BBC REVEALS MOST POPULAR PROGRAMMES ON iPLAYER OVER THE FESTIVE SEASON

EastEnders, Call the Midwife, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse, The Traitors and Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve topped the list of most watched programmes.

The week of Boxing Day to New Year’s Day saw programmes streamed +17% more times than the same period last year

On New Year’s Day, programmes were streamed +30% more than last year – making it iPlayer’s third best day of all time, only behind two days during the FIFA World Cup 2022

EastEnders had a good festive season, with strong year-on-year growth. The Christmas Day hour-long episode was streamed 2.5m times, up +61% on last year’s Christmas Day episode

Other dramas including Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise, His Dark Materials, Strike and Happy Valley were also popular.

The top 20 most streamed programmes (titles) were:

Programme - Streams

EastEnders -23,719,000

The Traitors - 12,396,000

Hey Duggee - 10,177,000

His Dark Materials - 8,160,000

Bluey - 6,169,000

Strike - 6,131,000

Bing - 5,316,000

Happy Valley -5,049,000

BBC News - 4,036,000

Motherland - 3,968,000

Gavin & Stacey - 3,963,000

Call the Midwife - 3,673,000

Mrs Brown's Boys - 3,526,000

Waterloo Road (2006-15) - 3,499,000

Death in Paradise - 3,454,000

Ghosts - 2,950,000

Detectorists - 2,904,000

Breakfast - 2,794,000

Numberblocks - 2,528,000

Sam Ryder Rocks New Year's Eve - 2,462,000