Oldham Athletic are terrible

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Scruff7 said:

STEKSTAV said:

Grimes said:

Do you have even a shred of evidence that 350 million people watch the show? Or are you saying 350 million people have access to BBC? Because those are two very different things to say.

He's saying "it goes out to" 350m. The show dose not have 350m viewers.. I think i read somewhere that they had 10m or so.

It's claimed in the Wikipedia website as having 350million (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_gear) of course, that is just wikipedia and doesn't actually mean it has that many.

"The programme is estimated to have 350 million viewers worldwide.[2]"

It is a popular program though, apparently it's shown in the US on BBC USA.

That little #2 links to the source of that figure, you know.  ;)

From Reuters:

Jeremy Clarkson, the gruff and opinionated presenter of Top Gear, a program about cars watched by 350 million people from Finland to Australia, is the subject of an online campaign being waged in the very heart of British government.

And as has been shown earlier in the thread, GT4 managed to get a 10 minute spot on the show in the past.  Given Top Gear's appreciable presence in GT5, between the Test Track, driving with the Stig, and Top Gear specials available  free through Gran Turismo TV, I doubt they wouldn't do something a bit more involved than what they did for GT4.

In the end, GT5 is being heavily tied into a show with a massive following, giving it an advantage no other GT title has had.  Nobody knows how this will impact the success of the game, but it can only be a positive.