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It would be interesting to see what a reboot of The X Factor would actually look like. You’d assume they wouldn’t commit to weeks and weeks of live shows which feels risky and out of sync with an increasingly catch up driven audience. I also can’t imagine they’d commit to anything like the c40 hours of TV it used to run for. I imagine they’d focus more on the pre-recorded rounds, auditions should really be in the rooms, then possibly a new reality element for the middle stages before a few live shows (maybe a stripped week like BGT?). They’d definitely need to modernise it, with less of the “searching for a star” rhetoric as with the way the charts are now, odds are they won’t find one.

A second BGT Champions series isn’t a bad idea although I think at least the final would have to be live, that was lacking last time and the winner leaking was really poor. They could maybe format it slightly differently too. A stripped week like the main show would be better than a weekly run but with the new soap schedule I doubt ITV ‘would’ be interested in that. Although ITV seem to like doing one off specials of their entertainment shows at the moment (BGT The Ultimate Magician, Masked Singer IAC Special, talk of Voice specials). So maybe they’ll go down that route again with BGT this Christmas.