While BBC Worldwide's failed reset Top Gear seen earlier this year on BBC Brit (DStv 120) with Chris Evans was panned by critics and viewers alike and saw the host quit as ratings plummeted, The Grand Tour that Amazon spent millions on, looks like an instant hit while critics are back raving about Jezza and car company. This South African episode that will be become available next week Friday and following the debut episode set in California's desert, will be the second episode of the new series. The Grand Tour Presents: Carnage A Trois On a road trip, the trio dish up a hair-raising mountain climb, bomb defusals, propeller powered cars, helicopter stunts and the most thrilling race of their lives before reaching the English Channel for a jaw dropping. The town is small, consisting only of two parishes and two streets : But it is. If you take an average of the ratings for every episode in the series, Top Gear achieved an overall score of 7.88 out of 10, vs The Grand Tour on 8.63 out of 10. of Tours, Over the river Loire there is a very handsome stone bridge. Part of the first season of the show – releasing one episode per week on Amazon Video Prime since yesterday – is an episode filmed earlier this year in Johannesburg, South Africa. And the lowest ‘Italian Lessons’ still managed to achieve a decent 7.8 out of 10. Netflix is currently available in 190 countries. With no word from subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services Netflix or ShowMax about the show, and Amazon being coy about which further countries it will be launching its Amazon Video Prime VOD service in, it's highly likely that the mostly male viewership courted by the show will watch The Grand Tour long before Amazon Video Prime launches in South Africa – if it does.Īmazon Video Prime is set to launch in a further 200 countries in December and switched on in Australia last night, but it's unclear whether South Africa is part of the list that will get the service.

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