Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings (theverge.com)

Posted by msmash on Monday July 4, 2016 @04:00AM from the in-other-news dept.

A number of readers have submitted news coming out of popular show Top Gear. Chris Evans has announced he is leaving his role as a presenter on BBC Two's Top Gear after one series. His resignation comes amid falling ratings for the show -- which hit a series low on Sunday night, with an average of 1.9 million viewers. The Verge reports:Evans was brought in alongside Matt LeBlanc and host of other new faces to fill the positions left by Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond. The first series of the show had poor ratings, with fewer than 2 million viewers tuning into its series finale this weekend -- lower than any episode helmed by Clarkson.

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You might want to call it 'political correctness' by demon+driver · 2016-07-04 04:25 · Score: -1, Flamebait

but it's just, like it mostly is when people whine about 'political correctness', that Top Gear was a show that capitalized on having an arsehole as a presenter while being watched by arseholes which were glad to see an arsehole not being sacked for being an arsehole. Until he was, of course.