X Factor Beats Strictly Come Dancing In The Saturday Night Ratings Battle

The X Factor was seen by an average audience of 9 million people on Saturday night beating the amount of viewers for Strictly Come Dancing's launch show. Strictly was watched by an average of 8 million people with the two shows not scheduled against one another.

Strictly's peak audience was 9.8 million which was slightly higher than X Factor's peak audience of 9.5 million.

Whether it remains the same when both shows are broadcast live only time will tell.