As Top Gear disappears in a cloud of exhaust, will SBS be saddened or relieved by the loss of the revhead audience? We would like to see edited highlights of the Tour de France, but we fear that will not bring the advertisers running..
Top Gear was a handy audience – 726,000 metro; 336,000 in the regions, totalling 1,062,000 sighing accelerator artists.
But, quoth SBS, Man Vs Wild is “snapping at its heels” with a total of 903,000, of which 607,000 cling to the cities, ignorant of the wild. What would happen if SBS replaced Top Gear with a reality TV series called Teach Your Kelpie to Drive? You know you’d watch.
