Strictly Come Dancing extended its lead over The X Factor on Saturday by a million viewers as more than 10 million tuned in to watch the hit BBC1 dancing show.
The BBC show drew an average of 10.2 million viewers, and a peak of 11 million, taking a 45.8% share of all TV viewing from 6.50pm to 8.15pm.
Last week’s Saturday night show drew an average of 9.2 million viewers.
Simon Cowell’s X Factor stayed steady week on week, drawing an average of 6.4 million viewers and securing a 29.2% share of viewing from 8pm to 9.45pm.
Two contestants on the X Factor were forced to change their song picks at short notice – Licence to Kill and Bang Bang from Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill – out of respect for the Paris terrorist killings.
Cowell revealed in an interview on Sunday that he has no plans to pull the X Factor despite the prospect of rival The Voice moving to ITV.
“No,” he said, in an interview with the Mail on Sunday’s Event magazine. It still makes me excited. I still feel the magic of finding the next big thing. If I didn’t feel in touch with that, I wouldn’t embarrass myself, it would be death by a thousand cuts. But that excitement is still there.”
The X Factor, and Cowell’s other show Britain’s Got Talent, will be back on ITV in 2016.
