The Grand Tour: popular TV series showcases Georgia
James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson will appear driving across Georgia in three high-performance cars in today’s episode. Photo: The Grand Tour.
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Viewers of The Grand Tour, an internationally popular motoring TV series, will see its star presenters Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond traverse across Georgia in the show’s latest episode released today.
Episode 11 of the ongoing season shows the trio cover over a thousand kilometres between the Black and Caspian seas, travelling in three high-performance grand touring-class cars.
They drive “across motorways, rural roads and beautiful cities staging many challenges along their journey” featuring Georgia and Azerbaijan.
This week #TheGrandTour goes to Georgia and Azerbaijan in another mini-special. pic.twitter.com/D3CJI1vUGO
— The Grand Tour (@thegrandtour) March 20, 2019
In the best tradition of humorous, often nonsensical, scripts for the series, the popular motoring personalities will be “attempting to find the best car for someone who lives in Georgia but really craves freshwater fish”, a preview by MotoringBox news website said.
Along the way, they encounter strange bathing regimes, moveable borders, incredible monuments and a bladder bursting way to check track performance [...]” — MotoringBox.
The presenters and their travelling team worked with Geo Film Production for local filming of the episode, which continues season three of the Amazon series.
Clarkson, Hammond and May launched The Grand Tour in 2015 after leaving BBC, where they became known for their original show Top Gear.
Behind the scenes from this week's mini-special in Georgia and Azerbaijan.#TheGrandTour pic.twitter.com/1KgWccJ2x8
— The Grand Tour (@thegrandtour) March 21, 2019
The new series, being produced by Amazon and streamed online to millions of viewers, sees the presenters in a range of segments, including talks in front of an audience and pre-recorded edits of their travels in various types of cars, sprinkled with humorous takes on social, political and other subjects.
The Georgian part of their travels was recorded in October, when the trio visited cities from Batumi to Gori as well as the village of Khurvaleti near the administrative boundary line separating the occupied Tskhinvali province from the rest of the country.