The combination of newly released boxed -sets and the prime minister’s address to the nation ahead of the UK lockdown helped the iPlayer to its best ever day.
20.4 million requests to stream programmes were made on Monday 23 March, the first time the iPlayer has seen over 20 million requests in a single day.
The return of Killing Eve and the conclusion of popular drama The Nest resulted in the iPlayer’s second most popular day on Monday 13 April with 20.2 million programme requests.
In its first week alone, episode one of series three of Killing Eve had 2.8m requests to stream it on iPlayer.
Dramas Dracula, Taboo and Doctor Foster (pictured) and comedies The Kumars at No.42 and My Family have now been added to the iPlayer.
