TV is TV, of course, and The Grand Tour is really just Top Gear with a bigger budget. But Amazon has a little feature called X-ray that gives the viewer additional insights into what they’re seeing, providing they’re using a web browser or a mobile device app. With dramas, that means you can easily find out the names of actors in the current scene and the music being played, for example.
And with The Grand Tour, you get all of that, plus trivia…
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
