The BBC has announced encouraging results for its TV catch-up service, BBC iPlayer. The month of December 2009 alone has witnessed a huge increase in the total number of requests for online content with recorded figures crossing one hundred million.

According to BBC this is due to the sudden hike in demand in the last half of December with people increasingly preferring to use iPlayer to watch their missed shows at their convenience. The most popular shows were the Christmas specials for Gavin and Stacey and that of Dr. Who. There were also many requests for the Radio 2 break fast show where Terry Wogan made his last appearance.

This achievement means that on an average ten requests to iPlayer came from each broadband user in the country (click for broadband offers). The latest report also shows that one call among eight comes through a Sony PS3 Console or a Nintendo Wii.

For the coming year these results are definitely encouraging and show that simple access enabled through BBC iPlayer is becoming very popular. People are warming up to the idea of catching up with their favourite shows at a time which suits them. Erik Huggers, the director of future media and technology at BBC thinks that this demand will increase in the future because the service will be more widely available and also because new innovations will be implemented later in 2010.