A good piece summarising the position pretty accurately I'd have said (from this side of the pond anyway).
But when push comes to shove, X-Factor and Pop Idol are essentially the same show. I'm not sure if there's a territory anywhere airing them both. In the UK X-Factor replaced Idol. And I'm not sure that running two shows a year isn't overkill. Even Britain's Got Talent is essentially used as "event" programming running over a relatively short period of time. Fox has been shrewd enough (and I believe were forced to contractually) to not overkill Idol by running it twice a year. This makes it more of an event when January come around and the new series begins. Having X-Factor in the fall and then Idol a few weeks later might damage Idol even more - especially if it were now Cowell-less. The other issue is that a fall X-Factor would mean that it's running simultaneously with the UK version. While Len and Bruno manage the weekly transatlantic flights for Strictly Come Dancing/Dancing With The Stars, would Cowell want to do that? Especially if a feature of X-Factor is his "mentoring" of some of the contestants. The sensible thing would be for Idol to be "rested" for a while, and X-Factor to take over. Fox doesn't *have* to run Idol into the ground before it gets cancelled. Isn't the old entertainment maxim to "leave 'em wanting more"? Adam On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote: > But did you have any doubts that the "Idol" net would buy an American > "X Factor" ? > > > http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-cowell11-2010jan11,0,2968814.story > > > > -- > BOB > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >
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