The X Factor - Series 6

I think the more odd thing was the fact that they started the VT about how the terrible singers kept coming through the day & all judges changed clothes with Cheryl & Danni changing hairstyles too.

The show was interesting with an audience. I think in a way that it did improve the show. The audiences were useful for getting rid of some of the awful auditionees (triple trouble) without booing everyone off in a BGT type of way, and it was nice not to have the deluded families come running in saying how wrong Simon's opinion was.

The set looked very good, and I liked the way in which the families stand in the wings watching the performances to see some feedback.

I liked the explanation that Simon gave about the live audience on the Xtra Factor. Saying how he sat in the room (presumably at the original Glasgow audition) and didn't enjoy it. He continued explaining how he enjoyed the feedback from the crowd, and in a way I suppose that could give you a good reaction, especially for the not so bad but not excellent singers.

Going back to the jumping of locations, why do they do this? Couldn't they have a couple of shows in London, then Manchester, etc. rather than jumping around the country for the next few weeks?

The only problem with the new auditions for me was that I kept expecting to hear the buzzers for the terrible singers.

Oh dear ive just watched the first audtion and hate the new format already. It just seems wrong to have backing tracks and the live audience there.

Amusingly instead of a quick fade when Simon does the "no more" handwave, there's a messy sounding mash of the pause button.

Completely agree - I'm sure if you looked back at the end of the series they could get a complete show out of most locations offering a bit of the good and the bad, with an extra show from London then perhaps a final "best of the rest" show from around the country.

They always do this (and on BGT also), moving around from one location to another presumably makes the better show with all the required elements per episode. (For example some locations could be particularly heavy with bad singers)

Well exactly, it needs to hit the standard TalentShowTemplate.doc format in terms of breakdown of the terrible, the sob story, the "oh i didn't expect you to be good", the "it was looking really bad, until..." forced story and ticking the right age/gender/etc boxes.

9.9 million for the first show, and not 99 million as this DS link suggests...

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a173250/the-x-factor-opens-to-99-million.html

Does anyone know why STV repeat on Sunday has 30mins worth of cut?

whats worse there have 30mins filler Wish you are here and two cheap filler for 15mins, there could have easily kept another 15mins with of the show in!

Because even The X Factor isn't immune from STV's current lunacy. Heck, wouldn't even be surprised if they decided not to show the Sunday results show this year.

Watched the repeat this afternoon and the same problems which prevented me watching the auditions n previous years remain. Bad, montage of bad, brief montage of good (with no vocals heard), more bad, montage of more bad, judges complain it's all rubbish, good. Commercials. Repeat.

The audience didn't really add anything to it - they're not bought into the show like on BGT and the judges and acts barely acknowledged their presence.

Also no new titles. When these ones were introduced though it was at the live show stage, so hopefully they'll change them then.

Think they were introduced when the live shows started in 2006 when Leona won and the last series with Kate as host.

yeah xfactorcentral.net ( fairly reliable site) says that "Looks like they’re saving the new titles for the live shows!"

Don't think this has been brought up, but TV3 showed xfactor some 5 or more minutes ahead of UTV/ITV1 on Saturday. I always thought they had some link from ITV????