Stupid Legal Reasons Mean That Clarkson & Co Are Banned From Saying These Things On The Grand Tour
It seems the BBC are looking for any opportunity to sue The Grand Tour if Clarkson takes the slightest morsel from his previous Top Gear adventures. Andy Wilman - the producer of the new Amazon car show - has revealed that the rules the old Top Gear trio are subjected to are unbelievably tough and fully protect the Top Gear BBC show from any form of copyright.
As if there wasn’t enough drama surrounding the break-up with the BBC, The Grand Tour cannot feature a written lap time board, a Stig or even refer to the motor news section as ‘The News’. There can be no Top Gear test track and there has even been a debate over whether James May can use his ‘cock’ catchphrase.
The legal scenario was made even more ridiculous when the trio went on a shoot to Namibia. As they had described the African scenery as ‘beautiful’ in past Top Gear episodes, Clarkson has had to resort to saying “For legal reasons, this scenery is shit”.
Despite the frankly ridiculous legal restrictions forced upon the new show, we’re all looking forward to seeing what The Grand Tour has to offer.
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O.K, I guess I can (kind of) understand the trio not being able to use trademarked properties of Top Gear, like the Stig and such, but not being able to describe a piece scenery in a commonly-used phrase just because it was on Top Gear in the past is utterly ridiculous; why don’t the lawyers practically ban every word in the English language, then?
Waite. So they will do on TGT that legendary LaFerrari,P1,918 road trip? 0_0
I’m actually really looking foward to how they will loophole all of this
we all do mate
James May not allowed to say “cock”?
Inb4 Jeremy Clarkson is banned from speaking English and Richard Hammond from driving cars
Seems like the bbc messed up and realized that the trio can obviously do the show without them and the bbc is now triying to undermind them by using every legal advanteg they can to not get there own fist in thier ass
Time to boycott anything bbc related.
This is just idiotic
When your EX is the BBC……
Maybe it was actually good for them to leave bbc
Amazon will find away, considering their crazy budget for the show, they’ll hire amazing lawyers to find loopholes and get around all these problems.