Fantasy epic Game of Thrones bowed out with 2 million viewers while the rather more sedate world of the Clangers returned to an audience of nearly half a million.
The finale of the fifth series of Game of Thrones attracted 1.4 million viewers, a 6.9% share, on Sky Atlantic from 9pm on Monday.
It drew another 554,000 viewers for its 2am showing, timed to coincide with its HBO broadcast in the US (although not all of these will have been watching in the early hours).
It gave the final episode, in which “justice, faith, revenge and repentance played out”, a combined audience of nearly 2 million viewers.
A Clanger always pays his debts
Earlier, the Clangers were back on CBeebies, nearly half a century after they first appeared on the BBC in 1969.
Voiced by Monty Python star Michael Palin, Clangers were an instant hit for the preschool channel CBeebies with 484,000 viewers, a 4.1% share from 5.30pm, up 68% on the channel’s three-month slot average.
It remains to be seen how many of those viewers were old enough to remember the series from first time round.
The remake stayed true to the original, with the return of the pink, knitted whistling space mice eschewing a computer generated makeover.
