The X Factor - Series 6

What about the audition stages? Have they been HD?

Don't think so. But now they're doing it with the big studio-style crowd I suppose it's more justified to film in HD.

As the auditions are now mini-shows in their own rights, I would have thought they would be filmed in HD too.

I've got tickets to see the Glasgow auditions.

Does anyone know if the people who went through before are going through again or is it a fresh start?

The new series returns to our screens on August 22nd.

Rumours (being the operative word) that The X Factor may move away from Fountain this year:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/xfactor/a168342/x-factor-finals-to-change-venue.html

These rumours happen every year. Not to say this time they won't turn out to be true, I'm just not getting ahead of myself.

I'd be sad if it moved out of a TV studio. There's enough things shot on location without such a big studio entertainment show going to somewhere like the Excel too.

This could hit Fountain hard if true. If it worked for X Factor, what would stop them moving Britain's Got Talent out too?

Wasn't there rumours that the final would be at the o2 arena this year?

Two possibilities spring to mind - given that this news has come from Cowell.

A) He's trying to drive down the price for Fountain

B) He's planning to use O2 and is trying to drive the price down there by mentioning Excel.

Either way it won't be at Excel.

I bet you a quid.

Another case of revamping the format by changing the aesthetics.

I'm guessing that by hosting it at Excel, o2 or somewhere similar there would be a lot of extra hassle. Fountain obviously comes into it's own for a show of X Factor's size both in terms of studio space but also in dressing rooms, 2 galleries for ITV1 & 2 etc.

By hosting X Factor in an arena would it not cost more with OB trucks etc. on top of the hiring costs of the space compared with Fountain?

In terms of event tv theres not really much more that The X Factor can do to top it's previous sucesses, so making it a huge event would draw in the viewers (a la Susan Boyle) so the O2/Excel makes sense. The profit to be made would be huge, he (Cowell) could even sell tickets to it. I bet you one of your english pounds that the final will not take place in a normal tv studio.