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"The BBC has announced that its iPlayer catch-up TV platform has passed 200 million programme requests in a single month for the first time.  The return of Merlin and the Panorama documentary on sex abuse allegations against Jimmy Savile saw iPlayer generate 214m requests in October alone across TV and radio.   This broke down as 165m TV requests, the highest ever figure, and 49m radio requests, down slightly on the 50m in September.  iPlayer saw an increase in demand across most devices where it is available, but particularly mobile and tablets, which now contribute almost a quarter (23%) of all iPlayer requests. But the BBC also said that the spike in Player usage was down to its autumn TV schedule.    The return of BBC One&amp;#039;s Merlin dominated the month, including the first three episodes of series five featuring in the top ten most popular iPlayer programmes.  Panorama&amp;#039;s documentary on sex abuse allegations against the late BBC star Jimmy Savile attracted almost 1m requests, and the start of new BBC drama Hunted also proved popular.  The top 10 most requested TV shows on iPlayer in October were: Merlin, series five, episode one - &amp;#039;Arthur&amp;#039;s Bane - Part 1&amp;#039;: 1,063,000 Panorama Jimmy Savile - What the BBC Knew: 998,000 Hunted, episode one - &amp;#039;Mort&amp;#039;: 900,000 Russell Howard&amp;#039;s Good News, series 7, episode two: 862,000 Russell Howard&amp;#039;s Good News, series 7, episode four: 816,000 Merlin, series five, episode two - &amp;#039;Arthur&amp;#039;s Bane - Part 2&amp;#039;: 814,000 Waterloo Road, series eight, episode seven: 782,000 Merlin, series five, episode three - &amp;#039;The Crystal Cave&amp;#039;: 753,000 Russell Howard&amp;#039;s Good News, series seven, episode three: 752,000 Top Gear 50 Years of Bond Cars: 743,000 The News Quiz proved the most popular on radio, including three episodes from series 78 attracting over 120,000 requests. Radio 5 Live&amp;#039;s documentary on &amp;#039;Cycling&amp;#039;s Dirty Truth&amp;#039; pulled in 90,000 requests.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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