FOX having an ITV moment tonight...

X Factor US suddenly goes off air halfway through the judges houses results episode so as FOX can return to rain delayed baseball coverage. Although they appear to have somehow aired a partial rerun of The Mindy Project in between cutting off X Factor and going to the baseball...

The full episode will now be aired next Tuesday. Originally the plan was to have the 2 hour episode tonight and then return on Thursday November 1st for the first live show (with no results show apparently) and then also on Sunday 4th November for what appears to be another live show (again, no word on results) before resuming normal service on Wednesday 7th and Thursday 8th.

DS Report

Things just get better and better for FOX this season...

As mentioned before Fox considers live sport very important, hence signing UFC to a large contract. They consider that more people will actually watch sports live rather than using catch up services, and as such more of the audience will be watching the adverts.

Baseball is more important than The X Factor.

I'd imagine it's more about the World Series itself and the revenue it brings in, they just have to tolerate the NLCS which isn't exactly posting outstanding live ratings (didn't it just beat WWE RAW over 3 hours on Monday?).

That's perhaps a reason to tolerate the annual chaos it causes for FOX in planning a fall schedule. But what's definitely into the "screw up" category is actually airing X Factor when there was a chance of this happening thus having to abandon after one hour. Now they've got the secondary impact that all their sitcoms have to take an extra week off so as they can slot in X Factor next Tuesday (when it will get thumped by The Voice). And that sitcom block probably doesn't need a break (bear in mind it missed Tuesday for the Presidential debate) so we're talking 3 episodes into the new season and a 3 week break...

Raw did 4.07 million hour 1- 4.01 million hour 2- 3.89 million hour 3- a 2.8 rating overall. The baseball did 5.58 million, the NFL, Denver @ San Diego did 12.84 million. Raw now gets hammered every NFL season and can go up to 5 million in spring.


Source: www.wrestlingobserver.com (edit: though you need to subscribe to the behind the paywall content to get that info.)

And they wonder why people download shows, terrestrial needs to get with it and show episodes within days of the American airings if the want to retain a loyal following they can build on for their niche acquisitions.

I look forward to the day when that statement is true in this country.

as do I.

Yes it is a little odd that FOX has to pull X-Factor like that, but thats the contract they signed.

As I said previously (amusing how World Series posts are ignored unless you mention X-Factor) FOX will be praying the Yankees make the World Series this year, which at the moment does not seem likely.

Yes, but then they have only put an SD version on to their on-demand service. You can only get Sky on demand if you have a Sky HD box, so you clearly would agree with Sky that HD is important, so an SD preview is as useful as a chocolate teapot! I'll wait for the regular scheduled screening instead.

@jscummins: ITV1's live episode of @emmerdale drew an impressive 9.2m viewers/42% share - the highest rating for the soap so far in 2012.

Wow! Don't know if that's the peak or not but what a fantastic rating!

EDIT - Emmerdale averaged 8.84 (40.0%), 374k (1.74%)

Courtesy of DS

Emmers ITV1
7815
8329
8366
8552

Emmers ITV1 HD
523
584
564
596

all you need to do is add it up

ciao guys

edit bonus - football

3361 + 752

1181
1757
2840
3290
3672
3450
4403
4674
4851
3685

123
295
653
757
843
719
1012
1198
1246
862
440

Watchdog - 4.72m

Football - 4.23m
Emmerdale - 9.21m
All Star Mr & Mrs - 4.02m
DCI Banks - 4.64m

Include +1 where relevant.

Underwhelming for Emmerdale all things considered. When the Who Attacked Cain got 8.62m at the start of the year, to only get 0.22m more for the live ep is a bit meh

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Thought Em Live might have nudged 10m, given the massive boosts the live eps gave to EE and Corrie. Also given that ITV's early evening audience will have been substantially boosted by the England match.

It's an ok number I suppose, but you'd think a regular episode will get to those levels during the winter months anyway.

but Emmers is fairly consistently the third rated soap

it almost never wins big awards and the majority tabloid exposure is focused on EE and Corrie

also the football was very lacklustre (team & ratings), so no boost

Do you know if the ITV2 backstage show did well? I'm guessing it didn't break the multichannel record looking at the live ep figure.

average - 1588

1639
1531
1534
1650

It's on Sky Go too. Available to all subscribers.

I think that's a great rating for Emmerdale at 7pm.

It was massively trailed and promoted by ITV. There was loads of media interest, BBC Breakfast even had a reporter live in the"village" yesterday morning, mystifyingly, and it was regularly mentioned in the TV and radio coverage of the abandoned match on Tuesday.

It certainly got a boost, but nothing like what EE or CS ; granted it will probably still come out at 10m in the officials.

More or less what I expected for Emmers - a good boost, but not to the level of EastEnders or Corrie's live episodes as the show hasn't quite been firing on all cylinders for a while.

it was mentioned twice by a very flippant Alan Green on Five Live, to the general disinterest of his fellow commentators.

Anyhow as a big Emmers fans I'm happy the show went okay, considering the change in normal filming procedures.

10 million would have been nice, but it wasn't to be

The Emmerdale backstage show was watched by 1.8m on ITV2.

Shocker for M&M, given the lead-in. Must have been well under 4m if the aggregated figure was only 4.0m.

If anything the live Em seems to have boosted Watchdog!

Emmerdale is a circa 6m show isn't it ? So that's a good uplift for the live.