Normal People has given BBC Three its best ever week for programme requests after the show more than doubled the previous record held by Killing Eve.
BBC Three controller Fiona Campbell said: “We’re delighted that Normal People has been such a success and so many people have come to iPlayer to watch it.
The opening week record was previously held by the first series of Killing Eve, which received 10.8 million total requests in its first week.
Normal People follows Marianne (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and Connell (Paul Mescal), two Irish teenagers navigating an on-off relationship while struggling with the class and social barriers that keep them apart.