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		</div><p>The finale of Bodyguard has become the most-watched episode of any drama since records began in 2002, according to the BBC.</p>
<p>Its popular political thriller, starring Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes, was watched by an audience of 17.1 million across 28 days, the broadcaster said.</p>
<p>The figure was calculated using Barb’s updated four-screen measure, which was introduced in August and now includes data for those viewing programmes through online non-TV devices such as PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets.</p>
<figure id="attachment_119438" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-119438" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/5E68349C-0B3E-4EC0-AED7-39246E452A9F.jpeg"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/5E68349C-0B3E-4EC0-AED7-39246E452A9F.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-119438" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-119438" class="wp-caption-text">Richard Madden and Keeley Hawes in Bodyguard</figcaption></figure>
<p>The 28-day consolidated figure for the dramatic finale – without accounting for online non-TV devices – is 15.9 million, a figure the BBC said is still the highest audience for a drama programme since current records began 16 years ago.<br />
The viewing figure of 17.1 million is also the largest audience recorded for a TV programme that was not a sporting or national event since 2010, the BBC said.<br />
The Jed Mercurio-created series is also BBC iPlayer’s most successful box set, with more than 38 million requests so far.<br />
Earlier in October, the finale of the BBC One series was revealed to have become one of the top five most-watched programmes of this decade, based on seven-day consolidated viewing figures.</p>
<p>It scored a huge television audience of 14.34 million, according to data which included those who recorded the episode and watched it up to seven days later.<br />
The finale, which aired on September 23, drew an average of 10.4 million viewers in the overnight ratings.<br />
The series followed troubled bodyguard and police officer David Budd (Madden) and his relationship with controversial Home Secretary Julia Montague (Hawes), who was killed halfway through the series by a bomb.</p>
<p>We do feel very privileged and fortunate that there&#8217;s been such a response that it gives us that opportunity to at least think about doing more. The nail-biting finale tied up the loose ends in the TV whodunit, revealing that thwarted terrorist Nadia Ali was the person behind the fatal bomb.</p>
<p>Mercurio has hinted at a second instalment of the series, telling The Sun: “If the ratings hadn’t been quite so high, then possibly everybody involved, including the BBC, would have said, ‘Well that was a nice little series but we’re just going to leave it at that and there won’t be any more&#8217;”.</p>
<p>“We do feel very privileged and fortunate that there’s been such a response that it gives us that opportunity to at least think about doing more.</p>
<p>“We would probably approach any thoughts of a second series with the idea that it would create the opportunity for a third or fourth.&#8217;”</p>
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