What’s going to happen to Amazon’s The Grand Tour as Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May exit?

The final episode of The Grand Tour starring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May has launched on Amazon Prime Video – and fans are definitely going to be emotional.

The trio’s TV history goes back more than 20 years, after they first began presenting Top Gear together on the BBC.

Then in 2016, they moved over to Prime to launch The Grand Tour – and the rest is history.

Now, Jeremy, 64; Richard, 54; and James, 61; are embarking on their final hurrah, as the release date for The Grand Tour: One For The Road arrives, which sees the co-hosts take the road trip of a lifetime to Zimbabwe.

Not only is the programme emotional for the simple reason that it is their final TV outing, but it also features nostalgic footage from their Top Gear days, as they retrace their footsteps from their Botswana special on the BBC show, which aired 17 years ago in 2007.

This is definitely the end of an era not only for Prime series, but also for British TV on the whole.

Fans are going to be very emotional saying goodbye to this TV trio (Picture: Prime Video)

So what’s next for The Grand Tour as the streaming giant prepares to open a new chapter? Here’s all you need to know.

What’s going to happen to Amazon’s The Grand Tour?

While One For The Road is the final episode for Jeremy, Richard and James on The Grand Tour, it doesn’t mark the end of the series completely.

The show will be continuing, but there will be new presenters helming the programme when it returns.

During a recent interview with Metro.co.uk, Richard said: ‘It will be carrying on. The Grand Tour continues. We’re stepping away as the hosts, but Prime will be continuing it. So I can’t wait to sit on my own chair and watch somebody else do it. That’s amazing.’

When giving his verdict on who Amazon should hire to take over, TV personality outlined: ‘If you’re making any show that at its heart has a subject, whether it’s cooking, dancing or cars, the hosts, the primary makers of it, have to have that passion in their heart. And we always did.

‘You never had to be a car geek to watch our show. Plenty of people who weren’t did watch it, but it was important that we were the car geeks.’

Richard revealed what he thought about new hosts coming to take over The Grand Tour (Picture: Prime Video)

Jeremy echoed Richard’s point of view, offering his point of view for what Amazon should do net.

‘My advice to Amazon would be – and I’ve given this to them already – for heaven’s sake, do not get well known people who “like” cars,’ he told The Sun.

The Clarkson’s Farm star added that in his view, there’s ‘no point in hiring somebody who “likes” cars. Because that’s not enough’.

He continued: ‘I would get three complete unknowns. Start small, like we did. They’ve got to be absolute petrolheads,’ stating that in his view, the next presenters should be motoring journalists just like him, Richard and James.

‘You’ve got to have someone who does nothing but think about the show. I was completely engrossed in that show for 20 years,’ he summarised.

Jeremy thinks the next presenters should be motoring journalists (Picture: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/File)

When could The Grand Tour return?

There’s no word yet on when The Grand Tour will return with its new roster of presenters.

The first season of the show aired between November 2016 and February 2017 with 13 episodes, followed by 11 episodes in the second season, which lasted from December 2017 until February 2018.

The third season of the show featured 14 episodes which were released between January and April 2019.

Then for the fourth season, the number of episodes was cut down drastically to just four, which came out between December 2019 and December 2021.

The last episode of this iteration of The Grand Tour is nostalgic and emotional to say the least (Picture: Prime Video/PA Wire)

Finally, the fifth season, which began in September 2022, has just wrapped up with the last of its four episodes, with the finale dropping on September 13 2024.

One might assume that Amazon will want to keep the momentum going with The Grand Tour, but it’s unclear how far into the process the company is on the search for new presenters.

So while at this point we don’t have a clear timeline for the release date of the next season, fans can rest assured it will be on its way.

The Grand Tour is available to stream on Prime Video.

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