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Yet it delivers three times the audience of most ITV entertainment shows and makes a lot of brass for them. I know it's not exactly BAFTA award winning material that gets glowing write ups in the broadsheets, but TXF delivers the goods. I watch it to unwind in the pub now.
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When stunts such as this have happened in the past, say Cowell putting Jedward through, I seem to remember the audience bouncing up as word spread of it occuring.
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As I read all the comments about tonight's X Factor, the Monty Python blackmail sketch comes to mind: "We're not here to moralise, we just want your money"
Now I'm going to have to put you all on my ignore list before the bulging bood vessel on the back on my neck explodes.
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Don't compare something that had 17 million with something that will have 6 million less viewers. In 2009 and 2010, the show was on a tidal wave where things like this increased its popularity, but two years later it is "been there, done that, got the t-shirt".
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Don't compare something that had 17 million with something that will have 6 million less viewers. In 2009 and 2010, the show was on a tidal wave where things like this increased its popularity, but two years later it is "been there, done that, got the t-shirt".
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That moment peaked at 16.6m and it stayed around that much over the next few weeks, until it ended up at 19.7m for the final. So yes, if it isnt a series high I will be surprised.
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I can think of better ways to unwind. Watching all these shitty stunts play out is not good for one's blood pressure.
I think it's becoming a game of skill - can you see the manipulation before it actually happens? I have to admit, I didn't expect the camera to pick up someone talking to Louis before the decisions...The show needed something and it's found it. It's hardly going to hurt it's credibility; it lost that in series two when Louis saved The Conway Sisters. Will it see a boost next week? We'll have to see how the press catches on to the story. But I can't see it doing the show any harm. |
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Yes, but people can see through the publicity stunts and "controversy" now. I still don't think there will be much buzz in the upcoming weeks because this group of contestants aren't particularly great.
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Yes, but people can see through the publicity stunts and "controversy" now. I still don't think there will be much buzz in the upcoming weeks because this group of contestants aren't particularly great.
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Look at how XFactor's twitter tag spiked towards the end of the episode: https://twitter.com/SecondSync/statu.../photo/1/large
The hope for them is that some of those twitter users, who probably dont watch the whole show regularly but tweeted tonight about it after seeing friends talk about it, get sucked into the show and watch next week. |
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Look at how XFactor's twitter tag spiked towards the end of the episode: https://twitter.com/SecondSync/statu.../photo/1/large
The hope for them is that some of those twitter users, who probably dont watch the whole show regularly but tweeted tonight about it after seeing friends talk about it, get sucked into the show and watch next week. |
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Well it worked as far as Twitter is concerned. TXF was barely trending at around 8.45 IIRC. After 9pm it had maybe 7 of 10 trends?
So job done in that respect. Did catch the guy who got through though...dear lord - they really really want him to be the new joke act - am guessing Gary plays Simon and there will be one performance he 'loves' Unfortunately X Factor's producers aren't that good anymore; they can't hide the strings and the puppets don't seem to fit the role (hes not funny or cute and the judges praise was not believable). EDIT: None of this will affect the ratings; X Factor does this every year - its just part of the basic format and should be counted in the ratings already. |
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BBC2 daytime is currently BBC1 Lite. Not sure how much money the change will save the BBC, given that BBC2's current schedule is practically all repeats, but it will certainly earn them brownie points.
I have noticed that the repeats in the BBC1 afternoon children's block tend to be of entertainment or factual programmes, which presumably are cheaper to repeat than sitcoms or dramas. So no great savings on repeat fees there, and it must be that the 'adult' factual repeats coming to BBC2 are on average a bit more expensive than the children's factual/entertainment repeats which are aired on BBC1/2 at the moment. While I approve of the exercise, I had thought it would save some money, rather than cost more! (albeit a very small amount in the great scheme of things) In a obvious attempt to steer myself back on topic, I should say that these changes will have implications for ratings.
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Look at how XFactor's twitter tag spiked towards the end of the episode: https://twitter.com/SecondSync/statu.../photo/1/large
The hope for them is that some of those twitter users, who probably dont watch the whole show regularly but tweeted tonight about it after seeing friends talk about it, get sucked into the show and watch next week. |
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A ridiculous attempt to try and court controversy on The X Factor this evening then. Always fun. Not that the producers are concerned about the ratings or anything...
They are despicable human beings for engineering a publicity stunt to get people talking about their programme in the year it's started to show signs of decline. The fact that everyone is saying how annoyed they are about the result and promoting the show on my Facebook and the whole of Twitter is reason enough to call for the Producers to be fired. I am sickened.
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Actually a fascinating site for 'Twitter tables' for those interested: http://secondsync.com/leaderboard.ht...06-2012/totals
![]() Pretty good for the 'specific times' though; thanks for linking. X Factor obviously a social media giant ofc. |
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Just watched the 'someone whispering in Louis ear' clip again. Richard Holloway, executive producer. Definitely deliberately caught on camera, the way it pans that way and they seem to begin on cue
![]() All publicity and all controversy good in Cowell land.... |
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Take Me Out's position on the chart only shows how useless twitter trends are
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I know, it's just disgusting that Producers of a light entertainment show for a commercial broadcaster are concerned about their show's ratings... they should be utterly ashamed of themselves and resign if they have any integrity.
They are despicable human beings for engineering a publicity stunt to get people talking about their programme in the year it's started to show signs of decline. The fact that everyone is saying how annoyed they are about the result and promoting the show on my Facebook and the whole of Twitter is reason enough to call for the Producers to be fired. I am sickened. ![]() ![]() The X Factor is what it is. People say they're outraged and tune in the following week. Simon will be laughing. The British public laps this stuff up. |
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I know, it's just disgusting that Producers of a light entertainment show for a commercial broadcaster are concerned about their show's ratings... they should be utterly ashamed of themselves and resign if they have any integrity.
They are despicable human beings for engineering a publicity stunt to get people talking about their programme in the year it's started to show signs of decline. The fact that everyone is saying how annoyed they are about the result and promoting the show on my Facebook and the whole of Twitter is reason enough to call for the Producers to be fired. I am sickened. ![]() |
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When your talking about people's life long ambitions being crushed by people to try and get a few more viewers to watch then it's a pretty low form of entertainment, something that is starting to wear thin with a lot of viewers.
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When your talking about people's life long ambitions being crushed by people to try and get a few more viewers to watch then it's a pretty low form of entertainment, something that is starting to wear thin with a lot of viewers.
The problem is it's all so cynical. The producers aren't even subtle anymore. Executive producer caught on camera discussing "something" with Louis Walsh. "Ooh, what an unfortunate accident In the production team's eyes, the ends - higher ratings, lots of column inches - justifies the means. |
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Her problem was that nobody voted for her. Everyone knows the rules when they go in for it, they're on a TV show. It might be an old and tired plot device, but as ever the key reason is that people didn't vote for her. When you come 13th out of 13 contestants (and she hasn't been short changed on coverage) you can't have many complaints.
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The problem is it's all so cynical. The producers aren't even subtle anymore. Executive producer caught on camera discussing "something" with Louis Walsh. "Ooh, what an unfortunate accident In the production team's eyes, the ends - higher ratings, lots of column inches - justifies the means. I find it all quite amusing. People are acting as if they didn't know what they were doing showing the exec on camera Funny how it's always Holloway - the most public face exec ![]() Wasn't it in 2010 they changed the rules around deadlock or something? There was uproar for a day or two, then it all simmerred down. If they got away with that they'll be fine
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We're talking about X Factor judges here...........
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Yet it delivers three times the audience of most ITV entertainment shows and makes a lot of brass for them. I know it's not exactly BAFTA award winning material that gets glowing write ups in the broadsheets, but TXF delivers the goods. I watch it to unwind in the pub now.
Also BBC 3 saw fit to include tonight's happenings in its news bulletins, and all I could think is, that if Gary is so disgusted by he, he wont be on the show next week. Yet somehow I know Gary will be on the show next week. How can anyone with any artistic talent, want to be on this show anymore? When are viewers going to realise they are being played for fools, and stop watching? |
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I think it's becoming a game of skill - can you see the manipulation before it actually happens?
I have to admit, I didn't expect the camera to pick up someone talking to Louis before the decisions...


