Downton Abbey Smashes The X Factor In Raitings!!!
 

Downton Abbey inherited an audience of 12m from The X Factor - last night the ITV singing contest drew 9.46m (35.4%) for the judges' pick of the final 12 ahead of the live shows in the 8pm hour.

Will never understand that show's success... I don't know anyone (other than Jen) who watches it :suspect:

i've tried to get into about three times, but just can't

Jen, my sister and old people

How can it smash a shows ratings if it's on the same channel?

:suspect: Is that a serious question? Every programme is watched by a different number of viewers and therefore has it's own ratings.

12m?

Daaaaamn. How have I not watched this yet?

Are you 90 years old?

I love Downton Abbey,but I do have a parchant for period dramas,I think I must have been a scullery maid in a previous incarnation.:hugesmile:

Both shows are doing pretty well. Downton Abbey has become an event viewing, The media loves it and so they create hype with stories about it and stupidly positive reviews which gets people to tune in. People will tune in to see what the hype is about since the media's been reporting about how much it's slaying all over the world.

The X Factor has sucked so far so no wonder it's losing to Downton Abbey, I could imagine the characters being more likeable than this years lot of contestants.

I know DA is pretty popular but stuff like that bores me to tears.

I watch Downton Abbey :hmph:

Where did the 12m come from? :conf2:

According to Digital Spy's overnights: Yesterday's latest instalment averaged 9.66m (36.9%) for ITV1 in the 9pm hour, before adding 325k (1.8%) on ITV1 +1.

Downton Abbey is Sublime
watched it since episode 1 series 1, and still love it

It didn't smash it, it got a few thousand more viewers than The X Factor...the peak for BOTH shows were around 11 million.

The X Factor got 9.46 million, Downton got 9.66 million....smashing it? really?http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/s183/...n-ratings.html

I hate when people outright lie about ratings to try & have a go at TXF

You've read the article wrong, if you read it properly it states that Downton Abbey inherited an audience of 12 million viewers from The X Factor last year - Downton Abbey didn't get 12 million...TXF did.

Thats more in line with previous weeks, up a bit though. The xf is down 2m on previous years. I watch DA, got into it in series 2 :spin: