The Scotland special will premiere next year and then The Grand Tour boys have another two specials to make under their existing Amazon contracts. We don’t leave as much to chance, you set up more scenes and that is like going back to the old days,” he explained. If you don’t have Madagasgar or the Mekong River… it makes you work harder. In adversity - a slight element of backs to the wall - we’ve got a really great film. Overall, he was proud of what was captured and admitted that, in some respects, the Scotttish adventure marked a return to their Top Gear roots, when UK-based shoots were a mainstay. “The sound man would put on all the nuclear Chernobyl gear before he mic-ed up the presenters, whereas normally they would be sharing a fag. “Everything was a lot more measured and disciplined,” Wilman continued. He called the show a “rolling bubble,” which unlike some static shoots, meant producers and presenters engaged with the outside through necessities such as gas station stops. No positive test results were returned for the main team during the shoot and Wilman said the daily dose of good news “gave us a bit of a zip.” If the results were negative, they were clear to continue filming for another day. They were all swabbed at the end of each day and got the results at 11PM that night. Some £50,000 ($67,000) was spent on coronavirus tests, he added. The chief medic guy, f***k did he bollock me, to bring us back into line. On the third day, we started to get a bit slack and revert back to muscle memory, so I jumped in someone else’s car. Or as Wilman described it, a “ Scooby-Doo van with three boffins in it.” He explained: “They were really tough on us.
But we thought we’ve got to do this because if you follow them, you’ve got a chance of making it to the end.”Ī mobile testing unit was established to serve the production team, staffed by specially-trained medics. “We’re not slapdash on health and safety as we’re all still alive after 20 years, but those kinds of processes, we usually groan and roll our eyes.
We were all really grown up about it,” he said. If you lose the money, it’s all down the drain. “Amazon has got the protocols and you’ve got to adhere to them. Wilman said recording the episode was an experience unlike any other, with the presenters and production team having to observe strict Covid safety protocols laid down by Amazon - protocols that, he admitted, would usually frustrate Clarkson, Hammond, and May in any other circumstance. The team recently wrapped a 10-day shoot in Scotland for a film that will ultimately fill the Russia-shaped hole in their Amazon duties. Maisel': Joel Is Main Attraction In Final Season 4 Teaser - Updateīut, as always with Wilman and co, they’re thinking about the next adventure and, after being forced to cancel their Russian road trip in March because of the pandemic ( losing “hundreds of thousands of pounds” in the process), the motoring show stayed closer to home.