Top Gear audience drops by a third on second episode
The audience for the latest episode of Top Gear dropped by more than a third, compared with last week's series debut.
An average of 2.8 million viewers tuned in to the second instalment of the new series on Sunday evening - 1.6 million fewer than the first episode.
Viewing peaked at 3.3 million just before the BBC Two show ended, overnight figures show.
Presenter Chris Evans said viewing figures would be higher when on-demand services were taken into account.
He tweeted: "The way Top Gear is being viewed is repositioning the way television is consumed. Last week 9 millions viewers. This week we shall see."
The first episode of this series was watched by an average of 4.4 million when it was first broadcast - 23% of the TV viewing share.
However, Evans appeared to suggest that the total figure was more than twice that when viewers watching the show on catch-up services such as iPlayer were included.
The overnight figures only account for viewers who watched the show as it was being broadcast, and do not include those watching on catch-up services.
The figures which will show the total number of viewers on all platforms are expected this week.
Production quality remains top notch (who can argue?).
There's another show that's only on the web called Top Gear Extra Gear. From what I heard (I haven't seen it yet), that Extra Gear web show features the other hosts. I've also heard comments that it's better than the current Top Gear itself!
One thing I have to know - did Jeremy Clarkson ever give up the driver's seat when testing any supercar on the test track? Chris Evans acted like he had never driven a supercar before, so he has Jenson Button take over driving duties while he rides shotgun screaming like a little girl. WTF is that shit? Why didn't they hire an auto enthusiast as the host of an auto enthusiast show?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/gal...anss-car-collection-in-pictures/jaguar-xk-ss/
You might not like him but hes been into cars for awhile.
TBH it wasn't as horrible as you guys made it out to be. Still looking forward to the Grand Tour though.
Saw this today, according to it Clarkson badly assembling a box has more YouTube hits than anything from the new cast.
link to article
Direct link to YouTube vid of Clarkson badly assembling a box
Not quite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaAQW8lVaRM
But maybe that doesnt could since he actually hasnt appeared on the main Top Gear yet.
But it is dated "Published on 25 Nov 2014", so it has had a long time to pick up hits, and at the time (probably) had nothing to do with top gear.
NiceInteresting. So he's like the UK's version of Jay Leno. Would still be more respectable if he were the one slinging it around the track, and clearly the article is a direct response to his Top Gear critics.
lol, the video went up like 50K views since I made my post. Still, theres no guarantee it will get to over 3 million, especially after I file a copyright claim on Clarkson's video.
Evans might be a decent fanboi, but we still need the opinionated, over the top host...somebody more like a Tim Allen (if there's a Rrrrrr Rrrrr in the Queen's English)