The average audience for ‘The X Factor’ results show last night, which saw Tesco worker Mary Byrne controversially kicked off to the benefit of rapper Cher Lloyd, was 15.08 million on ITV1 and ITV1 HD, a 48.6% share of the available audience.
On BBC One and BBC One HD, an average audience of 11.7 million saw former Tory MP Anne Widdecombe kicked off BBC’s major celebrity show ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ last night, a 40.1% share of the TV-watching audience.
The semi-final performances on Saturday’s ‘The X Factor’ were seen by an average of 13.73 million viewers, a 48% share, between 7.40pm and 9.25pm on ITV1 and ITV1 HD. This was 1.4 million more than watched the equivalent 2009 show.
The show's peak audience was 15.2 million viewers at 8.25pm, which ITV said broke the record for the most- watched Saturday edition of the show.
Last night's final of ‘I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here’, which was won by previous ‘The X Factor’ runner-up Stacey Solomon, was watched by the show’s second highest audience ever.
The last episode of the 10th series had a peak audience of 13.1 million across ITV1 and ITV1 HD at 9.25pm on Saturday.
The hour-long show had an average audience of 12.39 million, a 46.5% share of the available audience, which a spokesman for ITV said was 2.8 million more than last year’s final.
Across the 2010 series of ‘I'm A Celebrity...’, the average audience was 9.4 million. A spokesman for ITV said this made it the most successful since series three in early 2004.
ITV1 had an average audience of 11.6 million, and a 42% share, between 7pm and 10.30pm on Saturday night. ITV said this was almost double BBC One's average audience of 5.9 million, and a 22% share, over the same period.
The Saturday show of ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ had an average audience of 11.97 million between 6.45pm and 7.45pm on BBC One and BBC One HD, a 45% share of the TV-watching audience.
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