Is X Factor Back From The Dead?
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Hello and welcome to this episode of The Rest is Entertainment Questions and Answers edition. I'm Marina High.
And I'm Richard Osman. Hello Marina.
Hello Richard. How are you? Yeah,
very well. Hello listeners. How are you? Plenty of questions to answer. Oh, we're gonna start with an interesting one. And it's from Mona. This is a short this might be one of our shortest ever questions. Mm-hmm. Mona says, is X Factor Revival a bad idea? It's not even is the X Factor Revival a bad idea. Is X Factor Revival a bad idea? Seven seven words.
Okay, well the the reason we're talking about this is because this is a story that has appeared a lot over the last week, I have noticed. It's you will have noticed lots of stories about this. In fact, you might almost think This was a story that was happening. Let me get there. Um, ITV cancelled X Factor in twenty twenty one after I think seventeen years. In terms of whether it's a bad idea, I don't know, it's it first of all You will have noticed lots of sub-stories to this. They've said, um, Louis Walsh saying he would definitely come back on one condition that Sharon Osbourne was on. Then there's more stories driving on, like m uh Maya Jama's been identified as the perfect presenter. She can bring a young audience.
That's clever. Maya Jamma gets uh gets uh identified as the perfect presenter for everything. Yeah,
exactly. Main
mainly because she is.
And It's not happening by the way. Can I just say this is a story that's got complete life of its own. By whom could such rumours be being stoked?
I can't remember. I can
I c I simply cannot say.
Who would make money from the X Factor?
Who would um yeah, who's got two big formats, both of which I loving our marges to earlier existing formats. No, I don't know. Who knows? It's it was made by Talkbat Terms, um, and obviously with Simon Cow's show. We d I don't know where the rumors are coming from. I think it's pretty difficult to first of all, it is very expensive. It used to cost like two million for an episode. I think even now you couldn't do it for About less than one point five. So that means it would be costing What uh, you know, the really big shows like I'm a celeb or whatever cost. The main problem, I think, is that there's a sort of, you know, the duty of care thing. The world has moved on since humiliating people in that way, um, in those audition rounds was sort of acceptable.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:01–6:51
2
Is reviving The X Factor a good idea for ITV?
6:51–8:50
3
Why did ITV cancel The X Factor in 2021 and could it return?
8:50–19:26
4
Could a streaming service like Netflix or Disney revive The X Factor?
19:26–26:13
5
Why did the BBC axe Drag Race UK despite its popularity?
26:13–29:55
6
What are the economics of Drag Race and its future on TV?
29:55–31:11