New figures released today show that a staggering 141 million programmes were streamed during the week of New Year (27th December to 3rd January), which is a six per cent increase on the same timeframe last year.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Sunday 2nd January 2022 became iPlayer\u2019s best festive day ever, reaching a whopping 22 million streams \u2013 thanks in part to the launch of high-profile box set The Tourist.<\/p>\n
Fifty Shades of Grey actor Jamie Dornan stars in the hit series, following a man with no memory who wakes up in the Australian outback, which has quickly become iPlayer\u2019s third most successful drama launch of all-time with 18 million views thus far.<\/p>
Charlotte Moore, BBC\u2019s Chief Content Officer, said: \u201c2022 on the BBC has started with a bang with record viewing across Christmas and New Year on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMillions of people chose to watch our unrivalled range of box-sets and Christmas specials live on our channels, or binge on-demand across the festive season \u2013 paving the way for the BBC\u2019s centenary, a landmark year that will look forward and celebrate British creativity across the whole of the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n
The BBC has also released a full breakdown of its All-Screens+7 data for the festive period, which counts all viewing across terrestrial television and iPlayer in the first seven days of availability.<\/p>\n
Between Monday 20th December and Tuesday 4th January, the most watched programmes by this metric were Happy New Year Live! (10.5m), The Tourist episode 1 (8.9m) and The Queen\u2019s Christmas Broadcast (8.3m).<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>Christmas specials were the next big winners, with Death in Paradise<\/a> (8m), Call the Midwife<\/a> (7.9m) and Strictly Come Dancing<\/a> (7.4m) proving most popular.<\/p>\n Rounding out the top 10 were new drama launches A Very British Scandal<\/a> episode 1 (7.1m) and Around the World in 80 Days<\/a> episode 1 (6m), as well as 20th December\u2019s Six O\u2019Clock News (5.7m) and comedy favourite Michael McIntyre\u2019s Christmas Wheel (5.5m).<\/p>\n Other notable titles in the top 20 include star-studded children\u2019s animated special Superworm<\/a> (5.1m), hard-hitting factual drama Four Lives<\/a> (5m), the Ghosts Christmas special<\/a> (4.5m) and Doctor Who\u2019s Eve of the Daleks<\/a> (4.4m).<\/p>\n BBC iPlayer\u2019s annual festive season analysis uses a 14-day period each year, which ends on the last bank holiday in January.<\/p>\n Check out more of our Drama<\/a> coverage or visit our TV Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By David Craig Published: Friday, 14 January 2022 at 12:00 am BBC iPlayer has shattered festive viewing records, with audiences flocking to the service to consume a strong line-up of content including Jamie Dornan drama The Tourist. New figures released today show that a staggering 141 million programmes were streamed during the week of New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":9933,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season.jpg",619,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season.jpg",619,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season.jpg",619,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season.jpg",619,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/01\/bbc-iplayer-sets-new-records-for-festive-season.jpg",619,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By David Craig Published: Friday, 14 January 2022 at 12:00 am BBC iPlayer has shattered festive viewing records, with audiences flocking to the service to consume a strong line-up of content including Jamie Dornan drama The Tourist. New figures released today show that a staggering 141 million programmes were streamed during the week of New…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/9932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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