Coincidentally, it also has the letters t and g in it. Which left them a bit stumped until they came up with, well, a very obvious name. Jeremy Clarkson wrote in The Sunday Times in April, 'Every morning, I'd make a £7000 call to the lawyer with an idea, and every afternoon I'd get a £7000 reply saying it was already in use by someone in New Zealand or France or Ukraine.' The Grand Tour team were legally prohibited by Top Gear from using any reference to the words 'Top' or 'Gear', or any reference to popular Top Gear features the Stig, the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car and the Cool Wall. Months after they started filming for the show, #TheStillVeryMuchUntitledClarksonHammondMayAmazonPrimeShowComingAutumn2016 still didn’t have a name. It may not sound like a cause for a party, or a headline, but for Clarkson, Hammond and May, the struggle was real. This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. We still test cars and stuff though,' said Wilman. 'There's, but we can't have handwritten stuff, that's all got to change for the lawyers.

According to the video below, The Grand Tour also can't have a test track or record lap times the same way as Top Gear. The lawyers go through everything and they said, 'There's a scene in where you're in the middle of the Okavango and you go, 'This scenery is beautiful', so watch that you don't do that.' So we were in the desert in Namibia and we had to go, 'for legal reasons, this scenery is shit',' Wilman said.

'The lawyers got out a film we had done in Botswana. We went to Namibia to make a big film,' Wilman explained. The Grand Tour had to pander to the BBC's ridiculous legal anxietiesĮxecutive Producer Andy Wilman said the BBC took its legal hypochondria to a 'hilarious' level. The former presenters of that program - Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May (we forget why they left, but we’re sure it was amicable) are now returning to our screens with The Grand Tour, Amazon Prime’s Absolutely-Nothing-Like-Top-Gear-Whatsoever show, premiering from midnight tonight, 18 November 2016. We know what you’re all thinking: what on earth are you going to do now that Fifth Gear has been cancelled? There was also a skirmish or two over a program called Top Gear, but that’s just small fry really.

It’s been a tumultuous year in the world of car related entertainment programming.

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