James May had a little accident while filming Amazon's The Grand Tour, but it had absolutely nothing to do with dangerous driving.

Nope, he wasn't performing a daring stunt - May just had a few too many one night, fell out of the pub and broke his arm.

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Speaking at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, the show's producer Andy Wilman explained: "[James] fell over the night before filming, coming out of a pub.

"He rang me up and said, 'I've broken my arm'. His car was automatic so we stuck him on Eurostar, pumped him full of drugs and left him to it.

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"[James] did more damage to it because he had to keep on going but he's falling to bits anyway. We are not in Usain Bolt territory with that body," Wilman joked.

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At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, Wilman also dropped a few more teasers, as well as some seriously huge bombshells.

Firstly, the Amazon Prime show starring James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond will launch with a 70-minute episode, while their deal is currently for 12 shows a year for three years, with an option to extend it further.

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Best news of all is that one segment of the series will see Clarkson drive through the vast Game of Thrones set - so we're hoping for some kind of Westeros cameo.

"Like them or loathe them, they are still doing their thing," Wilman added.

The Grand Tour will finally arrive on Amazon Prime this autumn, but no exact dates have been revealed yet.

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Bea Mitchell is a freelance news writer and sub-editor.