I know quite a few people who really got into the fundraising and raised a lot of money for Children In Need, but have no interest in the telethon and didn't watch any of it. There's no money to be made from the telethon either- it actually costs the BBC money to broadcast it. So as you say, it's the fundraising that matters, and not how the telethon does.

I think the telethon suffered from having a very weak lineup (in terms of the clips and acts performing) in comparison to previous years, and not having Terry Wogan as Lead Presenter. I watched about an hour of it and it certainly seemed to have lost it's sparkle.

SCD Blackpool, Michael McIntyre, Casualty..........nothing else worth watching on.

I think Michael McIntyre will dent ITV far more......

GBBO wasn't down? SCD is level, or slightly up. We know Friday's is a hard night to get big viewing figures in. Why should the BBC have a hard think if it raised £46 million?
CIN didn't clash last year with IAC if I recall correctly, and in the recent past CIN started st 7 pm rather than TOS, and starting head to head with Corrie doesn't help.

Logically the thing to do considering he is having a strong contest and it was a CIN repeat that can be cut down or on iPlayer.

If you actually read what I said for a change...

Raising £46 million is superb, what it's all about, but they are still going to care if not enough are watching this super-expensive telethon they put on. That's a fact.

But it got on a Friday night what XF gets on Saturdays and Sundays, you feel XF Ratings at 6.2 million should be " praised to high heaven" but CIN is poor?

As said one made millions for children with needs, one makes millions for SyCo. Though nice of Simon to be part of a CIN sketch.

I must admit I tend not to read your pro XF posts, as you tend to be the only one still thinking they are great.

Been at a University and asked about XF answers were.

Friday is only really a problem for the young-skewing shows. CIN should be able to attract a large enough older audience to not be dented.
Also, it's an annual event whereas XF airs 2 days a week from August to December. A bit of a difference!

Again, great for it to make millions, but the expensive telethon losing viewers will be a concern. Why is the BBC using its money on this telethon, when the money could go direct to the charity (and spent on raising awareness to boost donations further)? Just a thought.

Classic ADP.

Oh I forgot that McIntyre thing starts tonight. Reckon 4.5m for that.


I asked you this the other day but if you hate X Factor so much, why on earth do you constantly go on about it? I really, really don't understand. And did you really go to a Uni and ask people about it? Why?

Research? Desperation? Nothing better to do?

Low rating for CIN last night, though not surpising. Its great that they raise so much money, but the telathon remains poor, and insipid (bar the stories being shown to raise money).

IAC did well. 7.2m isn't too bad up against CIN. Should see a higher figure tonight I reckon, for the fallout. I'm going with 8.1m.

McIntrye will likely keep viewers on BBC1 tonight even more than the Lottery shows, so I predict 5.4m for him, and 6.1m for TXF.

The Children in Need highlights have now been axed and replaced by a repeat of Pointless Celebrities.

You clearly don't read Dan's posts about XF because he's been critical of the show and its ratings recently.


My early predictions for tonight (subject to change)

SCD - 10.5
MM - 5.7
Casualty - 4.3
XF - 6.1
IAC - 8.2

MM is the only real interesting rating. The rest will fall within their recent range. SCD should be up from Blackpool.

Tomorrow afternoon in place of PE2 I'll bet.

That's a surprise. A highlights show of CiN would be seen by some new viewers and would generate some more charitable donations.

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The producers are stuck in the past where they think a clip of Christmas Doctor Who is one of the main highlights in the press release.

I have to ask - if the ratings for X Factor and Strictly were reversed would we have lots of comments saying "Strictly is still doing okay" or would there be lots of gloating about its decline? I pretty sure Cowell and, especially, Walsh would be having a dig. I don't see Claudia and Tess boasting about the size of Strictly's lead.

Thank goodness.

You do see Craig doing that, though. They are a fairly snide bunch over on SCD.

Presumably they haven't got a shorter highlights programme available because there weren't expecting it to be delayed by Andy Murray still playing a 3-set tennis match that started three and a half hours ago.

Okay. I'll concede and apologize. Naughty-naughty, Craig

Do all your posts have to reference X Factor?

Oh gloating, definitely.

I remember in 2009 when Louis Walsh used to put the boot in about Strictly's ratings. Or if not the ratings more the show. Mind, he's still doing that now. But back in 2009 it was justified, that was a dodgy year for Strictly.

Wouldn't it be nice to see Planet Earth 2 type rating for Michael McIntyre tonight? A rating to take us all by surprise again. I realise its unlikely, but it would be nice to see a new massive rating variety show/ mainstream comedy.

Sighs.

They get their money's worth out of Pointless don't they?

Highly unlikely but I'm hoping he will crack 5m in the overnights.

This me:
Overnight = 5.01 = delighted.
Overnight = 4.99 = disappointed