Chris Evans ends as “Top Gear” -sjef – NRK

Evans embarked news on his own Twitter account on Monday 4 July 2016.

The sixth and final episode in this year’s “Top Gear” -series was broadcast on BBC Sunday 3 July 2016 and only seen by 1.9 million viewers.

According to the Guardian, this is lower than any episode in all the years that Jeremy Clarkson made program. A mitigating circumstance is, however rekordbra summer weather and the football game between France and Iceland the same day.

The previous presenter trio – Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond – had an average of 5.8 million viewers. They drifted TV series for thirteen years.

In a press release from the BBC states that Evans now believes the best he can do is to step aside. He argues nonetheless that he has never worked with such a dedicated team of people that he has made over the last twelve months.

“I remain a huge fan of the show. I will continue to focus on radio my program. “
BBC reports that the total viewing figures for new” Top Gear “including streaming, is 30 million in the UK alone and that the rights have been sold to 130 territories.

new Top Gear team (from left): Rory Reid, Sabine Schmitz, Matt LeBlanc, Chris Evans, Chris Harris, Eddie Jordan, The Stig

Photo: BBC

Chris Evans is currently also in the spotlight alleging sexovergrep and will be questioned about this shortly. Evans commented on the accusations from a previous job colleague as “ridiculous” and a witch hunt.

Almost daily critical comments and articles in the British press about Evans’ efforts in “Top Gear” should also have been decisive. Evans originally had a three-year contract. Now sources say the BBC told the Guardian that there can be talk of a new season in 2017 with Matt LeBlanc as frontman. Evans and LeBlanc allegedly had relationship problems.

In Norway, NRK demonstrated the season 23 of “Top Gear”, due to that the BBC has chosen to send the episodes on their new Nordic channel, BBC Brit.

Top Gear

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• British television program about cars .
• in its original form was the TV program a consumer oriented program about cars and driving, and went on the BBC from 1977 to 2001.
• the program was relaunched in 2002 with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond as program managers. James May, who had led the last season of the old program, brought in 2003.
• The TV program has been shown in over 170 countries and has been a goldmine for presenter trio and for the BBC, which has earned millions on DVD sales, effects and stage shows.
• 25. March 2015 got Clarkson fired after the attack one of the program’s producers, both physically and verbally.
• 16. June 2016 was Chris Evans confirmed that one of the new program hosts.
• In February 2016 it was announced that actor Matt LeBlanc would also be included in the new edition of the series.