In the seventies television was available in almost every home, but VCRs were extremely rare and the only alternative was the radio, which at night tended to play brass band and pre war music, so the television was the only real form of entertainment. The only way you could see a good show again was wait until the summer for repeats.

A schedule change for BBC Two this Friday: http://faq.external.bbc.co.uk/questi...echange_151010

Norman Wisdom: My Story, will be on at 9pm.

I agree. Too many cons outweigh the pros for me. I just don't see why they bothered. They pushed it as a big twist but the show doesn't really need a twist - indeed it was pretty underwhelming last night when they did announce it. There's enough going on without them needlessly tinkering with the format.

Great change. I'd been keeping my eye out for a tribute on the BBC. The Story of England repeats have been underperforming anyway so no loss.

agree, though it suggests that Cowell is going all out with his crazy ideas in this series - it may be its last!

Cowell is a businessman, and has always said that he will quit when the show stops growing.

Everybody, every year, says X Factor is at its peak. I think it's this year - there's a great variety of contestants like BGT '09, and the mess of X Factor 11 might destroy the show forever.

How does everyone think The Only Way Is Essex is going to do?

Had a lot of promotion so really should be getting good numbers Plus should keep most of The Xtra Factor's audience as i think it aims to the same audience.

On my Facebook wall at least 95% of comments are about it ( but i am young)
A lot of them are about how cringy it is, but it's along the lines of "it's that bad , it's good" etc But that is sort of how it was suppose to be i think.

Plus for me at least, a lot of the places featured on the show are only 5 mins down the road from me. So every few minutes, I'm like " oh it's ......"

Freeview has been experiencing some horrible signal issues tonight. See Twitter and the Technical subforum on DS, with lots of users reporting issues.

Here in Northants the signal went completely as the judges were casting their votes on The X Factor result! BBC One and Two were OK, but all the channels on multiplex 2 were affected including ITV1, Channel 4 and ITV2.

I just watched Amercian Dad ok, and not heard any complaints from the fam.

A lot of comment about this on Twitter so you're one of the lucky ones. I'm relieved in a way because I thought it was a problem with our equipment.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=freeview

Going to be interesting set of ratings for the multichannel's tomorrow. I wasn't sure at first but there does seem to be a bit of buzz around ITV 2's Essex show. Not exactly high class programming but it will appeal to ITV2's audience and I can see it being one of those shows people watch because of how bad it is.

As for Sky1 I think putting Thorne in such a tough slot will backfire and the reaction from fans of the books seems mixed. Would be lucky to pass 500k but as ever all the repeat/timeshift viewings will help the final figure.

It was the same last night two. Most of Xtra Factor was just a grey screen.

I think it depends where you are in the country as to whether or not your Freeview signal is bad tonight. But the Midlands area seems to be worst hit. See these charts:

http://www.dxinfocentre.com/tropo_nwe.html

Looks like it will get better over the coming days. The worst will be over by tomorrow lunchtime.

I did keep getting the grey screen yesterday every so oftn during the Xtra Factor. Ok tonight though?

Sounds like a technical problem with the broadcast itself rather than a signal issue. Probably not related to this.

Yeah it was i think - forgot to mention that ! oops

The ITV2 was still on screen so thats how i knew!

Someone had the exact same problem as us:

http://twitter.com/jennienew/status/26975801237

I wonder if it will cost ITV in the overnights? Worst possible time for it to go!

But difficult to say how many might have been affected.

Seven
09:30 V8 Supercars: Bathurst 1000 Coverage
Morning 0.26m
Pre Race Entertainment 0.61m
The Final Countdown 0.80m
The Race 1.04m
The Podium 1.32m
The Wrap-Up 0.93m
18:00 Seven News 1.62m
18:30 Sunday Night 1.29m
19:30 The X Factor 1.22m
*highest rated Sunday episode of the series so far;
*most watched episode since September 13.

Nine
18:00 Nine News Sunday 1.03m
18:30 Hot Pursuit 0.77m
19:00 Send in the Dogs 0.70m
19:30 60 Minutes 1.05m

Ten
18:00 Commonwealth Games 0.67m
21:00 Commonwealth Games 0.70m

ABC1
20:35 Poirot: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 1.03m

GO!
19:30 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.45m
20:00 The Big Bang Theory (R) 0.41m

Shares
Seven - 24.3%
ABC1 - 17.1%
Nine - 17.0%
Ten - 16.4%
GO! - 5.8%

If Strictly is lucky enough to be in a situation next year where there is no X-Factor and no Britain's Got Talent airing in the Autumn then I reckon it could well be pulling 10m-11m averages on a weekly basis. Dr Who at 6:15pm followed by Strictly at 7pm would be an epic combination. Not to mention that Strictly would get all the tabloid attention with no X-Factor about.

Unfortunately, I think its likely one of the Cowell shows will run in the pre-Christmas months in one format or another, which is going to be a real headache for Strictly and Doctor Who (much younger audience than Merlin).


Interesting breakdown for the X-Factor. If you look at it closely it is losing viewers throughout the entire show from 8pm onwards, apart from the random increase in the 21:15 segment. I think its probably mostly down to people leaving to go on their Saturday nights out rather than it being too long because its losing viewers just half an hour in. Having said that, my personal viewing threshold is 2hrs of X-factor is enough for one night!

I do think ITV have to get through all the performances in one show on the Saturday though, otherwise the phone lines can't open until the 2nd performance show has aired, which would lose ITV a stack of money and be unfair on the acts who may have been forgotten about by going on the first show.

Sounds like a wild card, but instead of their underwhelming British reality offerings, why doesn't ITV2 buy up the Next Top Model franchise. If Katie Price is going to Living, this is the ideal swap as 1-2 million viewers would watch these well made reality shows with a happy ending.

I've read a lot about it on facebook/twitter - should be interesting ratings.

Just watching it now - it is kind of good, in a Jersey Shore sort of way.

Just looking at the breakdown and ads explain some of the fluctuations in Saturday nights X Factor - certainly the peaks.

The peak occurred in the only 15 minute period in which there were no adverts (3 consecutive performances from Katie, Mary and Nicolo). The second highest 15 minute period from 2000-2015 was where they took only 1 very short break (2 minutes).

The final half hour also had 5 minute breaks where most of the earlier ones were 4 minutes but even accounting for that the ratings did seem to dip after 2130.

Timings are approximate - don't shoot me if they're not perfect!

Busy night last night, we waited for Thorne on Anytime (it's there this morning).

I believe the 'officials' are only based on the original broadcast and time shifts of that.

I also read somewhere that if the BARB panel viewer spins through the ads, it's not counted!! Perhaps someone could put me right on those points?

Sunday overnights (not including HD)

BBC1
Countryfile - 6.82m
SCD - 8.9m
AR - 5.96
Single Father - 4.85m

ITV1
HHTV (rpt) - 2.9m
The Cube - 5.14m
TXF - 12.33m
DA - 7.78m

BBC2
LT:L&DIL - 1.57m

C4
UB:USA - 832k
LFE - 745k

Five
S-M2 - 1.39m
TDVC - 2.21m

The Only Way Is Essex, ITV2’s answer to C4’s Seven Days, is a ten-part reality series following the lives of a group of people living in Essex, filmed just days before transmission. The Lime production observes the likes of a wannabe model and a nightclub promoter, and drew an audience of 917,900 (5.2%), benefiting from a strong lead in from The Xtra Factor, and a Performance Index figure of 205.4.

http://www.attentional.com/attentional_blog/blogs/

disapointing for TXF i expected more tbh

wonder what the peak was