Beamish Museum will appear in the last ever episode of Downton Abbey this Christmas Day.
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We’ve been on lots of red carpets together and to the Met Ball a few times, which was unbelievable and surreal because all these really famous people, like Mick Jagger, Bruno Mars, Marc Jacobs and P Diddy, were coming up and talking to us. 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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The BBC and ITV will be anxious to see better results this year.
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Topping the list was Mrs Brown’s Boys, which attracted 9.69 million viewers.
The Doctor Who Christmas special in its early teatime slot earned 5.8 million viewers, roughly the same as BBC1 period drama Call The Midwife.
The feature-length installments, which have been a consistent end to each season of Downton ever since the second season, have become as much of an event as the actual show itself.
Alnwick Castle has again taken centre stage on primetime television on Christmas Day..
Only Fools And Horses also holds third place, with an audience of 21.31 million for the episode on Christmas Day 1996. Many homes also have more than one screen or people tend to download programmes or watch them after they have been screened on catch-up services.
The Christmas Day TV ratings battle looks set to be another cracker.
Guests will get a sneak peek at the first hour of episode one before anyone else.
An individual episode of a soap opera has not topped the Christmas ratings chart for more than 30 years.
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An average overnight audience of 8.6 million viewers, including those time-shifting on ITV +1, watched as Matthew Crawley (played by Dan Stevens) proposed to Lady Mary (Michelle Dockery) four years ago, according to the Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board (Barb).
