Well the battle of Saturday night television is here again, ITV 1’s weekend prime time Television is once again dominated by Simon Cowell’s X Factor!

This years series has been great so far, there were the quite frankly tone deaf people thinking they can actually storm to the top of the charts! What is still hilarious is that when the panel of Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole, Dani Minogue and Louis Walsh, give the contestant their feedback, the contestant still looks totally bewildered by the comments! Sometimes I wonder if the auditionee has in fact joined the wrong cue, whilst waiting for the “Liquid Trunction” Jab and appeared on a stage in front of a few thousand people in the audience and many more millions on the television at home.

The addition of audiences at the auditions has made this series much better this time around. It is a long the lines of another of Mr Cowells TV Train, “Britain’s got Talent”. But for some weeks watching the X Factor has been the ideal accompaniment to the weekly take away.

Personally I don’t watch a lot of Television but Saturday nights were a time when as a family we all sat and watched this programme together. A few weeks later the BBC announced the new series of Strictly Come Dancing, another programme some of the family like to watch. These two programmes have been a staple of our Saturday night viewing pre pub.

Strictly Come Dancing or (Dancing with the Stars) in the USA

BBC 1 have decided in the infinite wisdom to pitch this show directly against the X Factor on ITV 1. Whats more is they have actually pushed the length of the programme to over 2 hours of Prime Time television. For anyone still in the dark about Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing with the Stars (US Version) A group of Minor Celebrity personalities are paired with professional Ball Room Dancers.  They are then judged on their weekly performance, the results of all couples dances are also voted for by the Public and the two couples with the lowest combined judges scores and the lowest received viewer votes has to dance again in a “Dance off”.  The Judges vote to who they want to save for the following week. This part of the proceedings I like to call Strictly Come “Who are they” The better known celebrities are always saved… It’s true, lets face it if you could save someone from your favourite pop group or a retired athlete from 10 years ago who would you save??

But the point is, the BBC have decided to run this show directly against X Factor, so I’m sure I’m not the only person or family that is finding that one evening a week when you sit with your family love or loathe them, and actually enjoy each others company. They have actually caused half the people to disappear in to the other room to watch some bad excuse for singing or some daft dancing.

Yes the invention of Sky + and Freeview/Digital Recording means those who have it don’t miss either show but it does mean that the Beer night starting at 9pm is eaten up by having to watch the show which ever you record a later, which then means we (Well I am getting more thirsty.

But what about those without Sky plus or Freeview +? Well they are are stuck! What is more annoying is the BBC is paid for by the viewer using the licence fee, for those outside UK think of the Television licence as a subscription you have to pay. Another annoyance is in the UK you must have a Television Licence in order to watch all channels although on the BBC use the fee to fund their programming, it also applies to listening to BBC Radio stations too!

Whats even more annoying

Simon Cowell, Judge of X Factor and also the man behind X Factor’s production company is willing to talk to ITV about moving the show out of the slot so it would mean that Strictly doesn’t clash with X Factor. The BBC is stubbornly not moving Strictly because they are out for viewing figures! Does it matter? We pay for thier programmes where as ITV and all other channels are supported by advertising revenue. So it’s pointless the BBC will not loose out by moving Strictly. It’s just the BBC trying to get a bigger Audience Share it matters to the board no doubt.

The BBC have even moved to starting Strictly 30 minutes. earlier than X Factor in a move (in my opinion) to net the viewer share for the X Factor!

But seeing as neither channel are willing to budge then we are left to make the choice that viewers of both shows can’t make. Do you prefer Simon Cowell, Dani Minogue, Cheryl Cole, Louis Walsh and Dermot O’Leary, or Bruce Forsyth, Tess Daly, Bruno Tonioli, Len Goodman, Alesha Dixon, Craig Revel Horwood and a set of Scarsly clad dancers with a group of total novice celebrities.

At least Xtra Factor (Yes you got it X Factors little brother) on ITV 2 has a 1 hr time shift so we can still watch the adorable Holly Willoughby.. at least that brightens my Saturday night anyway!

All I know is it nearly comes to blows about who has the remote control in our house on a Saturday night.

Top marks BBC… (I’m being Sarcastic)

Heres a couple of Video’s of X Factor and Strictly Which do you prefer??

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoAfXc-g7_M

Thanks to the BBC Youtube Channel

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHyL8sD7XfQ

Thanks to Fitrut for this video From Xtra Factor “This man needs some series mental help but hey it takes alsorts”!

Until next time…

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