BGT Final draws 13.4m viewers, TV's biggest audience of 2015

A peak audience of 13.4 million watched Jules O'Dwyer and Matisse win Sunday night's final of Britain's Got Talent, the biggest audience on UK television in 2015.

The BGT Final averaged 11.7 million viewers between 7.30 and 10pm, 48 per cent of the toal TV audience. It's the only show in 2015 to exceed 11 million viewers throughout the whole programme.

The 11.7 million audience was exactly a milion more than the Britain's Got Talent Final in 2014.

ITV’s Director of Entertainment and Comedy Elaine Bedell said: “It has been a wonderfully entertaining series from beginning to end. Simon, the judges, Ant and Dec, and the talented production teams at SYCO and Thames have triumphed again, and made Britain's Got Talent the most talked about, and most watched, television show of the year."

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Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix.

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.