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Auditions will be held at Thorpe Park to try and encourage funny footage

lmao what

Hmm just axe Bootcamp instead?

Bye the length of 2015's live shows were terrible and this is even shorter

In reality there's only five weeks of lives cause the 6th is the final :umm2:

X Factor officially cancelled

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Originally Posted by T* (Post 9421147)

Thorpe Park is owned by the same people who own Alton Towers...
The 6 chair challenge to be renamed the 6 leg challenge? D:

Screeching

I honestly don't think the figures are gonna improve either so Christ knows what they're gonna do next year and 2019

"“They want to get shots of the judges on white-knuckle rides."

Will Shazza's Botox be able to handle the dodgems let alone white knuckle rides

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Originally Posted by T* (Post 9421147)

Thorpe Park is owned by the same people who own Alton Towers...
The 6 chair challenge to be renamed the 6 leg challenge? D:

Okhjfbjkhbh I did cackle.

Nicole to sing I'm Every Woman live in the I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here experience?

the ratings are free fall so cant blame them

uhhh, 2015 had 7 weeks. how is 6 weeks gonna work

They all look thrilled to be there

Just ****ing axe it.

Trash decision. This isn't The Voice.

This is SO annoying.

Are Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh judges this year?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BYBrX66CcAArvZg.jpg:large

The ratings aren't even that bad ffs. It's 2017 and it's still getting 6 million.

Have they said anymore about how this will work

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Simon Cowell is defending his decision to chop down the amount of X Factor live shows this series from ten to just six.

The ITV reality competition is being reformatted to focus more on the audition and bootcamp rounds this year, as part of an attempt to rejuvenate the X Factor format for its 14th series.

That decision, Simon says, is part of his continuing strategy to keep The X Factor exciting for viewers as ITV continues to compete with Saturday night rival Strictly Come Dancing over on BBC One.

"I just think it's the way things are in all these shows at the moment," the judge says of his format tweak. "The early and middle rounds rate well. So, the idea is to do more of the middle shows and less of the live shows. We'll see if it works or not. I think there might be a middle ground."

In addition to axing four of the live shows, Simon will make a creative shift in encouraging contestants to perform their own original tracks more frequently throughout the competition.

"When you've done it for 14 years you can't keep making the same show every year," he argued. "I think you have to realise what the contestants are in it for, why do so many people enter?

"I think if you just make the same show each year it becomes boring and predictable. So you try and make changes for the better, not everything works but some ideas we've got for the live shows are going to be good."

He added: "When they are good songwriters you have to encourage that, 100%, otherwise it's just karaoke. I have to be careful what I say because I have learnt through the years that whatever you do, other people copy you.

"You hope that whatever we do other people don't copy; we try not to copy what other people are doing. If we're doing original material then you're going to see it turn up on other shows. It's one of those things."

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/the-x-f...wn-live-shows/

Well it didn't bloody work in 2015 did it Simon

If people are going to do original songs I want acoustic guitars banned

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Originally Posted by Firewire (Post 9595028)

If people are going to do original songs I want acoustic guitars banned

yes, they're boring