Premiere of the first episode of the fourth season of “Sherlock” was held, as promised, the 1st of January. Given how long fans of this series waited, it was expected that the television screens will be glued views of millions of viewers.

Today, according to The Guardian, were made calculations and found out that the premiere of the fourth season of “Sherlock” looked to 8.1 million people, which amounted to slightly less than one-third (32.8 per cent) of the audience in the UK.

For comparison, the Christmas speech of Queen Elizabeth II, we collected a total of 7.7 million hits.

It is fair to say that the premiere of the fourth season of “Sherlock” has failed to beat his record of last year. In 2016, was shown a special holiday episode of “Sherlock” — “the Ugly bride”, which is estimated at 8.4 million viewers.