20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Never Knew About Sherlock

9. ...And The Least Viewed Is The Blind Banker

Sherlock has got consistently high ratings, much higher than you'd expect on British TV, even in a primetime, 9pm slot. So while The Blind Banker only brought in an audience 8.07 million, that really stands as how popular the show is; this year Doctor Who only passed that once (with the series premiere, Deep Breath). The second episode of the first series, The Blind Banker's drop-off can probably be chalked up to people not realising how much of a phenomenon the show would be at that point. The fact that the show has always been getting such consistently high ratings says a lot about both its quality and the devotion and breadth of the fan-base; the later two episodes of Series 3 got exactly the same audience numbers, indicating once people are hooked, they're properly hooked.