Jeremy Clarkson’s big The Grand Tour break-up leaves behind a legacy of bigotry and stunted masculinity

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. When it was announced earlier this year that ex-Top Gear stars Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May would part ways after 22 years as a trio, you couldn’t really describe it as “going out with a bang”. The Grand Tour, Prime Video’s motoring, travel, and heterosexual banter-themed series and de facto successor to Top Gear, released its final episode today, 13 September. In some ways, this is an improvement on the Top Gear of old – in the scheme of its hosts’ careers, The Grand Tour has been refreshingly scandal-lite. Reports claimed that Amazon were seeking to cancel The Grand Tour as a result, and would be curtailing Clarkson’s Farm at the end of the already-agreed-upon four seasons.