17m up for early morning Brazil defeat
Nearly 17 million people watched England's World Cup defeat in the quarter-final against Brazil.
This was the biggest audience for a Friday morning on any channel in the past 10 years, the BBC said.
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This was the biggest audience for a Friday morning on any channel in the past 10 years, the BBC said.
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