27-06-2022, 08:09 PM
I would be interested in seeing a revival of X Factor. It certainly didn't hurt Ant & Dec when they rested Saturday Night Takeaway for a few years and then brought it back and like others have mentioned with Dancing on Ice.
For X Factor to work properly, I think they need to take a leaf out American Idol's book. There was a big fuss for the 'final season' in 2015 only for it to be revived 3 years later on ABC instead of Fox with an all new panel of judges but still keeping Ryan Seacrest as host. They even managed to keep the show going through lockdown too. When you look at the more recent series of Idol, whilst they've not produced worldwide stars, there is more of a focus of allowing contestants to play their own instruments and developing themselves as true artists and still having the themed weeks. Having Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan representing different styles of music makes it interesting in what they're looking for too. The last few years of X Factor had a revolving door of judges some like Ayda Field (Robbie William's wife) were bizarre choices and then there were the controversial unpopular judges like Tulisa and Nick Grimshaw.
X Factor towards the end began to explore the 'development of the artist' process, but never pushed it far enough to allow contestants to write and perform their own songs or instruments. Apart from that occasion with Chico and Lucy Spraggan, one stand out was Kevin Davy White in the penultimate series who was an amazing Hendrix-style guitarist who got better and better each week but only came 3rd.
Someone like Sam Ryder is the kind of the artist that would have been interesting to see taking on different themed weeks.
For X Factor to work properly, I think they need to take a leaf out American Idol's book. There was a big fuss for the 'final season' in 2015 only for it to be revived 3 years later on ABC instead of Fox with an all new panel of judges but still keeping Ryan Seacrest as host. They even managed to keep the show going through lockdown too. When you look at the more recent series of Idol, whilst they've not produced worldwide stars, there is more of a focus of allowing contestants to play their own instruments and developing themselves as true artists and still having the themed weeks. Having Lionel Richie, Katy Perry and Luke Bryan representing different styles of music makes it interesting in what they're looking for too. The last few years of X Factor had a revolving door of judges some like Ayda Field (Robbie William's wife) were bizarre choices and then there were the controversial unpopular judges like Tulisa and Nick Grimshaw.
X Factor towards the end began to explore the 'development of the artist' process, but never pushed it far enough to allow contestants to write and perform their own songs or instruments. Apart from that occasion with Chico and Lucy Spraggan, one stand out was Kevin Davy White in the penultimate series who was an amazing Hendrix-style guitarist who got better and better each week but only came 3rd.
Someone like Sam Ryder is the kind of the artist that would have been interesting to see taking on different themed weeks.