Despite Mass Criticism, The First Episode Of ‘New’ Top Gear Was Officially A Hit
It’s pretty clear from the reactions on our live discussion that most of you guys didn’t really take to the first episode of new Top Gear. In fact, the poll we ran yesterday revealed that a whopping 24 per cent of you scored the episode as a 1 out of 10…
Twitter seemed full to the brim with complaints, too, while reviews have been less than favourable. However, in terms of raw numbers, the first episode was actually a hit.
In a series of Tweets, host Chris Evans revealed that the show enjoyed a massive 23 per cent audience share, representing a 12 per cent increase on the first episode of series 22 when the show was still presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May.
The caveat here is that the intrigue surrounding just what the show would be like in the post-Clarkson era will have no doubt fuelled the apparent popularity; the acid test will be the figures for the second and third episodes. However, it seems people weren’t switching off, because the audience actually grew throughout the airing. Evans also revealed this morning that iPlayer views have topped one million.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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Car Throttle is officially cooler than Top Gear now :)
You mean we weren’t already…?
That’s a FACT!
Is there a link to a site where i can view this episode? It didn’t air here in Belgium, as far as I know.
It aired on bbc2 like it always did…
I use a streaming program called Kodi, or something optimized for Mac called TVMC… It’s really good, I watched top gear and extra gear in HD on Monday… Hope this helps:)
He forget to add, that most people watch and waited for him to fail, which he did
Little bit sad to Matt it’s in this show. He always be Joey for me.
They counted top gear and extra gear as two separate things on Iplayer and added them together.
Shame on you Evans, shame on you.
Honestly the way Evans is acting makes me not want to bother to watch the first episode. All I keep seeing is “WAAAAAAAHHHHHH love me or I’ll keep acting like a 3 year old”.
The real reason the viewing figures were so high…
Safe to say, there was a hangover.
I would just die of alcohol poisoning…
I woke up in a skip doing this
This is how you die 😂
Curiosity. No more….
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Pure bullshit. We all wanted to see it with the new crew. Next time many of us will not watch it. Count the numbers mid season or better yety watch the stats when JC and the gang is back.