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Evening Standard
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Ian Jones

History-making events top chart of decade’s biggest TV audiences so far

Some of the largest TV audiences of the 2020s so far were during the Covid-19 pandemic when former prime minister Boris Johnson addressed the nation (Peter Byrne/PA) - (PA Archive)

A new King, a global pandemic and a trophy for England at the women’s Euros mean this is already a decade like no other – and all were responsible for some of the biggest TV audiences of the first half of the 2020s.

Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral and King Charles’s coronation both attracted enormous ratings, as did former prime minister Boris Johnson’s broadcasts about Covid-19, proving that moments of history still draw in millions of viewers.

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