ITV seem to have got a lift all round from X Factor which performed very strongly this week. Poor Robbie - all his excitement last week was for nothing! One of the best episodes they've had as well. Possibly the best since the new auditions format came in.

I also wonder if Odd One In has done enough for another series? Obviously over 4m looks OK on paper, but if most of that is as a result of XF, then maybe not. ITV should get even stronger next week with the return of Family Fortunes.

Funny really how there are suggestions X Factor has peaked and is in terminal decline and yet week after week it posts brilliant ratings-I mean people this is the third highest audition rating EVER-that is not signs of a show in decline

However personally I'm finding the audition shows a bit of a drag this year-and would be less worried about missing it than in previous years; I am still very looking much forward to the live shows, and I do still enjoy watching the talented ones in the audition shows-it's just the bad auditions and the faux drama I could do without.

As someone else said a few days ago, your posts always make me chuckle, Iain.

Excellent for X Factor, and that share is simply superb. It seemed to boost Odd One In and Bourne too, both of which got very respectable figures, and 4.5m for a 2 hour movie on ITV is pretty impressive. Not sure if Odd One In's done enough to return though. Casualty did well for BBC1 but a dreadful evening for them elsewhere, with the Lottery show bombing dreadfully. Big Brother did badly as usual, C4 will be glad to get rid of it next week.


X Factor was very good last night, and it was much better than last week's weak effort. Worth noting that the two episodes were supposed to air the other way around; looks like the swap benefited them as the better episode got the larger audience.

Next week will be interesting, largely due to 71 Degrees North, as ITV will be desperate for it to do well so they could have a returning hit reality show, and it could also finally get them some decent ratings on Tuesdays. Strictly will probably get about 6m for the launch show, and Merlin will get its usual 5-6m after it, and shouldn't be dented by X Factor. As you say, Family Fortunes should boost ITV and bring in a solid 4.5-5.5m.

I don't think they should recommission it. I hope they don't get suckered into a recommission.

Not really, 2.1m was the highest ratings reached on a Saturday during BB11, higher than any BB10 show.... tonight would be around 2.7m I reckon. For the last few days they wil increase, as they did for the last few days of BB11.
I don't think they will be glad, why would they? Still the highest show.

But did it not get its near 1m boost last night because BBC1 and BBC2 offered such abysmal opposition - 2.3m and 0.5m audiences respectively?

That said, should ITV-Cowell be concerned that after BBCs 1 and 2 broadcast the equivalent of the testcard or Pages from Ceefax in prime time last night, TXF still got less than 50% of the viewing? A lot of viewers deserted those networks last night but Cowell only creamed off less than 1m of them.

Suggestion for Jay Hunt - why not find a more suitable slot for the National Lottery Awards next year? 3pm on a Saturday or Sunday should do it...

All I can say is lol-that's literally all I can say... :sleep:

I thought BB did alright yesterday. 2.1m is more than the Saturday averages for BB10 and BB11. In the last 7 days, the ratings have settled down to BB11 levels so I'm not surprised yesterday's show was down compared to the previous Saturday. From a pure ratings perspective, it did a decent job on a night Channel 4 usually rates very poorly on.


Odd One In's ratings grew before the X Factor started - the first 3 episodes averaged 2.7m, next couple had 3.3m, then once TXF started its averaged 3.9m. Without TXF, it'd probably be in the low/mid 3's, which I don't think is recommission-worthy but the show looks very cheap so you never know.

[quote=RobbieSykes123;43828621]But did it not get its near 1m boost last night because BBC1 and BBC2 offered such abysmal opposition - 2.3m and 0.5m audiences respectively?

That said, should ITV-Cowell be concerned that after BBCs 1 and 2 broadcast the equivalent of the testcard or Pages from Ceefax in prime time last night, TXF still got less than 50% of the viewing? A lot of viewers deserted those networks last night but Cowell only creamed off less than 1m of them.

Suggestion for Jay Hunt - why not find a more suitable slot for the National Lottery Awards next year? 3pm on a Saturday or Sunday should do it...[/QUOTE]

It would probably get beaten by the XF repeat on Sunday-I reckon 10.00 Sunday am where it should surely beat the Coronation Street repeat. Shouldnt it?

Like many, I expected the X Factor to be in a spot of bother, following suit with Britain's Got Talent - how ever, these ratings show that XF is a format that can work time and time again, where as BGT has more of a 'shelf life', if you know what I mean.

Most viewers have moved on and seen through it. Might it not have been better to have ended BB on a relative high 2 weeks ago instead of cobbling up a show made up of people only hardcore BB viewers will remember. I predict Nadiagate will end it forever.

Btw random but I was watching 2000: My Best year on C4... and on the show there was a show on in 2000 called "Naked Jungle" apparently the highest rated 2000 show...

Anyone know what ratings that got? What an odd show, I remember it a little bit, well hearing about it (I was 7-8 at the time).

It was a dreadful programme. Probably the worst single piece of television since last year's National Lottery Awards.

I know the awards are worthy, but tales of battered wives' refuges and Down's Syndrome clubs are not a recipe for Saturday night television on BBC One.

The celeb guests didn't improve things either. Some of them looked as though they'd rather be somewhere (anywhere!) else, and Bill Roache looked as though he thought he was!

This went out on Channel Five.

A quick check on the IMDb website reveals it was screened on 6th June 2000 and a quick check on the BARB website reveals it wasn't even the highest rated programme of the week on C5. It had 2.08m viewers and was beaten by Tango And Cash, Magnum Force and The Face.

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Poor for The X Factor, nearly a million down on last year! Surely we should begin to call this "The Tanking Factor"?

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X Factor did alright, and still nearly 11m is very good in this day and age. BBC didn't hold up very well though, surprised W&G wasn't >3m.

Maybe other ratings for it on different weeks were higher.

Wasn't it a one-off?

It's probably written into the contract that the BBC have to air it on Saturday primetime to alongside the Lotto draws.

Ever since they introduced the awards into a lottery show it's tanked year after year. The only year they had any decent ratings success was Everyone's a Winner in 2006, hosted by Noel Edmonds it rated around 5 million. Come 2007 when they wheeled in Big 7 (and aired with different presenters until 2009) every year since then it failed to appear in BBC's top 30 for that week.

They might as well have a celebrity version of In It to Win It or Who Dares Wins and have the awards wrapped around that.

[quote=Pizzatheaction;43829542] It was a dreadful programme. Probably the worst single piece of television since last year's National Lottery Awards.
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You obviously didn't watch Outtake TV with Rufus Hound last night.


Robbie needs to bide his time. X Factor will fade eventually. Like Millionaire and Big Brother did.

Or will it? As others have pointed out previously, Opportunity Knocks remained a big ratings hit for 14 years and would probably have lasted even longer if the Labour Party hadn't annoyed Hughie Green so much. (Today, of course, ITV wouldn't let a little bit of political bias kill off one of their ratings hits. They'd just sack Hughie and replace him with a new presenter. Christine Bleakley, probably.)

Was it? Oo my bad.

That was pretty bad, too. I think the BBC must realise the latest series of Outtake TV is especially bad, because they favoured Hole in the Wall repeats over it in January, choosing instead to slip editions into random gaps in the schedule, such as last night.

And there's still one more edition to go.

Surely they won't make any more...

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I have always wondered what would have happened with Op Knocks had dear old Hughie not sung Stand Up and Be Counted. I still think Thames were kicking themselves for cancelling it as none of the replacements in this slot were ever as popular and there was a petition to save it. What probably would have happened is Op Knocks would have lasted until about 1983, when the new breed of entertainers and comedians became prominent and such programmes would have looked old fashioned, and been cancelled when Green decided he wanted to retire. Another scenario, which did happen for real, is the show could have been rested for a few years after Green's retirement and then been revived on ITV with Bob Monkhouse.

Jersey Shore, as mentioned previously, hit a series high 3.3 rating among adults 18-49 with 6.5m viewers on Thursday night. It's the 4th week in a row that the series has set a series high and it's the highest A18-49 rating of the week on any channel so far (including the big 4 networks). It was also the highest rating for a series on MTV in more than 8 years - when The Osbournes was at its peak.

On Friday, Camp Rock 2 was a bit of a letdown for Disney Channel. It drew a decent 8m audience but that's down from the original in 2008 which had 8.9m. It's also less than last summers Original Movies. Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, had 11.4m while Princess Protection Programme had 8.5m. The highest rated DCOM ever remains High School Musical 2 - 17.2m viewers in 2007. The first HSM had 7.7m. Still, Camp Rock 2 will be the most watched cable broadcast of the week.

So glad for Jersey Shore, I am obsessed with the show.... I was completely hooked on Season 1.