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http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2013/nov/14/simon-cowell-x-factor-usa-axed

Great article about the American version potentially getting pulled from air mid-season - it attracted just 3.5 million viewers last week, which is absolutely shocking. They're currently getting rid of two a week on the live shows, presumably to make it end quicker.

I had forgotten about all the pomp and circumstance during the launch, and that unsettling enterprising talk of an X Factor Land and weekly X Factor Vegas show. Looking back it's been an absolute disaster from start to current - Steve Jones' terrible presenting, Nicole Scherzinger ruining a little girl's life live on air and then subsequently her career, both winners dropped without even a debut hit, judges drafted in and out in desperate rotation.
 
Oh I read that. I like the stat of it getting half the viewers of Countryfile.
 
A mid-season cancellation would be amazing :D

This still haunts me

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Maybe they should just do a 'moop factor' and have the Grand Finale next week!

It's not like they give a fuck about the contestants they eliminate. I actually caught the end of the most recent results show and it was literally like 'RACHEL POTTER'S ELIMINATED. THANKS FOR WATCHING BYE.*roll credits*
 
This year's Idol finale drew about 14m viewers, which was considered a disappointment, and were the lowest figures ever for a finale.
 
Whoever wrote that article doesn't hide their bias and vitriol against Mr Cowell at all! :D
 
It's Marina Hyde. She veers between being caustically hilarious and unpleasantly mean spirited. She also used to fuck Piers Morgan.

I liked that article though, and her thing about Karl Lagerfeld's cat this week was also really funny.

To New York, where there is more news of Choupette, the cat companion of self-satirising designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Choupette, you may know, is the feline whom Karl commandeered from a friend, having fallen in love with her after two weeks' cat-sitting. She has two dedicated personal maids (one for day, one for night), her own iPad, and this week was flown by private jet to New York, along with one of her aforementioned staff.

Karl was in town to attend the Museum of Modern Art's tribute to Tilda Swinton, but he announced to the attendant media that his cat would not be joining him at the function, preferring to remain at the pair's hotel. "Choupette is not a party girl," he declared (missing a rare chance to use the phrase "party animal" literally). "She doesn't go to parties."

Lost in Showbiz imagines that just as Marie Antoinette had her rustic retreat in the grounds of Versailles, so Choupette has occasional yearnings for what she imagines to be the picturesque simplicity of alley-cat life. Perhaps to this end she has ordered the construction of a mock backstreet in one of the remote corners of Lagerfeld's apartment – or, indeed, in a suite of a New York hotel – to which she can repair at moments of stress, and play at scavenging bits of caviar that her second maid has half hidden among the dustbins, or fighting off the attentions of rough toms.

But do let us hope the comparisons with previous royalty of old France end there. After all, the country has a history of tiring of the more decadent posturings of its preposterously privileged, and the fear must be that such revolutionary spirit has rubbed off on its felines. Though Choupette has yet to inquire why the poor don't eat sole meunière, the last thing any of us wishes to see in her future is a little kitty guillotine. The solution is clear: a feline Scarlet Pimpernel must be sourced from our own shores without delay, to remain on standby should Choupette ever find herself in proletarian peril. CVs are hereby invited from all wannabe Sir Purrsy Blakeneys.
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I liked her expose on Myleene Klass when she thought there was someone with a knife in her back garden.
 
I caught an episode of this the other week at Suomi's. It's hilarious how they're getting rid of two contestants a week in a desperate attempt to race through it. :D

Actually being on it and aware that next to nobody is watching must be so depressing. It dipped below 4 million again last week, for the first time since the lives started.

All that being said, I thought this was a really lovely performance.

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Just been checking iTunes. Have the songs always been eligible to chart or is this a new thing? Just checking out this weeks episode on YouTube and it seems like it was quite a good show with relevant song choices unlike the UK show this year.

I want this one to win (although the ones currently on #1 on iTunes seem to have it in the bag) Gags would kill to deliver this :disco:

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This seems to be on the up thanks to mainly the buzz around Alex and Sierra.

It drew 5.34million for the Wednesday night show. Not bad considering where it was just a few weeks ago.
 
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I want this one to win (although the ones currently on #1 on iTunes seem to have it in the bag) Gags would kill to deliver this :disco:
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Are you ACTUALLY KIDDING? :D Even comparing this performance to anything Gaga can produce is just laughable.
 
Well, she was eliminated last week anyway (along with Demi's other act Rion).
 
Elliona was my favourite too of the little I've seen of the show, but this show hasn't produced ANY successes at all - Emblem 3 and Fifth Harmony have had top 10 albums but aren't exactly massive. Alex and Sierra are pretty much guaranteed to win, and it's been seen they can sell on iTunes, but whether that translates to album sales, who knows?
 
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