Weekend ratings round-up: 9.5m see the penultimate episode of ‘Downton Abbey’
Downton Abbey attracted 9.5m viewers at the weekend, despite losing out as Sunday’s most watched show to Strictly Come Dancing.
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Downton Abbey attracted 9.5m viewers at the weekend, despite losing out as Sunday’s most watched show to Strictly Come Dancing.
The BBC once again thrashed ITV in the 9pm Monday night drama slot as New Tricks showed no sign of slacking with 7.4m (30.4%) viewers.
Downton Abbey continues to dominate the Sunday schedules, with the latest episode attracting a mighty 10.1m viewers.
As the rain poured down in Warsaw the ratings looked sunnier for The Paradise as a 22% share of the audience and 5.2m people tuned in to Episode 4.
Once again Downton Abbey was the most watched show on a Sunday night as it beat stablemate The X Factor for the second time in three weeks.
The new series of crime drama DCI Banks debuted this week with a strong 4.7m viewers.
Merlin filled the Doctor-shaped hole in BBC One’s Saturday schedules this weekend and did so with style, drawing in an impressive 5.5m (23.5%) viewers.
The crew of Red Dwarf flew back onto our screens this week for their first full series since 1999 and attracted an impressive 1.5m (6.3%) viewers.
Amy and Rory’s departure from the TARDIS was watched by 5.9m (26.9%) on Saturday and became the third most watched episode of the current series.
Recent viewing figures published by the BBC for their iPlayer service prove that the way we are viewing our favourite TV programmes is changing faster than we perhaps realised.