It's hardly bad in this day and age. It's double Love Island's rating and that's probably seen as the most popular RTV show today besides Bake Off and IAC.

Serves them right for eliminating Gaga Lord

I think it's seem as bad, not because of the numbers themselves, but because it's always compared to Strictly - as it should be
SCD shows that a lot of people are still watching Saturday night TV but the mass majority have now chosen Strictly over XF

What I find weird is that strictly got the exact same as last year, yet XF was 2 million down. So it’s not like 2 million have just turned over to strictly, they’ve literally just disappeared elsewhere

5.1 million last night - down 1.1m on last Sunday and the lowest ever Sunday rating.
Of course this week started at 7:30pm for the first time, and clashed with strictly (8.5m) for that first 30 minutes - but that's still really bad, as it clashes every year at this stage. Those first 30 minutes must have been dire to bring the whole rating down so much on last week

4.8 million for the last bootcamp. Second lowest rating ever (after the last auditions episode 2 weeks ago) 5 million behind strictly with 9.8 million

Probably unrelated but I'm finding this series of The X Factor is getting better and easier to watch as it goes on. Like the first 3 auditions episodes were good, then it was boring and since Bootcamp started I've been gripped. This happens every year for me though, mind.

Hmm.. usually it gets better around the six chair challenge, but IMO the last episode of bootcamp was quite boring. It felt like too much filler. They should either show everyone’s Arena audition and have it really fast paced, or miss it out altogether. 6CC isn’t as bad because they have to show everyone so it moves a lot quicker and actually has you gripped

The Arena Bootcamp's are crap, I much prefer when they do the group tasks and stuff like that (which they condensed into half an episode this year) because at least it feels like a distinct stage rather than just an audition with an audience

I wish they'd take Bootcamp to a country house again, do some group challenges, maybe some individual performances and then have each category line up so the judges can call the names out of the people who are going through...like the good old days

Yeah, for the arena auditions they should’ve just been on and off - no feedback or VTs or filler - and then each category gathered at the end to be told who’s through and who’s not. Would’ve been much faster paced, less boring and more ‘must see’ at the end.

Sunday night - 5.74 million - up 740k on last Sunday and 1 million on Saturday. It peaked with 7.13m which is 2.1m more than Saturday night so yet again proving the 6CC is the most popular part of the show. No idea why they spent so long on Bootcamp now

5.2M for the first live show

1 million down on last year first live show and 500K down on last week.

It was defo missing something last night, it didn’t feel like an event.

Hope it crashes and burns so Simon wakes up and smells the hummus and restores the format for the second time next year

I actually liked it - having just 8 acts felt better because watching 16 perform one after another is tedious, and then the Sunday feels pointless. I'm likely to put full attention into the series now.

Drag it

Lmfao it got what it deserves

Tonight it faces a full on clash with strictly and then Blue Planet 2 which is highly anticipated sooooo rip

19:00: The X Factor - 4.64m (19.2%)

Officially the shows lowest rating of all time.
Strictly averaged 9.6 million while Blue Planet averaged 10.3 million

Nnn A SCREAM

she’s gone, RIP :skull:

a shame since last night's live show was the best in such a long time.

It really wasn't. There's no suspense any more. And now the winners of the series are pretty much set in stone, too.

Saturdays show was one of the best in years, last night's was completely ruined with that sing off nonsense. If they replaced that sing off with the usual bottom 2 Sing Off, still had the winner but just an automatic prize for whoever topped the vote etc, it would be brilliant.

5.1M for last nights

10.4M for Strictly

Tonight will (yet again) be the lowest rating ever, below last weeks 4.6m I think. The prize fight had huge backlash last week, plus strictly is only getting bigger, blue planet is still on and this weeks xfactor theme is diabolical