article_snippet.sent: Top Gear has helped steer the the BBC’s iPlayer to record levels after four episodes shown in February notched up nine million views alone.
article_snippet.sent: Top Gear star James May was spotted out and about in central London today with an iPad as an iPad emerged the BB2 show has helped steer the BBC’s iPlayer to record levels, notching up nine million views alone .
article_snippet.sent: Popular: Top Gear has helped steer the BBC’s iPlayer to record levels after four episodes shown in February notched up nine million views .
article_snippet.sent: On Tuesday, the BBC confirmed Top Gear's £10million live world tour will go ahead with Jeremy Clarkson at the helm alongside fellow presenters James May and Richard Hammond.
article_snippet.sent: A BBC Worldwide spokesman said BBC Worldwide will fulfil the series of live shows which have already sold 200,000 tickets worldwide - but added that the events will be stripped of all the BBC branding and content and billed as Clarkson, Richard Hammond and May Live.
article_snippet.sent: Top Gear's £10million live world tour starts in Australia and fans have paid between £35 and £200 for tickets to the live shows.
article_snippet.sent: Now the corporation's commercial arm rakes in an estimated £50million a year from selling the rights to Top Gear overseas, with the ailing show watched in 214 countries around the world.
article_snippet.sent: On top of that, BBC Worldwide makes millions more from Top Gear Magazine and live shows in the UK and abroad, as well as sales of DVDs.
article_snippet.sent: Top Gear Magazine has a global circulation of 1.7 million, bringing in another estimated £7.4million - not including profit from advertising, as well as the costs of producing and shipping Top Gear Magazine.
article_snippet.sent: The motoring programme was also set to make around £7.35million in sales of tickets to The motoring programme 14 live shows in the UK this year.
highlights_snippet.sent: Top Gear took up first, third and fifth spots in iPlayer top five for February .
  