Top Gear's Viewing Figures Are Consistent, But Still Way Off The Clarkson Era
With an average of 2.7 million people tuning it to watch last Sunday’s Top Gear, it was both good and bad news for the revamped show.
First the bad: that’s around the same as the second episode of last series. So it hasn’t improved on the messy, Chris Evans-fronted series 23, and its 11 per cent audience share pales in comparison to the big winner of the night, Call The Midwife.
The period drama - which Jeremy Clarkson used to poke fun at due to previous ‘clashes’ with Top Gear’s Sunday night slot - accounted for 36 per cent, pulling in close to nine million viewers. To make matters worse, TG’s 2.7 million is still a long way off the kind of figures Clarkson, Hammond and May used to manage - the trio’s last series at the helm regularly saw over six million watching.
The good news? The modest figures are holding steady. During series 23, the ratings dramatically fell from 4.4 million to 2.8 million from the first to second episode, before falling even further.
It’s perhaps a sign that viewers are liking what they see this time around. We’re certainly fond of the new look show, and hopefully in time it’ll find its feet after this solid start. Top Gear is arguably more about cars than it has been in a while, so it’s something we’re keen to see stay on air.
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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I enjoy the Grand Tour and Top Gear. To be honest, I enjoyed new Top Gear (2 episodes so far) more than Grand Tour. There are a lot of points of contention though: the first Top Gear episode and the James McAvoy segment was like deja vu, down to the questions. Wtf? Why invite the same guest? I don’t get it
Second, I still don’t think they have got the chemistry right, you can see through the acting in the studio segments. The outside segments are so much better though. Like Luqman Hakim said earlier on, as time goes by, things will change, so I’m looking forward to how this Top Gear will develop
Anyone hating on either show is too ignorant to warrant a response, so don’t bother yo!
tim shaw star of car sos on national georaphic here in the uk, said top gear make him cry as they do not get it it about reltonship as tg is a series of set pieces right now.
Mr Shaw said rory reid the best presenter off the three, and he barely on screen like show 2 that why their a disconnect with some fans the lack of scripting is bad.
TG season 24 is all flash and no substance in my view,
“Anyone hating on either show is too ignorant to warrant a response,” - OH THE IRONY - Could it be that people aren’t as moronic as you, and aren’t prepared to put up with inferior dross? Oh I forget only SJW cretins like you are allowed an opinion - even though it is banal and insipid!
My heart bleeds I wont receive a moribund response from a moribund individual!
What has freewheeling down a hill or driving into a cut out wall got to do with cars if were going down the factual car show road (apologies for the terrible pun)? If I want entertainment Ill watch the GT and if I want factual information Ill go on YouTube asTop Gear` fails miserably to achieve either.
I can’t watch it anymore. My cabel decided ended contract with BBC entertainment and change it with BBC earth. Smh..
Read this book people and you may understand
This is news?
Watched the first episode yesterday. It was entertaining, I had fun, I liked it, I’m a fan.