I read about the ''Syco fix'' too, but at the end of the day it's the public/us who do the voting and I don't think even Syco would run the risk of the global Talent/Xfactor franchise going belly-up, so not sure how much store I set by the 'anonymous' report I assume willywonker and I have both read.
I do love that Michael McIntyre is a judge, I didn't really know of him before this and am looking forward to seeing any repeats of his comedy shows now as some of his comments are really very funny, so if for no other reason I can look forward to future laughs.
I kind of watch it for the same reason I sit through Eurovision, to rate the acts on my own system and see how close I would have got to picking the winner. That might sound a bit sad, lol.