The overnight audience data compared with 5.84 million viewers for the show’s Christmas special in 2014, which rose to 7.7 million in consolidated ratings that include one week of time-shifted viewing, and to 8.8 million for its penultimate episode on ITV in November, which were the best ratings for the final season.
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Downton Abbey, on the other hand, drew in 7.7 million viewers.
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Some, like Mike Huckabee , are even saying nice things. “You thought I was going to say somebody else”, he quipped. With that, Bush stepped off the stage to greet members of the crowd – as well as take some selfies.
Downton went head-to-head with an hour-long special of EastEnders in the 8.45pm slot but even a shock auto crash involving the Mitchell and Beale families only captured the attention of 5.7 million fans.
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Earlier on in the day, Christmas movie fearless had 5.5 million viewers on BBC One in the afternoon and animated short Stick Man was seen by 6.3 million.
Executive producer Gareth Neame said the ITV show didn’t return for another season because dame Dame Maggie Smith, who plays Dowager Countess Lady Violet Crawley, wouldn’t be starring in it.
On Wednesday (23 December), Michelle Dockery (who plays icy Mary) spoke to Good Morning Britain’s Richard Arnold saying: “There’s still lots of twists and turns in the special and I think the audience will be sad, but it ends on a positive note”.
“I hope you’re not too unhappy about the way things have turned out”, the aristocrat tells his employee in the trailer released by ITV.
St Michael’s Church hall in Alnwick makes an appearance in Downton Abbey.
Henry Talbot, played by Matthew Goode, and Mary also discovered they are expecting a child.
Lily James, soon to be seen in BBC One drama War And Peace, reprises her role as Lady Rose Aldridge.
The much-loved actors playing the servants, including Phyllis Logan, Brendan Coyle, Joanne Froggatt, Lesley Nicol and Sophie McShera, will take their final bow.
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Downton Abbey was first aired on ITV in the United Kingdom in September 2010.
