[T*]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The final held at Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

Someone in the spongebob costume to reveal the winners CD?

[MB.]

Originally Posted by Jack_

The final held at Blackpool Pleasure Beach?

The duets to be Coleen Nolan, Jodie Prenger and Jane McDonald?

[T*]

Not the LED screens being replaced with Blackpool Lights

[Cal.]

Hmm just axe Bootcamp instead?

[Ross.]

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

[Jack_]

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

[Ross.]

X Factor officially cancelled

[Jack_]

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

[Mitchell]

"“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

[Wizard.]

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

[Denver]

the ratings are free fall so cant blame them

[Natalie.]

Awful

[cliffxen]

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

[Jack_]

https://www.facebook.com/TheXFactor/...710419728302:0

a mess

[Firewire]

They all look thrilled to be there

[reece(:]

Just ****ing axe it.

[Black Dagger]

Trash decision. This isn't The Voice.

[Cal.]

This is SO annoying.

[Alf]

Are Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh judges this year?

[Cal.]

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

[Ross.]

Have they said anymore about how this will work

[Firewire]

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

[RileyH]

tragic

[Firewire]

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

[RileyH]

Originally Posted by Firewire

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

yes, they're boring