So, Top Gear Aus is back with a little more polish and a new host. It seems the general consensus is that quality is slightly improved over last season, but what do the ratings say?
Well, the numbers are in and episode one of season two came in at number 25 nationally with 689,000 viewers. Episode two fared worse, with 628,000 viewers and a national ranking of 30.
Broadly speaking, that’s better than season one, which at the end of its run was pulling in just 435,000 pairs of eyeballs. But its still not a vast improvement over last season’s episode two result of 674,000 viewers (we’re not going to count the very first episode’s 933,000 viewers, as the pre-launch hype gave it an artificial boost), and TGA really needs to get to the bottom of whatever it is that’s making people switch off.
Conversely, SBS could simply schedule more re-runs of Top Gear UK. The familiar faces of Clarkson, May and Hammond drew in far more viewers than the local franchise earlier this year, peaking at 1,011,000 viewers on February 23.
There’s clearly something that’s sorely lacking in the Australian offering, but whatever it is it seems its not entirely the hosts’ fault. Challenges that go nowhere, terrible dialogue and questionable segments all seem to be turning viewers off TGA, and if something isn’t rectified soon it’ll quickly end up in the same manner as last season: in shameful defeat.
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Give it time and I reckon the show will mould into the best car show Australia has made…which wouldn’t be too hard to do. Remember TGUK once upon a time was crap too!
Get rid of Steve, he annoys the hell out of me waving his bloody hands around whilst sitting in the drivers seat all crunched forward looking and sounding like an idiot.
Please replace him with Grant Denyar, he is funny, drives a V8 Supercar, is well liked by many, is promient and most of all has creditbility with Australians.
The bonus is he is even tiny like the hampster but could probably wip his arse at a driving/racing challenge.
Grant Denyar is a perfect choice, REAL TV PRESENTER, RACE CARD DRIVE, FUNNY & A NICE GUY.
I can’t really put a finger on it but sadly, it just doesn’t work !
Will, I disagree. Even at the start of the second season TGUK was quite entertaining and funny, which sadly even this season TG Aus isn’t. Its the combination of lots of little things, the bizarre challenges that end nowhere is a big one, as are the really half baked car reviews. And even though the cringe worthy moments are cut in half this season, they still happen far too often to enjoy the program. I’m not saying TG Aus is a lost cause, but its got a fair way to go before being successful.
haha lamest car show on the planet.. How embarrassing, the first season, the first decent car was a lambo, and they just turned it over, gave it a rev in the studio, that was it.. Then some gay “will a shark eat a car” haha..
1 word.
PATHETIC!
I rather watch a japanese car show with subtitle than TG AUS, I can watch Re-runs after re-runs of TGUK and still enjoy even with the old fat host and Jeremy. YES even the black stig.
There is some improvement over season 1, but still some way to go. The challenge in episode 2 looks good on paper, being an electrical engineer i was interested in seeing what they came up with, but to have them build a car, that did not even work, was pretty sad. The TGUK challenges do not always work, but at least they get off the line. Why didn’t they fix the car, and re-shoot the segment? ( i would suggest that 4 battery drills is pretty under powered even for that car, if he wanted to use that approach, he probably needed a few more drills. average battery drill 0.5kW, 20Nm)
I can’t see this becoming as big as Top Gear in the UK, but maybe one never knows what can happen. Lets just wait and see I can’t really give a great comment as I have never seen this show and only the UK one.
Season one was horrible.
Season two is destined to be worse.
Fortunately there is crap on all the other channels @ 7.30 as well - which makes this show preferential to me.
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id rather watch the grass grow..
what is wrong with u lot its a great show
go back into your cave the lot of u and go watch some more home and away or something like that