{"id":116,"date":"2011-08-22T12:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-08-22T12:38:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-22T11:38:34","slug":"better-than-expected-ratings-for-new-x-factor-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/116\/better-than-expected-ratings-for-new-x-factor-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Than Expected Ratings for New X Factor Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"X factor viewing figures\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/logosmall.jpg\" alt=\"X factor viewing figures\" width=\"101\" height=\"71\" \/>ITV has reported that the launch of the new X Factor series was watched by a peak audience of 12.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>The result allayed fears that Simon Cowell\u2019s absence from the show to concentrate on X Factor USA, as well as the departure of judges Cheryl Cole and Dannii Minogue, would harm viewing figures.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, an average audience of 11 million on ITV1 and ITV+1 watched the three new judges, Gary Barlow, Tulisa Contostavlos and Kelly Rowland, along with X Factor veteran Louis Walsh on the show, giving it a 47% audience share.<\/p>\n<p>A further 1.6 million viewers then watched X Factor spin-off show, The Xtra Factor, on ITV2.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* largexfactor 336x280, created 11\/25\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7071761240\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 ITV has reported that the launch of the new X Factor series was watched by a peak audience of 12.6 million. The result allayed fears that Simon Cowell\u2019s absence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}