The BBC has revealed iPlayer figures, proving that Killing Eve season 2 has already been a runaway success with fans.
The new season - which dropped on iPlayer on Saturday evening, after the first episode debuted on BBC One - has been requested 2.6m times in the first 36 hours of it being available.
Episode 1 alone has been requested 864,000 times – up 79 percent on the season 1 opener - and peaked when 3.7m people tuned in to watch it when it aired live at 9:15PM.
Stream if you wanna go faster! The BBC has revealed iPlayer figures, proving that Killing Eve season 2 has already been a runaway success with fans
Fans didn't waste any time on Saturday night when it came to binge-watching the rest of the season; BBC iPlayer data shows that 18,000 people signed into their BBC accounts and raced through the full box set - already completing the whole run of new episodes.
The first season of Killing Eve remains the BBC’s biggest ever box set, with 53m requests since it first arrived in September last year.
And, in the past weekend alone, the same season has seen more than 676,000 requests, as existing fans reminded themselves of events ahead of the new series and new viewers decided to check out the hype.
Charlotte Moore, BBC Director of Content, said: 'We know people loved the first series of Killing Eve and so it’s no surprise audiences have flocked to series two.
Runaway hit: The new season - which dropped on iPlayer on Saturday evening, after the first episode debuted on BBC One - has been requested 2.6m times in the first 36 hours of it being available
'The first episode of the second series is already on track to be one of our biggest episodes ever and we expect it to keep on growing.
'And it’s amazing to see that 18,000 people haven’t been able to stop themselves from bingeing the whole second series!'
Fans of the drama had a painfully long wait for season 2 to come to the UK - with it airing first in America weeks ago.
And so they were rejoicing on Saturday night when it finally returned to screens on BBC One for the first time since last spring with a new episode, titled Do You Know How To Dispose Of A Body?
Back with a bang! Viewers rejoiced on Saturday night when Killing Eve finally returned to screens on BBC One for the first time since last spring with a new episode
Viewers were overjoyed to learn that the complete season 2 was available to immediately stream on iPlayer - a treat for those who have been waiting patiently for the drama to return.
While fans can choose to watch weekly on a Saturday evening, many decided there was no time like the present.
One tweeted, on hearing the BBC announcer revealing the rest of the season was now live: 'S2ep1 of killing eve airs on live tv and the rest of season 2 will be on iplayer straight after. Me: cool I’ll watch the first episode and watch the
