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Patrick you couldn't be more wrong, the X Factor ECT get on average a good stable 10m and ok Simon and Cheryl may not be taking part in the XF this year and simon hasn't been on the BGT panel but the viewing figures are still what any channel die for. No Simon hasn't really impacted BGT that much and with Simon and Cheryl not being part of XF this year I can only see viewing figures drop by about 1m.

The BBUK franchise is dangling by a thread now and this whole CH5 reboot fingers crossed rubbish we are only going see viewing figures drop from about 2m (what they were on CH4) to around 900k it's not going to be good and that is what you call a fail.