

"People could say, 'This is a terrible program and Amazon's wasted its money,' and I'll go, 'Yeah, I'll be dead before they even notice,'" Clarkson says.Įven if Clarkson is blasé about how the new show is received by critics and the millions of viewers who once watched him, Richard Hammond and James May on Top Gear, Amazon won't be. After all, the spiritual successor to his old series Top Gear is said to have cost the online retailer £160 million for three seasons.

The former Top Gear host is telling Newsweek about whether he feels pressure for his new car show, The Grand Tour -launching on Amazon Prime Video November 18-to be a hit.

I'm now 56, it doesn't really matter anymore, because I'll be dead soon," Jeremy Clarkson says.
