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BR
Brekkie
Looks like ITV are waving the white flag against Strictly now - the new series of Celebrity Chase looks to have been pulled and repeats of Ninja Warrior are now airing at 7.15pm.
:-(
A former member
I thought the Celeb Chase had already been moved to the sundays? Since the 7pm slot already had that strange cannonball show.
AN
Andrew Founding member
Cannonball was at 6 (or 6:20 actually)
AN
all new Phil
New set this weekend: https://m.imgur.com/a/YsC0R
fusionlad, UBox and HJL gave kudos
FA
fanoftv
A shame that there's no physical X on set, I still liked the original set for that, rather than a bank of monitors that we have now.
BW
BroadcastWales
New set this weekend: https://m.imgur.com/a/YsC0R

The Floor of the New Set reminds me of The Voice UK.
BR
Brekkie
A shame that there's no physical X on set, I still liked the original set for that, rather than a bank of monitors that we have now.

The US set nailed that in 2013 and surprised that never made it over to the UK once the US series was axed - after all by 2014 the UK set was 5 years old, and for it's sister show no BGT set has lasted longer than 3 years.

This looks good and long overdue - but do think they need to up their staging from the beginning now. The Six Chair Challenge set is a very cheap version of the X set from the US, whilst Bootcamp is little more than a stage and screen. Did like the audition set this year though.
JK
JKDerry
No matter how much set changes X Factor do it still does not help the ratings. There is now a massive gulf between Strictly Come Dancing and X Factor, with 4/5 million difference each week.

What more can X Factor do to gain the number one ratings again?
BR
Brekkie
Abba Week. 😃
FA
fanoftv
I wonder if ITV would be tempted to schedule it on a different night, say mid week, though now that they have a lot of soap episodes it'd be hard to schedule there.

For the first time I haven't found the necessity to watch this series, I have watched most episodes but skipping all of the filler and sometimes part of the songs. I watched all of the judges houses and will watch live as this is where the competition gets interesting (for me).

I doubt ITV would remove the X Factor from Saturday nights until they have a new vehicle to replace it, it may be lower than strictly by a large margin, however it still pulls in the highest figures for a commercial channel.
PE
peterh
In some listings ninja warrior is listed as new though
BR
Brekkie
So Ninja Warrior was a repeat and considering they don't vary obstacles much and have returning contestants they might get away with it - well if they didn't leave in the viewer comp and just put a graphic over it saying it's a repeat.

Really don't understand why they don't just edit those out of repeats - they're seperate VTs so it's not exactly difficult and you'd imagine they'd be edited out if the rights were sold on to Challenge or someone. You'd think post phone-in scandals not including comps in repeats following the closing time would be one of the first things they'd have addressed, and it's something relatively simple to do.

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