{"id":4614,"date":"2015-11-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/chinese-top-gear-pulls-in-200-million-plus-viewers\/"},"modified":"2015-11-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T00:00:00","slug":"chinese-top-gear-pulls-in-200-million-plus-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/chinese-top-gear-pulls-in-200-million-plus-viewers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese Top Gear Pulls In 200 Million-Plus Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tLONDON: The Chinese version of BBC’s Top Gear<\/em> has been pulling in large audiences since debuting last month, with its first five episodes reaching a combined audience of 217 million across TV and online.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Honybee Media-produced show, which launched on Shanghai Dragon TV on October 19, was the number one program in its time slot for the past four weeks across all cable and pay-TV channels nationwide, with an average weekly audience of 9 million. The fifth and latest episode attracted more than 11 million viewers. There are five more episodes left in the season’s run.<\/p>\n \n\tHonyee Media debuted the show’s first season in late 2014. BBC Worldwide distributes Top Gear<\/em> to over 200 territories, and has licensed the format for local production in seven countries, including the U.S., China, South Korea, France and Italy.<\/p>\n \n\tPaul Dempsey, the president of global markets at BBC Worldwide, said: “The success of Top Gear<\/em> in China once again demonstrates the unique appeal of the world’s favorite motoring entertainment show. It’s also testament to a successful collaboration between our own U.K. producers and their Chinese counterparts who have recreated a British institution for a whole new audience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" LONDON: The Chinese version of BBC’s Top Gear has been pulling in large audiences since debuting last month, with its first five episodes reaching a combined audience of 217 million across TV and online. The Honybee Media-produced show, which launched on Shanghai Dragon TV on October 19, was the number one program in its time …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"\n