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| Doctor Who regeneration tops Christmas Day TV ratings | Doctor Who regeneration tops Christmas Day TV ratings |
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| Doctor Who's regeneration was the most-watched Christmas Day television moment with 10.2 million viewers seeing the five-minute sequence on BBC One. | Doctor Who's regeneration was the most-watched Christmas Day television moment with 10.2 million viewers seeing the five-minute sequence on BBC One. |
| However Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special, also on BBC One, was the most-watched complete programme with an average of 9.4 million viewers. | However Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas Special, also on BBC One, was the most-watched complete programme with an average of 9.4 million viewers. |
| An average of 8.3 million watched Matt Smith bow out as the Doctor while ITV's Coronation Street averaged 7.9 million. | An average of 8.3 million watched Matt Smith bow out as the Doctor while ITV's Coronation Street averaged 7.9 million. |
| It beat rival BBC soap EastEnders for the first time in more than 10 years. | It beat rival BBC soap EastEnders for the first time in more than 10 years. |
| BBC One had eight of the top 10 most watched programmes while ITV had three - the channels share the Queen's Christmas broadcast. | |
| BBC One controller Charlotte Moore said: "Nothing brings the country together at Christmas quite like BBC One. Huge audiences shared the Christmas Day schedule on the nation's favourite channel." | |
| The peak-time and all-day average audiences on BBC One on Christmas Day were both higher than those of any other channel. | |
| The ratings, provided by TRP/BARB, are only provisional overnight figures and could change once viewers who recorded programmes and then watched them later are taken into account. | |
| Two years ago Downton Abbey was rated fourth in the overnight ratings but eventually rose to first when the final figures were released. | |
| None of ratings will include viewings on catch-up services such the BBC's iPlayer or the ITV Player. |