I wasn't aware. Thanks, I'll add it to my list.
Short summary:
BBC, British TV, had a show about 3 middle aged men who would race each other in old junk cars and then demolish them, and it’s one of the most internationally successful shows of all time, Top Gear. They’d strap a rocket to a car and try and shoot it into space, they put remote controls on actual Mercedes Benz’s and raced them as RC cars, they even tried to make a car be a boat by putting a body on it so they could drive right into the English Channel… and they sank. It’s basically 3 comedians who do it so the show is hilarious, I don’t even like cars that much but it’s amazing.
Anyway, that show got canceled because the lead guy, the most famous one by far, got into a physical spat with a producer and he was sacked. England was pissed because that basically meant the show was done, and it was their crown jewel of British entertainment. So Amazon swept in and paid all 3 massive amounts of money to make a new show similar to top gear on their platform, and gave them a huge budget to do incredible stunts. They broke the land speed record in a production vehicle, they rented out actual tanks and fired at cars, they destroyed huge manors in England with construction vehicles.
But the “specials” are what are most amazing. They’re huge car-gloating trips in very exotic places. In one they were dropped in the middle of the Mongolian outback and para-mailed a deconstructed car via plane…
Then they had to put it together themselves and drive through the rugged terrain across country with no roads and away from all civilization… 3 comedians who sometimes can’t stand being in the same room with each other. It’s phenomenal.
Here’s a taste of what the old show was:
and then the intro to the new, American show, following Jeremy getting sacked: