The BBC’s streaming service, iPlayer, enjoyed a record start to the year after series including Netflix co-production The Serpent and Line Of Duty propelled it to 1.7 billion streams in the first three months of 2021.Viewing to iPlayer was up 22% year-on-year in Q1 as Brits flocked to the streaming service during lockdown in the UK.
Furthermore, the BBC said January was a record month, with iPlayer recording 652 million streams.The first episode of Mammoth Screen-produced The Serpent was iPlayer’s most-watched show in Q1 after it racked up 5.9M streams.
It was followed by the first installment in Season 6 of police corruption drama Line Of Duty, which was viewed 3.6M times.Dan McGolpin, director of BBC iPlayer and channels, said: “BBC
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