Downton Abbey Finale Aired on Christmas Day

There was more good news in the Christmas Special with Anna and John welcoming a baby boy, and Henry and Mary discovering that they are to become parents too.

“We easily could have gone for a seventh season, but if I’d have said “We haven’t got Maggie” it would have been a shadow of itself”. We have a final season that’s as strong as the first because we quit while we were ahead.

Looking at individual ratings for yesterday, it’s the Queen who won Christmas with 6.1 million tuning into her Christmas Day speech on BBC One, and 1.3 million on ITV giving the broadcast a combined total of 7.4 million.

The ultimate ever episode of “Downton Abbey” was probably the most seen programme in Britain on Christmas day, bringing in an enormous win for broadcaster ITV.

Lady Edith finally got her happy ending as she patched things up with her sister Lady Mary after a long-standing feud between the pair.

It was the first time Downton had ever topped the Christmas ratings and a fitting end to the beloved series.

The drama, created by Julian Fellowes and produced by NBCUniversal-owned Carnival Films, with Carnival boss Gareth Neame as executive producer, in the US airs on PBS. However, we say the real victor of the day was Downton Abbey.

In the past two years, BBC comedy Mrs. Brown’s Boys was the top-rated show on Christmas Day in the overnight ratings. It was the only returning show to increase viewers on last Christmas, up over 1 million viewers.

Coronation Street was watched by 5.9m, and the only movie to feature within the Top 10 rated programmes of the day was Brace with 5.5 million viewers.