but there were also rumours that the categories would be split. So say girls and overs perform on Saturday with a result and sing off then same again for boys and groups on the Sunday :fist:

They should put 1 boy, 1 girl, 1 over and 1 group in a category with each judge.

Mix it up a bit.

Surely the better idea would be to split the finalists over Saturday/Sunday for the first two weeks until you're down to 8? I could just about understand them not having a sing-off on a Saturday (though I don't agree with it) but both nights? :umm2: here for Simon Fuller suing them again

You see this is part of the problem with wanting to cut down the amount of content that viewers have to put up with, you're reducing the number of live weeks when the biggest complaint was always that the actual show running times were too long. Now they have to cram more in in less weeks :conf:

It doesn't really make sense. Basically they've noticed that ratings have been getting worse throughout live shows so they've decided to have less of them, and also ratings for Sunday results were getting worse so they assumed we want to see more of the performance shows. It's all chasing ratings

So when it comes to the point they sing 2 songs each week - they actually sing 4 each week :omgno:

I think this year will be interesting because when I went to the six chairs Simon mentioned this year there is no themes in the live shows

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and bring us a new series, a whole new talent show franchise

I think by the time we get to that stage (semi final) they'll just perform on Saturday then do the usual Sunday's elimination, otherwise we'd have only 2 finalists (unless they have a 13th wildcard or something)

Well the final on December 2nd is a Saturday, and so in that case it would make a lot of sense for the finale to be on that day, with the new format, with the final 2 battling it out on that day.

I think the final is Saturday & Sunday December 2nd-3rd

According to preliminary schedules, the first 2 live shows (Saturday and Sunday week 1, under the new format) are set to be 165 minutes long. That's 8pm-10:45pm...

:shocked:

When is the six chair challenge?

Ffs no one is gonna sit through all that
The Hour long Sunday shows were a perfect catch up and what I usually watched

A ****ing shambles

Quarter to 11 on a Sunday night is a joke :joker:

I think there are 3 episodes of Bootcamp, then 3 episodes of the Six Chair Challenge. So next Sunday

The judges all choose one person each who was their least favourite, the safe ones have to vote one off and the public votes the other one. imagine

Oh thanks, That's when i will be watching XF.

If they do this, surely they will have to have it at 7pm and not 8? That's stupidly late

That's very late for a Sunday isn't it a family show??

:skull:

What a mess

:joker: :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker: :joker: surely they can't keep it like that?

I'm pretty sure they've done a 150 minute Saturday show on a few occasions but that's absurd...why haven't they learned that the show's lengths were part of the fatigue, not the number of weeks the live shows ran for?

I'm guessing it'd be two hours of performances and then a guest performance from 10, with the results and sing-off to follow in the two parts from 10:15 onwards

I honestly think they'd be better off doing a separate results show both nights like the old days (and BGT). So run the performances 7-9, and then the results 9:30-10/10:15?

By preliminary schedules do you mean Wikipedia ? :nono:

mess. I couldn't even be bothered at this cheap and rushed season anymore. Just axe this aging show, or soon it would have BB18 ratings...

Live Shows have been altered and the official schedules are out..

Live show 1 - Saturday 28th 8:15pm-10:15pm
Live show 2 - Sunday 29th 7:00pm-9:00pm


Not sure what they’re doing, but 2 hours for 12/11 performances + results doesn’t seem right, so I guess they’re going to do two categories one night and two categories the next night. Which I don’t like..