The BBC can breathe straightforward into its festive leftovers, after all of the hype, cross-promotion and advertising paid off – with the finale of long-running comedy Gavin and Stacey successful the UK’s prime Christmas Day viewers.
Overnights.TV reported {that a} whopping 12.3million tuned in to find the fates of all of the much-loved characters, 5 years after the present stopped on a cliffhanger of Nessa (Ruth Jones) proposing to Smithy (James Corden).
That 2019 outing was the highest score present of that yr with an viewers of 11.6million however that grew to 18million consolidated. This yr’s grand finale is predicted to beat that after the catch-up figures are included.
Different Christmas Day highlights from the BBC included a model new Wallace and Gromit movie, plus a festive particular Physician Who, written by former showrunner Steven Moffat.
Jones and Corden additionally write the sequence, which started in 2007, and ran for 3 sequence till 2009 – telling the story of younger sweethearts Gavin from Essex in east England and Stacey from Barry in south Wales, their romance and the mingling of their two households.
In addition to the writing pair, the sequence starred Matthew Horne and Joanna Web page within the title roles, with Rob Brydon (Barbie) enjoying Uncle Bryn.
Jones and Corden created an ending that may please all followers, though one query was left tantalisingly unanswered – what did occur on Uncle Bryn’s fishing journey? The pair say they’re now correctly completed with the present, though they want to proceed working collectively and have mused publicly on the potential for writing a e book.
