BBC iPLAYER BREAKS RECORDS FOR FESTIVE FORTNIGHT STREAMS

BBC iPlayer broke records for viewing this Christmas, with iPlayer seeing 245 million streams (excluding Sky catch-up services) over the holidays (21 December 2020 – 3 January 2021) – up by 16 per cent on the ‘festive fortnight’ last year.

There were also 7.93 million unique browsers on New Year’s Day – breaking the record for unique browsers visiting iPlayer in a single day. This beats the 7.8 million set on 31 October 2020 – when further lockdown restrictions in England were announced.

The top 20 individual episodes over the festive fortnight:

1. EastEnders (25/12) – 1,524,000

2. Call The Midwife (25/12) – 1,487,000

3. Spider-Man: Homecoming (22/12) – 1,459,000

4. Black Narcissus – 1,322,000

5. The Serpent – 1,019,000

6. Mrs Brown’s Boys – 962,000

7. Doctor Who: Revolution Of The Daleks – 941,000

8. Strictly Come Dancing (25/12) – 883,000

9. Gavin & Stacey (24/12) – 832,000

10. Alicia Keys Rocks New Year’s Eve (Part 1) – 799,000

11. The Queen (25/12) – 797,000

12. Happy New Year! Live – 780,000

13. Zog And The Flying Doctors – 775,000

14. Match Of The Day – 741,000

15. His Dark Materials (S2E7) – 643,000

16. Ghosts – 634,000

17. Celebrity Sewing Bee – 619,000

18. Dunkirk – 619,000

19. Have I Got News For You – 609,000

20. Motherland Christmas Special – 589,000

Overall, EastEnders was the most watched programme over the festive fortnight on BBC iPlayer with a total of 13,852,000 streams. Doctor Who came in at eleventh on that list with a total 2,425,000 streams.