The series finale of How I Met Your Mother was the sitcom’s most-watched episode of all time.
12.9m viewers watched two-part finale ‘Last Forever’ on Monday (March 31) – with 5.3m in the key 18-49 demographic.
The double-bill was the long-running comedy’s highest-rated instalment in its entire nine-year run.Ratings also leapt 51% from the previous week’s episode, ‘The End of the Aisle’.
The How I Met Your Mother finale was followed on CBS by the series premiere of Friends with Better Lives starring James Van Der Beek.
The new sitcom attracted 8m total viewers, down almost 5m from its lead-in.
‘Last Forever’ has divided critics and How I Met Your Mother fans, with series co-creator Craig Thomas stating: “We did a finale about life’s twists and turns, and that [what you expect] is not always what happens.”
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