Doctor Who Christmas Edition topped Downton Abbey
The BBC One Doctor Who Christmas Special, starring Nick Frost as Santa Claus, outscored its rival – ITV's Downton Abbey Christmas special on Thursday night 25 December 2014. A similar situation occurs for the second year in a row, although, in general, all TV shows on Christmas night performed the worst compared to 2013. Special edition of the sci-fi series "Doctor Who" with Peter Capaldi and Jenna- Louise Coleman gathered 6.34 million viewers from the screens. Last year, the same figure was 8.29 million. This is quite understandable, since in the Christmas episode there was a meeting of two incarnations of the Lord of Time – The Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors, played by Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi, respectively. On December 25, 2014, 5.84 million viewers watched the Christmas episode of Downton Abbey. This is the lowest ranked Christmas episode in the show's history. By comparison, in 2013, the Crowley family was watched by 7.01 million people. Last year, the BBC One Christmas special, Mrs Brown's Boys, became the most watched TV show on UK television on 25 December, attracting 9.4 million people. This year, the comedy, produced by Irish screenwriter and actor Brendan O'Carroll, succeeded in repeating last year's success, yielding only to Queen Elizabeth II's welcoming speech. "Mrs Brown's Boys" not very famous in the US and Europe, but very popular in the UK, attracted 7.61 million people. In 2013, the soap opera of the ITV channel "Coronation Street" gathered 7.9 million people on the screens in Rozhdestvenskaya night, surpassing the BBC series East Endians for the first time in ten years. This year, East Endians have re-established themselves at 7.55 million, making it the second highest ranked UK television. Coronation Street scores 6.62 million viewers. Strictly Come Dancing (6.98 million people) ranks third on Christmas Eve, followed by the drama Call the Midwife ( 6.83), and the fifth place was won by the comedy "Miranda" (6, The Topic of Article: Doctor Who Christmas Edition topped Downton Abbey. |
