'Águila Roja' says goodbye before 3.66 million viewers

It has been one of the most followed fiction series in recent years: 88.7% of the population has watched at least one minute during its nine seasons.

Águila Roja, the La 1 adventure series produced by Globomedia, broadcast its last installment last night, bringing together almost 3.7 million viewers and a 21.6% screen share on television. Almost 6 million viewers watched the final episode at some point.

In his farewell, the series became the most watched slot of the day, with 3,661,000 viewers and 21.6% screen share, and the leader of the prime time slot (15.6%). It is the most watched episode and with the most share of the series since the one broadcast on December 4, 2014.

The most watched minute of the last episode of the TVE and Globomedia fiction was at 11:55 p.m., with 4,171,000 viewers and 28.5% screen share. A minute that coincides with Gonzalo's escape from his executioners and Margarita's rescue on horseback.

The fiction starring David Janer, Javier Gutiérrez, Francis Lorenzo, Miryam Gallego, and Inma Cuesta, among others, has said goodbye to a season that has been the best of the last three and that has registered an average of 2,897,000 and 17.4% share in its last episodes.

One of the most watched series in recent years

Globomedia's fiction is one of the most watched series on the audiovisual scene in the last seven years. It has consecutively topped the fiction ranking for four years -2009 to 2012- and has always maintained very prominent positions in subsequent years.

More than 39 million people (39,017,000), 88.7% of the population, have seen at least one minute of red eagle on La 1 throughout its history, with an average of contacts per episode of 7.8 million.

The most watched season of the series was the third, with 5,834,000 and 30.1%. Furthermore, of the 116 episodes broadcast, 88 of them, 76% of the total, have beaten their competitors. The most viewed episode was also in the third season, on November 4, 2010, with 6,434,000 and 32.5%, which makes it the most viewed fiction episode of the last six years.

A multi-award winning series

The series has 37 awards, including the Ondas 2010 for Best National Series, and seven Iris awards awarded by the Television Academy: fiction, production, makeup and characterization, two awards for photography and lighting direction, and another two for art direction and set design. The series has also received the Silver Medal from the New York Festival in the Fiction/Adventure category, two Gold TP for the best National Series, and the 'Pasión de Críticos' award from the FesTVal de Vitoria for the Best Dramatic Series.

During this time, the series has been exported to 45 countries around the world, from the Spanish-speaking market of the United States to Cuba, Afghanistan, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Croatia, Slovenia...