I definitely thought Friday's show was just a bit awkward - four dancers in succession were scored very low, Colin not much higher and only Denise at all well. It wasn't much of a start to the series to have Fern deliver a mediocre (but by no means awful) cha cha, then a favourite deliver a very disappointing dance and it only continued from there.

On Saturday we did have some low-scoring dances but also Kimberley, Sid, Lisa and Louis scoring well, the former two making for a very nice start to the show. I was much happier watching the second show than the first in general. Would Friday's show have been improved if one of them had swapped with somebody dancing on that night? Perhaps the two athletes or the two pop stars changing places?

Fridays bunch of dancers were poorer then saturdays, but Len and Bruno are marking more sensibly so far this series.

As it was the first time any of them had danced or been seen performing, no-one could have known anything really. Who would have thought that superfit Victoria would have been trounced by Lisa Riley ? Nobody saw that coming ! I saw all my favourites were dancing in the second show so I knew from the off it was going to be the better night for me

I think the whole "rushed" atmosphere didn't help on Friday either, with judges not being given the chance to comment on all of the dances.

It wasn't just the dancing that was better,(with the 4 top on the leaderboard coming from the 2nd show) it was the way that the Saturday show flowed more smoothly that made viewing better for me.

It was slightly mistimed/rushed but also having Fern on first was odd, considering they usually have a good or bad dancer with the 'meh' ones in-between. I doubt they expected 4 'meh' dances in a row, either. On paper Nicky and Victoria should have done well. Hindsight is 20/20 - it was what it was - onwards and upwards, I think.

I would imagine it was split - as they thought - relatively fairly. The first show had Victoria/Colin and Denise who would be expected to be at the average to good part of the scale - and neither Fern/Nicky or Michael (especially with the guys doing the ballroom option) woudl be expected to be car crash.

It just felt flat and a bit afterthoughtish (if an afterthought can come first ) The pro dance opening last night made it feel that that was the main event. The fact the dances on Friday were a bit meh to what!? didn't help either.

IMO the scoring system is trying to do two things at once.

On the one hand, they are trying to position 14 celebs in the right order on the leaderboard, so it would be logical to use score from 1 to 10 to do that.

On the other hand, they are trying to reflect that the standard of dancing now is low compared to what it will be in future weeks and giving lower scores.

Len is almost always scoring between 5 and 7, so how is he going to distinguish between 14 dancers? All he can do is group them into 3 groups.

It seemed to me that a higher proportion of the celebs on Friday underperformed and maybe that took a bit of the pressure off those performing on Saturday as they seemed to cope with the pressure better?

It looked to me like they put the weaker dancers in the Friday show.