Yahoo Lifestyle ‘Outnumbered’ & ‘Call The Midwife’ Lead Solid Boxing Day For BBC After Christmas Day Ratings Bonanza
The BBC took its domination of the Christmas Day UK TV ratings into Boxing Day with Call the Midwife and Outnumbered topping the charts.
The Christmas specials of the long-running BBC shows both peaked with around 4M viewers, placing them first and second on the Boxing Day list.
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The ratings data, which has just come in from overnights.tv, capped off a strong holiday season for the BBC. The nation’s oldest broadcaster took every spot in the top 10 Christmas Day ratings after Gavin & Stacey and Wallace & Gromit drew huge numbers.
Call the Midwife, the popular period drama that tells the story of midwives in the 1950s and 1960s, has been on TV for 12 years now but shows no signs of losing its popularity. Improv comedy Outnumbered, which has followed the journey of two parents and their three kids from when they were little to adulthood, hadn’t been on British TV screens for eight years until last night at 9:40 p.m. GMT (1:40 p.m. PT) to 10:20 p.m. Its last outing, a Christmas special in 2016, attracted around 1M more viewers than last night although this was a somewhat different linear viewing landscape. These numbers will likely shoot up this week as audiences take to iPlayer to catch up on the Christmas viewing they have missed.
ITV had a better Boxing Day than its Christmas. The 1% Club Christmas Special, which aired from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m., was third with an average 3.2M audience and peak of 3.4M, while The Masked Singer: Christmas Special came second with 2.5M average. Four of the top 10 slots were taken by ITV shows compared with the prior day’s zero.
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