Strictly Come Dancing Beats X Factor Ratings!
Strictly Come Dancing has beaten The X Factor in the ratings war for the first time this year, according to early reports on viewing figures.
Last night’s show, which saw the celebrity girls taking to the dancefloor, averaged 8.59 million viewers which was just over 40% of all UK viewers in the time slot 6.45pm to 8.05pm.
The X Factor’s first show from the boot camp stage began an hour later, at 7.45pm, and was on for 90 minutes. It averaged 8.18 million viewers – just over 36% – overall and peaked with over 9 million viewers at 8.10pm, immediately after Strictly finished.
In the twenty minutes that the two programmes were both on, Strictly managed 8.25 million viewers compared to X Factor’s 7.27 million.
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I do not think the ratings really count for how popular a show is anymore as people often watch both, they watch one and record the other so it does not really tell you which is more popular.
strictly is by far the best show on tv x factor comes no where near not even in its final weeks bring it on.
X factor is really boring and strictly is soo much interesting! X factor really drags on a bit because of the boot camp and the auditions take ages!
i fink x factor is crap,, it is jst a waste of time 4 wanna b singas hu cum n go in da space of 1 year…
strictly is so mch beta n i fink bruce n tess r fantastic!!!! i luv watchin da celebs battle it out n i fink rachel shud win.
Both X-factor and Strictly are utter crap. I do not know what happened to TV in this country. It’s sad…