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‘THE GRAND TOUR’ WITH EXECUTIVE PRODUCER ANDY WILMAN
3 months ago
By Mindy Juss
Andy Wilman, Executive Producer of Amazon Prime’s new global car series, The Grand Tour, is the latest name to join the line-up of speakers at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Wilman will lift the lid on the show, fronted by long-term collaborators Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, ahead of its Autumn launch. The format has been created and produced by W.Chump & Sons, the indie set up by Wilman and the presenting trio.
Discussing his vision for the series in an exclusive Masterclass for this year’s TV Festival, Wilman will join former head of entertainment at ITV, Elaine Bedell, in an informal In Conversation style interview.
Wilman will also discuss his aim of reflecting the trio’s “spirit of travel and adventure” and the production challenges involved in hosting each episode in a different location – and from what Clarkson has described as “a giant tent” – as well as filming live studio audience sections from worldwide locations every week. In a Broadcast interview in July last year, Wilman said Amazon provided the “strongest and most intelligent offer”. Jay Marine, VP of Amazon Video Europe, said The Grand Tour “will be one of the most anticipated TV launches ever”.
The Festival session will be produced by Nav Raman and Pat Younge from Sugar Films. Younge, who worked with Wilman when Younge ran BBC in-house production said: “Andy is a straight up and down, top class, multi-award winning executive producer. He doesn’t blow smoke or talk BS, and so it’s going to be rare and great opportunity to hear directly from him about the creative journey they’ve been through this past 12 months.”
Amazon announced in 2015 that Clarkson, Hammond and May would reunite to make a car show with Wilman. The award-winning team have committed to three series as part of a landmark global TV deal.
www.thetvfestival.com/2016/05/the-grand-tour-with-executive-producer-andy-wilman/
Jeremy Clarkson’s new show cannot have a test track or describe Namibia as 'beautiful' over fears of being sued, producer claims
Clarkson has been warned he risks being sued by the BBC if they incorporated elements that were too similar to Top Gear
Patrick Foster, media correspondent
24 AUGUST 2016 •
Jeremy Clarkson’s new motoring show cannot have a test track, feature the Stig, call the news section “the news”, or even describe Namibia as “beautiful”, for fear of being sued by the BBC, the programme’s producer claimed yesterday.
Andy Wilman, Clarkson’s lifelong friend, and producer of the The Grand Tour, said that lawyers acting for the new Amazon show had warned the presenters that they risked being sued by the BBC if they incorporated elements that were too similar to Top Gear.
Wilman said that the legal discussions became “hilarious”, as the lawyers even insisted on examining whether James May would be able to use the word c**k, as the presenter had frequently referred to the item of male anatomy while working on the BBC show.
Lawyers even insisted on examining whether James May would be able to use the word c**k CREDIT: PAUL GROVER FOR THE TELEGRAPH
He said: “They got funnier and funnier. We went to Namibia to make a big film. The lawyers got out a film we had done [for Top Gear] in Botswana. The lawyers go through everything and they said, ‘There’s a scene in [Top Gear] 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 sh*t’.”
Wilman said that the new show’s studio, which sits within a giant tent that moves to a different location around the world each episode, would include a leaderboard showing how cars had performed, but the presenters had been banned from having handwritten lap times, for fear of infringing upon Top Gear’s intellectual property rights.
He said: “There’s , but we can’t have handwritten stuff, that’s all got to change for the lawyers. We still test cars and stuff though.”
The producer added that the show would still feature a news section, but added: “We can’t call it ‘the news’.”
Wilman said that the new show was mostly complete, and would be released later in the Autumn. He said that he hoped the programme would be shown on terrestrial television in the coming years.
The producer also accepted that he and the presenters had a “broken relationship” with the BBC, before Clarkson was sacked for punching a producer, but said that the corporation should have fined the presenter rather than axing him.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/24/jeremy-clarksons-new-show-cannot-have-a-test-track-or-describe-n/
3 months ago
By Mindy Juss
Andy Wilman, Executive Producer of Amazon Prime’s new global car series, The Grand Tour, is the latest name to join the line-up of speakers at the Edinburgh International Television Festival.
Wilman will lift the lid on the show, fronted by long-term collaborators Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, ahead of its Autumn launch. The format has been created and produced by W.Chump & Sons, the indie set up by Wilman and the presenting trio.
Discussing his vision for the series in an exclusive Masterclass for this year’s TV Festival, Wilman will join former head of entertainment at ITV, Elaine Bedell, in an informal In Conversation style interview.
Wilman will also discuss his aim of reflecting the trio’s “spirit of travel and adventure” and the production challenges involved in hosting each episode in a different location – and from what Clarkson has described as “a giant tent” – as well as filming live studio audience sections from worldwide locations every week. In a Broadcast interview in July last year, Wilman said Amazon provided the “strongest and most intelligent offer”. Jay Marine, VP of Amazon Video Europe, said The Grand Tour “will be one of the most anticipated TV launches ever”.
The Festival session will be produced by Nav Raman and Pat Younge from Sugar Films. Younge, who worked with Wilman when Younge ran BBC in-house production said: “Andy is a straight up and down, top class, multi-award winning executive producer. He doesn’t blow smoke or talk BS, and so it’s going to be rare and great opportunity to hear directly from him about the creative journey they’ve been through this past 12 months.”
Amazon announced in 2015 that Clarkson, Hammond and May would reunite to make a car show with Wilman. The award-winning team have committed to three series as part of a landmark global TV deal.
www.thetvfestival.com/2016/05/the-grand-tour-with-executive-producer-andy-wilman/
Jeremy Clarkson’s new show cannot have a test track or describe Namibia as 'beautiful' over fears of being sued, producer claims
Clarkson has been warned he risks being sued by the BBC if they incorporated elements that were too similar to Top Gear
Patrick Foster, media correspondent
24 AUGUST 2016 •
Jeremy Clarkson’s new motoring show cannot have a test track, feature the Stig, call the news section “the news”, or even describe Namibia as “beautiful”, for fear of being sued by the BBC, the programme’s producer claimed yesterday.
Andy Wilman, Clarkson’s lifelong friend, and producer of the The Grand Tour, said that lawyers acting for the new Amazon show had warned the presenters that they risked being sued by the BBC if they incorporated elements that were too similar to Top Gear.
Wilman said that the legal discussions became “hilarious”, as the lawyers even insisted on examining whether James May would be able to use the word c**k, as the presenter had frequently referred to the item of male anatomy while working on the BBC show.
Lawyers even insisted on examining whether James May would be able to use the word c**k CREDIT: PAUL GROVER FOR THE TELEGRAPH
He said: “They got funnier and funnier. We went to Namibia to make a big film. The lawyers got out a film we had done [for Top Gear] in Botswana. The lawyers go through everything and they said, ‘There’s a scene in [Top Gear] 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 sh*t’.”
Wilman said that the new show’s studio, which sits within a giant tent that moves to a different location around the world each episode, would include a leaderboard showing how cars had performed, but the presenters had been banned from having handwritten lap times, for fear of infringing upon Top Gear’s intellectual property rights.
He said: “There’s , but we can’t have handwritten stuff, that’s all got to change for the lawyers. We still test cars and stuff though.”
The producer added that the show would still feature a news section, but added: “We can’t call it ‘the news’.”
Wilman said that the new show was mostly complete, and would be released later in the Autumn. He said that he hoped the programme would be shown on terrestrial television in the coming years.
The producer also accepted that he and the presenters had a “broken relationship” with the BBC, before Clarkson was sacked for punching a producer, but said that the corporation should have fined the presenter rather than axing him.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/24/jeremy-clarksons-new-show-cannot-have-a-test-track-or-describe-n/
