The Grand Tour Season Returns September 4 With New Host Lineup

Prime Video has set a firm return date for The Grand Tour, confirming that the next season will premiere on September 4. The announcement was shared through social posts that leaned into the series’ familiar tone with the line, “Same show. New knobs,” signaling a continuing format while swapping in fresh faces behind the wheel.

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When it comes back, The Grand Tour is arriving as a six-episode run. The season is set to take viewers across multiple regions, including stops in the Angolan desert, Malaysia, and California, keeping the travel-and-automotive mix that fans expect from the show.

Hosting duties will be split between Thomas Holland and James Engelsman, joined by social media personality Francis Bourgeois. Holland and Engelsman are an established pairing from the motoring YouTube channel Throttle House. Holland is a motoring journalist who kicked off Throttle House in 2015, and Engelsman joined the channel a few years later.

Francis Bourgeois—whose real name is Luke Nicolson—has a background as a qualified mechanical engineer. Before shifting full-time into online content, he reportedly worked briefly at Rolls-Royce, then stepped away to focus on his social media presence, which is tied to his trainspotting hobby.

Prime Video also teased the transition in advance: former host Jeremy Clarkson appeared on The Grand Tour’s social channels in February as part of a short skit that introduced the new hosting lineup.

For context, The Grand Tour is Prime Video’s most-watched unscripted UK series, but it has been inactive since September 2024. The series went off the road after its final episode featuring the original trio—Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. That closing run wrapped up more than two decades of their television partnership with a large-scale journey through Zimbabwe and Botswana.

For players and pop-culture watchers who track daily entertainment updates alongside gaming news, the big question now is how the new hosting group will adapt the show’s established chemistry and pacing. With the date locked and episode count confirmed, the remaining unknowns are mostly creative: what the “new knobs” approach means in practice, and how the season’s locations and challenges will shape the overall tone compared to the Clarkson-era format.

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