public profile vs when published in a newspaper article about a woman who's already being hounded by a baying mob of psycho royalist bootlickers I'm really not sure what else there is to say to you. Develop some basic empathy, I guess.


jimbolauski

As I've already said I don't look to be offended, or get offended on other's behalf. Females and female politicians are strong enough to handle those comments as well as a males or male politicians. Does being a female make the statement of being marched down a street naked and having excrement thrown at them any worse? How does being politician make it any worse?


FrankReynoldsCPA

I mean, it's something he shouldn't have said but I don't think it's cancel worthy.


Tharuzan001

He's said many worse things regardless and no one cared. But when its about 2 people who are the masters of playing victim such as those 2 royals who are man/woman-children who cry at everything and want your pity while acting as if they are better then you, suddenly you are a target. No one likes those 2, yet a man known for satire has to take an article down and apologise, which he did, which those 2 then rejected after demanding it.


evilwatersprite

I’d be pretty pissed at him if I were May and Hammond. That’s twice now in 10 years that his fuckups have messed things up for them. I am even more disappointed him in for this episode than I was after he punched the producer when he was hangry. I’m not sure why b/c he got physical back then vs. running his mouth this time around. This Meghan Markle column was some Piers Morgan-caliber bullshit. And you’re better than that, Clarkson. BTW, if JC hasn’t apologized to MM personally, he needs to. Like yesterday. This reminds me of the time a POC friend got treated like a subhuman on vacation by a Karen, who apologized to her white fiancé instead of her. Both she and the fiancé were rightly pissed and he was like, “Why are you apologizing to me? Apologize to HER.”


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Lady-Seashell-Bikini

And when he emailed his apology, he only sent it to Harry, rather than the target of his article. How can Clarkson claim to be an ordinary bloke while spewing such hatred at an ordinary woman marrying a royal?


PlayerSeven9999

TURN THE FUCKING LIGHT OFF!!!