Beakerzoid   10 #25 Posted November 30, 2016 Not so. In 2013, the series opener:   https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/jul/01/top-gear-return-jeremy-clarkson  Sadly the links charting the dropping viewing figures under Clarkson are hard to find as the Evans Top Gear ratings fill the search results.  Not that hard to find figures http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-30/  Just enter the criteria of 25th January 2015 - BBC2 Viewing figures for season opener for the final year with Jezza and the gang. Can work from there, or just use https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Top_Gear_episodes#cite_note-BARB10-5 to see the work done for you (which you can verify by putting all the dates in the aforementioned link yourself if you are disbelieving of Wikipedia)  Curiously, your rebuttal didn't actually do anything to prove your claim that figures were dropping as you referenced 2013 opener, yet neglected that following seasons did better, thus were climbing again. Series 20 in 2013 was more just a blip in a generally consistent average. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
Funky_Gibbon   42 #26 Posted November 30, 2016 It's not like the viewing figures in the UK were/are particularly important anyway. It was the resale value abroad that made the show so big. Countryfile can have however many millions of viewers in the UK but it's still not the money maker of the two shows. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Share this content via...
