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The consolidated figures for the series' second episode (8.7 million) make it Channel 4's eighth highest-rating programme ever.
The official consolidated figures for the launch show, including people who recorded it and watched it in the following seven days, are expected on Monday.
It manages to be both hard-hitting and emotional, gritty and warm". The BBC said the consolidated figures for the opening instalment – which includes so-called "timeshift" viewing on personal video recorders such as Sky+ in the seven days after first transmission – lifted its audience to 9.8 million, a record for a launch episode of a BBC1 drama.
But as Barb doesn't issue its final "consolidated" figures for another seven days, Downton Abbey later rose to overtake the soap after adding in the viewing on video recorders and HD channels (though not from repeats and the iPlayer).
When time-shifted figures were added, the viewing figures on BBC One were 7.93 million while BBC HD's ratings rose to 494,000, making the final consolidated figures for the episode 8.42 million.
The man now doing the sums, Rolf Rickmeyer, was still unable to present consolidated figures for the third quarter this week.Worse, Mr Haffa's acquisitions have left EM.TV with around euro1.1 billion in debt.
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The consolidated figure for the first episode, which includes people who recorded it and watched it in the seven days after transmission, currently stands at 9.9 million.
The seven-day consolidated figure for episode one saw an increase of 3.6m on its overnight audience (6.8m), an impressive uplift of 54%.
The channel scored eight out of the top 10 Christmas week programmes, with consolidated figures of 9.5 million for Mrs Brown's Boys, 9.3 million for Call the Midwife and 9.28 million for children's animation Stick Man.
After its broadcast on BBC One, the episode received consolidated figures of 10.266 million viewers in the United Kingdom.
The premieres on both Sky Atlantic and Canal+ received strong ratings for the respective channels, with an initial consolidated figure of almost 900,000 in the UK, and 1.3 million in France.
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