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Originally Posted by Chris
As Osem says, you're ignoring issues like audience share and catchup.
Absolute figures have been dropping for all terrestrial channels for decades. Doctor Who was cancelled at the end of the 1980s for "low" viewing figures which many episodes of the new series have achieved, and are now considered average-to-good.
Even in the last 6-7 years there has been a marked decline, but the BBC has access to iPlayer stats that BARB does not.
Top Gear is immensely popular. It is shown in goodness knows how many countries worldwide and the format has been franchised and remade in others. It really is not past its sell by date and the BBC is going to try extremely hard to re-cast, re-invent and re-start it as soon as possible.
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I'd love to be in on the internal discussions going on about this.
Some say the new presenter won't have testicles but will have a hairy face. Jo Brand comes to mind and 'on that bombshell...'
