finished as the 7th most accessed programme on thefor December 2011 and the 5th most accessed programme in Christmas Week, according to figures released by the BBC The Christmas Special, The Doctor The Widow and the Wardrobe , was accessedtimes in the last seven days of the year following its broadcast on Christmas Day. The top requested programme of December was the, which had 1.32 million requests. Frozen Planet and the Christmas episodes of EastEnders also scored highly along with Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.Thehit record levels in 2011, withacross all platforms during the year. Doctor Who: The Impossible Astronaut finished as themost requested programme of the year, with 1.93 million requesting the episode at some point. Top of the list was Episode 1 of the David Attenborough Natural History series, To the Ends of the Earth, which had 2.42 million requesting it. Second was Episode 2 of the comedy seriesEach episode of the 2011 series of Doctor Who finished in the top 50 for the year, withjust scraping in at number 50.As a brandhad overrequests during the year. The top brand waswith 114 million requests, albeit spread over many more episodes.had 29.6 million requests andhad 26.3 million requests.For, Season 32/Series 6 accounted forrequests with the previous year accounting for another 3.8 million requests.Series 6 accounted for 1.1 million requests.The first Matt Smith episode, The Eleventh Hour , remains as the most accessed programme ever on iPlayer with over 2.62 million requesting it since its transmission.: Episode 1 is now the 2nd most requested programme andis currently the eleventh most accessed programme.