'The American' Has Been Dropped By The Grand Tour
After we got our first – and excellent – trailer for the second series of The Grand Tour last week, we can bring you a second piece of news: The American will not be in it.
Mike Skinner, the NASCAR driver whose impossible task was to follow on from the silent Stig, who is officially the property of the BBC and couldn’t migrate to Amazon with the three stooges Clarkson, Hammond and May, has Tweeted that he won’t be involved in the new series.
His was a divisive character right from the get-go, with a lot of people finding him either not funny, deeply awkward or out of balance with the rest of the show. In some cases, all three.
But Skinner himself says that his character ‘wasn’t developed the way he was told.’ Either way, it didn’t work for us, didn’t work for Americans who didn’t appreciate his stereotyping, and hasn’t worked out for the unfortunate Skinner.
It remains to be seen whether there’s going to be a fast lap section of the show at all, because the Eboladrome, the trio’s test track near Swindon, England, doesn’t feature in the show’s first trailer. We’ll have to wait and see.
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I dont know about him rubbing the wrong way, it’s just that the joles sounded like they were written by someone who isn’t an american trying to replicate stuff from old cowboy movies or something. He just wasn’t that funny.
That was for the best
Best news of the year so far
That “American” was the wankiest idea TGT ever had
well why not introduce The Gits would match the title XD
Not so catchy though
Glad they listen to the fans and droped the character,cant wait for next month.
Good.
Honestly the only character that could possibly replace Stig for me is Kimi
Jason Plato from BTCC? He’s a class driver, multiple champion, great on camera and I think he might be out of a job next year.
I liked the American and im a country American. I find the sterotyping funny
The American is literally my favorite character