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I had a look on tvtonight but the most recent stuff I could find was from week 35.
I had a look on tvtonight but the most recent stuff I could find was from week 35.
But back to the actual topic of the thread- any ratings yet for episode 7?
I had a look on tvtonight but the most recent stuff I could find was from week 35.
Low ratings and the end of the season....good luck guys
Apologies for the delay in the creation of the TGAU Spec Ep Discussion thread for the final ep. I genuinely FORGOT TGAU was on last night! Only remembered as I turned the lights off to go to bed :lol:
Monday 7.30p is SBS' highest rating slot, no matter what they show there. Mythbusters and TG UK always topped the week in that slot as well.Actually the ratings stabilised at the end and through-out the entire series TGA was SBS's highest rating programme.
Interesting to note that Top Gear UK's return to SBS with the first show of series 11 managed to bring in 1.067 million viewers. That's more than any episode of Top Gear Australia and close double the average rating for the series.
It's also further evidence that a huge number of Top Gear viewers haven't warmed to Top Gear Australia. Such a shame the producers of the local version haven't been able to work out what it is about the UK show that makes it so much more appealing.
Nobody really expected TGA to rate as well as TGUK does.
From season 9 onwards TGUK started climbing massively, the Polar Special got over a million, and season 10 averaged around that.
No I didn't. Where do you get that from?
I had high hopes for the show and enjoed it quite a lot, but I was never under the illusion that it would (or even could) be as good as Jeremy and the boys.
I doubt even the producers of TGA would have dared hope for ratings higher than TGUK.
THE second episode of motoring TV show Top Gear Australia has slumped in the ratings.
Producers had hoped to crack the one million viewer mark last night, but instead only 674,000 tuned in, down more than 250,000 viewers from its premiere the week before.
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SBS director of television Matt Campbell admitted he was disappointed but said it was not "a disaster'', and there were many examples of TV shows that went down and up again.
SBS has much riding on the success of the eight episodes of Top Gear Australia and will hope audiences top the 890,000 that watched the most recent British series. Reports that SBS invested $11 million in the franchise appear overblown (TV head Matt Campbell calls it "a ridiculous claim"), but the show is still expected to cost between $200,000 and $300,000 an episode.
Fusion Strategy's Steve Allen says local versions of shows almost always rate higher than the originals. "We don't think this will be a poor imitation," he says, "but to be as good will be the test.