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Top Gear's Clarkson, Hammond and May making show for Amazon
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pretty sure they're gonna do the same thing, if they don't they'll lost a huge chunk of their audience...
I'm not saying the name is gonna affect it in anyway, just saying I don't like the name, I think it would have been better if the name somehow related to cars
"The show debuted to disappointing ratings in the UK, netting just 4.3 million viewers on Sunday night. That's down 1.3 million viewers from the show's average with its former hosts, but the bigger concern for Chris Evans is that it's well below his target of 5 million viewers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the opening episode of Top Gear's 23rd season was the lowest rated in 10 years."
looks like the new Top Gear is what we exactly thought will be without the tree musketeer. lol
"The show debuted to disappointing ratings in the UK, netting just 4.3 million viewers on Sunday night. That's down 1.3 million viewers from the show's average with its former hosts, but the bigger concern for Chris Evans is that it's well below his target of 5 million viewers. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the opening episode of Top Gear's 23rd season was the lowest rated in 10 years."
looks like the new Top Gear is what we exactly thought will be without the tree musketeer. lol
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I really hope the get rid of Chris Evans... he's trying too hard to be Clarkson and his attempts at being funny are hard to watch...
kinda funny how an american is kinda the best host besides the original 3...
Jeremy Clarkson, noted bully and former host of popular BBC car show Top Gear, just tweeted out the logo for his new show The Grand Tour. The new show, which premieres on Amazon Prime Instant Video this fall, will feature him and his fellow former Top Gear hosts James May and Richard Hammond galavanting around the world, driving cars, and engaging in their special brand of wacky hijinks. (The latter of which, in the past, has had a tendency to skew pretty racist.)
Clarkson was forcibly Brexited from the old Top Gear show more than a year ago after he assaulted a producer, but it didn't take long for his fellow hosts to follow him away from the BBC. The crew have been filming the new show for Amazon since early last fall, and these slow-drip teases of The Grand Tour must be agonizing for what fans they might have left.
It's likely that the new show will never be as good as the old one, but it's also possible that it won't even matter, because all the while the competition has been crumbling. The BBC decided to continue Top Gear without Clarkson, Hammond, and May, but the reincarnation has been nothing short of a total disaster. The ratings are awful, and it has about a million different hosts, some of whom the dwindling audience absolutely hates, and others who are already (reportedly) threatening to leave. Meanwhile, just yesterday, the US version of Top Gear that you probably totally forgot even existed was canceled after completing its sixth season.
As you may have noticed, there has been some news regarding Top Gear TV today. Specifically, Chris Evans, who tweeted this: “Stepping down from Top Gear. Gave it my best shot but sometimes that’s not enough. The team are beyond brilliant, I wish them all the best.”
A follow up statement from Chris added: “I have never worked with a more committed and driven team than the team I have worked with over the last twelve months. I feel like my standing aside is the single best thing I can now do to help the cause. I remain a huge fan of the show, always have been, always will be. I will continue to focus on my radio show and the allied events that it encompasses.”
Everyone at TopGear.com wishes Chris all the best for the future.
Given the ratings and that most people's principal complaint was "Chris Evans is an annoying **** who won't stop shouting", safe bet that it was not Evans' idea.
