[Brekkie]

Although the live week was always a (welcome) disruption to the weekday schedule it is arguably more so with the new soap schedule and arguably 10 hours of content more beneficial airing at the weekends considering they'd be able to fill the week with 5-6 hours of probably cheaper content.

Of course that has to be weighed up with staffing the live shows across six weeks, presuming they are still live, the availability of the judges (arguably Simon being less available wouldn't be a bad thing) and the venue - far easier to book the Palladium for a week than once a week for six weeks.

Personally I think doing it across one week makes it more of an event. I wouldn't mind if they moved the live shows to say Thu-Mon across the May Day Bank Holiday, then the final the next weekend, and as such began the audition shows the first weekend of March.

I've always felt they'd look to replace Saturday Night Takeaway by rejigging the schedule rather than commissioning something new and taking out the double episodes of Masked Singer / BGT would go some distance to doing that - and BGT going weekly for the lives would completely do it.