“But now we have this thing, everybody can come. Top Gear launched two weeks ago with 4.3 million viewers before dipping to 2.8 million for its second episode last week. Yesterday morning it was revealed the revamped BBC motoring show had been beaten by the likes of the Antiques Roadshow and Soccer Aid. But the overnight ratings, despite the rise of on-demand TV, remain an important, if diminishing, indicator of a show’s success. Conversely, in April 2017 Brad Anderson of CarScoops stated that he prefers Top Gear to The Grand Tour. I just binged the 20 or so episodes that are currently available. Top Gear vs Amazon Prime’s The Grand Tour By Will Wynn on 26 May 2016 With Top Gear once again hitting our screens – May 29th 2016, we came across this interesting infographic by Car leasing made simple , in which they match up the new presenters with the old. 7.6 / 10. Wilman revealed that Amazon will not release viewing figures for the show, making direct comparisons of the respective success of The Grand Tour and Top Gear impossible. The Top Gear of LeBlanc, Harris, and Reid is the complete opposite. “I’ve had to explain to the children we are selling them for medical experiments,” he joked. The best BBC and Top Gear digs in The Grand Tour's first episode. Top Gear review: The banter is sharper on Love Island. The I-Pace won’t be for everyone, but hats off to Jaguar for making a car that steps boldly into the unknown, and shows those pesky Germans the way. Last night’s audience - to three decimal places - of 2.371 million means there was only 9,000 viewers in it. Clarkson will be reunited with his former Top Gear colleagues, Richard Hammond and James May, along with Wilman, for their Amazon Prime series, A Grand Tour, due to launch on the on-demand service in the autumn. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond say they have not been told how many people are watching The Grand Tour. xanitra.hearnow.com My thoughts on Top Gear, and The Grand Tour Amazon's take on Top Gear, The Grand Tour, will debut this week, but the production team won't be told the viewing figures. Well, a bit like this As you can see, Series 24 opened with an average of … ... as they would not find out the viewing figures. The ball is firmly in Top Gear… However, I have not wanted to watch any episodes again. “A Chelsea site, if somebody comes along and says ‘I like football I support Arsenal’, [the response is:] ‘Get out!’ There’s that sort of mentality,” he said. Sean McKellar April 27, 2017 November 7, 2019. “You look at the TV show, you read all the credits, you’ll see the cameraman, the … I did not hate Season 23 as much as many. Asked what he thought of the airport’s claim that the worker was Spanish, and suggestions that Clarkson’s account of what happened was false, he said: “We were there, [Hammond] and I heard it. There's a real sense of joy and discovery in the show, which makes it a pleasure to watch. Amazon won't give us viewing figures, says 'The Grand Tour' producer. Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond say they have not been told how many people are watching The Grand Tour. Reviews. The 2.5 million average is an increase on the launch episode of the previous series, which was Friends star Matt LeBlanc’s final show and attracted an average of 1.9 million viewers. 1. It will take a long time to stamp out all the enthusiasm there is for Top Gear. Better critical response to Chris Evans-fronted show not reflected in overnight ratings for episode up against Euro 2016, Last modified on Tue 19 Dec 2017 16.03 EST. The Grand Tour’s bad on the other hand was more dull and boring than actively annoying the fanbase. Speaking at the launch of their new social media project for petrolheads, DriveTribe, Clarkson said Amazon was keeping the Grand Tour numbers even from its stars. Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff will be sitting in the driver’s seat for Top Gear’s next lap when the series returns later this year. BBC bosses defend Top Gear's return as viewing figures lowest in a decade. 9 . There was the consolation on Sunday night that the show, relaunched by Evans following the axing of Jeremy Clarkson last year, was up against BBC1’s coverage of Euro 2016 in which Germany beat Ukraine 2-0, watched by 6.3 million viewers. But the controversial footage that was filmed of Matt LeBlanc and rally driver Ken Block doing “doughnuts” around London’s Cenotaph war memorial was cut from the film of the former Friends’ star’s high-speed tour of the capital. You just don’t know,” he said. Its launch came on the same day that some of the world’s largest football clubs announced their own foray into social networking with Dugout.com, and Clarkson said there were similarities in the way football fans and car enthusiasts approached their obsessions online. “There’s a figure of $160m invented by the Daily Mail, and now $250m from Netflix, and they are just nonsense.”. The Grand Tour with Clarkson, Hammond and May Which is the best season of motoring entertainment tomfoolery? Hammond said working with Amazon on The Grand Tour had helped inspire them to start DriveTribe. by Shona Ghosh. In series 1 they really tried pushing the boat out and travelled the world, yet in Series 2 it seems they’ve had enough of that and gone back to type (one venue, so why “the grand tour”, more like “no tour”), which is why I think much more innovation and change is needed. The BBC2 show’s Sunday night audience was its lowest for 13 years and only narrowly avoided being the lowest audience for any episode of Top Gear since it was reinvented by Jeremy Clarkson in 2002. Of the remaining bits, some is really good and some isn’t. airport’s claim that the worker was Spanish. Top Gear is a British television series about motor vehicles, primarily cars, and is a relaunched version of the original 1977 show of the same name, airing since 2002, and becoming the most widely watched factual television programme in the world. It is also the programme’s lowest consolidated audience since at least 2010. Jeremy Clarkson defends BBC's seven-figure salaries. The second episode of the show drew 2.8m viewers for the overnight figure; this fell to 2.4m for the third episode. Clarkson’s The Grand Tour is slated for release on Amazon Prime later this year. “And as we got more and more into it, and spoke to more people, we realised that there was a bigger and bigger opportunity, [where] people who have a declared interest in cars, which is a very broad spectrum, could come and find other likeminded people.”. Amazon has been slowly but surely growing its programming slate. “I don’t know. However, it does not include people who watched it on the BBC’s iPlayer. I’d say that about 2/3rds of the show is the best parts of Top Gear, reworked with a bigger budget. Amazon: Jeremy Clarkson starring in an Amazon Fire TV campaign. Reports have suggested Amazon paid $160m (£130m) for three series, but Clarkson said the numbers being “bandied about” were overinflated. The new show from the former Top Gear trio debuted on 18 November, and Amazon, which has extended its streaming service to 200 countries, has said only that “millions” of people streamed the first episode. “We were moving into new ways of putting content in front of people,” he said. The series is proving especially popular with younger audiences, taking a 24% share of the youth demographic last night. Musing on the ill-fated Chris Evans Top Gear era just prior to The Grand Tour‘s launch, Clarkson suggested that the revamped BBC series failed due to its lack of good writing. Top Gear’s The Stig: the Guardian’s hard-hitting interview, doing “doughnuts” around London’s Cenotaph war memorial. The second episode reached a … The first episode’s “consolidated” seven-day audience figure was 4.3m, according to the Beeb, which was the show’s best performance in four years. The Grand Tour has evolved a little from the old Top Gear, it looks just like a bigger budget, but the same old same old. This website is made by BBC Studios Distribution. James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond, stars of The Grand Tour. After a segment on the 1953 24 Hours of Le Mans, the programme received criticism for damaging a historic Jaguar C-Type valued at £1 million. The figures they got weren’t far off where we started in 2002. It was also scheduled against the second half of an hour-long Coronation Street on ITV, watched by 6 million viewers. Sunday night’s Top Gear was memorable for the sequences it included - and didn’t include - with Chris Evans being sick after being driven around at high speed by co-presenter, Sabine Schmitz. Chris Evans’ third episode fronting Top Gear drew the best critical response yet but it was not reflected in the show’s overnight ratings, which fell to 2.4 million – the lowest figure for the BBC2 show for more than a decade. According to Anderson, Top Gear had "become even better", whereas The Grand Tour "seemed more scripted, less natural and at stages, forced... attention is often skewed away from the cars as the presenters, namely Clarkson, seemed to chase controversy and headlines". By this metric, the figures show that The Grand Tour season one was the best performing Amazon Original series. Top Gear responded that they had permission to "drive the car hard" but Adrian Hamilton, the car's owner, and Top Gear… Instead, The Grand Tour team will be gauging the success of the new show as best they can from Twitter. There was more bad news for the show after it later emerged on Monday that the consolidated audience for last week’s second episode was 4.1 million, down a third on the launch episode’s 6.4 million. Two episodes of the Grand Tour have been released and filming for the first series is almost complete, with only three more “studio” segments – each filmed in a tent at a different location – to be recorded. Worst EVER viewing figures for Top Gear: Show has lost half its viewers in two weeks since relaunch and only 2.4m tuned in last night (but those who did said it was better with less Chris Evans) The site, which claims to have attracted 1,500 contributors in its pre-launch phase, encourages users to set up their own “tribes” around different topics and follow users including Clarkson, May and Hammond. “Nobody has got it even remotely close,” he said. I feel The Grand Tour does come out on top as many suspected it would, but Top Gear has already stepped its game up for the next series as the trailer suggests. “They did say millions.”, May added: “They won’t tell us. You want to call us liars, we’re not, move on. Top Gear vs The Grand Tour – Viewer figures and episode ratings. Is The Grand Tour as funny as Top Gear? So how did Top GearSeries 23 perform? The show’s lowest overnight audience is understood to be the 2.362 million who watched the sixth episode of the second Clarkson series on 15 June 2003, according to one industry source. Evans has previously pointed out that the show’s overnight audience is only one part of its total ratings performance and accused critics of being “out of date”. Season 22 of Top Gear with Clarkson, Hammond and May 2. TOP GEAR has been working out its new series structure since the exit of The Grand Tour hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James … Not just he and I, quite a few people heard it … I know what he said.”, Jeremy Clarkson row: airport disputes 'Argentinian' claim. Media offshoots: While changing viewing habits shift audiences toward video-on-demand services across the BBC, sales of Top Gear DVDs still managed to impress. “We are heavily invested. Average rating. That’s the rules and they really won’t.”. Properly heavily invested.”. https://www.theguardian.com/.../top-gear-viewing-figures-fall-to-new-low For example, Top Gear was exploring making a film in Azerbaijan, but quickly abandoned the idea when they found out that The Grand Tour already had filming plans in the former Soviet nation. If the show isn’t received well, the viewer figures will plummet much quicker – such as the 4.4 million to 2.8 million drop we saw in the first and second episode of Top GearSeries 23 with Chris Evans. Jeremy Clarkson says reports Amazon paid $160m or $250m for three series of the motoring show are ‘nonsense’, Last modified on Tue 9 Jan 2018 20.56 GMT. "If The Grand Tour is basically Top Gear with a nitros boost of Amazon finances, the difference is immediately apparent," he said. Response on Twitter was generally more favourable to the show but it was not enough to turn around its overnight ratings slide. The show’s consolidated audience for Sunday night will be substantially higher once people who recorded it and watch it in the next seven days are taken into account. As is usually the way with viewing figures television series, the first episode will always rate the highest, before gradually reducing as the series progresses – as some viewers tune out for various reasons. Two factors have to be taken into account in comparing with 2016 - first, these are consolidated figures (although catch-up viewing was far less prevalent back then) and TV viewing is now far more fragmented than it was in 2002. No money from the licence fee was used to … The modern Top Gear era began when the show, revamped by Clarkson and executive producer Andy Wilman, beginning with 3.5 million viewers, a 12.8% share, on 27 October 2002. Sunday night’s overnight audience of 2.4 million viewers delivered a 10.4% share of the audience to BBC2, with a five-minute peak of 2.8 million. BBC Studios is a commercial company that is owned by the BBC (and just the BBC). Top Gear… This month Clarkson was involved in an argument with a Stuttgart airport worker whom he claimed had said “Fuck you, I’m Argentinian!” during a row over why the three presenters were not being allowed on to a flight to London. When Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May left the BBC’s golden goose after an altercation over a steak, they took more than just their name value and recognisable faces for … Ultimately, we may never actually know which show is better. Chris Evans slams Top Gear’s critics as catch-up viewing lifts ratings, Poor Chris Evans – in defence of the new Top Gear. Some tribes will overlap, some won’t, some will be sort of competing, all of which is good and healthy and exactly what we want to try and create.”, The three had invested heavily in DriveTribe with their own money, he said. Ouch. NEW SHOW: Clarkson's Top Gear rival show won't need to release ratings figures (Image: AMAZON PRIME) ... “Overnight television viewing figures for Top Gear have never been less relevant. Season 23 of Top Gear with Chris Evans, Matt, Harris and co 3.