Overview
- Prime confirmed on Tuesday, July 14, that The Grand Tour will return as a six-episode series premiering on Friday, September 4.
- The new presenting team is Francis Bourgeois and Throttle House creators James Engelsman and Thomas Holland, who were announced earlier this year.
- An official synopsis says episodes send the trio across the Angolan desert, into Malaysia’s car scene, and to California to test performance cars, preserving the show’s large-scale road challenges.
- Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are not returning to the series and Prime has used a clip of Clarkson approving Francis Bourgeois as part of promotional material to link the old and new eras.
- The casting and promotion reflect a strategy to draw younger streaming audiences by hiring digital-native personalities while keeping the high-production, globe-trotting format that defined the show since its 2016 launch and 2024 finale.