It’s been a funny year, one that started with Omicron stealing headlines (doesn’t that feel a while ago) and ended with strike action and snow causing disruption to the masses and a strange Qatar World Cup concluding with a cracking final, while Britain gets used to its third Prime Minister in the space of 12 months.
In between, viewers were enchanted by dancers, singers, bomb disposal experts and a former Health Secretary eating camel penis.
Here, Deadline unveils the most-watched UK TV shows of the year (excluding sport) according to 7-day-post-launch Barb data from overnights.tv, while rounding up the most-watched World Cup games at the bottom.
Read on. The State Funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth circa – 25M (BBC/ITV/Sky etc – Monday September 19) By some metrics, the state funeral of HM Queen Elizabeth II was the most-watched UK TV broadcast of all time and various analysts put the worldwide ratings figure at its most optimistic at around the 4BN mark.
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