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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inb4 Clarkson is forced to “TORQUE PER UNIT TIMEEEEE!” instead of power
BBC realizing they continue to lose money with them gone, trying to scrape whatever they can.
This is probably more accurately referred to as “Clarkson sold the FORMAT of Top Gear to the BBC, so if he ripped off his own format, he’d owe the BBC for copyright infringement”
Instead of “The Cool Wall” would it be “The Trendy Board”?
Genius
And on that Boomshell
They can take control of someone’s catchphrase if it’s used in one of their shows?
Oh boy, time to reread that contract.
They should be allowed to have their own test track, a test driver and be able to say “moving on into the news” Like wtf..
BBC is a pitch. You read that right.
Bitter broadcasting company
Now what the 3 lads should do is restrict the BBC from making any reference to the three of them as strictly as possible.
I know something: disallowing the new TGs to love Alfas