- Highest-rated programme Name The Midwife attracted simply 9.2 million viewers
- Smallest variety of viewers for Christmas Day chart-topper since document started
- Different programmes within the 2016 festive prime 10 included Mrs Brown's Boys, Strictly Come Dancing and The Nice Christmas Bake Off
Audiences for the UK's most-watched TV exhibits on Christmas Day have fallen to their lowest degree on document.
Name The Midwife, the highest-rated programme on December 25 2016, attracted an viewers of simply 9.2 million.
That is the smallest variety of viewers for a Christmas Day chart-topper because the present system of scores started in 1981.
Different programmes within the 2016 festive prime 10 included Mrs Brown's Boys (9.zero million), Strictly Come Dancing (eight.9 million) and The Nice Christmas Bake Off (eight.2 million).
Christmas Day TV audiences have been in regular decline over the previous few a long time
Only one week earlier the Strictly Come Dancing ultimate had been watched by 13.three million.
The figures, from the analysis physique Barb, additionally present that BBC One had eight of the 10 most-watched exhibits on December 25 2016, whereas ITV had two.
Christmas Day TV audiences have been in regular decline over the previous few a long time.
The Nice Christmas Bake Off solely managed to tug in eight.2 million viewers on December 25
No programme has gained greater than 20 million viewers since 2001, and 15 million has not been reached since 2008.
The yr 2016 was solely the second through which no programme managed to get no less than 10 million viewers. The primary was 2014, when Mrs Brown's Boys topped the chart with 9.7 million.
Name The Midwife's 2016 chart-topping score of 9.2 million is simply over half the quantity who watched Wallace And Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Loss of life in 2008 (16.2 million).
The only largest Christmas Day TV viewers in historical past was recorded in 1989 when 21.eight million watched the UK premiere of the movie Crocodile Dundee.
The scale of the common TV viewers on Christmas Day has fallen from 18.5 million within the 1980s to 17.four million within the 1990s, 14.eight million within the 2000s, and 11.1 million this decade.
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