Tom Scott ended ten years of weekly YouTube videos on 1 January 2024, then came back on 23 March 2026 with a new series. His show Tom Scott: England releases weekly on Nebula, reaching YouTube a week later. He told viewers in 2024 he was simply too tired to continue.
Why He Stopped in January 2024
Scott stopped because the work had outgrown him and he was exhausted.
A British presenter who built an audience of about 6.7 million subscribers on explainers about geography, language, infrastructure and technology, Scott posted his farewell on 1 January 2024 under the title “After ten years, it’s time to stop making videos”. In it he described the channel as a job that “keeps getting bigger and more complicated, and I am so tired”. He had flagged the decision six months earlier, in a video published on 30 June 2023.
He laid out two options he had rejected. One was making louder, more bombastic videos to keep chasing views. The other was expanding the operation and hiring staff, which he said would turn him into a manager, a role he considered beyond his skills.
He also said that “a dream job is still a job”. He was not the only established creator to step back in that stretch, though most who left stayed gone: Jenna Marbles stopped uploading in 2020 and has not returned.
What He Did During the Two Years Away
He kept working, just not on weekly YouTube videos.
Scott carried on co-hosting Lateral, his weekly lateral-thinking quiz podcast, and kept making shows with the comedy troupe The Technical Difficulties. He also published a weekly newsletter rounding up things he had found online.
He appeared as a competitor on Jet Lag: The Game, the travel-competition series on Nebula, during the break.
Then in June 2025, roughly eighteen months in, he posted a single video announcing the project that would become his return, and went quiet again. The working title he gave it was “Let’s go see England”.
The move toward audio was not unique to him. The same shift runs through what happened to Vsauce, where long-form video gave way to a science podcast.
Tom Scott’s Upload Timeline, 2014 to 2026
Five dates explain the whole gap, and most coverage runs them together.
| Date | What Happened |
|---|---|
| 1 January 2014 | First weekly video, an 83-second clip about horse crossings in Britain, opening the Things You Might Not Know series. |
| 30 June 2023 | Announces in advance that the weekly run will end on 1 January 2024. |
| 1 January 2024 | Posts “After ten years, it’s time to stop making videos” after a decade without missing a week. |
| June 2025 | Breaks the silence with one video announcing a new travel series. |
| 23 March 2026 | Tom Scott: England premieres on Nebula, and weekly uploads resume. |
The One Promise He Did Not Keep
Scott said that if he ever returned it would not be weekly and not on his own channel, and it is both.
“I don’t know when or if I come back, but when I do, it won’t be weekly — at least not in this format, not here,” he said in the 2024 farewell, adding that the break “probably isn’t goodbye goodbye”.
What arrived in March 2026 was a weekly series, on his own YouTube channel, in a recognisable travel-explainer format. What changed was length and structure. He has described the show as “the best version of my old format, but updated for 2026 and for a world where people watch half-hour videos”.
His stated reason for coming back was narrower than fans expected. “The absolute best part of my job was going to see interesting places and meeting interesting people,” he said in March 2026, adding: “I found a format that works, and the alternative was not doing it.”
Where to Watch Tom Scott: England
Episodes go up on Nebula first and reach YouTube one week later.
Nebula is the subscription streaming service co-owned by a group of video creators, and the show runs there as a Nebula First release. The full version appears on Nebula on release day, and an edited version follows on Scott’s YouTube channel seven days afterwards.
That lag is why viewers who only use YouTube see a lower episode number than Nebula subscribers do. Scott has said he cross-posts to YouTube to serve the audience that has followed him there for years.
The series follows a road trip to every county of England, filmed across roughly eight weeks. The first episode was titled “I Helped Break a 142-Year-Old Bell, and That’s Okay”.
Is Tom Scott Back for Good?
Nothing confirms what happens once the England series ends.
As of 17 October 2026, Tom Scott: England is still running to a weekly Monday schedule, around thirty episodes in, with listings scheduled into early December 2026. Scott has described the run as 39 episodes, calling it “a big swing in itself”, though episode databases list slightly different totals, so the exact count is unsettled.
He has not announced a project to follow it, and he has not said whether weekly uploads continue after the road trip is exhausted. On the evidence so far the weekly cadence belongs to this series rather than to a permanent return to his old schedule.
Frequently Asked Questions
Did Tom Scott Quit YouTube?
No. He ended a ten-year run of weekly uploads on 1 January 2024 but kept his podcasts and newsletter going, and he resumed weekly uploads in March 2026.
How Long Was Tom Scott Away?
About two years and three months separated his farewell video on 1 January 2024 from the premiere of his new series on 23 March 2026, broken only by a single announcement video in June 2025.
What Is Tom Scott: England About?
It follows Scott on a road trip to every county of England, filmed over about eight weeks, with one episode released each week.
Where Can I Watch Tom Scott: England?
New episodes premiere on Nebula, and edited versions arrive on Scott’s YouTube channel one week later.
How Many Episodes Will Tom Scott: England Have?
Scott has described it as a 39-episode run. Episode listings differ slightly and the final count has not been confirmed on the record.
