I thought the first half wasn't bad. Chris Evans is annoying though and I was reminded of that when he did his TGI reunion show. That's ok though because I found Richard Hammond equally annoying so it seems the top gear presenters have a habit of dividing opinions.
Chris Harris was on the extra programme, "extra gear" and he was fine, you know what you get with him and he's comfortable with himself. The lead presenter that does the extra show with him though, dear god he was awkward. Can only hope they either pull the plug on him early or he settles down a bit and becomes less annoying.
It's early days and was always going to be heavily criticised because of the circumstances.
The point was made there that the original show took time for chemistry to grow so we will see if it's the same here.