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X Factor tries to sing, but it’s ACA’s night.

First figures for multi-million dollar The X Factor are sluggish, as the Current Affair interview about its fallen host dominates the night.

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The premiere episode of The X Factor pulled a lukewarm 1.18m viewers for its 90 minute season premiere last night.

After all the publicity, not to mention the multi-million dollar pricetag, the numbers will be a concern to Seven. It just managed to beat Undercover Boss (1.12m), Two and a Half Men (1.07m). Even The 7:30 Report had 1.02m.

This is the second time The X Factor has been mounted in Australia. In 2005 it premiered on TEN to an audience of 1.45 million. This year’s premiere is even lower than last year’s Idol of 1.3 million.

The big winner for the night was the story behind the fallout of the show’s host, as A Current Affair‘s interview with Bert and Patti Newton soared to 1.74m. It totally dominated Today Tonight‘s 1.23m. It was the highest rating ACA since September 4, 2006, the day Steve Irwin died.

Seven did manage to win the night but with those kind of figures it will be keen to get the live performance shows on the air.

Week 36

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  1. It takes itself way too seriously. I watched probably 30 seconds – a minute of it and it was just so epic complete with O Fortuna playing in the background. The problem is, I don’t believe them when they say this is the biggest thing ever, particularly when it’s been tried before (to no avail) and when it doesn’t seem to offer anything different. I mean, get over yourself.

  2. Not suprising. Who would want to listen to bad amateur singers anyway, the same singers that line up at every audition for a talent show every time. The producers will probably resort to using autotune during the show out of desperation, like they did in the UK X-Factor.

    X-Factor, more like Fail-Factor.

  3. I tried Really hard to watch it but I just cant watch tKyle Sandilands. What a complete idiot trying So hard to be like Simon Cowell but fails terribly.

  6. If they showed more good performers instead of the awful ones then it may have been decent but instead they chose to throw in 20 bad ones for one good singer for a laugh. I was not entertained.
    The crowd was like the awful AGT ones, detracted from the auditions.
    Hopefully it’ll get better once the auditions are done.

  9. Didn’t watch either yesterday but not even the ABC shows such garbage.Ok they have a once yearly piano competition but that is a different boat to the x factor and idol rubbish.

  11. Scheduling a week’s worth of audition episodes can’t be looking like such a crash hot idea right about now.

    It wasn’t as awful as it could have been, but there was nothing in this noisey over-produced hour and a half to convince people who didn’t tune in the first night to tune in tomorrow for more of the same.

  12. Dear Channel Nine and ACA,

    I hope these figures show you that the public won’t mind sitting down to watch in-depth interviews with a little substance, maybe even just once or twice a week? Stories on dishwashers, bras, dodgy tradesmen and anything with Mewissa Hoya are stale and boring now.

    Bring the “interview” back.

    Regards, Michael x

  13. Was it me or did they have a “back story” (X-tra long teaser) before so called singing and judging started ? WTF? is that the sum total of all that X-tra editing? Production value was good, pitty about the content…

  14. These X Factor figures are a disaster – the show wont recover. The other disaster of the night was the RSO figures. This drama is not strong enough for Monday night next year.

  15. The reason it is so good in the UK is because of the judges and the talent…..
    and also they havent had idol for a long time. Everyone is over idol and this is starting up too soon after idol finished.

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