Prime Video has announced that The Grand Tour will be returning to screens in 2026, albeit with one very major change: a new trio of hosts.
The new presenters of The Grand Tour will be Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, from YouTube channel Throttle House, as well as trainspotting social media personality Francis Bourgeois.
A six-episode series, set to return to Prime Video “later this year”, will see the new trio in a variety of locations, from the Angolan desert, to Malaysia, and on to California.
“I’ve worked with Thomas for almost a decade making car films,” said Engelsman in a statement published alongside the announcement. “Who knew that all this time, the one ingredient that was missing was a Francis Bourgeois? Let the car adventures commence.”
“When I first heard they were rebooting The Grand Tour and replacing Clarkson, Hammond, and May, I said, ‘Only a moron would take that job,’” added Holland.
Holland is a motoring journalist who launched Throttle House in 2015, and was joined by Engelsman a few years later. Francis Bourgeois (whose real name is Luke Nicolson) is a qualified mechanical engineer who briefly worked at Rolls-Royce before leaving to pursue his growing social media profile.
Prime Video’s most-watched unscripted UK original series globally, The Grand Tour has been on the hoist since September, 2024, following the episode “One for the Road.” The episode was filmed across Zimbabwe and Botswana before taking a special moment to mark the end of hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May’s TV collaborations after 22 years of working together on The Grand Tour and the BBC’s Top Gear. Clarkson did, however, return to The Grand Tour’s social channels this week for a short skit confirming the new hosts.
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