Top Gear Australia stalls at the start line with just 503,000 viewers
Nine’s Top Gear Australia had a disastrous return last night with the 8:30 show receiving just 503,000 viewers, less than half of its debut audience last season.
The show was ranked 25th most-watched and was beaten by Seven’s Packed To The Rafters (1.597m), Ten’s NCIS (774,000) and ABC1’s Australian Story: David Hicks (647,000), according to preliminary metro ratings from OzTam.
It was followed by a repeat of the UK version of the show at 9:30 which pulled in only 344,000.
Last year’s debut episode of Top Gear Australia, which was in the 7:30 time slot, received 1.218 million. It was the fourth most-watched show of the night.
karma
Rafters is a puzzle. watched the show to see why it was so popular. nothing happens on the show to develop the storyline.There is no explanation for why all these characters are there.
Whenever I’m flicking around the channels and I land on Rafters, the ten seconds I see is nearly always people standing out the front of a house waving goodbye to a car…
I’m guessing Nine only do a local version of Tog Gear because of some rights package with the BBC? They really needn’t bother.