Keep politics out of it

Some good weekend figures for BBC1. Saturday's Strictly averaged 9.8m in the overnights, down on the equivalent Halloween show last year, but still an astonishing 49.3% share of the available audience (maybe more of us went 'out' this year ?).

XFactor dipped below 4m - between by plaster-cast warhorse Casualty at 4.6m.

Dr Who averaged 6.43m. It will be interesting to see if Mr Chibnall's one-dimensional Trump substitute, played by Sex and The City's Mr Big, Chris Noth, ruffles sensitivities in the United States. Which was more testing in the imagination area - giant spiders dying 'cos they're out of breath, or an American building a giant hotel over a dodgy landfilled-mine in the centre of Sheffield ?