Top Gear ratings

A week ago I was talking to someone at work about the possible viewing figures for Top Gear - given that it’s up against the Big Brother live final. They thought it would be around 5 or 6 million - a million or so more than it usually gets.

My estimate was a lot higher - putting it somewhere around the 8 million mark and making it one of the highest shows of the night - I was right. I also suggested the same figure on a web forum as well.

I’ve just found out that Top Gear got 7.9 million viewers and a 27.8% audience share on Sunday night. This is amazing given what it was up against and the figure is likely to rise when the full ratings are released - that was just the overnight figure.

Given the shows it had to compete with I expect we could add another million from timeshifter.

It beat everything in its time slot which for a BBC TWO show is impressive, it also came second ALL EVENING only being beaten by soaps - Coronation Street (10 million) and Emmerdale (8 million).

It’s closest rival in the timeslot was some crappy ITV drama with 6.8 million and obviously Celeb BB Final with 5.8 million. Oh and this should be my last Top Gear post for a while - promise!

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