When the next set of Barb figures are issued in three weeks, reflecting 28 days of catch-up viewing, it's expected that Gavin & Stacey will have passed or be close to passing the

The finale of the sitcom, which aired on Christmas Day, is nearing 20 million views, the most for a scripted show since current records began.

In May, when James Corden announced that the show would be returning for a final episode on Christmas Day 2024, we were more than a little gagged! And the show lived up to the hype, topping the Christmas Day overnight ratings with a whopping 12.2 million viewers!

The BBC dominated this year's Christmas Day ratings, taking the top 10 spots. Coming behind the Gavin and Stacey finale was Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl with 9.28 million viewers, while the King's speech took third place with 6.82 million viewers.

Marco Zeraschi, who runs Marco's in the south Wales resort of Barry Island – where Stacey worked - said: "Ruth got in touch with me yesterday morning, Larry (Lamb, who plays Gavin's dad Mick) phoned me on Christmas morning, James sent me a lovely message."

The Gavin and Stacey finale attracted an average of 12.3 million TV viewers - the largest Christmas Day audience in more than a decade, overnight data shows. The new Wallace and Gromit film also attracted a large audience, with more than 9 million viewers tuning in to watch the latest instalment.

The Finale' has broken the UK ratings for a scripted show for the BBC after the Christmas Day special with James Corden and Ruth Jones

The British sitcom Gavin & Stacey ended its three-season, 22-whole-episodes run on the highest of notes. The series finale, titled “The Finale” and released on Christmas Day, premiered to 12.3 million same-day viewers,

A star of Gavin and Stacey has donated a signed copy of the series finale's script to raise money for charity. Robert Wilfort, who plays Stacey's brother Jason West in the popular BBC show, has given the script to a charity in his hometown of Chesham,