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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CT before it came out: Omg stop being childish and hating on it, give it a chance! We got two car shows!
CT now: WTF is this??? A bad TG parody?
Audience for the new Top Gear was a success. FACT, Everyone was watching, just to see how good or bad it is. FACT. It was obvious that they were going to have a massive audience.Now let’s keep this numbers up, and then they can talk.
“A Hit”
Is it just me or there’s 1 “s” missing.
Here’s the thing, and surprisingly it was Daniel Hardcastle (many will know him on Youtube as ‘NerdCubed’) who pointed this out; even though the percentage share of people watching the new Top Gear has increased, the actual physical number of people was quite a bit down on last season. https://twitter.com/DanNerdCubed/status/737291350232707072
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ To the makers and the fans! :D
I can’t help feeling the reason it got this many is because people wanted to see how bad/good it was sadly it was the former so it won’t have many views next week I fear
When will it be on Netflix?
None of the views were for that ginger pr*ck. FACT.
If you have to go on the defense and beat your own drum, you’ve already lost.
seeing these tweets or whatever from chris I can say I’m done with the new TG.. .. I was okay with it untill I saw the cocky tweets. fk you chris, the ONLY FACT here is that new TG is just a ruin of the old one(tho it still has potential).
I had hopes, but like I said, now I just don’t give a fk about new TG