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A British singing competition that has ran annually between 2004 and 2018, before being put on hiatus in 2019 and cancelled altogether in 2021. It is the Spiritual Successor to Pop Idol, and came about because producer / presenter Simon Cowell wanted an intellectual property that he owned the television rights to.It's basically the same as Pop Idol (and American Idol) except the contestants are split into categories. The categories originally consisted of 16-24 year olds, Over 25's and Groups. However with the addition of a fourth judge in Series 4 (2007), The 16-24 category was split into boys aged 16-24 (16-27 in 2010) and girls aged 16-24 (16-27 in 2010/2) with the Over 25's (Over 28's in 2010/2) and the Groups categories remaining the same to give four categories in total. After the initial round of frankly embarrassing auditions, each Judge is randomly assigned a category and has to coach his or her group up until the weekly live shows, which enters a Final Battle where the losers are voted off by telephone polls until only one remains. After that, the winners pump out one guaranteed hit single (usually that year's Christmas Number One) — because the show is literally a two-month advertisement for their single — before becoming an answer in a pub quiz. It is worth noting, though, that five of the show's fifteen winners (notably Leona Lewis and Little Mix, who are the only successful contestants off of their respective series; Alexandra Burke, Shayne Ward, and James Arthur have done quite well, but didn't overshadow the other contestants the way the first two did.) have actually achieved continued success since their debut single, with Little Mix having released a top 10 single in the UK every year since their win, and therefore for 10 years in a row. There have been other cases where contestants who didn't win have gone on to be arguably more successful than the winners of their series (the most significant example being One Direction; although JLS, Olly Murs, and Cher Lloyd have also been quite successful). Australia also has the super successful Reece Mastin, Samantha Jade, Dami Im, and Taylor Henderson. However, since series 10, few contestants have gone on to have more than 1 chart hit if any, and many later series saw established acts like former girlgroup members, former Eurovision Song Contest or Eurovision selection process contestants, both at standard and junior level, and former songwriters including a vocalist of a famous EDM hit, involved in the auditions at least, passing their auditions and getting publicity, but with varying fortunes in subsequent stages.It was probably the first show, before The Voice, in this genre to glamorise and promote the judges over the actual singers and when it comes to the final rounds; the contest is promoted more as "Which judge('s group) will win?" than "Which singer will win?," despite this fact many winners world wide have gone onto be major successes.A celebrity edition, titled X Factor: Battle of the Stars, aired in 2006. Cowell was famously not fond of the series, calling it "pointless" and vowing to never do another one again... until 2019, when he officially announced a revived X Factor: Celebrity would run in lieu of a regular season, alongside an oft-rumored all-star edition. The planned All-Star version, intended to feature past contestants, was postponed indefinitely, as they had trouble getting contestants to take part. In its place, ITV announced X Factor: The Band, a Market-Based Title version of La Banda along with serving as the Spiritual Successor to Popstars, much like the main show serves as this to Pop Idol.The format has been exported to numerous countries since its debut. An Australian version ran for a single season on Network Ten in 2005 and was later revived on the Seven Network from 2010 to 2016, while an American edition ran for three seasons on FOX from 2011 to 2013. Cowell left the UK series to judge the American X Factor for its entire run, returning to the former after the latter's cancelation.Now with a character page (which could use some building for the UK and USA versions of the show, especially), as well as an index page for notable figures within the franchise. | |
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