[Tom]

I'm not saying LA isn't a good judge- which he is- it just doesn't really make good TV. Ideally Simon would replace himself and return to the UK show because he has nowhere near the presence in the US that he has here so could easily find a fourth judge, keeping LA in the process, but his ego won't allow him to do that.

The American panel is terrible, its even worse than ours, and X Factor revolves just as much around the judges as it does the contestants. It wouldn't be an issue if it was like American Idol or Britain's Got Talent where the judges fade into the background and are pretty irrelevant

its the least qualified judges on the UK panel that have turned out to be the favourites and part of the best panels