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Amazon Prime’s Christmas TV ad featuring an imam and a vicar. Photograph: Amazon Prime

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BBC America has commissioned a new eight-part series from Phoebe Waller-Bridge Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose for the Observer

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And finally...

A stunt in Berlin to promote Friday’s launch of The Grand Tour. Photograph: Clemens Bilan/Getty Images for Amazon Prime Vi

With no preview episodes of The Grand Tour available before Friday’s launch, Joel Golby has taken a stab at imagining what it will look like in an effort to answer the all important, and perhaps not entirely diplomatic question: “Is The Grand Tour just weird porn for dads?”