The new television series on Amazon Video, "The Grand Tour," is now making noise for its one episode that teaches its viewers how to sneak an immigrant to the U.K. The show's host led by Jeremy Clarkson, made fun of a sequence that hid Richard Hammond inside an Audi TT.
"The Grand Tour" showed Richard Hammond hiding inside the frame of an Audi TT while Jeremy Clarkson asked their viewers where might be the initial was covered. Later, one of the hosts James May removed the bumper at the back of the car that concealed Hammond.
As a lot of "The Grand Tour" audiences were left in awe, Jeremy Clarkson made a funny statement that surprised some. Clarkson said that he was only about to reveal a "better way for immigrants of getting into Britain," The Sun reported.
Indeed, fans of "The Grand Tour" and its host found it funny, but the migrant charities were quite annoyed with the claim. In fact, there are some that voiced their sentiments contradicting what Jeremy Clarkson has said.
"We are appalled by the portrayal of migrants as an illegal cargo," East European Resource Centre representative Babara Drozdowicz told Daily Star, as published by Daily Express. "To demonstrate what is, in effect, little more than a 'how to' guide' is just irresponsible," Road Haulage Association's Kate Gibbs added.
Meanwhile, "The Grand Tour" now defeated "Game of Thrones" being the most illegally downloaded television series, the experts claimed. With that, Amazon Prime is now starting to lose millions of pounds.
The data analytics company MUSO revealed that "The Grand Tour" first episode, "The Holy Trinity," was illegally downloaded for about 7.9 million times. The second episode "Operation Desert Stumble" was downloaded over 6.9 million times while the third one, "Opera, Arts and Donuts," was 4.6 million times.
Hence, Amazon Prime might be now losing a total of £3.2 million or almost $4.1 million of earnings from "The Grand Tour" first episode in the UK alone. MUSO's chief commercial officer Chris Elkins described the illegal download statistics as "off the scale in terms of volume."
