We all knew that would be the case, I don't see why you are pretending to be surprised.

That rating is actually quite a bit higher than I expected - in previous years the Saturday final has seen next to no boost on the previous few weeks, whereas last night's show was over a million above the last few weeks. In 2009 the Saturday final was flat vs the previous week, in 2010 it was up +0.4m and in 2011 it was up +0.3m. Last night it was up +1.5m. I know the numbers are down year on year (as they have been all year) but surely that deserves some credit?

Terrific for SCD - it saw a similar boost against Justin Bieber's show last year which also appealed to nobody. Dismal for McFly.

It was an honest miscalculation - sorry! Now corrected.

This is very true. Can The Voice resurrect itself or is it too damaged a brand? It needs work to be as popular in the later stages as it is at the start.

The problem was that they didn't promote it too well for being something a little different. The McFly Show had a sort of Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway feel to it or whatever... lots of silly comedy and a lot more appeal to someone who isn't a big fan of their music.

Still looks the same on the story.

Are they having Corrie on before XF tonight?

Last week's Sunday Corrie only managed 6m so I don't know how good a lead-in it'll be. Did it face Strictly last week?

I think because it's McFly people would have just thought it's music and ditched it. People seemed to like it but as you say I hardly saw any trailers....if any.

If SCD 'wasnt' on against XF would it make a difference? Can't see the same audience watching both shows

It's actually Who Wants To Be A Millionaire tonight. Could have sworn Corrie was due to be on tonight. It does show that if a programme goes out in midweek and displaces Corrie, when ITV say "Sunday is the only place it could go" this proves that's just not true. But we knew that anyway.

ITV's schedule tonight it...

18:40 - Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
19:40 - The X Factor Final
21:40 - Rod Stewart's Christmas

I don't think Millionaire has been advertised at all.

That's actually higher than what I was expecting for TXF so I think its quite a good rating..

No Corrie? But The Royal Variety Performance meant no episodes on Monday. I'm confused.

It's actually 16% up on last Saturday's rating.

The Corrie that was meant to be on Monday was shown the day before instead.

Yep, thats exactly what I mean. Even I was expecting just a music special, as a fan of theirs, so this was a great surprise. I think they only performed around 5 songs if that. At least the ratings peaked for the best bit, the 'Gangnam Style' dance with Chelsee Healey. I saw a few people saying they switched over at that time and couldn't stop laughing at what they were met with.

& that was another weird thing about it, lots of references to 'that dance programme on the other side' including a bit of an argentine tango between last years finalists - while it was still airing on the other side.

Unless they change the schedules, apparently The McFly Show will be repeated on Boxing Day afternoon, so it will be interesting to see the ratings then.

And Sunday will be up as well. It's The X Factor final.

With X Factor, its ratings have been at certain level all series, so we shouldn't be surprised that ratings have risen as much as they have for the final. So why should we expect a big rise for EastEnders on Christmas Day rather than a modest one based on current ratings for it?

Presumably they still do the music specials for reach or demographics. If they never did any and just aired The Chase, wouldn't they be slated for relying on the same few shows all the time?

Corrie was displaced on Monday and the episodes aired on the previous Sunday. Wednesday and Friday aired as normal, as do all next weeks.

Because it's Christmas Day. Ratings are always all over the place on Christmas Day due to more family viewing and less watching on secondary TVs.

Wow, go Strictly.

Crikey, between Samuel and Robbie I think this thread has used up its quota of smilies for the year...

As a big fan of The Chase I could live with that! Also if anybody dared to say The Chase specials are lazy scheduling and yet praise the ratings for Pointless Celebrities, well I'd have my hypocrite klaxon on standby.


Thanks for explaining that.


Well the overnights for Christmas Day will be very interesting this year.

Better than expected ratings from both XFactor and SCD, I was expecting X Factor to stay in the low 8ms.

However judging by my performance in the predication game, that should be of no surprise to anyone.

Especially when it is aimed at a lower demographic. Would have faired better on ITV2 I guess.

These music specials are really in fact 'An Audience with...'

AND they got John Barrowman to present it.

BBC1 couldn't have done more to help X Factor if they'd screened a caption all night that read "Watch X Factor tonight on ITV1 and receive £50 off your licence fee next year".