{"id":8484,"date":"2016-10-02T10:33:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T04:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/the-x-factor-loses-to-strictly-come-dancing-in-tv-ratings-battle\/"},"modified":"2016-10-02T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T10:27:55","slug":"the-x-factor-loses-to-strictly-come-dancing-in-tv-ratings-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/the-x-factor-loses-to-strictly-come-dancing-in-tv-ratings-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"The X Factor loses to Strictly Come Dancing in TV ratings battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Strictly Come Dancing waltzed over The X Factor on Saturday night in the first head-to-head clash this series between the rival shows \u2013 notching up 9.2 million viewers.<\/p>\n

The BBC ballroom-dancing show featured Ed Balls completing an energetic Charleston, with a tie at the top of the leaderboard between ex-Hollyoaks actor Danny Mac and former Eternal singer Louise Redknapp.<\/p>\n

The X Factor judges (ITV Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Strictly, hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, enjoyed a peak audience of 10.3 million viewers at 7.45pm.<\/p>\n

It attracted an average of 9.2 million tuning in to watch the show, which was a 44.6% audience share.<\/p>\n

Ed Balls on Strictly (Guy Levy\/BBC\/Press Association Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

The X Factor \u2013 which has had an overhaul and features Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh, Simon Cowell, and Nicole Scherzinger as judges \u2013 attracted 6.8 million viewers (a 33% share) and peaked with 8.1 million viewers.<\/p>\n

Simon Cowell on The X Factor (ITV Pictures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

Strictly Come Dancing was broadcast between 6.20pm and 8.25pm, while The X Factor aired from 8pm to 9.50pm, meaning the shows went head-to-head for the first time this series for 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

ITV said viewing figures were up by 200,000 on the first Judges\u2019 Houses show from the 2015 series, when 6.6 million tuned in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Strictly Come Dancing waltzed over The X Factor on Saturday night in the first head-to-head clash this series between the rival shows \u2013 notching up 9.2 million viewers. The BBC ballroom-dancing show featured Ed Balls completing an energetic Charleston, with a tie at the top of the leaderboard between ex-Hollyoaks actor Danny Mac and former […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}