“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.
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Only the Queen’s Christmas message was watched by more people, with 7.2 million tuning in live to hear the 10-minute lunchtime address across both ITV1 and BBC1.
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The success marks the 1st time in 15 years of time of time in that ITV has crushed the BBC to say the very best rated Christmas Day show.
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Some 5.7million people tuned in to the BBC soap on Christmas Day.
While we were all keen to find out whether Mr Bares and Lord Grantham would end on good terms and what Thomas Barrow’s fate would be, the main storyline we were all dying to know the end of was the will-they-won’t-they Edith and Bertie relationship.
He added: “We all feel very blessed”.
Lady Edith finally got her happy ending as she patched things up with her sister Lady Mary after a long-standing feud between the pair.
It was the first time Downton had ever topped the Christmas ratings and a fitting end to the beloved series.
Elsewhere, the Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing received 6.5 million viewers, whilst Mrs Brown’s Boys and Stick Man were broth watched by 6.4m.
The Downton finale went head to head with EastEnders, which pulled in 5.7 million viewers for the same 8.45pm slot. ITV bid a fond farewell to the beloved drama on Christmas eve in an epic two hour special.
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“There are many more television treats for viewers to enjoy on BBC One over the rest of the festive season including Billionaire Boy, The Great Barrier Reef, Still Open All Hours, David Beckham special, And Then There Were None, Dickensian and Sherlock”.
