It was a very big year for the BBC’s iPlayer service, with the BBC announcing that on average 272 million programmes were streamed a month in 2017. Figures were up 11% on 2016, with 3.3 billion requests for programmes in total across the 12 months. Which is rather a lot.

Furthermore, the BBC has also revealed what the top ten more requested programmes of the year were, and the countdown runs as follows:

1. Blue Planet II: One Ocean

2. Taboo episode 1

3. Doctor Foster series 2 episode 1

4. Three Girls episode 1

5. Blue Planet II: The Deep

6. Sherlock: The Six Thatchers

7. Peaky Blinders: The Noose

8. Line Of Duty series 4 episode 1

9. Apple Tree Yard episode 1

10. Three Girls episode 2

The BBC also announced that December 2017 was the most successful month for the service on record.