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‘The Grand Tour’ Producer Andy Wilman on Working With Childhood Friend Jeremy Clarkson: ‘We Didn’t Plan Any of This at School’

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“The Grand Tour” producer Andy Wilman says the seeds for his success were sown at school — which he attended with Jeremy Clarkson .

“I went to school with him which is like, argh,” Wilman revealed. “But we didn’t plan any of this when we were at school, obviously not. We do have a synergy. Some of it did come from school… we never sat down and planned a hit because I don’t think we were clever enough to do that. ‘Top Gear’ became that big but it was by accident.”

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The producer was speaking at the Royal Television Society conference in London where he was appearing on a panel titled “The Hitmakers” alongside “ Happy Valley ” producer Nicola Shindler .

Both Wilman and Shindler discussed snobbery in the industry and how having a tabloid or soap sensibility could inform high-end unscripted and drama. “Jeremy’s a tabloid print journalist first and foremast and that element’s never left it,” Wilman said.

Shindler runs independent producer Quay Street Productions, which recently had a hit with Harlan Coban adaptation “Fool Me Once.” It also has two further Coban adaptations in development, “Missing You” and “Run Away.”

Of building her nose for a story, she said: “I always watched masses of television. I grew up with the soaps on the whole time.” She also pointed out that her frequent collaborator, “Doctor Who” showrunner Russell T. Davies, also started off in soaps. The two went on to create award-winning AIDS drama “It’s A Sin” together.

“The people I work with are passionate about television and want to make popular shows so if you say to them ‘It’s too long, you have to throw out some things that they love’ [then they will] she said.

Curve Media CEO Camilla Lewis chaired the panel.

Other speakers at the Royal Television society conference, which is hosted by Netflix this year, including David Beckham , Ted Sarandos and culture secretary Lisa Nandy.

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Jeremy Clarkson Says He Quit ‘The Grand Tour’ After Running Out Of Ideas & Becoming “Unfit, Fat & Old”

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Jeremy Clarkson has revealed why it’s the end of the road for The Grand Tour . Clarkson said he and co-hosts, James May and Richard Hammond, decided to quit the Amazon Prime Video show after running out of steam.

In an interview with The Times of London , Clarkson said it was becoming increasingly difficult to conjure up outlandish adventures for the show and that the presenters were all showing their age.

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Clarkson, Hammond, and May confirmed last November that they had filmed their final installments of  The Grand Tour . Two final episodes of the motoring series were recorded in Mauritania and Zimbabwe and will premiere on Amazon Prime Video.

Fozia Khan, Amazon Studios’ head of unscripted in the UK, said the brand could survive with another set of presenters. “It’s come to its natural end,” she said, adding that her team was “thinking about” how the show can live on.

Clarkson will continue to host Clarkson’s Farm for Amazon after the series has become the streamer’s highest-rated UK original. Filming on Season 4 is set to begin this year. Clarkson is also hosting more Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? for ITV.

The Times interviewer Ed Potton wrote that he was told not to ask Clarkson about his reviled The Sun newspaper column about Meghan Markle. Clarkson wrote that he imagines the day Markle is paraded “naked through the streets of every town in Britain while the crowds chant, ‘Shame!’ and throw lumps of excrement at her.” The piece was retracted and Amazon made clear its fury at the article.

Asked if he feels under pressure to be controversial, Clarkson said: “No! I like being controversial. Some people who see a still pond find that peaceful, but I cannot resist throwing a stone in it.”

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'Clarkson's Farm' series 3 is coming to Prime Video on 3 May. Here's how to watch it.

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Get ready for more entertaining farming drama as Jeremy, Lisa, Kaleb, Gerald, and Cheerful Charlie return for series three of Clarkson’s Farm . As they navigate the unpredictable world of British farming, Diddly Squat finds itself facing serious challenges. The crops are failing in the severe hot weather, supply costs soaring due to inflation, dreams for the beloved restaurant are dashed and the farm shop faces closure.

This series sees Jeremy come up with a series of bold plans to turn things around and hatch a plan to turn a profit from hundreds of unfarmed lands that make up half of Diddly Squat.

If you can’t wait for the new series, you can watch series 1 and 2 of Clarkson’s Farm on Prime Video now.

How to watch ‘Clarkson’s Farm’ on Prime Video

Clarkson’s Farm series 3 will be available on Prime Video on 3 May. Prime Video is included with your Prime Membership which costs £8.99 per month and £95 per year. Prime members can watch all three series of Clarkson’s Farm for free as well as thousands of other shows and movies.

If you’re not yet a Prime member and not sure whether it’s right for you, you can sign up for a free trial .

Only interested in Prime Video? You can sign up for Prime Video on its own for £5.99 per month.

Prime Video is supported in any web browser, and there are dedicated apps for most smart TV platforms. If you’re on a mobile device, you can get the Prime Video app for iOS or Android.

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Prime Video offers customers a vast collection of TV shows, movies, sports and more! The third series of Clarkson’s Farm will join the growing UK Original slate on Prime Video, including UK-produced Originals such as The Grand Tour ,  All or Nothing: Arsenal ,  The Devil’s Hour,   Mammals ,  Jungle , James May: Our Man In Italy   and James May: Our Man In India .

You can also enjoy global hits like The Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power , Mr. & Mrs. Smith   and The Boys as well as movies like My Policeman and Saltburn .

The entire collection is readily available for browsing within the Prime Video app or on the web at no extra cost, ensuring that there is a constant stream of fresh content for you to discover and enjoy.

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Why The Grand Tour is really ending: Jeremy Clarkson thinks “electric cars are rubbish”

The Top Gear Trio have given a number of reasons why they're jacking it in, but Clarkson's lament about the sterile nature of EVs in the new special is perhaps the most pertinent.

The Grand Tour’s final special, One for the Road, is a poignant farewell to one of television’s most successful, and endearing, male friendships. And it’s not hard to understand why it might be time to say goodbye to the format that presenter Jeremy Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman invented all those years ago: they’re old now. As you get older, things get harder to do. Even at the relatively spritely age of 40 I can attest to that.

But there are more tangible concerns than the imperceptible march of biological decline, and more than a few of them were listed on Tuesday night’s Q&A, An Evening with The Grand Tour , a special event that was part press junket, part celebration of three lives well lived: as well as us journalists, most of the crowd were family and friends of the main three. Lisa Hogan, Clarkson’s long-suffering partner who has become a fan favourite on sister show Clarkson’s Farm for giving as good as she gets, was in attendance, alongside the production crew they’d worked with for years. The mood of the night was hard to pin down: sombre, but jubilant. More Irish Wake than Statey Funes.

Clarkson, by his own gleeful admission, is getting “too fat” to fit into supercars. A practical reality that will surely put the kibosh on any hopes to see him do one last lap in an Ariel Atom. More pressing, and concerning for anyone hoping to continue the format in the future (be they Amazon producers casting for a next generation of Grand Tour or BBC Studios heads surveying the smouldering wreckage of what was once Auntie’s biggest export), is the sense that Clarkson & Co have simply exhausted the list of things you can do with car, short of successfully firing one directly into space, like the infamous Tesla stunt from a few years back.

And it is perhaps Tesla who should feel most aggrieved by Clarkson’s comments in the special itself, giving the final reason why his days as a motoring presenter need to end: electric cars are, frankly, rubbish.

For once, I find it hard to disagree with him. And this isn’t the sort of anti-Greenpeace rant he used to go on during Top Gear’s heyday. Indeed, environmentalism is a topic that he’s had something of a Damascene conversion on following his rebranding as a celebrity farmer. It’s a simple matter of aesthetics. Passion. Drive.

During an in-car piece to camera (something which they make look easy, but which is actually bloody hard to do as I discovered earlier this year ), Clarkson comments on the characteristic engine purr of his beloved Lancia Montecarlo: “that’s a sound you younger generation won’t grow up hearing”, he laments. “I hate electric cars. They might as well be white goods”. It’s true: for all their lack of toxic emissions, BEVs are bloody horrid, sterile things. I wince every time I see a Tesla or a Polestar on the road. They look like normal cars that have been overinflated. Cartoonishly oversized to accommodate the stacks of conflict minerals needed to drive their super-silent electric motors. Of course it’s nigh on impossible for an old petrolhead to get passionate about something that is essentially a dodgem car crossed with an iPhone.

And so, Clarkson must step aside. And his comrades must step with him, as they loyally have in the past, for the motoring entertainment format as we know it is nothing without him, and everyone knows it. Following the euphoria of their incredible final outing, which is brilliant by the way, it will fall to a new generation of producers and presenters to reinvent the car magazine show, and as we’ve seen with the various disasters that followed Clarkson’s departure from Top Gear, genuine passion for the subject matter is of absolute importance if the format is ever going to succeed again.

We all know this instinctively. How many of us enjoy Bake Off, without ever having made a cake? How many of us love Bob Ross, without ever having taken up the brush? Half of the people who watch Master Chef probably microwave most of their dinners. Enthusiasm is the key driver in all of these things: it’s attractive. It’s endearing. Via this beloved trio, it made household names of the Aston Martin DB9 and the Pagani Zonda, cars which the vast majority of human beings would be lucky to get within 200ft of, let alone drive. We are a nation of Mondeo drivers, but we all have fond memories of Clarkson’s exploits in the Bugatti Veyron.

If The Grand Tour is to continue, as is apparently the plan, its presenters must be genuine car nuts. Mike Fernie, currently the main presenter of Drivetribe, would surely be a good shout. Gamer Network’s own Mike Channell – who I once worked with on Top Gear’s ill-fated gaming spin off – would be on the short list if I were those guys. An unexpected and bold choice would be Chris Harris, a fan favourite of Top Gear’s post-Clarkson era who is genuinely brilliant. Izzy Hammond, Richard’s daughter, has also proven herself capable on Drivetribe, and her passion for the subject is plain for all to see, accusations of nepotism be damned (this is Britain, the whole thing runs on nepotism, it determines who gets the special golden hat that says you're head of state).

I’m just spitballing here. Who knows how it’ll shake out – or who with. As long as it’s not Chris Evans, whom the British public have long been gaslit into believing is a popular broadcaster despite none of us actually knowing anyone who likes him, we’ll be off to a good start. But whoever it is needs to have an infectious enthusiasm for all things motoring in the 21st century: which means giving us all reasons to love the electric car.

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James May has explained why he’s ended his TV partnership with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond .

The trio first started working together on BBC ’s Top Gear in 2002 and moved over to Amazon for Prime Video series The Grand Tour , which premiered in 2016.

However, a recent special of the car show, titled One for the Road, is the swansong for the trio’s onscreen partnership – and May has reflected on why they have decided to cut ties professionally.

According to May, a part of the appeal was the fact they came to the decision on their own terms, telling BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “We are getting on a bit and everything does have to end. To be honest, we wanted to end it on our own terms. As we always used to say, ‘We want to land it safely, not fly it into a cliff.’”

May said that he believes the trio have “largely exhausted our take on the subject”, adding: “Not the subject itself. There’s space, I think, for a new approach to it, but it can’t come from us. We’re a bit too stuck in our way of doing it.”

When asked if that subject was cars of “the friendship between three men”, May said: “I sometimes wonder if it is the friendship – we wind each other up so badly – but it definitely started out as cars and our enthusiasm for them and even, dare I say it, our knowledge of them.

“But it is also about human relationships. And without wishing to sound pretentious, also the human condition – a view of what life means from the perspective of people who are a bit overly obsessed about cars. And, of course, it also turned into a travel show, a pantomime, a circus – all these other things as well.”

Clarkson, who is currently enjoying the biggest success of his career with Clarkson’s Farm , previously said the trio had “thought long and hard about how we should end our 22-year partnership, but in the end we just went to the end of the alphabet” and selected Zimbabwe as a place to set the special.

“There was another reason why we chose Zimbabwe, though,” he continued, revealing: “We would drive across it from east to west, as usual, but then we could cross the border and finish up where we began all those years ago: the Makgadikgadi salt pans in Botswana.”

Clarkson said it “makes the three of us happy” that their working relationship did not disintegrate “in a blizzard of outrage and tabloid headlines”, but was “landed safely and gently”.

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Jeremy Clarkson reveals surprise ‘real reason’ The Grand Tour is ending

• Conor O'Brien
• Published : 9:17, 16 Sep 2024
• Updated : 11:23, 17 Sep 2024
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JEREMY Clarkson has addressed the surprise 'real reason' behind The Grand Tour coming to an end.

The popular Prime Video motoring show, which starred Jeremy , Richard Hammond and James May , finished its run on September 13

During the trio's final road trip, titled "One for the Road", Jeremy revealed a reason for wanting to wrap up the show: his disinterest in reviewing electric cars because they are "s**t".

Previously, the 64-year-old penned in The Sunday Times : "After 36 years of talking about cars on television , I'm packing it in, because I'm too old and too fat to get into the cars I like and not interested in driving those I don't."

At a screening for the final Grand Tour episode, the star admitted: “It gets you tonight, it is the end. It didn’t at the end of filming.

“We said three years ago we would do one more then end it.

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"We had driven cars higher and faster than anyone else so we did wonder what else we could do with a car.

"We had run out of places to go, we had run out of things to do. And I had got fat.”

Having launched in 2016, The Grand Tour began after its three stars departed BBC hit Top Gear .

A total of five series aired on Prime Video, with the finale being billed as the sole episode of series six. It saw the hosts travel to Zimbabwe in their dream cars.

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In addition to Jeremy, Richard and James, executive producer Andy Wilman also made the jump to The Grand Tour .

Meanwhile, Jeremy previously opened up about his other show, Clarkson's Farm , affected his goodbye to his longtime collaborators.

Also on Prime Video the series follows Jeremy's experiences running Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds.

He said: "Where I would have been emotional was saying goodbye to the crew because most of them started with us.

"There's a photograph taken on Kubu Island of Russ Edwards and Casper Leaver (Camera Operator) and Andy Wilman, who were there on the original crew, and they're still with us.

The Grand Tour episode guide

How many seasons of The Grand Tour are there and where do they take place?

The Grand Tour launched on Prime Video in 2016 and quickly became one of the streamer’s biggest hits as hosts  Jeremy , 63, James , 60, and  Richard , 52, felt it was time they move on from Top Gear hit the road.

They have now brought five epic series of motoring adventures to the small screen, each taking place in different locations and even featuring celebrity guests.

• Series 1 aired from 2016 to 2017 and took the presenters to a number of foreign locales, including Jordan, Morocco and Italy.
• The series is comprised of 13 episodes, with episodes 7 and 8 making up a two-part special set in Namibia, where the trio embarked on an epic beach buggy challenge.
• Jeremy, Richard and James returned for more motoring actor in series 2, and drove their way across Europe as they tested out some of their dream vehicles like the Bugatti Chiron and the McLaren 720S.
• This series, which aired from 2017 to 2018, is made up of 11 episodes. It features regular 'studio segments' filmed in the team's permanent tent in the Cotswolds, and had regular participation from celebrities with two guests going head-to-head on timed laps every episode.
• In 2019, the presenting trio crossed continents - from North America, to South America, to Europe and Asia - putting both new vehicles and classic sports cars through their paces.
• This series was the last to feature the regular studio segments, car reviews and timed laps.
• To mark the end of this era the final episode's last segment includes a montage of scenes featuring the presenters over the course of their career as a trio, not only from this programme, but also from their time hosting Top Gear.
• This series marked a complete change in format for The Grand Tour as it consists entirely for feature-length specials which aired between 2019 and 2021.
• The first two chronicle Jeremy, Richard and James' epic adventures across Asia and Africa, while the third and fourth episodes saw them put foreign cars to the test on their home turf. And fitting American vehicles through Scottish roads is no easy feat.
• Following the same format as series 4, the fifth and final series of The Grand Tour also consists of four feature-length specials.
• The first of these hits screens in 2022 and follows the trio as they travelled through Norway, Sweden and Finland in three Rally-Inspired Sports Saloons.
• The second episode was another Euro adventure while the third took the presenters back to Africa.
• The fourth instalment of the series and final ever episode of The Grand Tour, titled One for the Road, premieres on September 13, 2024. It promises to be an emotional one as the trio set out on one epic final adventure in Zimbabwe and reflect on their 22-year-long working relationship and friendship.

"You can’t say that about any other show. We are a dysfunctional family, and I’d miss that, except for one tiny detail.

"There I was with all these guys that I've known and worked with for twenty-four years and I said, “I’ll see you all on Monday morning” because they all work on Clarkson’s Farm.

"I'm 100% convinced I would have been a lot more emotional without the farm show.

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• Conor O'Brien
• Published : 9:17, 16 Sep 2024
• Updated : 11:23, 17 Sep 2024
• Published : Invalid Date,

JEREMY Clarkson has addressed the surprise 'real reason' behind The Grand Tour coming to an end.

The popular Prime Video motoring show, which starred Jeremy, Richard Hammond and James May, finished its run on September 13

During the trio's final road trip, titled "One for the Road", Jeremy revealed a reason for wanting to wrap up the show: his disinterest in reviewing electric cars because they are "s**t".

Previously, the 64-year-old penned in The Sunday Times : "After 36 years of talking about cars on television, I'm packing it in, because I'm too old and too fat to get into the cars I like and not interested in driving those I don't."

At a screening for the final Grand Tour episode, the star admitted: “It gets you tonight, it is the end. It didn’t at the end of filming.

“We said three years ago we would do one more then end it.

Read more on The Grand Tour

The Grand Tour fans left in tears as Jeremy Clarkson show comes to an end

I watched the last Grand Tour - a perfect send off but Prime has to ditch it now

"We had driven cars higher and faster than anyone else so we did wonder what else we could do with a car.

"We had run out of places to go, we had run out of things to do. And I had got fat.”

Having launched in 2016, The Grand Tour began after its three stars departed BBC hit Top Gear.

A total of five series aired on Prime Video, with the finale being billed as the sole episode of series six. It saw the hosts travel to Zimbabwe in their dream cars.

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In addition to Jeremy, Richard and James, executive producer Andy Wilman also made the jump to The Grand Tour .

Meanwhile, Jeremy previously opened up about his other show, Clarkson's Farm, affected his goodbye to his longtime collaborators.

Also on Prime Video the series follows Jeremy's experiences running Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds.

He said: "Where I would have been emotional was saying goodbye to the crew because most of them started with us.

"There's a photograph taken on Kubu Island of Russ Edwards and Casper Leaver (Camera Operator) and Andy Wilman, who were there on the original crew, and they're still with us.

The Grand Tour episode guide

How many seasons of The Grand Tour are there and where do they take place?

The Grand Tour launched on Prime Video in 2016 and quickly became one of the streamer’s biggest hits as hosts Jeremy, 63, James, 60, and Richard, 52, felt it was time they move on from Top Gear hit the road.

They have now brought five epic series of motoring adventures to the small screen, each taking place in different locations and even featuring celebrity guests.

• Series 1 aired from 2016 to 2017 and took the presenters to a number of foreign locales, including Jordan, Morocco and Italy.
• The series is comprised of 13 episodes, with episodes 7 and 8 making up a two-part special set in Namibia, where the trio embarked on an epic beach buggy challenge.
• Jeremy, Richard and James returned for more motoring actor in series 2, and drove their way across Europe as they tested out some of their dream vehicles like the Bugatti Chiron and the McLaren 720S.
• This series, which aired from 2017 to 2018, is made up of 11 episodes. It features regular 'studio segments' filmed in the team's permanent tent in the Cotswolds, and had regular participation from celebrities with two guests going head-to-head on timed laps every episode.
• In 2019, the presenting trio crossed continents - from North America, to South America, to Europe and Asia - putting both new vehicles and classic sports cars through their paces.
• This series was the last to feature the regular studio segments, car reviews and timed laps.
• To mark the end of this era the final episode's last segment includes a montage of scenes featuring the presenters over the course of their career as a trio, not only from this programme, but also from their time hosting Top Gear.
• This series marked a complete change in format for The Grand Tour as it consists entirely for feature-length specials which aired between 2019 and 2021.
• The first two chronicle Jeremy, Richard and James' epic adventures across Asia and Africa, while the third and fourth episodes saw them put foreign cars to the test on their home turf. And fitting American vehicles through Scottish roads is no easy feat.
• Following the same format as series 4, the fifth and final series of The Grand Tour also consists of four feature-length specials.
• The first of these hits screens in 2022 and follows the trio as they travelled through Norway, Sweden and Finland in three Rally-Inspired Sports Saloons.
• The second episode was another Euro adventure while the third took the presenters back to Africa.
• The fourth instalment of the series and final ever episode of The Grand Tour, titled One for the Road, premieres on September 13, 2024. It promises to be an emotional one as the trio set out on one epic final adventure in Zimbabwe and reflect on their 22-year-long working relationship and friendship.

"You can’t say that about any other show. We are a dysfunctional family, and I’d miss that, except for one tiny detail.

"There I was with all these guys that I've known and worked with for twenty-four years and I said, “I’ll see you all on Monday morning” because they all work on Clarkson’s Farm.

"I'm 100% convinced I would have been a lot more emotional without the farm show.

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Jeremy Clarkson, the man behind 'Clarkson's Farm', has made his foray into the pub scene with the launch of The Farmer's Dog in the idyllic Cotswolds village of Asthall, causing quite the stir as locals and fans alike flock to the venue. Meanwhile, James May, known as one of the iconic trio from 'The Grand Tour', isn't far behind with his own establishment The Royal Oak in Swallowcliffe, Wiltshire.

Known for their friendly rivalry, May has already thrown down the gauntlet by introducing a dog menu at his country pub which is being talked about for its 'cheap as chips' prices, contrary to some complaints about the higher costs at Clarkson's. Committed to using only British produce, Jeremy has curiously banned ketchup, coffee, and Coca-Cola from his premises.

On the other hand, James May is catering to canine customers by rolling out dog-friendly meals such as lavish Sunday roasts, "bark bangers", and even special treats like Bark Brew beer or chicken and passionfruit flavoured Paw Star Dog Martinis.

Recently, it was highlighted by May that the secret ingredient to the success he shares with co-stars Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond on The Grand Tour may be their "mutual loathing" of each other. An insider disclosed to Express.co.uk that there's an intense rivalry brewing between May and Clarkson, with each aiming to create the most buzz-worthy pub in the countryside.

"While it's thought that Jeremy was making a joke about the pub's early reputation as a dogging site when he came up with the name The Farmer's Dog, James interpreted the theme more literally and responded with an entire dog food menu.", reports the Express .

"Some people see James' pub as the wholesome, more innocent version of Jeremy's wordplay, with his Paw Star Martini option - non-alcoholic of course - for dogs."

The source added: "It means people can take their pets to the pub with them without worrying they're being cruel and leaving them out when dining."

James has been able to create a buzz around his 18th-century tavern situated in a quaint Wiltshire hamlet, not far from two magnificent medieval fortresses, thanks to his award-winning dining experience.

His Royal Oak beef burger, just slightly less costly than any of Jeremy's main dishes, boasts an assortment of tasty toppings such as smoked bacon, gem lettuce, tomato chutney, pickles, and fries.

Yet, this months seasonal fare at James establishment notably lacks a classic bangers and mashunless one counts the bark bangers on offer for canine companions.

This leaves Jeremys £19 bangers and mash with scant competition at least for the moment.

With less than two hours drive separating the two establishments, aficionados of Top Gear and The Grand Tour might just venture out to visit both taverns but which will come out on top?

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Jeremy Clarkson's pub The Farmer's Dog - location, opening hours and what's on the menu

Jeremy Clarkson opened his own pub in the Cotswolds in August and it has been a roaring success, with fans travelling from far and wide to stop in for a pint.

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Jeremy Clarkson is making waves once again, this time in the pub industry with his latest venture, The Farmer's Dog. It all kicked off last month when fans flooded in to visit the star's new boozer, which opened on August 23.

Having already hit the jackpot with his Diddly Squat farm shop in the lush surroundings of Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, it's no wonder the astute telly host is expanding his horizon with this recent venture.

The success of his Amazon Prime sensation, Clarkson's Farm, has only grown following its 2021 debut season's massive popularity, reports Gloucestershire Live .

In the midst of shooting high-octane escapades with pals James May and Richard Hammond for The Grand Tour's final episodes, Clarkson is embracing rural life and getting down and dirty with some real farming action.

Keen on visiting Clarkson's new watering hole in person? Look no further, we've got everything you need to know.

Where is Jeremy Clarkson’s pub and what is it called?

Earlier this year, the ex-Top Gear headliner revealed he bought The Windmill pub for "less than £1m", only to rebrand it as The Farmer's Dog.

Nestled in Asthall, a stone's throw away from Burford in Oxfordshire, you'll find the pub at Asthall Barrow Roundabout, Burford, OX18 4HJ.

A gigantic marquee has popped up on its five-acre plot, stirring up local worry over potential traffic issues, given its position right by the bustling A40.

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When is The Farmer’s Dog open to the public?

The pub flung open its doors to the public at 12:00 BST on Friday, August 23, with hundreds of eager punters seen queuing for hours to be among the first to sample its offerings.

According to The Farmer's Dog website, the watering hole is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm - 11pm every week.

From Wednesday to Saturday, lunch is served from 2pm to 2.30pm and dinner is available between 5.30pm and 9pm. There's also a weekend carvery on Sunday between 12pm and 6.30pm.

The tent is open Wednesday to Sunday from 9.30am to 7.30pm, while outdoor dining at The Farmer's Puppy Kitchen wraps up at 4.30pm.

What food and drink do they serve at The Farmer’s Dog?

Well, it offers up your standard pub grub but with an important twist - it's packed with locally sourced ingredients from British Farms.

The menu is seasonal and avoids ingredients that cannot be found in the UK, though Clarkson has confessed his G&T is one notable exception.

Naturally, Clarkson's own drinks brand, Hawkstone, features prominently on the menu with its selection of lagers, IPAs, and ciders.

As for the food menu, large plates include sausage and mash, gammon with bubble and squeak, Lancashire hotpot, steak pie and a vegetable and cheddar crumble.

The Tent, which allows pub visitors to dine al fresco, is home to The Farmer's Puppy, which is a smaller version of the pub's bar and kitchen for outdoor diners. It also houses Hopes and Chops, where you can buy British-farmed meat and Hawkstone beer to take away.

Fans of the Diddly Squat Farm Shop can scoop up some goodies to take home, as a pop-up version has made its way into the tent scene. The official website promotes it, noting you can grab "the best of the farm for you to take home".

The first three seasons of Clarkson’s Farm are now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video. Fans of Clarkson can also watch his final episode of The Grand Tour, entitled One for the Road, via the streaming platform.

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The Grand Tour stars Jeremy Clarkson , Richard Hammond and James May quipped that they have been left “marooned” at a luxury camp in Botswana .

The three former Top Gear hosts were filming in Africa for the forthcoming Grand Tour specials, which will air on Amazon Prime Video, when Clarkson claimed that their flights back to the UK were cancelled.

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday, the Clarkson’s Farm star, 63, shared a photo of his co-stars looking at their phones at dinner and poked fun at being stranded at a five-star resort.

He penned: “BA [British Airways] have messed up our flight home so we are marooned here at a luxury camp in Botswana.

“With only 40 staff. It’s all about survival now.”

Since revealing their situation, both Clarkson and May, 60, have posted several sarcastic updates on social media about their “desperate” situation.

May wrote alongside a snap of a cheese board on X, formerly known as Twitter: “Staff/guest ratio ‘as low as 40:1’ in hell-hole safari lodge where GT presenters have been abandoned by their crew. Cheese has arrived.”

He later shared some footage of meerkats playing: “Thanks to the incompetence of British Airways we’ve had to endure a sunset safari with gin and tonics and meerkats. #Unacceptable.”

While Clarkson uploaded a photo of an outdoor pool and joked: “When BA delay a flight by 12 hours, do they not realise how much hardship they inflict on passengers? We are fighting to stay alive here.”

In another post, the Prime Video star shared a clip of the lodge’s open-air lounge, which featured May opening a fridge fully stocked with cold beverages.

“We are coping. But for how long?” Clarkson captioned the post.

Details about the next series of The Grand Tour have been kept mainly under wraps; but Clarkson did reveal that they were filming in Zimbabwe for a portion of it.

He revealed in a tweet: “My profound thanks to the people and government of Zimbabwe for helping to make a very special Grand Tour special, very special. We absolutely adored everything about your country. Apart from the pot holes maybe.”

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Clarkson’s Farm: The Cars Jeremy Clarkson Has Kept From The Grand Tour At His Farm

Jeremy Clarkson has a long history of working in the car industry as a leading journalist, so it’s safe to say that if The Grand Tour presenter likes a car, it’s going to be good. But when he buys a car for himself, there is no better compliment.

The ex-Top Gear presenter has reviewed hundreds of cars in his TV career, but he’s only ever brought home a few. Take a look through the next few slides to found out exactly what cars he took from from his career and why.

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MFB Bentley Continental GT From The Grand Tour Presents: A Massive Hunt

When The Grand Tour flew to Madagascar to find lost pirate treasure, Jeremy Clarkson modified a Bentley Continental GT with a host of additions to make it the ultimate off-roader. It was lifted with specialised suspension, given larger off-road tyres, a mass of protection, and a snorkel to give it the edge over fellow presenters Richard Hammond and James May .

It turned out to be the best choice of the three. Not only was it able to cross almost anything the Madagascar Special threw at it, but it did it with the utmost comfort.

Jeremy took it home and used it on his Diddly Squat Farm . It was even seen in a couple of episodes. But unfortunately, it had to be taken back to Bentley in Crewe, so doesn’t technically belong to Clarkson anymore, although he wishes it did.

Alfa Romeo GTV6 From  The Grand Tour: Well Aged Scotch

Jeremy Clarkson used to own an Alfa Romeo GTV6, with him calling it the best-sounding car ever in an interview. Then, during an episode of The Grand Tour where the trio drove three cars across Scotland’s North Coast 500, Clarkson chose the trusty Alfa.

Along the way it had a few issues, so he had to visit the garage to get it fixed. But along the way, he fell in love with the car, and soon it found its way back to Clarkson’s farm where it can still be found. It turned out he really couldn’t resist that sweet-sounding V6.

The Excellent From The Grand Tour: Berks To The Future

The Excellent was the brain child of Jeremy Clarkson during an episode of The Grand Tour where he attempts to build a sporty SUV. The prototype begins with him placing an MGB on top of a Land Rover Discovery chassis, bu unfortunately it wasn’t very good. Not only was there no creature comforts in the cabin, but the MGB kept falling off the chassis.

Eventually, he welded a Mercedes SL to the Discovery chassis and the Excellent was born. He adored the car, but the plan was to put it up for auction at Coy’s Auctions .

With a reserve set at £100,000, it reached £4,000 even with Clarkson pushing the price up himself. So while the public didn’t line up to take it home, Clarkson fell in love with it, and it can still be found parked up on Clarkson’s property.

The Jeep Wrangler From The Grand Tour: Colombia Special

While Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May were quick to joke about the Jeep Wrangler being a gay icon, it turns out the ex-Top Gear presenter definitely had a soft spot for the off-roader.

Thanks to a user on Reddit who goes by the name of u/apple_the_melon who went to visit Clarkson’s farm, we know that it’s being kept on his land next to a shrine of The Grand Tour episode.

The Jeep was involved in controversy alongside Clarkson, when he was accused of being homophobic. He wrote the following in a column:

“But this week, [Will Young] went berserk on Twitter, saying that I’d been homophobic in the most recent episode of  The Grand Tour ,” Clarkson wrote.

“Many gay people who’d seen the show said they couldn’t see a problem. None of my leftie friends could either. One even said I should tell him to stop being so gay.

“I won’t do that though. And nor will I suggest, once again, that mobile phones should be fitted with breathalysers to stop people drinking and tweeting.”

He ended the column with the following:

“I’m sorry and I’ll prove it”, Clarkson wrote: “No. Instead, I will apologise to Will for causing him some upset and reassure him that I know I’m not homophobic as I very much enjoy watching lesbians on the internet.” 

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Jeremy Clarkson admits he was ‘mostly smashed’ with co-stars during Grand Tour filming

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Jeremy Clarkson has admitted he was ‘mostly smashed’ while filming the final episode of The Grand Tour with his co-stars James May and Richard Hammond .

The trio, who first hit our screens together on Top Gear 22 years ago, are celebrating their final stint on television as their Amazon Prime series reaches its end .

And they’ve certainly gone out with a bang , with the Clarkson’s Farm star now revealing their antics behind-the-scenes.

Speaking at a Q&A following a premiere screening of The Grand Tour: One For The Road, the 64-year-old said that he and his co-stars were ‘mostly smashed’ during filming but ‘hopefully nobody will notice’.

He also claimed that a third of a cargo plane was filled with beer, instead of camera equipment.

When asked about how much units of alcohol they drank per episode, Clarkson revealed: ‘I’ll let you into a little secret on that one.

‘We had a big cargo plane… to move all of the kit that we needed out to film a show like that, you’ve got 70 people on the crew, a lot of people, you’ve got to get the cars out there, the spare parts out there, the camera equipment, the sound equipment, the minicams, the drones, it was a hell of a lot, and we didn’t fill the plane.

‘So there was third of it was left – we thought, “Well what should we put on that?” Beer was the answer.

‘So we had a third of an Antonov of beer to get through on that one.’

He went on: ‘But we do drink a lot, we are mostly smashed… hopefully, nobody will notice that at the end of that lake crossing most of that drink had gone.

‘Did you then notice we set off driving the next day?

‘I’m duty-bound to tell you there was a three-day gap between arriving and setting off – but there wasn’t.’

The final two-hour instalment of The Grand Tour left fans sobbing , as Clarkson, Hammond and May travelled to Zimbabwe to explore challenging landscapes in cars the three men have always wanted, a Lancia Montecarlo, a Ford Capri 3-litre, and a Triumph Stag.

However, the trio chose not to end their time on the road in Zimbabwe, but to return to Kubu Island in Botswana which featured in their Top Gear special back in 2007.

In the final episode after their journey through Zimbabwe, Clarkson said: ‘We were now on our final drive together heading to our favourite place in the world.’

He added: ‘We’ve travelled thousands and thousands and thousands of miles and had thousands and thousands and thousands of adventures.

‘And we’re going to end up right where we started.’

Hammond then said: ‘Never thought that what we do together would go on as it has.

‘I was excited when I got the job way back, very excited.

‘But I never dreamed it would grow into a career and life-defining adventure.

‘And occasionally, nearly career and life-ending adventure.

‘I can’t pretend it isn’t going to be a wrench ending this, because it is.’

The drive to Kabu saw Clarkson choke up as they discovered the cars they drove during the 2007 special lying on the side of the road.

Approaching their final stop, the presenter said: ‘It just remains for me to say thank you very much for watching. Thank you It means a lot.’

This comes after  Clarkson admitted he’s too ‘unfit and fat and old’  for filming some parts of the programme, which has run from 2016.

The Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? host said: ‘I’ve driven cars higher than anyone else and further north than anyone else.

‘We’ve done everything you can do with a car. When we had meetings about what to do next, people just threw their arms in the air.’

He continued to  The Times  that the show ‘is immensely physical and when you’re unfit and fat and old, which I am,’ making some parts of filming the show, like camping and the outdoor conditions, more difficult.

Clarkson’s comments echo May saying  he thinks the time is right for a brand new motoring show  to take the place of Top Gear and The Grand Tour, because the trio are ‘too old’.

He did however offer some hope about the trio  reuniting on another project,  elsewhere saying: ‘I wouldn’t rule it out, but you do have to bear in mind that we’re all getting on a bit.’

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