Telefantasy huge on BBC iPlayer

If download figures from the BBC’s new iPlayer service, launched on Christmas Day 2007, are anything to go by, then BBC bigwigs should be happy to commission a third series of Torchwood.

Seven episodes of the show feature in the Top 20 downloads in the three months following iPlayer’s launch, along with four epiodes of Ashes to Ashes and the Doctor Who Christmas Special, “Voyage of the Damned".

Here’s the list in full:

1 The Apprentice BBC One 26/03/2008
2 Louis Theroux: Behind Bars BBC Two 13/01/2008
3 Ashes To Ashes – "Deja Vu" BBC One 07/02/2008
4 Torchwood - "Fragments" BBC Three 21/03/2008
5 Dawn ... Gets Naked BBC Three 14/02/2008
6 Torchwood - "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" BBC Two 16/01/2008
7 Doctor Who - "Voyage Of The Damned" BBC One 25/12/2007
8 Torchwood - "Dead Man Walking" BBC Three 20/02/2008
9 Gavin And Stacey BBC Three 23/03/2008
10 Dawn ... Goes Lesbian BBC Three 21/02/2008
11 Ashes To Ashes – "Nothing Changes" BBC One 21/02/2008
12 Torchwood - "Something Borrowed" BBC Three 05/03/2008
13 Ashes To Ashes - "The Missing Link" BBC One 28/02/2008
14 EastEnders BBC One 21/03/2008
15 Torchwood - "From Out of the Rain" BBC Three 12/03/2008
16 Torchwood - "Adrift BBC Three" 19/03/2008
17 Torchwood - "A Day in the Death" BBC Three 27/02/2008
18 Ashes To Ashes - "The Smoking Gun" BBC One 06/03/2008
19 Six Nations Rugby 2008: France v England BBC One 23/02/2008
20 EastEnders BBC One 16/03/2008

What do you reckon? An iPlayer premier for Torchwood next year? The Beeb seems to love experimenting with the show, after all...