“The BBC cannot operate freely in Iran, so Top Gear's popularity is hard to measure. But last year, when PTV dropped an episode to air an exclusive interview with then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the audience protested bitterly.
“When the Top Gear season ends, PTV replaces it with its sister programme Top Gear USA, and this too has prompted complaints, one viewer objecting - with Clarkson-like bluntness - that the presenters were ‘not funny’.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22020822
(The US version does not approach funny, especially when so much of the program is contrived. I might as well be watching a drama-queenish so-called reality program.
(About 15 years ago, the ruling Islamists were all in a tizzy because so many of “their” people were watching Baywatch through satellite TV, so the government decreed registration of all satellite dishes.
(Old Jeremy Clarkson and bouncing women lifeguards – Bringers of protest.)
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