The Grand Tour returns!

Apply for tickets to be part of the UK studio audience.

The Grand Tour pitches its tent in the UK as jet-setting hosts Clarkson, Hammond and May return for Season 3, and you could be there. This year, you will have two opportunities to apply for tickets, but you’ll need to be quick! In this first wave, Amazon customers can apply from 00:01 BST on 10 October 2018 until 23:59 12 October 2018.

To apply for a pair of tickets to the recording please complete the form below. Once completed, our tickets fulfilment company, Applause Store, may follow up with a few questions about the show. Audience requirements differ from show to show and audience participation is a key part of the live studio recording. If you are successful, you will receive an email from Applause Store confirming your place on The Grand Tour tent guest list, along with a ticket for you and a guest of your choosing.

Please note that the email address associated with your Amazon account will be used by both Amazon and Applause Store to contact you. Applicants must be 18 years or over. There are a very limited number of places available and application does not guarantee that you will receive tickets. See full terms and conditions below.

Evidently, what the people—and Amazon’s profits—demand is more of The Grand Tour. The show will not come to an end after its upcoming third season, as had been rumored, and could very well continue on after that. Update: We have more details on the show’s new format below.

The news comes to us direct from Amazon itself, in Twitter form:

“Years to come” implies the streaming video service has a lot more in store for hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May and their high-budget car adventures.

And they’ll dump the tent next! That’s good, the tent wasn’t that well-executed to begin with. Maybe now that the BBC’s Top Gear has pivoted to ultra-handsome cricket captains, and Chris Harris, it’s cool with letting Amazon’s guys shoot in a studio again. Or they’ll take the entire show on the road, which frankly sounds more inspiring than the audience stuff has been.

Season three of The Grand Tour returns to Amazon Prime members on Jan. 18, 2019.

Update: This story in The Sun confirms that from the fourth season onward, The Grand Tour will indeed ditch the studio segments.

Instead it’ll be more like the Top Gear travel specials everyone loves, four of them per year instead of a whole season, “proper event TV” as they call it. And it will mark an end to 17 years of shooting in a studio, starting with their old BBC show.

I haven’t always been the biggest fan of The Grand Tour, given that it’s been a bit too much like old Top Gear was but not as good, but I am excited to see where this goes. Putting the focus on the travel specials everyone loves is a killer idea.

Will Young has said he plans to report The Grand Tour to Ofcom after Amazon Prime allegedly failed to respond to his accusation that the Jeremy Clarkson vehicle perpetuates homophobic stereotypes.

In the second episode of the show’s third series, broadcast on 25 January, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May travel to Colombia. Clarkson is given a Jeep Wrangler to drive. “Isn’t that a very popular car with the gay community?” May asks Clarkson, apparently referencing a 2014 Car Talk survey of the models preferred by the LGBT community in which it ranked highly. Clarkson responds: “What is it, lesbian, bacon, transgender?”

Later in the episode, Hammond suggests that Clarkson might want to pair his vehicle with “maybe some nice chaps, suede but ventilated at the back” and taunts him about carrying moisturiser. The Weather Girls’ hit It’s Raining Men plays from the Jeep’s stereo. Clarkson later describes the car as being “bought by people who like cruising the streets of San Francisco and Key West and Brighton and Sydney”.

On 28 January, Young described the presenters’ remarks as “fucking pathetic and actually homophobic”. The singer and podcast presenter said: “Screw them and the show and Amazon … for putting this shaming archaic tripe out … it’s insulting and they can’t rest on laurels of ‘oh we are just politically incorrect’. It’s sad and shaming, bigoted and for fuck’s sake grow up.” Amazon Prime told the Guardian it wasn’t commenting on the matter.

Young continued: “How dare they stereotype gay men. I don’t drive a Wrangler Jeep. I don’t wear pink shirts. I don’t wear arseless chaps. You can be honest and funny without this ridiculous ‘lad’ ooh being gay and let’s laugh about it mentality. It’s repulsive and how dare you do it.” He criticised the producers of the show for creating the “gay Jeep” narrative.

A day later, he tweeted that he had received no response from Amazon Prime “so Ofcom beckons”. He concluded: “Enough is enough and I’m pissed and fed up. I want Amazon Prime and the producers of Grand Tour to meet young LGBT [people] who want to kill themselves because of shaming and laughter and normalising of shaming homophobic narratives … your time is up and it’s time to make a stand.

“Is there a legal case?” he asked. “Who knows … watch this space.”

A spokesperson for Stonewall said: “Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘jokes’ about the LGBT community perpetuate archaic stereotypes. This is just one more example of how much work is still left to do to combat discrimination against lesbian, gay, bi and trans people.”

Clarkson, Hammond and May have previously received criticism for making remarks that have been perceived as perpetuating homophobic stereotypes. In a 2016 episode of The Grand Tour, Hammond said he does not eat ice cream because he is straight. “Ice cream is a bit – you know,” he said. In 2006, Clarkson called a Daihatsu Copen “a bit gay” on an episode of Top Gear.

Young recently launched a new series of Homo Sapiens, the podcast he presents with filmmaker Chris Sweeney. The first episode features an interview with the Australian pop star Troye Sivan.