AFTER LAST WEEK’S episode delivered a mild upswing in viewers for season two of the love-it-or-hate-it Top Gear Australia, hopes were high that this week’s episode (the second last for season two) would build upon episode six’s ratings rebound.

Alas, no, it was not to be. While episode six managed to get 550,000 pairs of eyeballs [...]

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SIX DOWN, two to go. We’re now three-quarters of the way through season two of Top Gear Australia, and finally the show seems to have arrested its ratings slide.

Monday’s episode drew in 550,000 viewers and ranked 31 nationally - a moderate improvement over last week’s 545,000 viewers and number 32 ranking.

It’s not an enormous resurgence [...]

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WE HAD SUCH high hopes for Top Gear Australia when season two began last month, now it appears it’s rapidly heading down the same path as season one.

National viewership for last night’s episode was a measly 545,000, with the program ranking at number 32 nationally.

TGA’s season two ratings have been in steady decline since the [...]

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LAST TIME we took a look at the ratings for the latest series of Top Gear Australia, the prognosis wasn’t good. Now it’s even worse.

The first and second episodes of season two pulled in 689,000 and 628,000 viewers respectively, however hopes were high that quality would improve and viewership would bounce back. It largely hasn’t, [...]

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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 [...]

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