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29th January 2021
05:09pm GMT

(In case you don't get the joke, it is all a reference to Wilson the volleyball in Castaway with Tom Hanks). The Great Escapists launches Friday 29th January on Amazon Prime Video. The offical synopsis for the show reads:“Bald, leathery, peeling and out of shape: I shall call you Clarkson.”
Richard Hammond talks about his new Amazon show The Great Escapists, and how he replaced Jeremy Clarkson with a deflated football. pic.twitter.com/kHolMCMOvG — JOE (@JOE_co_uk) January 22, 2021
Two men shipwrecked together on a desert island, THE GREAT ESCAPISTS is the story of Richard Hammond (The Grand Tour) and Tory Belleci (Mythbusters), (arguably) two of pop-science TV’s greatest minds, with nothing but their smarts and their scrap shipwreck for survival. Can they invent themselves off the island? Or will they be castaway forever? This is the engineering challenge of their lives, will they succeed and become THE GREAT ESCAPISTS?
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