The Grand Tour producer confirms the show is loosely scripted (2024)

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"We know where we're going, we know where we're headed."

By Sam WarnerPublished: 20 September 2022

The Grand Tour's executive producer has admitted that the series is actually "very" loosely scripted.

While the show follows the casual nature of Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May's shenanigans on the road, some have wondered how spontaneous things are.

Speaking ahead of the release of new special A Scandi Flick, Andy Wilman said of how scripted things are (via Radio Times): "Very loose. we know where we're going, we know where we're headed."

"There are certain things on that film that we know, like you know, Jeremy and Richard come to that ice lake to race the skiiers and we don't find those by accident, that sort of thing," he explained. "You set that up in advance, but you don't know what the outcome will be and so on and so on.

"We had a notion that we were going to build sheds because we had seen on a reccy those little huts. So you work that in and you go, 'Right, we will build some sheds,' but what will happen to them or how they will play out, we don't know."

Addressing one key moment from the special, which sees the presenters drive with sheds on the back of their cars through the snow and down a ski slope, Wilman revealed that Clarkson's move to push Hammond's shed down the slope was the presenter's idea.

"We usually go with a sheet of A4 [paper] with bullet points, which, for a 90-minute film, I think is still good to sort of hand-on-heart say we're still making this s**t up overarchingly," he explained.

Meanwhile, earlier this month, Hammond defended the decision to air May's car crash while filming as part of the special.

The Grand Tour: A Scandi Flick is available on Amazon Prime Video now.

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Sam is a freelance reporter and sub-editor who has a particular interest in movies, TV and music. After completing a journalism Masters at City University, London, Sam joined Digital Spy as a reporter, and has also freelanced for publications such as NME and Screen International. Sam, who also has a degree in Film, can wax lyrical about everything from Lord of the Rings to Love Is Blind, and is equally in his element crossing every 't' and dotting every 'i' as a sub-editor.

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