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The overnight ratings for Christmas Day 2015 are in, and it is looking like this year’s Christmas Day viewing is the lowest since 2009.

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This has never been an ideal arrangement, but the people in charge of Downton Abbey managed to make things work for them and fans of the show.


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Elsewhere on BBC One in prime time, Doctor Who had 5.8 million viewers (down 500,000 on 2014), Call The Midwife had 5.8 million (down 1 million), Eastenders was seen by 5.7 million (down 1.9 million) and Mrs Brown’s Boys had 6.4 million (down 1.2 million).


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MillionsLLIONS of TV viewers will see a top North East attraction feature in this Christmas Day’s most talked about TV programme.

Looking at individual ratings for yesterday, it’s the Queen who won Christmas with 6.1 million tuning into her Christmas Day speech on BBC One, and 1.3 million on ITV giving the broadcast a combined total of 7.4 million.

“We easily could have gone for a seventh season but if I’d have said “We haven’t got Maggie”, it would have been a shadow of itself”, he told the newspaper.

Grab your tissues, the very last episode of Downton Abbey is upon us.

“I’m glad about the movie question because it replaces the question of three years which was always, “When is the show going to end?”

The hugely successful period drama will bid farewell after tonight’s two-hour special, which finds the Crawleys at the end of 1925. Not a single show broke the 7 million viewer mark this year, down from the most recent peak in 2010 when three shows – all on the BBC – each attracted more than 10 million.

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Coronation Street triumphed as the most-watched soap on Christmas Day as it pulled in an average of 5.9 million viewers, including on +1 services, while Emmerdale got 4.4 million.

Goodbye to Downton - Series filmed in Hampshire ends