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The X Factor‘s poor premiere performance on Wednesday was not all The Voice‘s doing. In its second airing last night, the singing competition drew a modest 3.1/10 in adults 18-49 from 8-9 PM. That was up 7% from the 8-9 PM portion of its two-hour season premiere, which faced The Voice, but down 6% from the entire Wednesday telecast. Vs. last year’s two-hour Thursday premiere, X Factor was down 26%.
At 9 PM, Glee opened its fourth season with a 3.3/9 in its new Thursday 9 PM slot. It was down 13% from last season’s opener in the Tuesday 8 PM berth but built on its lead-in and was up 14% from the third-season finale. (Fox had a football preemption in Milwaukee but its effect is expected to be negligible, with fast nationals likely holding up or dropping a tenth.) UPDATE 2PM: The X Factor stayed flat in the finals, while Glee was adjusted down to a 3.1 demo rating. Nielsen initially reported an uptick for X Factor to a 3.2 but later corrected the information.
NBC’s America’s Got Talent (2.4/7) from 9-10 PM ended its season on a whimper, down 33% from last year’s closer to rank as the series’ lowest-rated finale ever. Because of The Voice‘s expansion to the fall, Talent‘s finale was shifted to Thursday for the first time this year. At 10 PM, Rock Center With Brian Williams (1.4/4) hit a series high for a regular telecast. NBC won the night in total viewers, Fox in 18-49.
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Elsewhere, against X Factor ABC’s Wipeout (1.1/4) tumbled 21% from last week to tie its lowest rating ever, CBS’ Big Brother (2.0/5) at 9 PM was down 13% from last week, and the CW’s The Next (0.3) was flat.
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HEY Simon U.S. X Factor SUCKS. Simon you should have never fire CHERYL from U.S. X Factor. CHERYL WAS GREAT AS A JUDGE ON U.S. X Factor
What Cheryl has to do with it? Do you think that americans would rush to their TV just to watch some foreign singer they don’t know and don’t care? And X Factor would have like 5 millions viewers more?
I watched Cheryl on 2 episodes on X-Factor US. And she was awful. I’m sure they fired her because she was to similar to Paula. They both are: “Oh sweetheart. You were good, great, you have such talent….” In other words – boring to viewers, with no harsh opinions, always love every contestant. And then add her ridiculous accent. She looks like lady with all that make-up. And then she opens her mouth and looks like some chick from trailer park near by. That’s why she was fired. And NO ONE except her british fans even noticed her missing.
I take it you haven’t seen Cheryl on the UK X Factor, also, didn’t Cheryl get great reviews for her judging on X Factor USA.
Between all the commercials the x factor is just plain boring and a waste of time.
That headline did make me smile a bit. Talent shows aren’t as successful and a show that, when I see the commercials for it, makes me wonder who actually watches it…
The Big Bang Theory is going to rip Flop Factor to shreds in a couple of weeks.
Gee, maybe networks will have to start coming up with original ideas.
Good job for “Glee”! Honestly several tenths of a point higher than I was optimistically expecting. You know Simon Cowell’s ego must be taking hit knowing he out done by his lead out
AGT goes to the dogs. The winner was worthy and fun…the show is not.
The new X factor sucks. I HATE the way its edited like an episode of ‘The Hills’ showing the contestants talking to friends before they go out on stage. Urghh its so unnatural and fake and takes away the realness that a reality talent show is supposed to have. Also they have shown too many of the bad auditions and not enough of the great auditions. Its repetitive and boring and just WAY to over-produced.
Yea because a show that’s “over produced” is bad. No! We don’t want to see a production that makes use of its budget to the max..no no no…keep the money and under produce the show!
I comepletely agree, I had to stop watching it. I appreciate the talent but can’t stand the way it’s filmed/edited. Seems like everything is set up. Looks so fake!
Glee might have a fifth year left in after all, we’ll know for certain omce all the competition returns. I hope so for Fox’s sake.
Jason Brock and Carly Rose Sonenclar were terrific last night on The X-Factor. Just when you think they can’t possibly find any more amazing new talent they do. I agree that “The Hills” fake reality format is terrible, but I like the judges this year and Simon is still entertaining.
Time to say adios to X Factor…the overhyped pile of crap of Simon Cowell’s that should get canceled sooner rather than later along with Idol. Cowell is eating his words now! LOVE IT! Stupid judges, bad concept and a shitty product overall. Britney Spears as a judge…really???
X-Factor is a disaster. I have to agree about firing Cheryl Cole last season. She was charming, gorgeous and not some unbalanced tabloid mess like Mariah and Britney. Firing someone who was successful with the shows format inward the first sign something was wrong and so much has gone wrong since. Cowell doesn’t understand what the audience wants.
They did hire charming, gorgeous “yes” girl that loves every contestant this season. It’s Demi Lovato. I understand that british fans are upset about Cheryl Cole. But it’s if I was fan of some Selena Gomez and would write in every X Factor post that Simon should have hire Selena because she is so pretty and nice and that’s why it floped.
There is just simple no explanation for this. Just like football. Whole world watches football. Whole world adores football. But americans dont’t care no matter how much they tried to like it. They called it soccer and still watch only american football, hockey and basketball.
Same here. Whole world watches X Factor. It’s the most popular show on the planet. And yet americans still stuck with that American Idol. And Voice somehow manages to get 10 million viewers. You know what? I suspect that American Idol mostly watch elder people. And they liked Voice for that reason too. X Factor with all it’s fireworks and overproduction is more for 15-25 years old people. There is juts no explanation why X Factor can’t find audience in US. It is fun and entertaining. It should have some 15 millions viewers.
I must be the only one who sees the fake bull crap of ‘reality’ on the x factor. I’ve had it with singing shows since the 2nd season of AI. So I sat through X factor to make sure I can comment on it. I got pissed as soon as this girl with shorts up her crack and leopard print stained on her face stomped on stage bragging about how she was better than “all the other contestants.” Mind you, this was after the show had amped her up before her ‘audition’ showing clips of her making rude comments about her competition before donning the stage. Anyways, she had begun to sing a slow and boring tune until the judge stopped her and the music. Immediately this girl had told them she could sing another song for them and magically a more upbeat Christina Aguilera song starts up and the girls begins whaling as if she had been given a new voice. My reaction: what the hell, this is so fake and fabricated, it’s no longer even interesting for me to watch, even as a not-so-interested viewer. All the ‘extra’ (i.e. judge interaction with eachother, contestants speaking to friends, random crap unrelated to the show) can be omitted to allow for more auditions. These are just my opinions though, and I will not be watching this again. On a side note, Britney’s Happy Birthday singing to L.A. Reid was terrible, off key, shaky, and sounded so forced. I’m sure I’m not the only one who believes that she is another judge that should not be judging singers that are clearly above her ability.
X-Factor to me, is another reason to change the channel. Better yet, turn off the tv.
I agree. I only half pay attention to it until 9pm when Supernatural comes on but I so hoped that she would get a no. I didn’t really like her attitude as well. There are some good ones but the talent to me just isn’t there this season. I will say this however, the teens are really good this year but that’s about it to me. I guess it’s because I’m over these types of shows.
I couldn’t agree with you more.. That girl with the leopard print is so fake. She tries to push out tears with no success. Also Simon liking that horrible boy band(the one kid never wears his shirt) is just laughable. Simon is a terrible judge of talent. Who made h an expert? The UK? Well they can have him back. He gets lucky in spotting a very few, but anybody could have done that. LA Reid passed on lady GaGa, so he is no expert either. Brittany is washed up and Demi is fat… The Voice is so much better than the x factor..
This whole going to the judges house thing is rediculous. They tell them how to fix their hair and what clothes to wear. On the Voice they really help them. I think it’s a chance for Simon to show off his house and how much money he stole. These horrible singers they find are not artists. I could live without the ones they do find (Kelly clarkson, Carrie underwood). Over ten years and that’s what we get from these shows.
I agree with those who feel that Britney Spears is unqualified as a judge. Likewise Sharon Osborne on America’s Got Talent. Anybody could judge these competitions. The good acts are obvious and the lousy ones are more obvious. I am fed up with the judges fawning over people who are clearly untalented and I am also fed up with sad stories before a performance. Why do we always have to hear about someone who died and now this next song is dedicated to them. I have not watched X Factor for weeks but tonight I checked in on it and sure enough there was another sad story and a song being dedicated to someone’s memory. The song performance was terrible but the judges bought the sad story and praised the singer. I’m sorry someone died but I’m tired of being manipulated. I’m done watching X Factor or any other crap being pitched as talent