At 9.4 there is some value to be had in opposing the Christmas Day TV ratings standard bearer of the modern era - [b]Eastenders[/b] - currently trading at a screaming red hot 1.27 to win again. 'Enders' is no Morecambe and Wise. In the halcyon days of 1977, Eric and Ernie clocked a still unbeaten Christmas Day Record 28.5 million viewers.
These days, you do well to get half that rating figure on Christmas Day. Wallace and Gromit did it in 2008 with A Matter of Loaf and Death which clocked a respectable 14.3 million. Eastenders won the next day rating release in 2009 with 10.9 million which is roundabout its total of addicts and devotees nowadays.
That figure was consolidated to 11.6 million when the complete figures were published a few weeks later - as is the Broadcasters Audience...