{"id":129048,"date":"2016-07-04T16:43:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=129048"},"modified":"2016-07-04T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T14:43:41","slug":"chris-evans-quits-top-gear-amid-record-low-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/129048\/chris-evans-quits-top-gear-amid-record-low-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Evans quits Top Gear amid record low audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Top Gear presenter Chris Evans has quit the show after it ended the season with record-low ratings, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3673508\/Chris-Evans-Gear-ends-series-record-low-audience.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>An average 1.9 million viewers tuned into Sunday night&#8217;s episode of the motoring show &#8211; 8.6% of the available audience, papers in the UK reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday evening&#8217;s Top Gear was about 800,000 down from the previous week&#8217;s average of 2.7 million, and just over half the number that watched the series launch.<\/p>\n<p>Recent\u00a0reports claimed Evans may be in trouble with the new entertainment lead at the BBC, Kate Phillips, who allegedly summoned him to\u00a0talk over his bad behaviour.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tvandshowbiz\/1370677\/chris-evans-will-be-told-to-drop-the-tantrums-in-crisis-talks-with-the-beebs-new-big-boss-or-face-being-kicked-to-the-kerb\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Sun<\/a><\/strong> reported that Evans had annoyed a lot of the show\u2019s crew with his behaviour and \u201cby being a control freak\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Evans leaving the show comes amid an\u00a0accusation\u00a0of sexual assault against him for allegedly grabbing the breasts of a female colleague in the 1990s, reported the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2016\/07\/04\/metropolitan-police-confirm-chris-evans-faces-sexual-assault-pro\/\" target=\"_blank\">Telegraph<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Top Gear<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/media\/94535\/clarkson-hammond-and-may-heading-to-amazon-tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-Top Gear hosts head to Amazon TV<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC Top Gear presenter Chris Evans has quit the show after it ended the season with record-low ratings, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":129056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5554],"tags":[25,10225],"class_list":["post-129048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-active","tag-top-gear"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129062,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129048\/revisions\/129062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}