Richard Osman

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19,675 appearances 58 recordings 4 series first heard Apr 2018 last heard 5d ago

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The Rest Is Entertainment · Is X Factor Back From The Dead? · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Brands do not die. voice-verified

I mean, if I think about some of the early Endermell shows, Big Brother, Deal I know Deal, still going in different places because there's ways to reinvent them and things that we have happy memories of and you know, a generation before suddenly going, Oh God, you remember the X Factor, how amazing that was. voice-verified

There are ways of reimagining it. voice-verified

The way you are not going to currently reimagine it is as a two million pounds an episode show on terrestrial television. voice-verified

It's just that's that's not the world that we live in. voice-verified

There isn't a channel who could afford it, there isn't a channel who would want it, and as you say, there isn't an an industry that needs it in the way that it used to. voice-verified

Yes, it is it is s it is related in some ways. voice-verified

I mean th the the key word in that question is seemingly. voice-verified

So seemingly very popular and cheap to produce show. voice-verified

And it's I w listen, we know the BBC is really cutting its cloth at the moment and getting rid of an awful lot of shows and that that's only just begun, I would say. voice-verified

You look at the things that you know, we've talked before about live at the Apollo news night being turned into a a chat show. voice-verified

Lots of older brands that um voice-verified

Um you know, uh are being put out to pasture. voice-verified

So drag race, it's it's certainly very, very noisy. voice-verified

It's certainly very, very, very loved by the people who love it. voice-verified

It's not huge. voice-verified

It's not insanely huge. voice-verified

It really, really punches above its weights, drag race, because the people who like it, lots of big celebs like it and will appear on it. voice-verified

Obviously it's huge worldwide and you know you uh you get to plug into the voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

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