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A few data points to illustrate how well Top Gear & Clarkson are received as entertainers:
-- it was announced last month that there will be a USA-based Top Gear TV show
-- a few months ago, announced that Australia will offer a Top Gear TV show
-- estimated in Wikipedia that Top Gear is the most widely downloaded TV program in the world right now
-- I meet & socialize with a very international crowd because of sailing - mostly Europeans, Aussies, Kiwis and N Americans. Everyone seems to both know about and enjoy Top Gear; most of us carry multiple seasons of Top Gear on our laptops.
Hyperbole sells, and Reality TV appeals even tho' viewers recognize it isn't really 'real'...
Jack
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