It's the last in the series of Takeaway on the 13th, so that'll be why they aren't taking a week off mid series
02cashindavid posted:
Not good news for The X Factor at all. ITV are effectively handing the BBC the ratings crown. Allowing SCD to establish its audience whilst XF takes a week off isn't the best strategy.
Surely The X Factor has already had about 8 weeks to establish it's audience over SCD?
It's the last in the series of Takeaway on the 13th, so that'll be why they aren't taking a week off mid series
02cashindavid posted:
Not good news for The X Factor at all. ITV are effectively handing the BBC the ratings crown. Allowing SCD to establish its audience whilst XF takes a week off isn't the best strategy.
Surely The X Factor has already had about 8 weeks to establish it's audience over SCD?
But audiences in 2007 are very fickle - take off their regular show for a week and they'll either switch to SCD or actually go out on a Saturday night (a spectical I know)
Hopefully for ITV - actually, hopefully for Talkback and Syco (ITV only have themselves to blame) - I'm wrong and it's all plain sailing when it returns. Looking forward to to the studio!
...Yeh, not like Ant & Dec need to be in Australia or anything...
It really does annoy me how sport supasses everything on Television, even 2 of ITV's biggest rating winners. Yeh, Sod you Cowell and Ant & Dec on your multi million contracts - let's get a few trys in! Laughable really.
I hate that view - TV isn't just for scheduled programmes, and live sport (and news events) should always take priority.
In the case of the Rugby World Cup it's once every four years, with games usually just at the weekend - and every other RWC is in the southern hemisphere, so they only affect prime time once every eight years!
It's scheduling which is the main problem - not the sport. They've done a pretty decent job with The X Factor to be fair - but with soaps it's usually a mess as despite airing eight nights a week, they'll never drop an episode. Therefore, they end up rescheduling them - which has a knock-on effect on the rest of the schedule leaving soap fans pissed off - and sports fans getting the blame!
Please let me in on why sports events should take precedence? Not like in this case they're actually getting the ratings, so why do you feel a commercial network is oblidged to cover it? They axed a whole slot of kid's programming for precisely this reason.
Please let me in on why sports events should take precedence? Not like in this case they're actually getting the ratings, so why do you feel a commercial network is oblidged to cover it? They axed a whole slot of kid's programming for precisely this reason.
ITV aren't "oblidged" to cover it - they've chosen too - and as such have to do justice.
You may not be a rugby fan - but it's got it's fans and the ratings on Friday night have been quite favourable to the average Champions League game.
At the end of the day The X Factor will barely be affected. Moving this Saturday's second show to Sunday is more than ideal for ITV against the Sunday night SCD show - while in the next couple of weeks the Rugby is really only taking the slot occupied by Millionaire / Afterlife in previous years. Early X Factor live shows have always begun before 6pm, while the results shows have moved around the scheduled and aired at various times between 8.30 and 10.30pm.
P.S. Re - Leona. She took one year and that's the best she can come up with!
I agree with Brekkie - Sports events such as the Rugby World Cup should take priority over everything else because they are live events and only once every 4 years. Its ridiculous that they are rescheduling episodes of the soaps when they clash with Rugby - they should just drop an episode and have less that particular week. It wouldnt kill them to drop an episode surely?
As for the X Factor, my guess as there could be 4 acts in the final this series since there are now 4 categories and judges so they might need less live shows than previous years. Or they might have a double elimination one of the weeks.
And people are not suddently going to stop watching X Factor because its not on for one week. I bet it will still get good ratings when it returns.
I guess it's not quite as bad then - it would have been worse had England not made it through.
I still think it's not good for the show to take a week off - but I don't think the rugby should be taken off either. I just think it would have been better for us and for the show if they were to move XF around it, rather than just take it off.
It was the guests which ruined the last series and they'll do the same this time.
In the first couple of years the beauty of the show was the range of acts on offer compaired to Idol, and the likes of G4 wouldn't have shined if they'd been part of the last series as they did in the first.
Potential acts have also been ruled out due to this guest star policy - I remember Simon saying someone was good, but how would he cope with Abba week?
Anyway, these guest spots on both X Factor and SCD are quite unneccessary really. The shows are good enough without them and I don't think many people tune in especially for the guest performers.
P.S. Tonight's show really is sickeningly formulaic - Sob Story > Sing > Westlife song > Judges having trouble deciding
You mean the series isn't ruined already? I think it's started taking itself way too seriously and all these sob stories are really depressing. Not exactly Saturday night 'entertainment'. "I work as an asbestos remover" doesn't quite cut it really does it...Most of the country has a job they don't like but they don't go seeking sympathy on national TV...
The sob stories are OK during the auditions as they fill the show out a bit, but by this stage, it should be the contestants' singing ability rather than if they're an asbestos remover, bin man etc, or have had a near death experience, had a family member die etc, etc. that they're judged mainly on.
The way the 23-year-old girl was portrayed as being too old, and Louis saying last week he didn't want the 'overs' makes it seem like they are just keeping 'no up age limit' to be PC etc., rather than thinking that someone over 25 could actually have a chance.
