The final episode was the most watched of the four-part series, with an audience of 10.32m.

This includes those watching on ITVX on the days before its ITV1 broadcast.

It makes it the most watched episode of TV drama since the final episode of BBC One's Happy Valley in 2023.

Mr Bates v The Post Office dramatised the story of a group of sub-postmasters falsely accused of stealing money from the Post Office.

Many were wrongly convicted. The reported losses were actually caused by faults in Horizon - the Post Office's computer accounting system.