I can never understand why Mrs Brown's Boys is so popular! I find it truly unfunny but still it came out top in the Christmas Day TV ratings as the most-watched show on a single channel with 6.8 million viewers. Unbelievable and so are how low the viewing figures are last year Strictly Come Dancing was top with figures of 7.2m with The Great British Bake off Christmas second with an audience of 6.3m and this year don’t feature after its move from the BBC to Channel 4. But without doubt, it would be the big winner of the day for the channel.
The BBC won eight of the top ten shows and won the battle of the soaps with EastEnders taking the crown over Coronation Street who last year were top soap losing a million viewers in the process. I watch them both due to the wife’s obsession I would agree that EastEnders was the best. The only other ITV entry in the top 10 Emmerdale lost a million viewers over last year according to official figures.
The only Drama in the top 10 was Call the Midwife, which I predicted last week. The ITV flagship TV drama was the two hour Christmas special Victoria failed to make the top 10. It didn’t help being up against EastEnders for the first hour.
Comparing this year’s figure with last and only Call the Midwife and EastEnders saw a small increase over 2016 figures but for saw, we will never see figures of 20+ million watch so Christmas Day show ever again.
Christmas Day Viewing Figures 2017
1. Mrs Brown’s Boys – 6.8m (BBC One)
2. Strictly Come Dancing – 6.5m (BBC One)
3. Call the Midwife – 6.3m (BBC One)
4. EastEnders – 6.3m (BBC One)
5. Doctor Who – 5.7m (BBC One)
6. The Queen – 5.2m (BBC One)
7. Coronation Street – 5.1m (ITV 1 when ITV+1 is included)
8. BBC Teatime News – 4.2m (BBC One)
9. The Highway Rat – 4.0m (BBC One)
10. Emmerdale – 3.7m (ITV 1)
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