TVLine Items: Top Gear Hosts' New Show, Gilmore Girls Reruns and More

The former faces of BBC America’s Top Gear are cruising into Amazon.

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May have signed a three-season deal with Amazon Prime Instant Video for a new, as-yet-untitled motoring show to debut in 2016.

Clarkson broke the news on Twitter Thursday:

The Amazon deal comes four months after Clarkson’s Top Gear contract was not renewed, following a physical and verbal altercation with producer Oisin Tymon. Hammond and James also left the show after the dust-up.

Ready for more of today’s newsy nuggets? Well…

* Up TV has acquired all seven seasons of Gilmore Girls and will begin airing reruns this fall.

* General Hospital alum Lexi Ainsworth will reprise her role as Kristina Corinthos-Davis for multiple episodes, to begin airing in September.

* Rob Benedict (Supernatural, Felicity) will recur on Masters of Sex Season 3 as Jonathan Lerner, the new ultrasound technician working alongside Beau Bridges’ Barton Scully at Masters and Johnson’s clinic, our sister site Variety reports.

* HBO will debut two U2 specials this fall: a behind-the-scenes documentary on the band’s iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE world tour (airing Saturday, Nov. 7) and the tour’s performance from Bercy Arena in Paris (airing Saturday, Nov. 14).

* Maria Menounos, who has been a correspondent for E! News since February, will begin co-anchoring the show in August.