Top Gear is the world’s most downloaded show
Filed under: Motoring Films — Alan @ 6:54 am
The auto show Top Gear makes its return this weekend, and can be said to have taken over the world since it now is seen in over 100 countries and has a global audience of about 350 million.
At the same time, Top Gear and its three hosts who push the envelope of what constitutes as an automobile are the most downloaded shows around the world.
Although it may be hard to explain the three middle aged auto journalists have become celebrities across the world as they take the show to cities, including Amsterdam, Cape Town, Sydney, and Hong Kong.
In fact, the three hosts, James May, Richard Hammond, and Jeremy Clarkson are so popular that even teenage girls and schoolboys rush to catch glimpses of the stars and public appearances, which make the three middle-aged hosts more respected than most pop stars that you think would appeal at that age.
At the same time that the show works based on corny outrageous skits that involve everything that can happen with vehicular stunts and a large budget, it also manages to have a small political slant due to the fact that it defies what the New Labour party creates as a nanny state.
In fact, a month hardly passes without Top Gear managing to raise controversy and the need for an Ofcom ruling on its potentially censored jokes. At the heart of most of the hearings are jokes pertaining to speeding, suicide, prostitution, and sexist claims by watchers.
Top Gear has been through many changes as it has aged with the viewing populations, but some of these changes may be what has made it such a pop sensation today.
Among the changes include the fact that it has a news section that takes care of business quickly, that it is filmed in an aircraft hanger with a live audience, and that the line-up is always male and almost always unfair and unreasonable, and never PC.
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