Top-Gear-2017
Has New Top Gear Stalled Or Is It As Good As Everyone Is Saying
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We know about ratings because when you have the next door neighbours dog, Charlie the stray cat and a mysterious squirrel as your daily audience then that is a measure of success by which all others should never be judged. But it seems even Charlie the stray cat isn’t bothering to watch new Top Gear as ratings have fallen below that which defined the shortlived Chris Evans tenure. Much of the news media covering the reviews of new Top Gear without Chris Evans at the helm have been disturbingly positive towards the show. Much of it is to do with the fact that not many people actually liked Chris Evans and much of the news media were praying that a Chris Evans fronted Top Gear would be a disaster. They got their wishes as TV ratings plummeted and Evans walked the plank. We have always thought that if Chris Evans had brought his radio personality to the TV show he would have been fine, Top Gear may have been fine. But who really knows. What you won’t hear anymore from the media is any mention about Top Gear ratings. You won’t hear ”Top Gear ratings plumet to new a low” or ”continue to plummet’‘ it almost seems as if there is a collective self enforced blanket ban on saying so. The fact is Top Gear ratings continue to plummet to new lows and it is worse than it was under Chris Evans. Many of the new car related digital platforms that have built up huge audiences are so embarrassingly sycophantic in their reviews of new Top Gear without Chris Evans that it is double embarrassing. These new digital platforms high-fiving new, new Top Gear are nothing more than digital sycophants looking to ride on the coat tails of the ”B” of the big bang of car shows. According to April, 2017 ratings Top Gear viewership has plummeted to a new, new low with an average TV audience of 1.6 million viewers, less than half what it usually got under old Top Gear when Clarkson and co ruled the ratings roots. If Top Gear’s ratings are sinking that may well mean its yearly revenues will decline, and it may come to the point that not even the current forced buddy laughter can save Top Gear from itself. We’re fine with Le Blanc but Chris Harris and Rory Reid have the combined personality of a sea slug. But the real question is why hasn’t the news media mentioned the ratings as was the case under Chris Evans? And why do the car/news media continue with the positive reviews towards Top Gear when it is essentially the same as it was last year. The Huffington Post said: “From the off, it was immediately clear that the new team of Matt LeBlanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid, has worked tirelessly to play to its strengths, previously overshadowed by former frontman Chris Evans.” Tome Eames of Digital Spy said the show was “MUCH more fun than last year. The weak link of 2016 has gone in the shape of Chris Evans, and the best three presenters have been elevated to an equal status. And it’s worked wonders.” This is just a snippet of the sycophantic bullshit I am talking about, the problem is much of the traditional, established media and newer digital platforms are saying pretty much the same bullshit. One tweet can sum up what Twitter is saying:  Top-Gear-2017
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