Hes just apologised.

X Factor used to generate ratings as well as heat. Now if the best you can say is "ratings are down but people are still talking about it" that's not exactly a great assessment of where it is now.

Jekyll and Hyde deserves more. It is rating lower than Demons and Atlantis! Life is cruel. But if you schedule badly that's what happens.

At least TXF rose a little from Saturday night. The figures whilst over 6 million are good but should be better. The show is slowly finding it's new level.

Very poor for J&H. It isn't the slot that it should be in, the competition is too much for it on BBC One, and it just doesn't suit a Sunday.

Perhaps a swap to a Thursday at 8pm ? Then move the Emmerdale and extra Corrie's over to Sunday at 7 and 730pm respectively.

Perhaps there will be a big catchup number for J&H - I am trying to be positive for the show.

The full on Strictly clash is hurting Jekyll and Hyde, also the fact it dropped from episode 1 suggests some aren't taken with it. Seeing the consolidated ratings for episode 1 & 2 will give us a clue to how well it's doing.

So the 6-7m range is the New Normal for the X Factor.

Thanks !!

Pretty good I suppose but would have been higher later in the week I think.

I think there will be a reasonable sized catch up rating for the first ep anyway - thats how I am watching it because of the stupid scheduling.

No, they don't. Careful when making blanket statements that they aren't foolish ones.

@ Jekyll and Hyde.

Always seemed highly unlikely that it would go up however, controversial first episode or not. That was wishful thinking on here.

I can't see them moving it anywhere more suitable now. Its ratings are too low for a more prominent placing. It will probably finish its run there, although how low it might go I wouldn't like to say.

It's already rating worse than Jonathan Strange was at this point, and we all know how low that went.

Morning Bushmills.

Anything for either Chelsea V Liverpool (BT Sport 1, Saturday @ 12pm) or The Saturday Show (Channel 5 @ 9:30am) please?

How do you escape the hell of Digital Spy Beta? It has been forced on me and only the mobile site works.

LIVE AND LET DIE (ITV, Su 20 Jan 1980, 19:45) 23.5m
JAWS (ITV, Th 8 Oct 1981, 19:30) 23.3m
THE SPY WHO LOVED ME (ITV, Su 28 Mar 1982, 19:15) 22.9m
DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER (Repeat) (ITV, Su 15 Mar 1981, 19:45) 22.2m
CROCODILE DUNDEE (BBC1, M 25 Dec 1989, 18:15) 21.8m
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (ITV, Su 20 Nov 1977, 19:45) 20.8m
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (ITV, Tu 25 Dec 1984, 20:30) 19.35m
THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE (BBC1, Su 23 Dec 1979, 19:15) 19.3m
JUGGERNAUT (BBC1, Su 18 Nov 1979, 19:15) 19.25m
DIRTY MONEY (U.K. TV film) (ITV, W 21 Mar 1979, 20:00) 19.1m
DR NO (ITV, Tu 28 Oct 1975, 20:00) 18.9m*
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE (ITV, Su 10 Jan 1982, 19:15) 18.9m
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (BBC1, F 25 Dec 1987, 15:40) 18.9m
ROLLERCOASTER (ITV, W 18 Feb 1981, 20:00) 18.85m
VON RYAN'S EXPRESS (Repeat) (ITV, W 4 Jan 1978, 20:00) 18.75m
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (BBC1, M 25 Dec 1978, 16:20) 18.5m
GHOST (BBC1, Sa 25 Dec 1993, 21:10) 18.5m
CARRY ON ABROAD (ITV, Su 8 Jan 1978, 19:45) 18.45m
PAINT YOUR WAGON (ITV, Tu 1 Jan 1980, 17:15) 18.45m
THREE MEN AND A BABY (ITV, Sa 15 Feb 1992, 19:50) 18.3m
AIRPLANE! (ITV, W 26 Dec 1984, 21:15) 18.1m
KRAMER VS KRAMER (BBC1, Su 30 Dec 1984, 20:35) 18.0m
FOR YOUR EYES ONLY (Repeat) (ITV, M 4 Apr 1988, 20:00) 17.8m
THE TOWERING INFERNO (BBC1, F 26 Dec 1980, 20:15) 17.7m
GOLDFINGER (ITV, W 3 Nov 1976, 20:00) 17.65m*
MAGNUM (U.S. TV film) (ITV, F 27 Feb 1981, 19:30) 17.6m
SUPERMAN II (ITV, F 4 Jan 1985, 19:00) 17.6m
SKYJACKED (ITV, Su 30 Oct 1977, 19:45) 17.5m
WHERE EAGLES DARE (BBC1, W 26 Dec 1979, 19:10) 17.5m
DR NO (Repeat) (ITV, Tu 1 Jan 1985, 18:30) 17.5m
ET THE EXTRA TERRESTRIAL (BBC1, Tu 25 Dec 1990, 15:05) 17.5m
MURPHY'S WAR (Repeat) (ITV, W 11 Jan 1978, 20:00) 17.45m
GOLDFINGER (Repeat) (ITV, Su 12 Mar 1978, 19:45) 17.45m
MARY POPPINS (BBC1, Tu 25 Dec 1984, 15:10) 17.35m
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (Repeat) (Tu 7 Jan 1986, 20:00) 17.3m
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (Repeat) (ITV, Su 8 Dec 1985, 19:45) 17.25m
GOLDFINGER (Repeat) (ITV, Su 21 Apr 1985, 19:45) 17.05m
RYAN'S DAUGHTER (ITV, Su 13 Jan 1980, 19:45) 16.95m
SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS (BBC1, Sa 16 Feb 1980, 19:15) 16.9m
A VIEW TO A KILL (ITV, W 31 Jan 1990, 20:00) 16.9m
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (ITV, M 4 Sept 1978, 19:30) 16.75m
SUPERMAN (ITV, Th 6 Jan 1983, 19:25) 16.75m
THUNDERBALL (Repeat) (ITV, M 2 Jan 1984, 19:00) 16.65m
THE LOVE BUG (ITV, Th 1 Jan 1987, 17:15) 16.6m
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (ITV, Su 2 May 1976, 19:55) 16.55m*
T.R. SLOANE OF THE SECRET SERVICE (U.S. TV film) (ITV, Th 3 Jan 1980, 19:15) 16.55m
ESCAPE OF THE BIRDMEN (U.S. TV film) (ITV, Th 29 Dec 1977, 19:00) 16.5m
CARRY ON HENRY (ITV, Th 4 Jan 1979, 19:30) 16.5m
BIG (ITV, W 4 Dec 1991, 20:00) 16.5m
GHOSTBUSTERS (ITV, Sa 26 Dec 1987, 19:30) 16.45m
IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN TO A VET (BBC1, Su 21 Dec 1980, 19:15) 16.4m
AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN (ITV, M 31 Mar 1986, 21:15) 16.35m
THE SHILLINGBURY BLOWERS (U.K. TV film) (ITV, Su 6 Jan 1980, 19:45) 16.2m
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (ITV, M 28 Dec 1981, 19:30 ; TVS : F 1 Jan 1982) 16.2m
ANY WHICH WAY YOU CAN (ITV, Tu 9 Oct 1984, 20:00) 16.2m
WALLACE & GROMIT : A MATTER OF LOAF AND DEATH (U.K. TV film short) (BBC1, Th 25 Dec 2008, 20:35) 16.15m
SWEENEY 2 (ITV, M 21 Dec 1981, 21:15) 16.1m
STAR WARS (ITV, Su 24 Oct 1982, 19:15) 16.1m

*estimated

The list excludes films shown on BBC1 during the ITV strike in 1979. Some (or all?) of those which were watched by 16million+ are shown below :

CARRY ON DOCTOR (Repeat) (BBC1, F 21 Sept 1979, 19:25) 20.6m
CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER (Repeat) (BBC1, F 28 Sept 1979, 19:30) 19.6m
THE BLACK WINDMILL (BBC1, Sa 1 Sept 1979, 20:15) 19.4m
THE GREAT ESCAPE (Repeat) (BBC1, M 27 Aug 1979,19:25) 17.8m
SOUTH OF ALGIERS (Repeat) (BBC1, Tu 14 Aug 1979, 19:30) 16.7m

Ratings : JICTAR/BARB

Me too, I hate it. Everything's so tiny.

It's been forced on me now too. And the forum's all squashed, something wrong with the stylesheet it looks like.

Seriously, what's the point in calling it a Beta if you can't opt out of this POS design?

Ray do you have anymore Christmas Day ratings, from 1997 or indeed anymore past ratings? They were so fascinating.

And the Bond films you've included (JICTAR era pre August 1977) are higher if you use the BFI method of multiplying the "homes" rating by 2.2.

Dr. No - 23.10m
Goldfinger - 21.56m
From Russia With Love - 20.24m

And a couple more high rated films:

The Italian Job (25 January 1976) - 19.36m (ITV)
Thunderball (26 February 1977) - 18.92m (ITV)

Oh and this Beta site is appalling. If it ain't broke don't fix it!

ITV2's The Ty and Ky Show got off to a less than impressive start. 0.12m (0.7%) stuck around post Xtra Factor (0.44m/1.9%).

I had the misfortune of catching about 1 minute of this whilst channel hopping. Goodness me, it was the worst thing I've seen on telly for yonks. How on earth did it get a commission?

Failing to make the top 3 and doing worse still was ITV2's other new show which started last night, All About the Bants, which wins the award for the most annoying programme title in broadcasting history.

These new commissions are making Xtra Factor look good.

Yes, I'll put 1997 on later today.

The window sizing is all wrong. I tend to have DS in a small window and move the scrolling bar along the bottom. That has now gone

I did enjoy The Hunt last night, Lucky that BBC One still has a royal audience unlike other channels.

This is the worst design DS has ever had, by a long long way. All this time in Beta to fix the many issues or scrap it completely and start again, and seemingly it hasn't evolved at all. Still broken.

Nowhere else for Jekyll and Hyde to go now with IAC round the corner and 90 minute weekday shows in the last week. Otherwise I'd switch it with All Star Mr & Mrs on Wednesday at 8pm.

The dip after week 1 suggests a full Strictly clash and reaction to episode 1 are the cause. Some people just don't like it.

Makes Doctor Who's overnights look respectable.

In a Broadcast article written by William Phillips in 1988, he estimated by multipying by 1.8

I told you all the beta site was crap.

Not sure where else to go as Twitter has that 140 thing so you can't write a long ratings post on there, Also any blogs will just die off so no point of doing them unless you keep posting your blog on your social media feeds which will get annoying quickly.

Luckily both of last night's shows were just one off pilots. I suspect neither will return.

ITV2 seem to have had a really horrid Autumn. Actually, make that a really horrid year.