Isn't another problem with this series, and The Voice as well, is that the person or group the public wants to win, isn't necessarily who the record company wants to win? That's not the producers fault, just the way it is.
Here is the response from the ITV Press Office about these rumours, which are still rumours, and as expected, here is the reply:
"ITV have no control over other media outlets so unless an announcement has been made on our website you can expect the show to continue as scheduled ... I do hope that you enjoy watching the upcoming series"
I've got a feeling this hasn't actually been axed and the next series will be a celeb/Champion of Champions style format, either to try and reignite interest for a regular series in 2020 or as a big final series. It would make sense as it sounds like it's only the casting team who have been dropped at the moment and ITV hasn't got anything to replace the show with at the moment.
"Even though The X Factor audience is declining, Lygo said “anything you replace it with wouldn’t do as well. The trick is to just keep it going at this level.”
A break would be good, but ITV then take a risk that when it does come back it either comes back with a bang and rises where it left off, or completely falls off the cliff.
"Even though The X Factor audience is declining, Lygo said “anything you replace it with wouldn’t do as well. The trick is to just keep it going at this level.”
What a truly depressing thing to read about the modern state of television.
And in any other business, makes no sense whatsoever.
If a once great solid football team, winning trophies and in the top half of the leauge table slowly, stops winning and finds itself at the other end of the table, and dumped out of cup competitions in the first round for around three consecutive seasons - I doubt the owner of the club would stand around and go "yeah, things aren't as good as the once were, but whilst we are still in the same leauge, that we were once competitive in - we'll still compete"
Nope. Widespread changes from team management to bringing in new players, to get the feelgood factor back and improve results.
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Perhaps the X Factor need to adapt the voting. Half scores from the judges and half the score from the public. It'd be a little more interesting if they actually could score the contestants.
But if we go back to shows such as Popstars there were people who actually worked behind the scenes in the industry and it was more interesting than someone like Tulisa.
"Even though The X Factor audience is declining, Lygo said “anything you replace it with wouldn’t do as well. The trick is to just keep it going at this level.”
What a truly depressing thing to read about the modern state of television.
It's true though - that's the reason it has lasted so long. If itv took a gamble on a new show there's a hefty chance it wouldn't do as well as X Factor on a bad night.
X Factor must still meet itv's minimum expectations and unless it goes below that it'll stick around whether most people hate it or not.
I think we'll get a X Factor 'Champion of Champions' or Celeb spin off commissioned and that'll be that.
It needed a rest years ago; the constant changes were putting viewers off. Sadly it's come to the point where hiatus will not rejuvenate the programme in the long run.
The truth is TXF is chasing an audience that doesn't exist. Whereas Strictly, BGT, even DOI have clear USPs.
Wasn't there a blind last year that executives were panicking last year because of the Ant & Dec situation, coupled with the fact Syco shows were doing badly. Taken their eyes off the ball when they should've been fostering new talent and programming.
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