BBC Sherlock Fan Forum - Serving Sherlockians since February 2012 / BBC I-player figures for Sherlock

**Posted by Davina** May 30, 2012 6:05 am

The Telegraph newspaper has the figures for I-player requests. Sherlock A Scandal in Belgravis took top spot overall and is the most watched show on I-player so far this year. Sherlock took all 3top places in the most-watched list.
S2 E1 2,528,000
S2 E3 1,913,000
S2 E2 1,689,000

I reckon TRF came second because lots of people just couldn't bear to go through the trauma of watching the fall again, also that and because people probably decided to buy the DVDs anyway.

**Posted by Davina** May 30, 2012 3:09 pm

Suggested in many magazine articles that this was due to Irene's naked scenes. Someone has tweeted Lara saying this is just sexist assumptions as they actually watched it again for the sight of Benedict without his sheet!

**Posted by Irene Adler** May 30, 2012 3:22 pm

Davina wrote:
Suggested in many magazine articles that this was due to Irene's naked scenes. Someone has tweeted Lara saying this is just sexist assumptions as they actually watched it again for the sight of Benedict without his sheet!

Of course, I think it works both ways; some people would just want to see Lara, some people would just want to see Ben, some people would want to see both