The Tourist is the most-watched TV drama of the year, beating out Trigger Point and the series Canoe Man for first place
- The most-watched drama of 2022 was The Tourist, the BBC revealed yesterday
- ITV took the next spots with Trigger Point and The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe
- BBC took seven spots in the top ten list while ITV took the other three
The most-watched drama of 2022 was The Tourist, the BBC revealed.
The thriller series stars Jamie Dornan as a victim of a car accident in the Australian outback who wakes up with no memory.
The BBC took seven spots on the top ten shows list that year, while ITV took the other three. However, none of the drama captured the public imagination on the scale of Line Of Duty 2021.
The police show finale garnered 12.8 million viewers the night it aired – more than all shows on this year’s 28-day list.
In BBC1’s The Tourist, starring Jamie Dornan (pictured), the actor played a Brit who is being pursued in the Australian outback. It was ranked as the most watched British drama of 2022 with 11.4 million viewers
In second place was ITV’s hit drama Trigger Point, starring Vicky McClure (pictured) as explosives agent Lana Washington. The series revolves around the Expo officers who daily risk their lives on the “long road” towards danger and has been praised by viewers
ITV1 drama The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe drew 10.1million viewers on Easter Sunday and starred Eddie Marsan and Monica Dolan as impostors John Darwin and his wife Anne. Darwin notoriously faked his own death for two years to cheat insurers out of hundreds of thousands of pounds
In fourth place with 9.5 million viewers was BBC One’s The Responder, starring Martin Freeman as former first responder Chris Carson in a series based on a true story
Death In Paradise viewers rejoiced in the arrival of Ralf Little as the new DI Neville Parker in 2020, and the show’s ratings remained strong, earning it fifth place that year (pictured, Little wears as DI Parker despite the his jacket in the sweltering heat).
The most-watched drama of 2022 was The Tourist, the BBC revealed yesterday
The most aired shows were as follows:
ITV came second and third on the 2022 list with thriller Trigger Point, starring Vicky McClure, which earned 10.9 million and The Thief, His Wife And The Canoe, based on a true story of a man faking his death, received 10.1 million.
BBC1 police drama The Responder, starring Martin Freeman, was fourth with 9.5 million, followed by the long-running crime series Death In Paradise with 9.1 million.
Recent BBC hit SAS Rogue Heroes was sixth at nine million, followed by Call The Midwife, Sherwood and Silent Witness, all taking in over eight million.
ITV thriller Our House finished tenth with eight million viewers. Despite their huge budgets, none of the big US streamers like Netflix and Disney+ made the list.
Figures are based on the top episode of each series in the first 28 days of viewing and include data from services such as iPlayer and ITVX.