The Grand Tour
Banter chemistryRelationships built on verbal spark.This show: 9/10Witty banterRapid-fire verbal sparring.This show: 9/10Easy watchingLow-demand television where half your attention is enough.This show: 9/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 8/10Dry humorDeadpan, understated wit.This show: 8/10FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 8/10British TVThe British television sensibility: tone, restraint and format traditions.This show: 8/10Comfort rewatchThe kind of show people return to endlessly.This show: 7/10
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Andy Wilman
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The Grand Tour Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | ||
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| S1 | 8.2 | 8.9 | 6.9 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.5 | 8.5 | ||
| S2 | 8.2 | 8.6 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.6 | 8.7 | 8.6 | 8.5 | 8.4 | 7.6 | ||||
| S3 | 8.7 | 8.3 | 8.6 | 8.8 | 7.3 | 8.6 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.7 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.9 | 8.3 | 9.6 | 9.3 | |
| S4 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | |||||||||||
| S5 | 8.5 | 8.8 | 8.2 | 8.2 | ||||||||||||
| S6 | 9.5 | 9.5 |
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About
"Petrolhead banter turned into a globe-trotting buddy comedy"
Three middle-aged British men who used to host Top Gear travel the world driving absurd, expensive, or terrible cars, bickering the entire time. Each episode mixes big stunt-driven set pieces, scripted studio segments, and increasingly elaborate international specials that double as travelogues. The tone is deliberately juvenile: insults, dad jokes, and staged mishaps abound, but the camaraderie between the trio and the genuine car knowledge underneath the silliness keep it watchable. It's less about motoring journalism than watching three friends wind each other up in spectacular locations with spectacular machinery.
Watch it for
the chemistry between three hosts who clearly enjoy tormenting each other on camera.
Maybe skip if
you have no interest in cars or find blokey humor grating after a while.
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Season 12016
8.238K1313h 2m
With the exception of the two-part special for the first series, each episode featured studio segments filmed within a makeshift tent lot hosted across various foreign locales - two of these sites were each used for two separate but consecutive episodes. Although the series featured celebrities, most appeared in a minor capacity while others were mentioned or involved a look-alike - these appearances mainly were for a running gag involving them heading to meet the presenters in their tent for an interview, only to "die" in a freak accident.
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Season 22017
8.220K1111h 42m
After the first series, the programme's studio segments were permanently filmed within the Cotswolds. In addition, celebrities were more fully involved in the programme than the minor appearance they had in the previous series, taking part for a special segment used in this only involving head-to-head timed laps between two guests in each episode, with the exception of the final episode which was a special.
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Season 32019
8.729K1415h 28m
The third series discontinued the involvement of celebrity guests, in order to provide more focus on films, and was the last series to involve studio segments, car reviews and timed laps. In acknowledgement of this drop in the format, the final episode's last scene featured a montage of studio scenes conducted by the presenters over the course of the career - both from this program, as well as from their time hosting Top Gear.
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Season 42019
8.115K45h 39m
The fourth series eliminated the tent format and focuses only on feature-length specials.
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Season 52022
8.511K35h 41m
The fifth series includes three feature-length specials: A Scandi Flick, Eurocrash, and Sand Job.
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Season 62024
9.58K12h 10m
In their last adventure, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May ignore the instructions of Mr Wilman and head to Zimbabwe in three cars they’ve always wanted to own, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag, for a stunning road trip through beautiful and sometimes challenging landscapes leading to an emotional ending on a strangely familiar island.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Jeremy Clarkson Self - Presenter
James May Self - Presenter
Richard Hammond Self - Presenter
Abbie Eaton Self - Driver
Mike Skinner Self - The American
Simon Pegg Self - Special Guest
David Hasselhoff Self
Kiefer Sutherland Self - Guest
Paris Hilton Self
Nigel Mansell Self - Presenter
Crew
Andy Wilman
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