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Sherlock: nearly 10m viewers watch BBC detective's return

On BBC1 on Wednesday night the showing of Sherlock had reached up to 10 million views. The reason for this is the show contained Sherlock surviving the rooftop and how it all occurred. The show began with an average of 9.2 million viewers, from the showing from 9-10pm. The show peaked to 9.7 million for the first 5 minutes of the show. The show was broadcasted on Christmas day as a special. The show started with 7.5 million viewers in July 2010 of the first release, which it then increased to 8.8 million on news day of 2012. Sherlock had pulled in viewers of 33.8% shares of the audience. The show was streamed at the same time as Harry Potter on ITV therefore facing a high competition from rival channels. The movie itself was watched by 5.1 million viewers. With a 19.2% share of the audience between 8pm and 10.30pm. EastEnders on Christmas day was broadcasted at 8pm which they only managed to attract 7.3 million viewers with a 27.8% share of the audience. This then ensured that Sherlock received more views then EastEnders which is the leading show on Christmas day with a peak viewers of 10 million. EastEnders has also lost out to rival show Coronation street with the viewings as Coronation Street generated views of £9.82 million on Christmas day being overall the 3rd most viewed show on Christmas day. However the highest viewed show on Christmas day was Mrs Browns Boys generated views of 11.52 million.