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BBC bosses buckle and change Strictly schedule

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It seems the BBC bosses have finally buckled under the pressure and changed Strictly Come Dancing’s time slot to 6:50pm to 8:45pm, thereby reducing the X Factor overlap to 45 minutes.

The dance programme will move to an earlier slot from Saturday October 31 when the overlap will be 45 minutes with X Factor, which starts at 8pm.

The ITV show has won an average 10.9million viewers on Saturdays compared to Strictly’s 7.8million.

The X Factor drew its biggest-ever audience on Sunday with a peak audience of 14.8million when Cheryl Cole performed her debut solo single Fight For This Love. The same night saw Strictly peak at just just 8.5million.

The overlap is set to steadily decrease in the run-up to Christmas as more contestants are voted off.

A BBC spokesman said it was to make way for impressionist Jon Culshaw’s The New Impressions Show and rejected claims it was ‘running scared’ of the X Factor, adding that Strictly is a ‘key part of our Saturday line-up’.

Why do they even bother saying this stuff..just admit the truth it’s not so hard BBC and no-one

  • Charming John Boy

    Oh come on, this story is a none starter. The difference in time is 10 minutes, bringing the start time to 6:50 pm, rather than 7:00 pm. This story reported is very sloppy, Strictly has not been transmitted on a Sunday this season as you have stated,so the 14.8 million quoted for X Factor for the Sunday screening was because they had no competition from Strictly, the 8.5 peak audeince quoted for Strictly was for Saturdays Show. You are naughty. But we will let you off. What would the tabloids do without Strictly.

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