Doctor Who Fourth Most Loved Show on BBC iPlayer

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Number four with a bullet? Doctor Who has artfully avoided all that podium nonsense after being voted the fourth in a list of the most loved shows on the BBC iPlayer.

The list was collected by viewers clicking on the heart button on the BBC iPlayer. The button was introduced in March 2015, and allows the audience to instantly show love for a programme: Remember all those ads featuring The Beatles All You Need Is Love?

Top of the list was the soap opera EastEnders with children’s drama The Next Step, which charts the lives of a group of young dancers as they make their way through dance school – so for anyone my age, kinda like The Biz – coming second.

Two of the most popular dramas of the last year the *squints soulfully to the horizon* incredibly handsome Poldark and Russian sex ’em up War and Peace make the list alongside established audience favourites Sherlock and Casualty.

The list is as follows.

EastEnders
The Next Step
Match of the Day
Doctor Who
Strictly Come Dancing
Casualty
The Great British Bake Off
The Apprentice
Poldark
Sherlock
Council House Crackdown
War and Peace

It’s a strange old list; being as it contains programmes that are currently in the spotlight alongside long cherished favourites (and Council House Crackdown – which I’m going to assume has something to do with not weeding common land properly; leading to an outbreak of newly sprung council houses – they pop up everywhere!)

Jane Lingham, BBC Director of Brand Strategy says:

“It’s no surprise that audiences are telling us they love EastEnders, Doctor Who, Strictly and The Great British Bake Off. But it’s also clear that the Next Step keeps teenagers hearts beating, whilst for daytime audiences there is a lot of love for Council House Crackdown. The more we find out about what audiences love the more we can recommend new programmes that they will enjoy.”

Being a heart symbol, may be we all pressed it twice for two hearts and cancelled each vote out – damn our slavish devotion!

 

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