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| Wallace and Gromit top TV ratings | Wallace and Gromit top TV ratings |
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| Cracking viewing figures, Gromit! Animated duo Wallace and Gromit have topped the Christmas Day TV ratings with their latest adventure. | Cracking viewing figures, Gromit! Animated duo Wallace and Gromit have topped the Christmas Day TV ratings with their latest adventure. |
| The 30-minute show, A Matter of Loaf and Death, attracted a peak audience of 14.4m - ahead of the concluding episode of an EastEnders double bill on 12.6m. | The 30-minute show, A Matter of Loaf and Death, attracted a peak audience of 14.4m - ahead of the concluding episode of an EastEnders double bill on 12.6m. |
| The BBC had an emphatic ratings victory as it screened all the top nine shows. | The BBC had an emphatic ratings victory as it screened all the top nine shows. |
| Doctor Who, The Royle Family and the first episode of EastEnders completed the top five, based on peak figures. | Doctor Who, The Royle Family and the first episode of EastEnders completed the top five, based on peak figures. |
| Coronation Street was ITV1's top-rated show, drawing a peak audience of 7.6m. | |
| Rival soap Emmerdale pulled in a peak of 5.4m viewers, while the channels other big draw was the Dancing on Ice Christmas special, which attracted a peak audience of 5.5m. CHRISTMAS DAY PEAK RATINGS 1. Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death 14.4m (Average: 14.3m)2. EastEnders part two 12.6m (11.5m)3. Doctor Who 12m (11.7m)4. The Royle Family 11m (10m)5. EastEnders part one 10.2m (9.9m)6. BBC News 9.5m (9.5m)7. Strictly Come Dancing Special 9.3m (8.6m)8. Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit 8.6m (7.2m)9. Blackadder Rides Again 7.9m (5.6m)10. The Queen's Christmas Message (BBC1 and ITV1 combined) 7.8m (8.2m)11. Coronation Street 7.6m (7.4m)Key: The first figure relates to peak viewing figures, measured at 15-minute intervals. The figure in brackets is the average audience throughout. Short programmes tend to record high averages.Source: BARB | |
| These initial figures do not include viewers who recorded the programme to watch at a later date, meaning the actual audience figures are likely to be higher than when the final totals are released. | |
| A Matter of Loaf and Death, screened at 2030 GMT, saw inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit open a bakery. | |
| The pair, making their first appearance since 2005, enjoyed a festive double success as their last film The Curse of the Were-Rabbit - shown on BBC1 at 1630GMT - also made it into the Christmas Day top 10. | |
| EastEnders featured the return of "Nasty" Nick Cotton and Sean Slater discovering he is not the father of wife Roxy's daughter, Amy. | |
| The double bill was spread across the evening, with the first part at 2000 GMT and the concluding half-hour from 2100 GMT. | |
| As with last year, the Christmas specials of Doctor Who and Strictly Come Dancing were hits with viewers. | |
| And returning comedy favourites The Royle Family and Blackadder also pulled in impressive ratings. |