The UK overnight ratings for last night’s Christmas special The Husbands of River Song have been revealed.
Doctor Who placed 7th for the evening across all channels with 5.8 million watching. Doctor Who was placed 5th for the day on BBC.
The Christmas Day chart
Downton Abbey 6.9m
Strictly Come Dancing 6.5m
Mrs Brown’s Boys 6.4m
Stick Man 6.4m
Corronation Street 5.9m
Call the Midwife 5.8m
Doctor Who 5.8m
EastEnders 5.7m
Brave 5.5m
In 2014, Last Christmas placed 7th in the overnights with 6.3m viewers, but viewing figures were down across the board with no show passing the 7m viewers mark whereas in 2014 the top three all surpassed the mark.
Total viewing figures will of course rise when a final consolidated rating is released next week.
