Downton Abbey is the most-watched show of Christmas Day 2015

Downton Abbey came to an end on Christmas Day, devastating the nation and the world beyond.

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.

In second place is the episode of Only Fools And Horses broadcast by BBC1 on Christmas Day 2001, which was watched by 21.34 million.

He tells The Sun newspaper, “Production were checking our pockets (to make sure) that we weren’t stealing anything!”

“I’m glad about the movie question because it replaces the question of three years which was always, “When is the show going to end?”

The BBC claimed eight of the 10 most watched Christmas shows, with Mrs Brown’s Boys and Stick Man drawing in an average of 6.4 million, and Doctor Who and Call the Midwife pulling in an audience of 5.8 million each.

The magnificent fortress was the setting for the fictional Brancaster Castle, where the marriage of Lady Edith (Laura Carmichael) to love interest Bertie Pelham (Harry Hadden-Paton) was announced in the last ever episode of the award-winning period drama by Julian Fellowes. This year ITV also won the battle of the soaps, with Coronation Street attracting 5.9 million viewers, 200,000 more than EastEnders.

The Downton finale went head to head with EastEnders, which pulled in 5.7 million viewers for the same 8.45pm slot.

The show’s Christmas Day special even saw her patch things up with her sister Lady Mary, played by Michelle Dockery, after a long-standing feud between the pair.

However, with no one show breaking the seven million barrier, viewing figures as a whole are down on previous years.