24% Of You Rate 'New' Top Gear's First Episode As 1/10
When we posted our Top Gear live discussion on Sunday evening, we were taken aback by the scale of the response. So far the thread has clocked over 550 comments, and if you have a look through, there’s a bit of a theme: most of you guys don’t seem at all keen on the revamped show.
Wanting to quantify exactly how CTzens found the first episode of Top Gear with Chris Evans as host, we ran a couple of polls, both of which produced startling results. In the first we asked you to rate the episode out of 10, and an astonishing 24 per cent of you picked ‘1’. In fact, 75 per cent of the 11,000+ people polled gave the episode a score between 1 and 5.
In the second poll we wanted to know how many of you are planning on tuning in next week. Just 18 per cent of just under 5000 polled said ‘hell yes’, with 33 per cent selecting ‘nope’ and 49 per cent ‘currently undecided’.
The silver lining is we’re yet to see Chris Harris and Rory Reid - who both excelled during the online-only ‘Extra Gear’ segment - in the main show. If anyone can improve the show in the eyes of CTzens, it’s them.
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
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I have to say that extra gear was better than the main show
I was excited for matt being a host. But that low monotone…..man, i hope he picks it up. Evans wasnt horrible, but he was forceful with his delivery of everything. All lines were read instead of said. It will improve. But not for quite a few episodes
BUT… BUT…
THERE’S JOEY IN IT !!!
Clarkson’s face right about now
I just can’t stand all these bulls* reactions to the episode in Poland. People swearing and saying that they aren’t even going to watch it ‘cause they already think it’s crap. Oh wait… they say they KNOW IT. This is so stupid. I quite liked the new episode but I think I’m going to watch ExtraGear. What I also don’t get are Clarkson fanboys saying that without him it’ll never be the same. And that’s perfectly true. But why do they hate the new show? You should treat it as something new and different to the old series.
The problem is that the hosts aren’t treating it as a new show. They are trying to make a continuation of what was already there… What they really should have done if they wanted it to work was to offer something different and new to the table and do something different that they didn’t do in the old show…
It was crap. Evans was terrible. 0 charisma. Leblanc was obviously playing some role from a script, instead of being himself. Challenges were pitiful attempt to copycat old top gear.
Old show was built from the personalities of the old presenters. They were themselves. They were having fun. They made it lively. This new one is just trying to best CHM at being themselves. Of course it’s going to fail. Let’s see what other presenters will add to that mix, but first episode was atrocious.
I watched this first episode, I give it a 4 or 5 / 10, I’ll watch the next one, but I said “undecided” on the poll because I’m not excited, and “HELL YES” seemed a little over the top.
Watching Chris Evans after Jeremy Clarkson likes playing NFS after finishing Forza…
It’s just not fun!
Matt, Chris Harris, Sabine. There, I fixed the show.
Easy. Also exactly what everyone’s said from the start.
can someone pass me a episode. im not gonna judge without even seeing it