Top Gear took two of the top three spots in a festive iPlayer top 10 which also featured the first part of the Miranda finale, The Apprentice final, David Walliams' adaptation The Boy in the Dress and four episodes of EastEnders, including the Christmas Day edition.
Sydney had their chances in the final quarter, twice getting within two points in a tension-filled finale.
However, the 10-year-old X Factor UK is starting to show its age with the lowest audience since 2006 tuning in to watch James Arthur win last year's finale.
Here's our own cycling doyen Will Fotheringham with his preview of today's stage: The Tour won't be won in Steel City but one of the favourites could lose it here, as the series of short steep climbs and some abrupt, narrow and very technical descents – equally difficult, particularly if the roads are wet – will make for a demanding finale, where a crash or a puncture could be very costly.
Málaga held on to beat Athletic Bilbao 1-0 to kick off the Spanish league on Saturday, after the new coach Javi Gracia's winning debut was almost spoiled by two of his players earning red cards in a wild finale.
Reaching for a similar shelf of inspiration is Texas teen noir We Gotta Get Out of This Place (Metrodome, 15), the junior Jim Thompson mechanics of which tick along nicely enough until a slack finale.
Still, it's stripped back and palate-cleansing, and has a hint of funk in the choppy rhythm stabs before the headbanging finale which lift it slightly above bland proficiency.
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Series finale The Return of the King landed in the middle with £61.06m.
There are climbs in the finale, Wegelius believes, that are longer and steeper than the race roadbook suggests – as well as the ones that aren't marked – not to mention the super-steep descents.
Any of its last 20 episodes could have reasonably functioned as its finale, and nobody would have been any the wiser.
