On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 10:25:30 -0700 (PDT),
darkstar7646@gmail.com wrote:
-- Australia cancelled X-Factor after last season. Isaiah Firebrace won what appears to be Australia's final season.
Interesting Poor ratings? Since that frees up AdamLambert as a judge,
wish they would hire him for the American Idol reboot.
-- The UK original series, however, soldiers on. (Everything from here is sourced to the season's Wikipedia page, and may be considered SPOILERS.)
Yay! The Original UK X-Factor is still my favorite reality singing
competition show by a long shot.
The actual filming of the series has reached Six-Chair Challenge (the stage just before Judges' Houses). The actual starting airdate is some time this month.
I'm still PO'd that my local Comcast cable company doesn't carry the
POP network that XF is on. I can still either watch it live online
using a VPN with a UK IP address (which I rarely do because I never
remember what time it airs with the time difference) -- or I can
continue to watch it via torrent filesharing. I can usually watch
full HD episodes within hours of their airing this way.
No XTra Factor, for the first time.
Xtra Factor had gone downhill so badly that it was just awful. It
deserved to be canceled as it had become unwatchable anyway.
No changes to the judge panel. Simon, Louis, Sharon, and Nicole Scherzinger. A couple of one-day changes were made due to commitments or injury, according to the Wikipedia page on the season.
Great! That is one of the best singing judging/mentor panels ever.
Previous changes have all been fails. It's very interesting how
Nicole fits so well with the UK's version but she kind of bombed out
with the USA's X-Factor. They love her in the UK, and her humor and personality shine on this show.
Dermot's back this year.
Perfect!
Minimum age reduced to 14.
HUGE mistake AFAIC!! :(
This is what killed the USA X-Factor IMO. They should have a junior
XF competition if they want to go that route. I do NOT want to watch
a bunch of precocious little kids with no life experience singing
songs about things they know nothing about. It's SO irritating.
MAJOR CHANGE #1: A report July 4th indicates that the live shows will have two major changes this year -- the first will be that acts will be eliminated on both Saturday AND Sunday nights, and that there will only be SIX WEEKS of live shows as a result.
WOW!! Budget cuts? And no "Christmas single?"
This probably means quick playoff voting is almost-certainly back this year (where you'd have, like, 15 minutes to vote to save your act from direct elimination). Perhaps another casualty to the Christopher Baloney mess, where it's clear to anyone
paying attention he was probably trying to rig himself an X-Factor contract?
lol @ "Christopher Baloney"!
Or the fact, as the report puts out, that the Saturday shows have become, of themselves, "tedious"?
CHANGE TO THE SIX-CHAIR: When they filmed the Six-Chair Challenge last week, there was a major change. For each performance of the final set of people to be cut to six for the Judges' Houses, the assigned judge (spoiler below) was removed from the
table. The other three judges would still critique, and I would assume the assigned judge (who made the decision) would hear everything.
I can't quite picture how that will work, but.. we shall see.
ASSIGNED JUDGES:
S
P
O
I
L
E
R
S
P
A
C
E
I know that's so 2005 or so, but if I don't do it, someone will bitch.
2017 Assigned Groups:
Simon gets the Groups, probably indicating they want a Group to win this year. >Nicole Scherzinger gets the Overs.
Sharon the Girls.
Louis the Boys.
Louis' favorite category, lol.
Thanks for the post and the heads up Mike!
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