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The Vicar Of Dibley won the Christmas Day battle for television viewers with more than 11 million tuning in to watch the sitcom.

The long-running BBC series, starring Dawn French, is ending with a special two-part edition and the first instalment was the nation's favourite show on Christmas night, attracting an average audience of 11.4 million.

In second place was the last episode of an EastEnders double bill, watched by 10.7 million, followed by its rival soap, Coronation Street, with 9.6 million tuning in for the hour-long show.

The first instalment of EastEnders came next, watched by 9.2 million, then the popular sci-fi show Dr Who (8.7 million) and Little Britain Abroad (8.4 million).

Outside the top 10 was a one-off special edition of the ITV1 comedy drama Doc Martin, which was watched by 5.3 million.

The Queen's Speech attracted 5.7 million viewers on BBC1 and 900,000 on BBC2, while on ITV1 1.9 million tuned in.

The combined total of 8.5 million viewers was down on last year's 9.2 million.

The viewing figures, which are official estimates, showed the BBC had eight programmes in the top 10 - its best result since 2002.

The Corporation was also the most popular broadcaster out of all the terrestrial channels on Christmas Day, but it saw its overall share fall for the fifth year running.

The BBC said its main channel had a 29.8% share of the audience throughout the day compared to ITV1's 21.1%, while ITV1 stated it had 22.5% and the BBC1 30.5%. The peak audience watching television was 24.8 million at 9.45pm - last year's figure was 23.8 million at 9.15pm.