Downton Abbey’s final ever episode scored a total of 6.9 million, the most watched show of the evening.
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In its swansong episode, viewers watched as Lady Edith finally got her happy ending with Bertie Pelham, Lady Mary discovered she was pregnant and Anna and Mr Bates welcomed their first child – with no tragic deaths to break the reverie.
It is the first time in 15 years that ITV has beaten the BBC to top spot in the Christmas Day ratings.
For months Lord Julian Fellowes, the show’s creator and soul-writer, has insisted that he always saw an end in sight and believed that this was the right time to send the Grantham family and their staff off on the rest of their journeys away from us.
However, it was a drop from the 8.8 million who tuned in for the penultimate episode of the series in November and failed to replicate the figures from the first-ever Downton Christmas episode in 2011 when it pulled in a consolidated audience of 12.1 million.
The programme averaged an enormous 6.9 million viewers, when it aired on ITV at eight.45pm.
The BBC has scheduled two festive episodes of Mrs Brown’s Boys – the first of which was seen by 6.4 million people.
On Christmas Eve a comedy hour of Peter Kay won the night but had fewer than 5 million viewers, suggesting we just weren’t that interested in the TV this winter.
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But as much as we truly appreciated this wonderful end, and fantastic is the only word we could use to describe it, the question on every Downton Abbey fan’s mind this morning is “why did it have to end?”
