X Factor

A bit late in the day for that isn't it? How will they find contestants at such short notice?

Is the odious Dan Wooten usually accurate, or the purveyor of nonsense?

Usually a bit of both, but in this instance Simon Cowell is quoted at length in the article, so I presume it's true.

Paula Abdul was always doing the all stars one wasn’t she? I was certainly under the impression already she was doing it.

This doesn’t do anything to counter the impression that they’re making it up as they go along mind.

I think they’ll keep Louis as he is always promoted as ‘good with groups’. They clearly couldn’t get enough decent acts to sign up for the All Stars series.

When you already have an ailing TV show on your hands the answer really is to keep producing more and more variants of that show isn't it.

He has lost the plot. The celebrity version is going to 'catch on'.....

A big assumption there Jon. I actually liked the historical shows he did this year, which were accessible and entertaining and his character on EE is tolerable.

The Wall on the other hand is him overdoing the mockney. I know the format from France where it was done a lot better than the BBC version, yet you can't complain when 4.1m are watching it and is beating this latest X Factor spin-off and Casualty.

This will get under 3 million.
How they going to find two judges in a month - presumably people not used before as X Factor judges.

Surely Simon should’ve ditched X Factor as the brand for this and try and launch a new format? As it surely can’t do any worse than XF & it moves away from the tarnished brand.

I think it’d also be good if he took an off-screen role, like he’s done with BBC One’s Greatest Dancer!

Louis axed? Just hire Pete Waterman, Geri Horner and get the Cheeky Girls as mentors.

Not to mention contestants! I don't see how they can do it in that timeframe. The existence of the Band show might be true, but I doubt that it taking All-Stars' timeslot is. ITV will have to find something else to plug that hole.