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Queen’s Jubilee concert most watched TV show this year
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 6 June 2012
TV coverage of Gary’s little gig on the Mall was the most watched telly programme of the year so far, according to the BBC. Official ratings reckon that an average of 14.7 million people tuned into the three hour plus concert, with a peak audience of seventeen million viewers.
That puts it some way ahead of the 11.4 million who tuned in to see a dog win the final of ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ earlier in the year, and the slightly lacklustre seven million who tuned in to the final edition of ‘The Voice’ on BBC One this weekend, where the Tom Jones-mentored Leanne Mitchell was declared winner.
Jones was among the long list of music stars who joined Gary Barlow for his Jubilee concert in front of Buck House on Monday night, with Elton John, Alfie Boe, JLS, Grace Jones, Jools Holland, Annie Lennox, Madness, Stevie Wonder, Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams and Paul McCartney also all along for the ride.
Talking of Macca, he revealed to media at the Jubilee show that he would return to the stage later this summer to play at the Olympics. There’s some confusion as to whether he will play the opening or closing ceremony, though I think what he said was the “closing of the opening”.
