The X Factor's first live results show fared much better than Saturday night's lowest-rated episode of the series, reclaiming around a million viewers on Sunday.
The ITV talent show attracted an average overnight audience of 6.47 million (27.3%) from 8pm (217,000/1.0% on +1). This is still the fifth lowest-scoring episode of the series so far.
In contrast, BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing results show rose to its highest ratings of 2015 so far, entertaining 9.70m (40.8%) at 7pm. The two rival shows did not overlap on Sunday, with Strictly peaking at 9.91m (41.1%) at around 7.45pm, compared to X Factor's 7.28m (30.0%).
Earlier on ITV, Jekyll and Hyde shed a million viewers from last week's launch - going directly up against Strictly - to 2.14m (9.4%) at 7pm (276k/1.2%).
Downton Abbey continued with 7.54m (33.5%) at 9pm (342k/2.3%), gaining around 300k viewers.
On BBC One, Countryfile's Children in Need special brought in 5.92m (30.3%) at 6pm, while Antiques Roadshow interested 5.86m (24.7%) at 8pm. David Attenborough's new nature series The Hunt fascinated 4.44m (19.5%) at 9pm.
BBC Two's Britain's Ultimate Pilot appealed to 1.15m (5.0%) at 9pm, followed by Match of the Day 2 with 1.73m (11.3%) at 10pm. On Channel 4, Great Canal Journeys was seen by 1.54m (6.5%) at 8pm (181k/0.8%), while Homeland continued with 948k (4.2%) at 9pm (172k/1.1%).
On ITVBe, TOWIE's latest episode gathered 450k (2.8%) at 10pm.
