Top Gear most watched BBC iPlayer programme of 2013 Top Gear was the most popular programme of choice for users, with 3.2 requests to watch single episode Africa Special Part one, followed by 3.2 million requests to watch the first episode of the programme's 19th series. Top Gear episodes made up 10 out of iPlayer's 20 most watched programmes of the year. Fiftieth anniversary special Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor received 3.1 million requests, and Jack Whitehall comedy Bad Education was requested 2.9 million times. Exclusive iPlayer mini episodes of Sherlock and Doctor Who also proved extremely popular, whilst series two of Bad Education premiered on the platform in September 2013. PCs remained the biggest single platform for iPlayer requests, constituting an average of 43 per cent of requests each month. However, the BBC saw a 104 per cent increase year-on-year in requests made from tablets, which alongside requests made from mobile devices overtook PC requests during December for the first time in the platform's history. Victoria Jaye, Head of TV Content for BBC iPlayer, said the journey to transform it from a TV catch-up service into an online TV destination in its own right following the introduction of exclusive content and programme premiering.