{"id":2068,"date":"2021-07-23T19:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1278326"},"modified":"2021-07-23T19:00:02","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T17:00:02","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-says-covid-forced-the-grand-tour-to-be-on-their-a-game-for-lochdown-special","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/jeremy-clarkson-says-covid-forced-the-grand-tour-to-be-on-their-a-game-for-lochdown-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson says COVID forced The Grand Tour to be on their \u201cA-game\u201d for Lochdown special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> Jeremy says he, Richard Hammond and James May had to be on their best behaviour for the upcoming Scotland special. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Grace Henry\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 23 July 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are hitting the road again for <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/entertainment\/reality-tv\/the-grand-tour-scotland-special-release-date-amazon-prime-video\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener\">The Grand Tour<\/a> Scotland Special.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown will arrive on Amazon Prime Video on <strong>July 30th<\/strong> and was filmed during the lockdown, hence the title.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Clarkson tells us the recent pandemic forced the lively trio to be on their \u201cA-game\u201d during filming.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to press including <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\"><strong>RadioTimes.com<\/strong><\/a>, he explained: \u201cFilming in COVID, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s sort of forced us to be on our A-game really because the risk was so intense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued: \u201cI mean, there may be 50 people in the crew, and we couldn\u2019t just take 50 rooms in a hotel, we had to take over the whole hotel because this was the protocols that were given to us. We had to bring in our own catering staff, we had to have our own COVID testing people with us. We all had to be tested every day and if anybody failed, even any one person failed, then the whole ship had been abandoned, which would have been financially ruinous, so it was a big team effort.\u201d<\/p> <p>Clarkson hopes viewers will see the effort they all went through to pull off the Scotland special, adding: \u201cI think it shows in the special we\u2019ve made. We were right at the top of our game on that one. And it\u2019s a\u2026 It\u2019s like Grand Tour Unplugged really, because we\u2019re not abroad \u2013 you don\u2019t have scenery to fall back on or volcanoes, it\u2019s just rain. We had to provide the entertainment and I think we\u2019ve done a pretty good job.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;template-article__editor-content\"><strong>The Grand Tour Presents: Lochdown arrives on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, 30th July. <a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/feature.html?ie=UTF8&amp;docId=1000784673&amp;tag=radtim0b-21&amp;ascsubtag=radiotimes-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow&quot; noopener noreferrer\">Sign up for Amazon Prime<\/a>\u00a0for \u00a37.99 a month with a 30-day free trial. 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