More than nine million people tuned in to watch Seann Walsh and Katya Jones’s departure from Strictly Come Dancing. But they lost their place in Strictly in Sunday night’s Halloween results show, which drew an average of 9.1 million viewers and a peak of 9.9 million, according to overnight ratings. This marked a slight drop in viewers from Saturday’s programme, which averaged 9.8 million and peaked at 10.8 million, but the ratings regularly decrease to just above nine million for the Sunday show. The first live programme that aired after pictures of them locking lips were printed scored an average of 10.6 million viewers in the overnight ratings, the highest of the series so far. Since then, the BBC One dancing show has barely slipped below 10 million average viewers for the main Saturday broadcast.

Source: Irish Examiner October 29, 2018 11:15 UTC